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After her daughter wakes from an accident claiming to be someone else, Clem travels to the Orkney Islands to uncover a truth rooted in witchcraft and vengeance.
The Book of Witching
Horror · Historical Literary Fiction · Suspense · Women's Fiction
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After her daughter wakes from an accident claiming to be someone else, Clem travels to the Orkney Islands to uncover a truth rooted in witchcraft and vengeance. The Book of Witching is a chilling, emotional thriller by C. J. Cooke, an Editors’ Pick with 4.1 stars on Amazon and 3.8 on Goodreads.
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A mother’s love can defy reason, time, and even death.
When Clem receives the call that her nineteen-year-old daughter has been found unconscious after a hiking trip gone wrong, she rushes to the remote Orkney Islands seeking answers. But when Erin wakes, she does not recognize her mother. She claims a new name—Nyx—and speaks of things no one could know.
Desperate to save her daughter, Clem searches the island’s past and uncovers the story of a woman condemned for witchcraft four centuries earlier. As the veil between history and haunting begins to tear, Clem must face the possibility that her child’s soul has been claimed by something ancient.
An Editors’ Pick for Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense, The Book of Witching holds 4.1 stars on Amazon and 3.8 on Goodreads.
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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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An Oprah’s Book Club Pick and instant New York Times bestseller, Nathan Harris’ The Sweetness of Water is a “miraculous debut” (Washington Post).
The Sweetness of Water
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Historical Literary Fiction · People of Color
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An Oprah’s Book Club Pick and instant New York Times bestseller, Nathan Harris’ The Sweetness of Water is a “miraculous debut” (Washington Post). Set in Reconstruction-era Georgia, it follows two freed brothers, a grieving couple, and a forbidden love that fractures a town. With a 4.4 out of 5 stars rating, this epic blends beauty, terror, and hard-won hope.
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In The Sweetness of Water, the Civil War has ended, but peace is fragile and grief is everywhere.
Brothers Prentiss and Landry, newly freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, search for safety and a way forward. They find it on the farm of George and Isabelle Walker, a grieving couple who hire the brothers and forge an unlikely bond of hope.
But Old Ox is a town steeped in secrets and resentments. A forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers ignites scandal, violence, and murder, threatening to unravel fragile alliances.
As the community convulses with anger and loss, it is Isabelle who rises, offering a vision of healing when everything seems broken.
Nathan Harris delivers a luminous debut about love, resilience, and humanity’s fight to endure.
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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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With a 4.4 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, it is a must-read for fans of Philippa Gregory and Hilary Mantel.
The Queen’s Rival
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Anne O’Brien’s The Queen’s Rival uncovers the forgotten story of Cecily Neville, a woman whose ambition shaped the Wars of the Roses. Praised as “dramatic and highly evocative,” this sweeping historical novel blends politics, betrayal, and survival. With a 4.4 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, it is a must-read for fans of Philippa Gregory and Hilary Mantel.
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England, 1459. The Wars of the Roses are tearing the country apart, and Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, refuses to stand quietly in the background. Ambitious, clever, and unafraid of scandal, she will risk everything to see her family claim the throne.
But when the Yorkists lose at Ludford Bridge, Cecily is left abandoned, her lands stolen and her freedom stripped away. Imprisoned in Tonbridge Castle, she begins to weave a dangerous game of lies and alliances. Every move brings her closer to treason, but also closer to the crown.
Betrayal, politics, and family rivalries collide in a tale of power and survival.
Will Cecily’s schemes topple a king, or destroy the very family she has sworn to raise up?
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Zuleikha traces one woman’s exile from a Tatar village to the Siberian wilderness after the Russian Revolution.
Zuleikha
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Zuleikha traces one woman’s exile from a Tatar village to the Siberian wilderness after the Russian Revolution. This sweeping historical novel explores survival, resilience, and self-discovery under extreme oppression. It holds 4.3 stars on Amazon and over 18,000 Goodreads ratings and is a major international award winner.
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WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD AND THE BEST PROSE WORK OF THE YEAR AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 READ RUSSIA PRIZE
RUNNER-UP FOR THE EBRD LITERATURE PRIZE, 2020
Zuleikha is the model of a dutiful wife. Biddible and meek, she has resigned herself to brutal treatment at the hands of her cruel husband and the carping of her despotic mother-in-law. While Russia reels in the aftermath of its recent revolution, life in her small Tatar village is relatively untouched. Or so it seems to Zuleikha, until the day her husband is executed by communist soldiers.
Zuleikha is exiled to Siberia and forced to leave behind everything she knows. Yet in that harsh, desolate wilderness, she begins to build a new life for herself and discovers an inner strength she never knew she had. This is a supremely ambitious epic about one woman's determination, not only to survive, but to flourish in the face of the greatest adversity.
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Ideal for readers looking for prehistoric historical fiction centered on ancient communities, Stonehenge, leadership, and conflict.
Circle of Days
Historical Literary Fiction · Literary Fiction
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An instant New York Times bestseller called “Superb.” by Lee Child, Circle of Days follows Seft, a gifted flint miner, and Joia, a visionary priestess, as a great stone circle becomes their life’s work while drought, mistrust, and violence push the communities of the Great Plain toward war, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 21,800 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for prehistoric historical fiction centered on ancient communities, Stonehenge, leadership, and conflict.
