Editors' Choice

Ernestine

By Kate Reynolds - Published 2020

Genres:

Thriller

The world of 16th-century Spain is a place where the Inquisition holds sway and autos-da-fé (the public burning of heretics) happen rather often. ...Read Review

Our Violent Ends (These Violent Delights)

By Chloe Gong - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Our Violent Ends is Chloe Gong’s sequel to her bestselling novel These Violent Delights. Her works are a reimagining of Shakespeare’s ...Read Review

Palmares

By Gayl Jones - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

Jones began her celebrated literary career as the protégée of Toni Morrison, and in the last fifty years has written a ...Read Review

Booth

By Karen Joy Fowler - Published 2022

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

This is not a novel about John Wilkes Booth. In her author’s note at the beginning of the book, Fowler makes clear ...Read Review

The Christie Affair

By Nina de Gramont - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1926, renowned mystery author Agatha Christie disappeared for eleven days. When found, she claimed not to remember anything, a story she stuck to ...Read Review

The Gods of Green County

By Mary Elizabeth Pope - Published 2021

Genres:

Set in 1926, this perfectly stunning novel unravels the intricate threads of small-town life in Green County, Arkansas. In this rural and poverty-stricken land, ...Read Review

Hotel Portofino

By J. P. O'Connell - Published 2022

Genres:

This drama set in a posh hotel in Portofino, Italy, successfully mixes the flavors of an Edwardian novel with Upstairs, Downstairs tensions and ...Read Review

A More Perfect Union

By Tammye Huf - Published 2022

Genres:

Romance

Henry O’Toole escapes the Irish potato famine of 1848 and comes to America, unprepared for the hatred against the Irish that greets him ...Read Review

The Master of Measham Hall

By Anna Abney - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

1665: Charles II has returned from exile and is now king, but the Civil War still casts its long, dark shadow, intensified by the ...Read Review

John Eyre: A Tale of Darkness and Shadow

By Mimi Matthews - Published 2021

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In 1843, John Eyre leaves his position as a schoolmaster in Lowton, England, to become a private tutor for a pair of young boys ...Read Review

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