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🕯️ Belle Epoque

Stories set in the glittering, contradictory era between 1871 and 1914, when European culture blazed with innovation while empires teetered on the brink.
La Belle Époque
by Michel Winock • 2002
Cubism blazed in Paris while France panicked about its birth rate and armed for war.
3.70
40
🇫🇷 French History🕰️ Belle éPoque👥 Social History
La Belle Époque Summary
La Belle Époque 90%
Cubism blazed in Paris while France panicked about its birth rate and armed for war.
by Michel Winock 2002
3.70
40 ratings
🇫🇷 French History🕰️ Belle éPoque👥 Social History
Bel-Ami
by Guy de Maupassant • 1885
Georges Duroy has no money and no morals, just the most useful face in Paris.
3.86
50k+
🖋️ French Realism🪜 Social Climbing😈 Amoral Protagonist
Bel-Ami Summary
Bel-Ami 89%
Georges Duroy has no money and no morals, just the most useful face in Paris.
by Guy de Maupassant 1885
3.86
50k+ ratings
🖋️ French Realism🪜 Social Climbing😈 Amoral Protagonist
The Painted Girls
by Cathy Marie Buchanan • 2012
Three sisters struggle for survival in the Paris Opéra's wings, while one poses for Degas.
3.61
36k+
🩰 Ballet Fiction🎨 Artist'S Muse👯 Sisterly Bonds
The Painted Girls Summary
The Painted Girls 89%
Three sisters struggle for survival in the Paris Opéra's wings, while one poses for Degas.
by Cathy Marie Buchanan 2012
3.61
36k+ ratings
🩰 Ballet Fiction🎨 Artist'S Muse👯 Sisterly Bonds
Marshlands
by André Gide • 1895
To write about a man at peace with stagnation, a writer must confront his own paralysis.
3.58
1k+
📖 Novel Within A Novel🤔 Philosophical Fiction✒️ Writer Protagonist
Marshlands Summary
Marshlands 88%
To write about a man at peace with stagnation, a writer must confront his own paralysis.
by André Gide 1895
3.58
1k+ ratings
📖 Novel Within A Novel🤔 Philosophical Fiction✒️ Writer Protagonist
The Chanel Sisters
by Judithe Little • 2020
The forgotten sister who built Chanel tells the story Coco never would.
3.95
9k+
🧵 Fashion History👤 Woman Behind The Icon🏙️ Belle ÉPoque Paris
The Chanel Sisters Summary
The Chanel Sisters 88%
The forgotten sister who built Chanel tells the story Coco never would.
by Judithe Little 2020
3.95
9k+ ratings
🧵 Fashion History👤 Woman Behind The Icon🏙️ Belle ÉPoque Paris
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914
by Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1987
How the world's first globalization, built on empire and mass politics, made a world war inevitable.
4.27
5k+
🕰️ Belle éPoque🔨 Marxist History🗺️ Imperialism Studies
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 Summary
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 88%
How the world's first globalization, built on empire and mass politics, made a world war inevitable.
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1987
4.27
5k+ ratings
🕰️ Belle éPoque🔨 Marxist History🗺️ Imperialism Studies
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton • 1913
A small-town beauty carries herself into old New York, where acceptance only sharpens her appetite.
4.07
16k+
🎭 Novel Of Manners🥂 Gilded Age New York🏙️ Social Climber
The Custom of the Country Summary
The Custom of the Country 87%
A small-town beauty carries herself into old New York, where acceptance only sharpens her appetite.
by Edith Wharton 1913
4.07
16k+ ratings
🎭 Novel Of Manners🥂 Gilded Age New York🏙️ Social Climber
A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke
by Adriana Herrera • 2025
A renegade doctor and a Black duke share one night in Paris. Walking away proves impossible.
3.88
3k+
🩺 Feminist Romance🗼 Belle Epoque Paris🩻 Physician Heroine
A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke Summary
A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke 87%
A renegade doctor and a Black duke share one night in Paris. Walking away proves impossible.
by Adriana Herrera 2025
3.88
3k+ ratings
🩺 Feminist Romance🗼 Belle Epoque Paris🩻 Physician Heroine
The Paris Express
by Emma Donoghue • 2025
An anarchist boards the 1895 Paris Express with a bomb, a grudge, and a faltering will.
