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In Underworld by Don DeLillo (4.4 out of 5 stars), the fate of a single baseball links five decades of American history, from the Cold War to the…
Underworld
Historical Fiction · Postmodern Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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In Underworld by Don DeLillo (4.4 out of 5 stars), the fate of a single baseball links five decades of American history, from the Cold War to the digital age. A Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist, this modern classic explores memory, identity, and the ghosts of the twentieth century with DeLillo’s signature brilliance.
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It starts with a crack of the bat and the roar of a crowd. In 1951, as the “Shot Heard Round the World” echoes through a baseball stadium, news breaks of the Soviet Union’s first hydrogen bomb test. From that instant, a scuffed baseball begins its journey through time and lives, carrying the weight of America’s history with it.
Through the eyes of Nick Shay, a man haunted by secrets, and Klara Sax, an artist reclaiming the remnants of a broken world, Underworld traces five decades of ambition, decay, and redemption.
Don DeLillo’s masterpiece captures the pulse of a nation—its fears, its obsessions, and its longing to make sense of the past. A sweeping, haunting meditation on what endures when everything else fades.
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In Strangers in Time by David Baldacci (4.6 out of 5 stars), a grieving bookseller shelters two teens amid war-torn 1944 London.
Strangers in Time
Historical Fiction · Historical Thriller · War Fiction
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In Strangers in Time by David Baldacci (4.6 out of 5 stars), a grieving bookseller shelters two teens amid war-torn 1944 London. Haunted by loss and hunted by danger, they discover hope and family in the unlikeliest place—a small bookshop. A moving story of survival, compassion, and courage from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
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London, 1944. The city is scarred by bombs and loss, and fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters has learned to survive by any means necessary. Orphaned and restless, he steals to stay alive, waiting for the day he’s old enough to join the fight.
Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield returns to a home that no longer exists. Evacuated to the countryside for years, she comes back to find her parents gone and her city in ruins.
Both adrift, they find refuge in The Book Keep, a small shop owned by Ignatius Oliver—a widower drowning in his own grief. Within its walls, the three form a makeshift family. But secrets linger, danger follows, and as London burns around them, trust may be their only chance at survival.
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Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, hailed as one of The Atlantic’s greatest American novels, redefines the Western with staggering violence and poetic depth.
Blood Meridian
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Western
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Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, hailed as one of The Atlantic’s greatest American novels, redefines the Western with staggering violence and poetic depth. Following a young drifter through the lawless Texas-Mexico borderlands, it exposes the savage cost of conquest. With 4.4 out of 5 stars, this haunting epic is a brutal meditation on humanity itself.
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In the brutal deserts of the 1850s, a fourteen-year-old known only as the Kid drifts into the blood-soaked frontier between Texas and Mexico. There, violence is both law and language, and scalp hunters trade humanity for profit beneath a sky that never forgives.
What begins as a quest for survival becomes a descent into the darkest corners of human nature, led by the terrifying and enigmatic Judge Holden—a man of intellect, power, and unspeakable cruelty.
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is a masterpiece of American literature, stripping the myth from the Western to reveal something far more primal.
It is both history and prophecy, beauty and horror, a reminder that civilization is only a thin veil over chaos.
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Best for readers who like wartime adventure thrillers with jungle danger, scientific mystery, biological threats, and a touch of horror.
Hell’s Gate
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Action Thriller · Historical Thriller
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“Two of the best adventure writers to hit the scene in a long time,” Hell’s Gate follows Captain R. J. MacCready, a zoologist and scientific jack-of-all-trades sent into the Brazilian wilderness during World War II to investigate an abandoned Japanese submarine, a missing Ranger team, and a catastrophic Axis plot, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 700 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like wartime adventure thrillers with jungle danger, scientific mystery, biological threats, and a touch of horror.
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A zoologist must derail a catastrophic plot when an abandoned submarine is discovered deep in the Brazilian wilderness in this adventure series debut.
