Book Reviews & Recommendations
Malinda Lo’s Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a breathtaking piece of historical fiction that blends identity, love, and cultural heritage with precision and tenderness. Set in 1950s San Francisco during the height of the Red Scare, it captures both the […]
Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain is a novel that doesn’t just tell a story it exposes the raw, unvarnished reality of love, poverty, and addiction in 1980s Glasgow. Winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, this book is both a deeply personal narrative and […]
Riley Sager has built his reputation on delivering atmospheric thrillers with razor-sharp twists, and With a Vengeance is no exception. Set against the backdrop of a luxury overnight train in the early 1950s, this novel plunges readers into a classic locked-room mystery […]
James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is a sweeping, jazz-inflected tale of community, prejudice, and resilience. Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award in Historical Fiction, this novel opens with a mystery in 1972 workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania uncover a skeleton […]
Rhys Bowen, bestselling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook, has delivered yet another captivating tale with Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure. Set in pre-WWII Europe, this historical novel blends resilience, friendship, and the thrill of unexpected reinvention into a heartwarming […]
Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water is the kind of sweeping historical novel that asks you to clear your weekend, pour a strong tea, and surrender to a world that feels both intimate and immense. Set in Kerala along India’s Malabar Coast, […]
Andrea Catalano’s The First Witch of Boston reimagines the life of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be executed for witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. Blending romance, tragedy, and historical intrigue, this debut novel takes readers into the heart of Puritan Boston where […]
Kristin Hannah’s historical epic plunges readers into Dust Bowl Texas and the brutal realities of the Great Depression, told through the stubborn grit of one unforgettable heroine, Elsa Martinelli. It is a novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier, and […]
Time travel stories often lean on romance or science fiction spectacle, but Nelson K. Foley’s The Bridge to Rembrandt takes a different route. Rooted in real history and art, this novel pulls readers across centuries of Amsterdam’s turbulent past while anchoring the […]