3.27
14k+
🏴 Anarchist Fiction📖 Literary Suspense🧩 Interwoven Lives
The Paris Express Summary
The Paris Express 87%
An anarchist boards the 1895 Paris Express with a bomb, a grudge, and a faltering will.
by Emma Donoghue 2025
3.27
14k+ ratings
🏴 Anarchist Fiction📖 Literary Suspense🧩 Interwoven Lives
The Greater Journey
by David McCullough • 2011
Paris, 1830 to 1900. Americans arrived as students. They left as architects of a new culture.
3.94
21k+
🇺🇸 American Expatriates🏛️ Grand Tour Tradition🩺 19th Century Medicine
The Greater Journey Summary
The Greater Journey 87%
Paris, 1830 to 1900. Americans arrived as students. They left as architects of a new culture.
by David McCullough 2011
3.94
21k+ ratings
🇺🇸 American Expatriates🏛️ Grand Tour Tradition🩺 19th Century Medicine
Love Is Blind
by William Boyd • 2018
When a piano tuner falls for a virtuoso's mistress, her husband pursues them across Europe.
3.98
9k+
🎼 Classical Music World💔 Forbidden Love🧳 Exile And Displacement
Love Is Blind Summary
Love Is Blind 87%
When a piano tuner falls for a virtuoso's mistress, her husband pursues them across Europe.
by William Boyd 2018
3.98
9k+ ratings
🎼 Classical Music World💔 Forbidden Love🧳 Exile And Displacement
Arsène Lupin, le bouchon de cristal - Texte abrégé
by Maurice Leblanc • 1912
Six weeks to the guillotine: Arsène Lupin must hunt a missing stopper that hides a political bomb.
3.93
2k+
🎩 Gentleman Thief🔮 Heist Gone Wrong🗳️ Political Blackmail
Arsène Lupin, le bouchon de cristal - Texte abrégé Summary
Arsène Lupin, le bouchon de cristal - Texte abrégé 87%
Six weeks to the guillotine: Arsène Lupin must hunt a missing stopper that hides a political bomb.
by Maurice Leblanc 1912
3.93
2k+ ratings
🎩 Gentleman Thief🔮 Heist Gone Wrong🗳️ Political Blackmail
Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert • 1869
Paris, the 1840s. A young dreamer falls for a married woman and never quite recovers.
3.81
25k+
😔 Novel Of Disillusionment🇫🇷 French Realism💔 Unattainable Love
Sentimental Education Summary
Sentimental Education 87%
Paris, the 1840s. A young dreamer falls for a married woman and never quite recovers.
by Gustave Flaubert 1869
3.81
25k+ ratings
😔 Novel Of Disillusionment🇫🇷 French Realism💔 Unattainable Love
The Queen of the Night
by Alexander Chee • 2016
A Paris opera star's hidden past is made into a libretto. The source was someone she trusted.
3.43
12k+
🏛️ 19th Century Paris🎭 Opera World👑 Courtesan Protagonist
The Queen of the Night Summary
The Queen of the Night 87%
A Paris opera star's hidden past is made into a libretto. The source was someone she trusted.
by Alexander Chee 2016
3.43
12k+ ratings
🏛️ 19th Century Paris🎭 Opera World👑 Courtesan Protagonist
The War That Ended Peace
by Margaret MacMillan • 2013
Europe in 1914 was prosperous and connected. How alliances, pride, and rigid plans broke the peace.
4.25
7k+
🏛️ Great Power Politics🔍 Origins Of World War⚖️ Balance Of Power
The War That Ended Peace Summary
The War That Ended Peace 87%
Europe in 1914 was prosperous and connected. How alliances, pride, and rigid plans broke the peace.
by Margaret MacMillan 2013
4.25
7k+ ratings
🏛️ Great Power Politics🔍 Origins Of World War⚖️ Balance Of Power
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
by Maurice Leblanc • 1907
A debonair thief turns detective, solving the mysteries the French police cannot crack.
