Let the Dead Bury the Dead
By: Allison Epstein
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, immersive alternate history set in an imperial Russia on the brink of disaster, followin…
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1. Helen
By: Euripides , Colin Leach
3.80
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Among the legends of ancient Greece, there is perhaps no story more compelling than that of Helen. … read more
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- fiction
"It is right for women to stand by a woman's cause."-Euripides, Helen
"What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by…"-Euripides, Helen
2. The Swan Thieves
By: Elizabeth Kostova
3.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late … read more
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3. The Buccaneers
By: Edith Wharton , Marion Mainwaring
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Nan and Jinny St George have both wealth and beauty in generous supply. In the New York society of … read more
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4. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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- historical
5. The Mars House
By: Natasha Pulley
4.02
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
6. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
By: Katherine Arden
4.02
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
7. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
By: Shubnum Khan
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
8. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
9. The Fox Wife
By: Yangsze Choo
4.01
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
10. Straw Dogs of the Universe
By: Ye Chun
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A harrowing and redemptive immigrant story for readers of Pachinko A Chinese railroad worker and… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. The Weaver and the Witch Queen
By: Genevieve Gornichec
3.88
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
The lives of two women—one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
12. Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
By: Jac Jemc
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins K… read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
"Loneliness is keenest when in the company of others, when comparisons suggest that everyone else is relating to and forming bonds with one another ... To make a connection requires risking rejection.…"-Jac Jemc, Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
13. The Square of Sevens
By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens
14. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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- historical
- adult
15. A Sweet Sting of Salt
By: Rose Sutherland
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll ha… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
16. The Bullet Swallower
By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
17. All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth
By: Joel H. Morris
3.72
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, about th… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. The Woods All Black
By: Lee Mandelo
3.81
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black
19. King Nyx
By: Kirsten Bakis
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the contemporary cult classic, Lives of the Monster Dogs , comes a haunting myst… read more
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- historical
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. Eynhallow
By: Tim McGregor
4.29
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. The Haunting of Moscow House
By: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two formerly aristocratic sist… read more
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- russia
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
22. Maddalena and the Dark
By: Julia Fine
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- queer
23. Edith Holler
By: Edward Carey
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse—and the m… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
24. The Madwomen of Paris
By: Jennifer Cody Epstein
3.55
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris’s notorious wome… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
25. The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)
By: Claire North
4.38
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire Nor… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
26. Masquerade
By: O.O. Sangoyomi
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
27. The Assassin of Venice
By: Alyssa Palombo
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Renaissance courtesan must choose between love and duty in this high stakes 16th-century mystery,… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
28. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
29. Let the Dead Bury the Dead
By: Allison Epstein
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, immersive alternate history set in an imperial Russia on the brink of disaster, followin… read more
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- lesbian
- russia
- lgbt
- historical
- alternate history
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
30. The Seventh Veil of Salome
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
31. The Bog Wife
By: Kay Chronister
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-b… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