"Two of the best adventure writers to hit the scene in a long time." —Clive Cussler
1944. As war rages in Europe and the Pacific, Army intel makes a shocking discovery: a three-hundred-foot Japanese submarine marooned and empty, deep in the Brazilian interior. A team of Army Rangers sent to investigate has already gone missing, and the military sends Captain R. J. MacCready, a quick-witted, brilliant scientific jack-of-all-trades to learn why the Japanese are there—and what they're planning.
Parachuting into a mist-shrouded valley beneath a two-thousand-foot plateau, Mac is unexpectedly reunited with fellow scientist and friend Bob Thorne, presumed dead for years. Thorne, a botanist, lives with Yanni, an indigenous woman who possesses a mysterious, invaluable knowledge of the rain forest. Their wisdom and expertise will prove lifesaving for Mac as he sets out into the unknown.
Soon, Mac learns of a diabolical Axis plot to destroy the United States and its allies. But there's an even darker force on the prowl, attacking at night and targeting both man and beast. Mac has to uncover the source of this emerging biological crisis and foil the enemy's plans . . . but will he be in time to save humanity from itself?
"Will haunt you long after you put the book down." —James Cameron, director/writer/explorer
"Michael Crichton fans will be pleased that the ending leaves room for a sequel." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Fast-moving fun for thriller readers who enjoy a bit of horror and seeing bad guys get what's coming to them." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Perfect for fans of Patrick O’Brian’s classic seafaring epics.
A Sea of Gold
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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Julian Stockwin’s A Sea of Gold continues the acclaimed Kydd series with daring naval battles, betrayal, and redemption. Praised by Quarterdeck for its “tension” and Warships as a “vintage yarn,” this 4.6 out of 5 stars adventure sails into 1809’s Basque Roads, where Kydd faces fire, fortune, and ruin. Perfect for fans of Patrick O’Brian’s classic seafaring epics.
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1809. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd has earned London’s admiration after his heroics at Corunna, but glory never lasts long at sea. When the daring Lord Thomas Cochrane invites him to join a bold assault against the French fleet massed at Basque Roads, Kydd’s future—and his fears—are set ablaze.
Cochrane’s fleet is a ragtag mix of bomb, rocket, and fire ships—an inferno waiting to happen. For Kydd, whose deepest terror is flame itself, it’s a mission that will test every ounce of courage he has.
The battle will bring both triumph and ruin, forcing Kydd to risk everything to reclaim his honor—and perhaps uncover the whisper of hidden Spanish treasure that could save him.
War, loyalty, and redemption collide on a sea of fire and gold.
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Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein—recommended by PopSugar, Bustle, Booklist, and more—spotlights Mileva Maric, Einstein’s brilliant first wife and a physicist whose contributions to relativity remain debated.
The Other Einstein
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Biographical Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein—recommended by PopSugar, Bustle, Booklist, and more—spotlights Mileva Maric, Einstein’s brilliant first wife and a physicist whose contributions to relativity remain debated. A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Benedict delivers a riveting novel of love, ambition, and the erasure of women in science. With 4.2 out of 5 stars, it’s both inspiring and heartbreaking.
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Everyone knows Albert Einstein. But what about the woman who may have helped shape his most groundbreaking theories?
Mitza Maric is brilliant, determined, and entirely out of step with the expectations for women in the late 19th century. While most women her age are settling into marriage, Mitza studies physics at a Zurich university, battling peers who can’t stand to be outdone by her mind. Then she meets Albert Einstein—a fellow student who sees her brilliance, and perhaps something more.
Their connection sparks into both a romance and a partnership of ideas. Yet history only remembers his name. As ambition and ego collide with love and sacrifice, Mitza must decide: can one woman’s genius shine in a world determined to eclipse her?
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Elizabeth Delozier’s Eleanore of Avignon is a spellbinding historical drama set during the Black Death.
Eleanore of Avignon
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Elizabeth Delozier’s Eleanore of Avignon is a spellbinding historical drama set during the Black Death. A Library Reads and Aardvark Book Club Pick, it follows a gifted midwife apprenticed to the pope’s physician who’s thrust into danger when Queen Joanna arrives in Avignon. With a 4.5 out of 5 stars rating, this tale brims with suspense, courage, and unforgettable characters.