3.85
17k+
🎩 Gentleman Thief🗼 Belle Epoque Paris🎭 Master Of Disguise
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief Summary
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief 87%
A debonair thief turns detective, solving the mysteries the French police cannot crack.
by Maurice Leblanc 1907
3.85
17k+ ratings
🎩 Gentleman Thief🗼 Belle Epoque Paris🎭 Master Of Disguise
Père Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac • 1997
In a Paris boarding house, a student learns ambition's cost from a ruined father and criminal.
3.85
69k+
🎭 Realist Novel🇫🇷 19th Century Paris😈 Corrupt Mentor
Père Goriot Summary
Père Goriot 86%
In a Paris boarding house, a student learns ambition's cost from a ruined father and criminal.
by Honoré de Balzac 1997
3.85
69k+ ratings
🎭 Realist Novel🇫🇷 19th Century Paris😈 Corrupt Mentor
Lost Illusions
by Honoré de Balzac • 1843
Parisian journalism seduces a young poet, turning his talent into a weapon that destroys his family.
4.16
13k+
📖 French Realism🏰 19th Century France📰 Journalism Satire
Lost Illusions Summary
Lost Illusions 86%
Parisian journalism seduces a young poet, turning his talent into a weapon that destroys his family.
by Honoré de Balzac 1843
4.16
13k+ ratings
📖 French Realism🏰 19th Century France📰 Journalism Satire
The Age of Light
by Whitney Scharer • 2019
A Vogue model enters Man Ray's studio, determined to become the photographer, not the photographed.
3.57
13k+
🎨 Art Historical Fiction📖 Biographical Fiction💋 Artist And Muse
The Age of Light Summary
The Age of Light 86%
A Vogue model enters Man Ray's studio, determined to become the photographer, not the photographed.
by Whitney Scharer 2019
3.57
13k+ ratings
🎨 Art Historical Fiction📖 Biographical Fiction💋 Artist And Muse
The Fruits of the Earth
by André Gide • 1897
A mentor urges his disciple to shed every belief and taste the world raw.
3.68
4k+
🖋️ Prose Poetry🎭 French Symbolism🧙 Mentor And Disciple
The Fruits of the Earth Summary
The Fruits of the Earth 86%
A mentor urges his disciple to shed every belief and taste the world raw.
by André Gide 1897
3.68
4k+ ratings
🖋️ Prose Poetry🎭 French Symbolism🧙 Mentor And Disciple
Traveler of the Century
by Andrés Neuman • 2009
A translator falls for an engaged salon hostess in a city that rearranges itself by night.
3.83
2k+
📖 Philosophical Fiction💔 Forbidden Love Affair✉️ Epistolary Romance
Traveler of the Century Summary
Traveler of the Century 86%
A translator falls for an engaged salon hostess in a city that rearranges itself by night.
by Andrés Neuman 2009
3.83
2k+ ratings
📖 Philosophical Fiction💔 Forbidden Love Affair✉️ Epistolary Romance
Mariana
by Monica Dickens • 1940
Through a storm, Mary Shannon waits for her husband's ship and relives a lifetime of love.
3.90
3k+
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Interwar Britain🌅 Bittersweet Nostalgia🌿 English Countryside
Mariana Summary
Mariana 86%
Through a storm, Mary Shannon waits for her husband's ship and relives a lifetime of love.
by Monica Dickens 1940
3.90
3k+ ratings
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Interwar Britain🌅 Bittersweet Nostalgia🌿 English Countryside
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick • 2007
A Paris station orphan repairs a broken automaton to unlock a message from his dead father.
4.22
190k+
🎨 Illustrated Middle Grade⚙️ Mechanical Invention🕰️ Clockwork Mystery
The Invention of Hugo Cabret Summary
The Invention of Hugo Cabret 86%
A Paris station orphan repairs a broken automaton to unlock a message from his dead father.
by Brian Selznick 2007
4.22
190k+ ratings
🎨 Illustrated Middle Grade⚙️ Mechanical Invention🕰️ Clockwork Mystery
Swann’s Way
by Marcel Proust • 1913
A madeleine dipped in tea brings back his boyhood village and a neighbor's consuming obsession.
