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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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Anna North’s Bog Queen, praised as “an absolute astonishment” by Pulitzer finalist Vauhini Vara, blends ancient mystery with modern urgency.
Bog Queen
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Mystery · Thriller · Women's Fiction
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Anna North’s Bog Queen, praised as “an absolute astonishment” by Pulitzer finalist Vauhini Vara, blends ancient mystery with modern urgency. When a perfectly preserved Iron Age woman is found in an English bog, a forensic anthropologist uncovers secrets both personal and historical. With a 4.5 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, this novel glimmers with power and depth.
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In the peatlands of northwest England, a body surfaces from the bog. Preserved for more than two thousand years, she should be dust, yet her face still stares back.
Forensic anthropologist Agnes is brought in to investigate, but science alone cannot explain what she finds. The Iron Age woman buried in the bog feels unsettlingly close, as if her story reaches across centuries.
The discovery sparks conflict in the present. Developers want profit, activists demand preservation, and the bog itself seems to guard its own secrets. As Agnes digs deeper, the past bleeds into her life, forcing her to question her gift, her independence, and her identity.
Can she bring justice to the woman in the bog, or will the land consume them both?
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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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From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes Faithful, a heart-wrenching yet hopeful novel of survival, guilt, and love.
Faithful
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism · Women's Fiction
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From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes Faithful, a heart-wrenching yet hopeful novel of survival, guilt, and love. Shelby Richmond’s life is shattered by tragedy, but in New York City she finds healing, belonging, and even a touch of the extraordinary. With 4.3 out of 5 stars, Hoffman’s lyrical prose makes this a modern tale of resilience.
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Shelby Richmond was an ordinary Long Island teenager until one tragic night rewrote her life. Her best friend’s future was destroyed in a single accident, while Shelby survived—left with guilt, grief, and a heart she no longer recognizes.
As she stumbles through the aftermath, Shelby pulls away from love, from her family, from any sense of hope. Chinese takeout, stray dogs, and the wrong men become her companions in place of a future she can’t yet imagine. But New York City brings unexpected connections: a circle of lost souls, a chance at healing, and the presence of an angel who’s been with her since that icy night.
In Faithful, Alice Hoffman spins beauty from sorrow in a moving story of survival, love, and the long road back to yourself.
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Jessica Shattuck’s The Women in the Castle is an instant New York Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award semifinalist.
The Women in the Castle
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Romance
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Jessica Shattuck’s The Women in the Castle is an instant New York Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award semifinalist. Hailed as “mesmerizing” by USA Today and “a masterful epic” by People, this 4.4-star novel follows three widows of Nazi resistors rebuilding lives in the ruins of WWII. Emotional, devastating, and redemptive, it belongs beside The Nightingale and Sarah’s Key.
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Germany, 1945. The war has ended, but survival has only begun. Marianne von Lingenfels, widow of a man executed for his role in the failed plot to assassinate Hitler, returns to her husband’s ruined ancestral castle. Determined to honor her promise to protect the families of the resistance, she sets out across a ravaged homeland to gather the wives and children left behind.
She rescues Benita, once the naïve beauty of their circle, now broken by occupation. She finds Ania, hardened and pragmatic, guarding secrets she refuses to share. Together, they forge a makeshift family inside the castle’s crumbling walls.
But grief, betrayal, and buried truths threaten their fragile bond. The Women in the Castle is a haunting, redemptive story of resilience, love, and the shadows war leaves behind.
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Deanna Chase’s Soul of the Witch kicks off the beloved Keating Hollow series, a cozy paranormal romance full of magic, family, and second chances.
Soul of the Witch
Magical Realism · Romantasy
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Deanna Chase’s Soul of the Witch kicks off the beloved Keating Hollow series, a cozy paranormal romance full of magic, family, and second chances. When Abby Townsend returns to her hometown after a decade away, she finds love, healing, and a little witchy wonder. With 4.5 out of 5 stars, it’s a heartwarming small-town fantasy you’ll adore.
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Abby Townsend left Keating Hollow at eighteen, her magic abandoned after a potion gone wrong changed everything. For ten years she’s lived without spells, without her hometown, and without the boy she loved. But when her family calls her back to the redwood forest village she swore she’d never return to, Abby finds herself pulled into more than memory.
Keating Hollow is full of love, cupcakes, and witches who believe in happily ever afters. Abby insists she’s only passing through, but the town has other plans. Between the gaze of the man she can’t forget and the laughter of an eight-year-old witch who steals her heart, Abby’s magic stirs again.