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Provence, 1347. Eleanore Blanchet, a gifted midwife and herbalist, dreams of practicing her craft without fear. But she knows too well the danger of standing out. In Avignon, a woman’s talent can make her a target.
A chance meeting with Guigo de Chauliac, physician to Pope Clement, changes everything. As his apprentice, Elea learns the secrets of anatomy and surgery, blending them with her knowledge of folk medicine. Her skills soon place her at the center of history when the disgraced Queen Joanna arrives, pregnant and accused of murder, just as the Black Death reaches Europe.
As plague devours the city and whispers of witchcraft rise, Elea must risk her freedom, her life, and her heart to protect what she loves most.
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The Paris Agent is good for readers who want WWII historical fiction with espionage, family secrets, dual timelines, and wartime mystery.
The Paris Agent
Historical Fiction · Historical Thriller · World War 2
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A “MOST ANTICIPATED TITLE” by Goodreads, Harper's Bazaar, B&N Reads, BookBub, and Fresh Fiction, A daughter's search for answers about her father's past as a British SOE operative in France during WWII leads to the discovery of a double agent's identity and the uncovering of shocking events from the war's final days, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 3,300 Amazon reviewers. The Paris Agent is good for readers who want WWII historical fiction with espionage, family secrets, dual timelines, and wartime mystery.
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"The author’s research has captured the tension that those who lived through that time experienced at deep levels. Kelly Rimmer’s scenes in both eras are fraught with anxiety, urging the reader to keep turning the page, anxious to learn about each character’s experiences, right up to the very end." — New York Journal of Books
For fans of fast-paced historical thrillers like Our Woman in Moscow and The Rose Code, Kelly Rimmer’s dramatic new novel follows two female SOE operatives whose lives will be determined by a double agent in their midst.
Twenty-five years after the end of the war, Noah Ainsworth is still preoccupied with those perilous, exhilarating years as a British SOE operative in France. A head injury sustained on his final operation has caused frustrating gaps in his memory—in particular about the agent who saved his life during that mission gone wrong, whose real name he never knew, nor whether she even survived the war.
Moved by her father’s frustration, Noah’s daughter Charlotte begins a search for answers that resurrects the stories of Chloe and Fleur, the code names for two otherwise ordinary women whose lives intersect in 1943 when they’re called up by the SOE for deployment in France. Taking enormous risks to support the allied troops with very little information or resources, the women have no idea they’re at the mercy of a double agent among them who's causing chaos within the French circuits, whose efforts will affect the outcome of their lives…and the war.
But as Charlotte’s search for answers bears fruit, overlooked clues come to light about the identity of the double agent—with unsettling hints pointing close to home—and more shocking events are unearthed from the dangerous, dramatic last days of the war that lead to Chloe and Fleur’s eventual fates.
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Singapore burns as Issey flees a glamorous life for survival, leaving behind love and unanswered questions.
The Distant Daughter
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · World War 2
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Singapore burns as Issey flees a glamorous life for survival, leaving behind love and unanswered questions. Decades later, Lamorna returns to her Cornish home and uncovers Issey’s diary, binding their lives across war, family, sacrifice, endurance, and hope. This dual-timeline romance holds 4.4-star ratings on Amazon and Goodreads and has drawn wide praise from historical fiction readers.
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‘Transporting and profoundly moving…this is a gripping, sweeping romance to break your heart.’ ―Amanda Geard, author of The Midnight House
‘A total treat…I was transported by this beautiful tale of sisterhood, family drama, war, and love. The Distant Daughter is an unforgettable read.” ―Jenny Ashcroft, author of Beneath a Burning Sky
Singapore, 1941: Singapore City lights up with explosions as the first Japanese bombs rain down. Until now, the war has seemed a distant threat for Issey and her friends, drinking and dancing at Raffles. But with the Japanese invasion looming, Issey knows she must leave. Mysterious, handsome Alex Cartwright has sworn he will see her to safety.
