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by Hernan Diaz
Published May 2023
Read ReviewsAn unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception.
by Alison MacLeod
Published Aug 2022
Read ReviewsFor readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution.
by Jillian Cantor
Published Feb 2022
Read ReviewsUSA Today bestselling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women's alternating voices.
by Lara Prescott
Published Jun 2020
Read ReviewsA thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.
by M.J. Rose
Published Jun 2019
Read ReviewsThe New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts a dazzling Jazz Age jewela novel of ambition, betrayal, and passion about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists' colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany & Co. fame. "[M.J. Rose] transports the ...
by Meg Wolitzer
Published May 2019
Read ReviewsAn electric, multilayered novel about ambition, power, friendship, and mentorship, and the romantic ideals we all follow deep into adulthood, not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be
by Melanie Benjamin
Published Jan 2019
Read ReviewsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife, a fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends - screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford.
by Amy Bloom
Published Oct 2018
Read ReviewsThe unexpected and forbidden affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok unfolds in a triumph of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of Away and Lucky Us.
by Wiley Cash
Published Jun 2018
Read ReviewsThe New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events.
by Beatriz Williams
Published Jan 2017
Read ReviewsThe bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.
by Liza Klaussmann
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsA dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night.
by Rose Tremain
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsRose Tremain awakens the senses in this magnificent and diverse collection of short stories.
by Nancy Horan
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsA much-anticipated second novel which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.
by Naomi Wood
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsA riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages.
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
by Kristopher Jansma
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsAn inventive and witty debut about a young man's quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe
by Melanie Benjamin
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsIn the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
by Laura Moriarty
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsA captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both.
by Paula McLain
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsA deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.
by Nancy Horan
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsAn exceptional first novel based on the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and her clandestine love affair with famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
by Thomas Mallon
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsA madcap and poignant book portraying New York in the 1920s, the Jazz Age - the gaudiest American decade of them all.
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