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge.
"Superb." —Lee Childs, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT
Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers within their herder community.
A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE
Joia, Neen’s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain.
A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION
Joia’s vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life’s work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders—and an act of savage violence leads to open warfare ...
Truly ambitious in scope, Circle of Days invites you to join master storyteller Ken Follett in exploring one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
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Mitch Albom’s The Little Liar—an instant New York Times bestseller—offers a haunting Holocaust story of innocence, betrayal, and redemption.
The Little Liar
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Historical Romance
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Mitch Albom’s The Little Liar—an instant New York Times bestseller—offers a haunting Holocaust story of innocence, betrayal, and redemption. With 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Albom interlaces the lives of Nico, his family, and the officer who deceived them into a staggering tale of lies and their consequences. Profound, heartbreaking, and unforgettable, it’s Albom’s most powerful novel yet.
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Nico Krispis has never told a lie. At eleven years old in Nazi-occupied Salonika, Greece, that innocence becomes a weapon. A German officer promises Nico that if he persuades his neighbors to board trains “north,” he can save his family. Believing the lie, Nico reassures his community each day at the station.
But when the last train departs, Nico sees his family inside the boxcars bound for Auschwitz. Betrayed and broken, he escapes, vowing never to tell the truth again.
Mitch Albom weaves the lives of Nico, his vengeful brother Sebastian, their childhood friend Fannie, and the officer who deceived them into a story of lies, survival, and redemption. The Little Liar is an unforgettable testament to truth, guilt, and the human cost of deception.
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Heather Webb’s The Next Ship Home is a powerful historical novel set on Ellis Island in 1902.
The Next Ship Home
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Heather Webb’s The Next Ship Home is a powerful historical novel set on Ellis Island in 1902. With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, it follows two women—an immigrant and an employee—who fight corruption, form a fragile friendship, and guard a dangerous secret. Shortlisted for multiple honors, Webb delivers a moving tale of resilience, injustice, and female strength.
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Ellis Island, 1902. For thousands, it is the gateway to hope. For Francesca, a young Italian immigrant, it could be the start of a new life—if she can survive the scrutiny, corruption, and cold indifference of those in power. On the same day, Alma begins her first job at the immigration center, clinging to dreams of becoming a translator despite every obstacle placed before her.
Neither woman finds the refuge they expected. Ships depart daily with those denied entry, and the corridors of Ellis Island hide secrets meant to stay buried. Forced together by circumstance, Francesca and Alma forge an unlikely friendship and share a devastating secret.
Inspired by true events, The Next Ship Home reveals the resilience of women and immigrants facing impossible odds.
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David Wroblewski’s Familiaris—an Oprah’s Book Club Pick and follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller The Story of Edgar Sawtelle—is a sweeping tale of love, loss, and…
Familiaris
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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David Wroblewski’s Familiaris—an Oprah’s Book Club Pick and follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller The Story of Edgar Sawtelle—is a sweeping tale of love, loss, and the human–canine bond. With a 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this enchanting novel spans firestorms, WWII dog-training programs, and family legacies in an unforgettable journey.
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In 1919, John Sawtelle is a dreamer in search of redemption. With his new wife, Mary, their two closest friends, and three loyal dogs, he sets out for Wisconsin’s northwoods to build a life defined by purpose instead of mistakes. What he finds is a world as perilous as it is promising—one where survival demands ingenuity, courage, and unexpected allies both human and otherworldly.
From small-town factory floors to raging Midwestern firestorms, from WWII’s experimental dog-training programs to echoes of humanity’s ancient past, Familiaris traces the astonishing origin story of the Sawtelle family.
Hilarious, heartbreaking, and profoundly enchanting, David Wroblewski’s long-awaited follow-up to The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is an ode to love, family, and the timeless bond between humans and dogs.
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Simone van der Vlugt’s Midnight Blue is a European bestseller set in Holland’s Golden Age, perfect for fans of The Miniaturist and Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Midnight Blue
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Simone van der Vlugt’s Midnight Blue is a European bestseller set in Holland’s Golden Age, perfect for fans of The Miniaturist and Girl with a Pearl Earring. With 4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this richly atmospheric tale follows a widowed woman whose hidden talent as a painter leads her to Delft where art, danger, and independence collide.
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Amsterdam, 1654. Newly widowed at twenty-five, Catrin flees her small village, desperate for a fresh start. She finds work as a housekeeper for a wealthy merchant family—and accidentally discovers her own extraordinary gift. When Rembrandt himself recognizes her talent, Catrin dares to dream of a life defined not by loss, but by art.
But secrets don’t stay buried. When a figure from her past threatens her fragile new beginning, she escapes to Delft, where her designs on blue-and-white pottery spark a revolution that will make Delftware famous across Europe.
Still, tragedy shadows her steps, forcing Catrin to choose between survival and the independence she’s fought so hard to claim. In a gilded age of art and ambition, how much will freedom cost?
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