Cornwall, 2025: Nursing a broken heart, Lamorna flees her life in Singapore, returning to Trelenna, her Cornish family home. With ambitious plans to save and finance the crumbling house, her sister Zennor needs Lamorna’s help.
When Zach, a local archivist, suggests telling the house’s story through the family archives, Lamorna discovers a battered leather diary written by Issey, a young woman living a glamorous life in 1940s Singapore.
Within its pages, she finds the gripping story of Issey’s desperate escape. Fascinated by the links with her own life, Lamorna longs to know: did Issey and Alex survive the horrors of the Japanese attack on Singapore? And can their story of enduring love, strength and sacrifice inspire Lamorna to embrace a new life—and new love—at Trelenna?
The Distant Daughter is an epic, heart-wrenching, uplifting and utterly enthralling family story, perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Karen Swan and Kate Morton.
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A great civilization carries on as if nothing is wrong, even while disaster gathers beneath its feet.
Pompeii
Historical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History
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A great civilization carries on as if nothing is wrong, even while disaster gathers beneath its feet. When engineer Marcus Attilius Primus investigates failing springs and a damaged aqueduct, he uncovers corruption, violence, and a city already edging toward ruin. This historical thriller pairs Roman politics and mounting dread with the relentless pull of an approaching cataclysm.
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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Terrific . . . gripping . . . A literally shattering climax."—The New York Times Book Review
All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii.
But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. And now there is a crisis on the Augusta’ s sixty-mile main line—somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
Attilius—decent, practical, and incorruptible—promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travel to Pompeii and put together an expedition, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work—both natural and man-made—threatening to destroy him.
With his trademark elegance and intelligence, Robert Harris, bestselling author of Archangel and Fatherland, re-creates a world on the brink of disaster.
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A Reese’s Book Club pick and Kirkus Prize finalist, Allegra Goodman’s Isola is a spellbinding survival epic inspired by true history.
Isola
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A Reese’s Book Club pick and Kirkus Prize finalist, Allegra Goodman’s Isola is a spellbinding survival epic inspired by true history. Called “extraordinary” by Vogue and “lushly painted” by People, this tale of love, faith, and defiance has earned a 4.5 out of 5 stars Amazon rating. A powerful novel of endurance you will not forget.
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Marguerite was born to wealth and refinement, her future mapped out in pearls and privilege. That life ends when she is orphaned, her fortune squandered by a volatile guardian, and dragged across the sea to New France.
Accused of betrayal, she is abandoned on a desolate island with only her wits and her will to survive. Stripped of silks and safety, Marguerite learns to face hunger, ice, and loneliness with a strength she never knew she possessed.
What begins as punishment becomes a test of endurance, faith, and defiance. Inspired by the true story of a sixteenth-century heroine, Isola is both a survival thriller and an intimate portrait of transformation.
Can Marguerite outlast the island, or will it claim her as its final secret?
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From bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson comes Shaman, a breathtaking Ice Age epic of survival, ritual, and coming of age.
Shaman
Sci-Fi · Alternate History · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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From bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson comes Shaman, a breathtaking Ice Age epic of survival, ritual, and coming of age. Following Loon’s journey to become a shaman, this novel captures the beauty and brutality of thirty thousand years ago. With a 4.4 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, it is both thrilling and profoundly moving.
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Thirty thousand years ago, survival meant firelight, stories, and the strength of the clan. In this world walks Loon, apprentice to a shaman and destined to inherit wisdom as old as the earth itself.
Thorn, the clan’s shaman, carries the weight of memory. Heather, the healer, binds wounds both physical and spiritual. Elga, the outsider, embodies change and disruption. Yet it is Loon who must step into adulthood, searching for his own path through a world that is as brutal as it is beautiful.
From icy hunts to sacred rituals, every choice shapes his destiny and the survival of his people.
Kim Stanley Robinson delivers a powerful vision of prehistoric life, a tale of courage, wonder, and the timeless human need for meaning.
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