4.16
70k+
🌀 Stream Of Consciousness🤔 Philosophical Fiction💔 Obsessive Love
Swann’s Way Summary
Swann’s Way 86%
A madeleine dipped in tea brings back his boyhood village and a neighbor's consuming obsession.
by Marcel Proust 1913
4.16
70k+ ratings
🌀 Stream Of Consciousness🤔 Philosophical Fiction💔 Obsessive Love
El ancho mundo
by Pierre Lemaitre • 2022
Four siblings, two continents, one deadly secret: a family saga of love, crime, and corruption.
4.08
6k+
🏠 Family Saga🌴 Colonial Indochina💔 Forbidden Love
El ancho mundo Summary
El ancho mundo 86%
Four siblings, two continents, one deadly secret: a family saga of love, crime, and corruption.
by Pierre Lemaitre 2022
4.08
6k+ ratings
🏠 Family Saga🌴 Colonial Indochina💔 Forbidden Love
The Gilded Wolves
by Roshani Chokshi • 2019
His birthright stolen, a thief and his outcast crew hunt a forbidden artifact through magical Paris.
3.70
52k+
🏦 Found Family Heist🗼 Belle ÉPoque Paris🕯️ Secret Societies
The Gilded Wolves Summary
The Gilded Wolves 86%
His birthright stolen, a thief and his outcast crew hunt a forbidden artifact through magical Paris.
by Roshani Chokshi 2019
3.70
52k+ ratings
🏦 Found Family Heist🗼 Belle ÉPoque Paris🕯️ Secret Societies
Le Temps des secrets
by Marcel Pagnol • 1962
In a Provençal summer, a boy's first love threatens his oldest friendship.
4.06
2k+
🌾 Rural France🤝 Boyhood Friendship💔 First Love
Le Temps des secrets Summary
Le Temps des secrets 86%
In a Provençal summer, a boy's first love threatens his oldest friendship.
by Marcel Pagnol 1962
4.06
2k+ ratings
🌾 Rural France🤝 Boyhood Friendship💔 First Love
33 Place Brugmann
by Alice Austen • 2025
Thin walls in a Brussels apartment building conceal art and refugees from the Nazi occupation.
3.72
6k+
🏢 Building As World🇧🇪 Wwii Brussels🎨 Artist Narrator
33 Place Brugmann Summary
33 Place Brugmann 86%
Thin walls in a Brussels apartment building conceal art and refugees from the Nazi occupation.
by Alice Austen 2025
3.72
6k+ ratings
🏢 Building As World🇧🇪 Wwii Brussels🎨 Artist Narrator
The Secret Life of Sunflowers
by Marta Molnar • 2022
A struggling auctioneer inherits a diary from the woman who saved Van Gogh from obscurity.
4.08
50k+
🕰️ Dual Timeline Fiction🎨 Art World Fiction📜 Lost Women'S Stories
The Secret Life of Sunflowers Summary
The Secret Life of Sunflowers 86%
A struggling auctioneer inherits a diary from the woman who saved Van Gogh from obscurity.
by Marta Molnar 2022
4.08
50k+ ratings
🕰️ Dual Timeline Fiction🎨 Art World Fiction📜 Lost Women'S Stories
La Peau de chagrin
by Honoré de Balzac • 1831
A ruined young man in Paris receives a magic skin: every wish fulfilled, a shorter life.
3.67
12k+
🎭 Faustian Bargain💀 Cost Of Desire👤 Unattainable Woman
La Peau de chagrin Summary
La Peau de chagrin 86%
A ruined young man in Paris receives a magic skin: every wish fulfilled, a shorter life.
by Honoré de Balzac 1831
3.67
12k+ ratings
🎭 Faustian Bargain💀 Cost Of Desire👤 Unattainable Woman
The Paris Novel
by Ruth Reichl • 2024
A vintage Dior dress and an obsession with a forgotten model pull a timid woman into her own life.
