City of Girls – Elizabeth Gilbert (2019)
Set in 1940s New York, Vivian Morris navigates love, scandal, and self-discovery in the glamorous yet reckless world of a struggling theater.
Historical
Romance
Restart Reading
Classics
Satire
Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (1891)
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy follows Tess Durbeyfield as she navigates love, betrayal, and societal judgment in Victorian England.
Historical
Psychological
The Storyteller – Jodi Picoult (2013)
A scarred baker is asked to forgive a confessed Nazi - a haunting tale of memory, guilt, and the price of justice that binds past and present in unforgiving ways.
Classics
Romance
Satire
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (1850)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is a semi-autobiographical novel chronicling David’s journey from childhood to maturity, facing love, loss, and personal growth.
Non Fiction
Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer (2003)
A haunting journey into the dark heart of faith-fueled violence, where divine revelation collides with murder, exposing the perilous edge between belief and fanaticism.
Adventure
Historical
Science Fiction
Timeline – Michael Crichton (1999)
Quantum science sends historians into the heart of medieval France, where survival depends on wit, courage, and the brutal truths of a past that won't stay buried.
Historical
Supernatural
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo (1831)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo follows Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer, as he navigates love, fate, and cruelty in 15th-century Paris.
Classics
Historical
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy (1985)
A teenage runaway drifts through a blood-soaked frontier, where violence reigns and a monstrous judge reshapes the fate of men beneath a sky that never forgives.
Historical
The Heart’s Invisible Furies – John Boyne (2017)
A man’s journey from shame to acceptance spans decades of love, loss, and redemption in a world learning, far too slowly, how to make peace with difference.
Classics
Romance
Satire
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (1920)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton explores love and societal constraints in 19th-century New York, following Newland Archer’s dilemma between passion and duty.