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What should be on your historical fiction TBR shelf
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items You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. These books forever changed me!
Here I am again with the story of THAT apartment. The story of this place has completely captivated me, and the fact that is based on a true apartment is completely mind blowing.
The Velvet Hours
The fact that this is based unreal people and their courage and strength completely leaves me in awe. Leaving everything behind to help others across the ocean such a moving in at times heartbreaking tale of what unassuming women are capable of doing...
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
This one took me down a rabbit hole. I was stunned that this could have been real, so of course I had to do some research and found out that it actually did happen! Now I have to go visit this area with these characters overcame and how they persiste...
The Vineyards of Champagne
This is a heartbreaking tale of love and loss, secrets, and betrayal. It also shows the strength to survive the unsurvivable.
The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris
Our remarkable novel about secrets, desire, a memory, passion, and possibility. This one took me down another rabbit hole. I researched every perfume mentioned in this book and wanted to purchase all of them. It is so beautifully written and such a f...
The Perfume Collector
This one grabbed my attention from the very beginning it has mystery, glamour and war all rolled into one with a triple timeline it keeps you guessing right up to the very end
The Paris Secret
I had no idea that this was part of America's history. Such a heartbreaking story it is a true story, but told through imaginary diary entries, but the fact that this is part of America's history is shocking to me
One Thousand White Women
This book is written about the island that my ancestors are from I had to see what it was about, and I was truly captivated by the story. Friendship and perseverance.
Bridget's War
I know this book is on everybody's list but there's a good reason for that, this one broke me. But the families went through with the children's went through to this day it haunts me.
The Book of Lost Names
The strength of people in difficult times simply astound me. I would hope that I could be that strong, but sometimes I wonder.
The War Librarian
An amazing story of a remarkable woman, her strength and determination to get the story out at any cost moved me beyond words.
The Last Correspondent
I absolutely fell in love with the characters of this book. Margot and Evie left a lasting impression. I absolutely love dual timeline books so this one, checked all the boxes and left me forever changed.
The French Gift
This book is set in France and Lisbon. The resistance is strong, but I had no idea, as the battle rages on in Europe Eva and Elaine do their part to help. A story of friendship, resilience, and espionage.
The Librarian Spy
The lives of three women intertwined because of their love of books one in Berlin in 1933 one in Paris in 1936 and one in New York in 1944. This is definitely a riveting read.
The Librarian of Burned Books
What a beautiful story, the power of friendship even at different stages in your life. It just shows that we have more in common with each other than we know.
The Paris Library
Promises made his children, do they last through adulthood that's the question that's book poses. It made me think of my own childhood and the friends that I had those were childish promises. The one in this book could save a life.
Daughters of Paris
This one just about did me in. It is such a story of love and friendship and survival. After reading this one, I had to sit with it for a while I couldn't move on from the characters. They touched me so deeply.
The Keeper of Hidden Books
Tragedy and heartbreaking family, secrets, World War II, and dual timeline what's not to like?
The Paris Seamstress
I am truly shocked that this place actually exists. It just completely fascinates me. I have read every book regarding this apartment. It is such an amazing story.
The Paris Apartment
The Dakota, the secret, the mystery, the love and the heartbreak. A dual timeline everything that makes a great book for me. This one did not disappoint.
The Address
So this book made me want to sell everything, by a barge and float down the rivers of France. It is still on my bucket list!
The Little Paris Bookshop
What an amazing story set in two different timelines, but in the same city, Italy truly comes alive in the story of World War II and after, of love, forgiveness and friendship
The Tuscan Girl
Money doesn't always buy you happiness. Nothing could be more true in this story.
The American Heiress
I thought I knew American history and then I read this book and realized I missed a lot. I had no idea what our country really went through to become independent. This was a great history lesson.
My Dear Hamilton