3.78
53k+
📚 Bohemian Paris🖼️ Art Mystery🫂 Found Family
The Paris Novel Summary
The Paris Novel 86%
A vintage Dior dress and an obsession with a forgotten model pull a timid woman into her own life.
by Ruth Reichl 2024
3.78
53k+ ratings
📚 Bohemian Paris🖼️ Art Mystery🫂 Found Family
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal • 2002
In Restoration France, a carpenter's son uses seduction to climb a ladder built to break him.
3.86
86k+
🧠 Psychological Realism📜 Restoration France📈 Social Climbing
The Red and the Black Summary
The Red and the Black 85%
In Restoration France, a carpenter's son uses seduction to climb a ladder built to break him.
by Stendhal 2002
3.86
86k+ ratings
🧠 Psychological Realism📜 Restoration France📈 Social Climbing
Time Regained
by Marcel Proust • 1927
Friends wear masks of age. A stumble on broken stone restores a writer's lost past.
4.51
9k+
📖 Modernist Novel🧠 Sensory Memory⏳ Lost Time
Time Regained Summary
Time Regained 85%
Friends wear masks of age. A stumble on broken stone restores a writer's lost past.
by Marcel Proust 1927
4.51
9k+ ratings
📖 Modernist Novel🧠 Sensory Memory⏳ Lost Time
That Mad Ache
by Françoise Sagan • 1965
A kept woman in Paris trades comfort for passion and discovers the price of wanting more.
3.99
2k+
🧠 Psychological Novel💔 Love Triangle💎 Kept Woman
That Mad Ache Summary
That Mad Ache 85%
A kept woman in Paris trades comfort for passion and discovers the price of wanting more.
by Françoise Sagan 1965
3.99
2k+ ratings
🧠 Psychological Novel💔 Love Triangle💎 Kept Woman
Immortality
by Milan Kundera • 1990
A novelist sees a woman wave at a pool. He invents Agnes, who yearns to disappear.
4.14
43k+
📖 Philosophical Novel🏛️ Fame And Posterity🎭 Image And Reality
Immortality Summary
Immortality 85%
A novelist sees a woman wave at a pool. He invents Agnes, who yearns to disappear.
by Milan Kundera 1990
4.14
43k+ ratings
📖 Philosophical Novel🏛️ Fame And Posterity🎭 Image And Reality
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
by Edgar Allan Poe • 2014
Two women murdered in a locked Paris flat: an eccentric recluse reads the impossible clues.
3.79
45k+
💀 Impossible Crime🎩 Eccentric Detective🖤 Gothic Atmosphere
The Murders in the Rue Morgue Summary
The Murders in the Rue Morgue 85%
Two women murdered in a locked Paris flat: an eccentric recluse reads the impossible clues.
by Edgar Allan Poe 2014
3.79
45k+ ratings
💀 Impossible Crime🎩 Eccentric Detective🖤 Gothic Atmosphere
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire • 1857
Poems that find ecstasy in the gutter, hold you responsible, and turned despair into an art form.
4.19
82k+
🥀 French Poetry🖤 Symbolist Poetry🥱 Existential Ennui
The Flowers of Evil Summary
The Flowers of Evil 85%
Poems that find ecstasy in the gutter, hold you responsible, and turned despair into an art form.
by Charles Baudelaire 1857
4.19
82k+ ratings
🥀 French Poetry🖤 Symbolist Poetry🥱 Existential Ennui
Hotel Portofino
by J.P. O'Connell • 2022
An Englishwoman's Riviera hotel harbors guests with secrets as fascism rises in 1920s Italy.
3.31
5k+
📺 Ensemble Period Drama🇮🇹 Italian Riviera🖼️ Art Theft
Hotel Portofino Summary
Hotel Portofino 85%
An Englishwoman's Riviera hotel harbors guests with secrets as fascism rises in 1920s Italy.
by J.P. O'Connell 2022
3.31
5k+ ratings
📺 Ensemble Period Drama🇮🇹 Italian Riviera🖼️ Art Theft
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein • 1933
Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.
