Historical Fiction

Ned Willard enters Elizabeth I's intelligence network while Margery Fitzgerald tries to protect her faith and family as England's official religion changes.

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As revolution approaches in France, the lives of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton become entangled across London and Paris in a story of divided loyalties, resurrection, and sacrifice.

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Animal Farm

A Fairy Story

By George Orwell

Animal Farm distills 20th-century history into a fierce fable: animals seize the farm, ideals get corrupted, and a relentless mirror shows how power is manufactured.

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Between Two Fires

A Novel

By Christopher Buehlman

A dark historical horror journey through plague era France where faith, monsters, and survival collide.

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Bleak House

A Novel

The endless Jarndyce inheritance case connects Esther Summerson to aristocrats, lawyers, orphans, and investigators in a London where legal delay spreads damage far beyond the courtroom.

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

A Novel

By V. E. Schwab

Across centuries, three women pursue freedom, love, and immortality through a dark lineage of hunger that transforms their bodies and binds their stories together.

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David Copperfield

A Novel

David Copperfield looks back on a life shaped by childhood loss, cruelty, friendship, work, love, and the gradual discovery of what maturity asks him to understand about himself and others.

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Dragon Teeth

A Novel

Yale student William Johnson joins rival paleontologists Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope during the 1876 Bone Wars, carrying a major fossil discovery into a western landscape shaped by ambition and violence.

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Eaters of the Dead

The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan

Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan travels with Viking warriors into the far North, where a threatened settlement faces nocturnal attackers that appear to belong equally to history, legend, and nightmare.

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Fire and Blood

300 Years Before A Game of Thrones

By George R. R. Martin

Fire and Blood delivers an immersive Targaryen history that reads like a gripping medieval chronicle, ideal for lore focused fantasy readers and House of the Dragon fans.

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Great Expectations

A Novel

Orphan Pip receives the chance to become a gentleman and assumes wealth will earn love and erase shame, only to discover how badly he has misunderstood his benefactor and himself.

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Inferno

Robert Langdon, Book 4

By Dan Brown

Robert Langdon wakes in Florence with no memory of recent events and must decode clues drawn from Dante's Inferno before a plan tied to global population changes the world.

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James

A Novel

By Percival Everett

James reframes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through Jim’s perspective, delivering a sharp, compassionate narrative about language, survival, and freedom.

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Jane Eyre

An Autobiography

By Charlotte Brontë

Orphaned Jane Eyre survives cruelty and deprivation before becoming governess at Thornfield Hall, where love for Mr. Rochester tests her independence, conscience, and need for equality.

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Moby-Dick

Or, The Whale

By Herman Melville

Sailor Ishmael joins the Pequod and discovers that Captain Ahab has turned a commercial whaling voyage into a consuming hunt for the white whale that maimed him.

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Oliver Twist

A Novel

An orphan escapes the workhouse for London, where hunger and loneliness draw him into Fagin's criminal circle while unexpected allies try to offer him a different future.

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Pirate Latitudes

A Novel

In 1665 Port Royal, privateer Charles Hunter assembles a crew to raid a Spanish treasure galleon protected inside the fortified harbor of Matanceros, risking weather, warships, betrayal, and Caribbean violence.

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Pride and Prejudice

A Novel

By Jane Austen

Elizabeth Bennet's quick judgment of the proud Mr. Darcy evolves through family embarrassment, social pressure, and difficult self-knowledge in Jane Austen's witty novel of love and status.

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The Book Thief

A Novel

By Markus Zusak

Death narrates Liesel Meminger’s childhood in Nazi Germany, where books, her foster family, and the man hidden in their basement shape how she understands the war around her.

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The Calamity Club

A Novel

By Kathryn Stockett

In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, eleven-year-old Meg, practical Birdie, and desperate Charlie are drawn into an audacious plan as poverty, an abusive orphanage, family secrets, and hostile institutions close around them.

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The Curse of Hester Gardens

A Novel

By Tamika Thompson

A deeply haunted estate hides dark magic and generational secrets in Tamika Thompson's gothic fantasy.

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The Da Vinci Code

A Robert Langdon Thriller

By Dan Brown

Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is a lightning-fast art-history thriller that follows Robert Langdon across Paris and London as he decodes secret societies, sacred symbols, and a murder staged inside the Louvre.

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The Evening and the Morning

A Kingsbridge Novel

Boatbuilder Edgar, Norman noblewoman Ragna, and monk Aldred confront Bishop Wynstan while a ferry, bridge, law, and learning begin to shape early Kingsbridge.

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The Great Gatsby

A Novel

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nick Carraway enters the glittering world of Jay Gatsby, whose lavish parties and carefully invented identity conceal an obsessive hope of recovering his past with Daisy Buchanan.

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The Great Train Robbery

A Novel

In Victorian London, gentleman criminal Edward Pierce organizes an elaborate plan to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train, overcoming locks, guards, keys, and the rigid assumptions of respectable society.

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The Lost Symbol

Robert Langdon, Book 3

By Dan Brown

Robert Langdon follows Masonic symbols through Washington, D.C., after his mentor is abducted, entering a race involving hidden chambers, ancient wisdom, and a ritualistic captor.

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The Pillars of the Earth

A Novel

Ken Follett's medieval cathedral-building novel follows determined builders, scheming nobles, and the resilient citizens of Kingsbridge through war-torn England.

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The Sirens

A Novel

By Emilia Hart

Four sisters separated by centuries are drawn together by the sea as Lucy flees to her sister's isolated coastal home and uncovers a family history shaped by dreams, disappearances, and folklore.

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The Women

A Novel

By Kristin Hannah

Army nurse Frankie McGrath leaves a sheltered California life for Vietnam field hospitals and returns to a hostile homecoming shaped by friendship and trauma.

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Timeline

A Novel

Archaeology students use a corporation's quantum technology to reach fourteenth-century France and rescue their professor, discovering that the medieval world they studied is immediate, violent, and resistant to prediction.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

A Novel

By Harper Lee

Scout Finch recalls a childhood in segregated Alabama as her father Atticus defends a Black man falsely accused of assault, exposing the prejudice beneath their town's familiar routines.

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World Without End

A Kingsbridge Novel

Caris fights to practice medicine and Merthin rebuilds Kingsbridge while guilds, church leaders, war, and the Black Death keep changing the town.