Sometimes redemption doesn’t mean escape—it means finding the soul of home.
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With 4.3 out of 5 stars, it’s a mystical, thought-provoking journey for readers drawn to magic and the search for meaning.
Brida
Horror · Literary Fiction · Romance · Occult Horror
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From Paulo Coelho, bestselling author of The Alchemist, comes Brida, a spellbinding New York Times bestseller. Following a young Irish woman’s initiation into sorcery and self-discovery, this lyrical novel explores love, fear, and pagan tradition. With 4.3 out of 5 stars, it’s a mystical, thought-provoking journey for readers drawn to magic and the search for meaning.
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Brida is young, curious, and restless, driven by a yearning for something beyond the ordinary. Her search for knowledge leads her deep into the hidden realms of magic, where wisdom and danger often walk hand in hand.
Along her journey, she meets a wise man who teaches her to confront her fears, and a woman who reveals ancient rituals and the mysteries of the Great Mother. Both see promise in Brida’s gifts, but neither can chart her path. The choice—and the risk—are hers alone.
From the bestselling author of The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho’s Brida is a mesmerizing tale of sorcery, self-discovery, and love. In seeking the divine and the magical, Brida learns the greatest truths may come from within.
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In 1984, George Orwell drops readers into a world where surveillance is constant, truth is whatever the state says it is, and even your own thoughts can get…
1984
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Political Dystopia · Speculative Fiction
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In 1984, George Orwell drops readers into a world where surveillance is constant, truth is whatever the state says it is, and even your own thoughts can get you killed. Winston Smith dares to remember, question, and reach for something real in a system built to crush individuality at every level. Bleak, intelligent, and way too relevant for comfort, this is the dystopian classic that keeps reminding everyone exactly why it became the dystopian classic.
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75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker
In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
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Winner of the Booker Prize and a New York Times bestseller, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is a haunting family saga of love, tragedy, and political…
The God of Small Things
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Indian Fiction
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Winner of the Booker Prize and a New York Times bestseller, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is a haunting family saga of love, tragedy, and political unrest in 1960s India. Praised as “magic, mystery, and sadness” by USA Today and rated 4.2 out of 5 stars, this modern classic is lyrical, unsettling, and unforgettable.
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In 1969 Kerala, seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel live in a world colored by childhood wonder—and shadowed by secrets adults pretend not to see. When their young cousin Sophie arrives, the family’s fragile balance splinters. One forbidden liaison and one fateful day set off a chain of tragedies that will haunt generations.
Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize–winning debut blends political unrest, family drama, and lyrical storytelling into a tale at once intimate and epic. Compared to Faulkner and Dickens, Roy masterfully unravels how the “small things” left unsaid shape lives as much as the monumental ones.
At once lush and devastating, The God of Small Things asks what survives in the aftermath of loss: memory, love, or the silence that buries them both.
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This will appeal to readers who want literary historical fiction about resistance, women at war, and a less commonly portrayed front of the World War II era.
The Shadow King
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · World War 2
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Called “Unforgettable” by Time, The Shadow King centers on orphaned maid Hirut during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, bringing women soldiers and their experiences of war into the story, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 2,800 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want literary historical fiction about resistance, women at war, and a less commonly portrayed front of the World War II era.
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Elle, Time, and more, The Shadow King is an "unforgettable epic from an immensely talented author who's unafraid to take risks" (Michael Schaub, NPR).
Set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record. At its heart is orphaned maid Hirut, who finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and overwhelming rage. What follows is a heartrending and unputdownable exploration of what it means to be a woman at war.
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A Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick and New York Times bestseller, Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes is a powerful exploration of love, family, and forgiveness.
Ask Again, Yes
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction
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A Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick and New York Times bestseller, Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes is a powerful exploration of love, family, and forgiveness. Hailed as “a gem of a book” by Taylor Jenkins Reid and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Vogue, this moving novel holds a stellar 4.5 out of 5 stars.
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Named one of the Best Books of the Year by People, Vogue, Parade, NPR, and Elle
“A gem of a book.” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A triumphant New York Times bestseller and Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick about love, forgiveness, and family—perfect for book clubs and fans of Little Fires Everywhere and The Paper Palace.
How much can a family forgive?
Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind closed doors in both houses—the loneliness of Francis’s wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian’s wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come.
In Mary Beth Keane's extraordinary novel, a lifelong friendship and love blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next thirty years. Heartbreaking and redemptive, Ask Again, Yes is a gorgeous and generous portrait of the daily intimacies of marriage and the power of forgiveness.
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