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Zeal by Morgan Jerkins

Discover how Morgan Jerkins' historical fiction novel, Zeal, explores love, legacy, and Black history across 150 years.

Perspective by Laurent Binet

Explore Laurent Binet’s Perspective, an epistolary historical novel set in Renaissance Florence, where art, murder, and power collide through letters from iconic figures like Michelangelo, Vasari, and Maria de’ Medici.

The Elopement by Gill Hornby

Discover a detailed review of The Elopement by Gill Hornby—a poignant, Austen-inspired historical romance filled with emotional complexity, period authenticity, and a story of love and rebellion set in Regency England.

Malinalli by Veronica Chapa

Discover Malinalli by Veronica Chapa, a haunting debut that fuses magical realism with historical fiction to reclaim the voice of one of history’s most misunderstood women.

Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray

Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray brings Jessie Redmon Fauset’s untold story to life, capturing her journey as an editor, mentor, and writer at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. This historical fiction novel illuminates an overlooked literary pioneer and her struggles with love, ambition, and race in 1920s America.

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Hollywood, Ending by John Green

Juniper Castillo can hold her pulse at eighty while somebody hits her. Her mother taught her that. Nine years later she is twenty-two, sober, ferociously prepared, and about to spend a press tour explaining her own history to strangers with recording devices. John Green's first adult novel is about what the machine takes.

Life Out of Order by Audrey Niffenegger

Twenty-three years after The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger hands the disorder to Henry and Clare's daughter. Alba has two husbands, a safe house she has owned since 1947, and a stepsister made of code. The result is warm, unhurried and structurally unruly, and the machine turns out to be the most interesting person in it.

Artemis by Andy Weir

Jazz Bashara checks her bank balance every day like it might have grown on its own. She needs 416,922 slugs. Not four hundred thousand, not half a million. That precise figure. She will not tell anyone why, and the answer, when it finally arrives, is the best thing in the book.

From Book Clubs to BookTok: How Reading Communities Have Moved Online

See how book clubs evolved into BookTok, Goodreads, Discord, and other online spaces where readers share recommendations, reactions, and opinions.

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