3.54
14k+
📖 Experimental Memoir🎨 Literary Modernism🛋️ Salon Culture
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Summary
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 85%
Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.
by Gertrude Stein 1933
3.54
14k+ ratings
📖 Experimental Memoir🎨 Literary Modernism🛋️ Salon Culture
El hombre semen
by Violette Ailhaud • 2015
Purged of men, a Provençal village of widows swears to share the first man who arrives.
3.67
1k+
✊ Feminist Historical🇫🇷 19th Century France🔗 Shared Husband Pact
El hombre semen Summary
El hombre semen 85%
Purged of men, a Provençal village of widows swears to share the first man who arrives.
by Violette Ailhaud 2015
3.67
1k+ ratings
✊ Feminist Historical🇫🇷 19th Century France🔗 Shared Husband Pact
Josephine Baker
by Jean-Claude Baker • 1993
Paris star, French spy, mother of twelve. Her adopted son uncovers the bill for her utopias.
3.78
351
🎷 Jazz Age Paris🌍 Black Expatriates🪖 French Resistance
Josephine Baker Summary
Josephine Baker 85%
Paris star, French spy, mother of twelve. Her adopted son uncovers the bill for her utopias.
by Jean-Claude Baker 1993
3.78
351 ratings
🎷 Jazz Age Paris🌍 Black Expatriates🪖 French Resistance
La Rivale
by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt • 2012
Once Callas's rival, a forgotten opera singer shares her bitter past with a La Scala guide.
3.37
849
🎼 Opera World🎭 Backstage Rivalries😡 Jealous Obsession
La Rivale Summary
La Rivale 85%
Once Callas's rival, a forgotten opera singer shares her bitter past with a La Scala guide.
by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2012
3.37
849 ratings
🎼 Opera World🎭 Backstage Rivalries😡 Jealous Obsession
Cooking for Kings
by Ian Kelly • 2003
Abandoned at ten on Paris streets. He became the pastry architect for Napoleon, tsars, and kings.
3.75
291
🥐 French Cuisine📜 Culinary History👨‍🍳 Celebrity Chefs
Cooking for Kings Summary
Cooking for Kings 85%
Abandoned at ten on Paris streets. He became the pastry architect for Napoleon, tsars, and kings.
by Ian Kelly 2003
3.75
291 ratings
🥐 French Cuisine📜 Culinary History👨‍🍳 Celebrity Chefs
L'Orpheline du temple
by Victoria Mas • 2025
A revolutionary guard falls in love with the Bourbon princess he keeps prisoner.
3.48
218
🇫🇷 French Revolution📜 Epistolary Novel💔 Forbidden Love
L'Orpheline du temple Summary
L'Orpheline du temple 85%
A revolutionary guard falls in love with the Bourbon princess he keeps prisoner.
by Victoria Mas 2025
3.48
218 ratings
🇫🇷 French Revolution📜 Epistolary Novel💔 Forbidden Love
The Murder on the Links
by Agatha Christie • 1923
Summoned to France, Poirot finds his client murdered on a golf course, every clue a deception.
3.86
123k+
🔍 Golden Age Mystery🕵️ Rival Detectives🕰️ Hidden Past
The Murder on the Links Summary
The Murder on the Links 85%
Summoned to France, Poirot finds his client murdered on a golf course, every clue a deception.
by Agatha Christie 1923
3.86
123k+ ratings
🔍 Golden Age Mystery🕵️ Rival Detectives🕰️ Hidden Past
The Counterfeiters
by André Gide • 1925
Learning he's a bastard, a student flees his bourgeois life and stumbles into a novelist's fiction.
3.83
10k+
🎭 Novel Within A Novel👤 Illegitimate Son🎨 Artist Protagonist
The Counterfeiters Summary
The Counterfeiters 85%
Learning he's a bastard, a student flees his bourgeois life and stumbles into a novelist's fiction.
by André Gide 1925
3.83
10k+ ratings
🎭 Novel Within A Novel👤 Illegitimate Son🎨 Artist Protagonist
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky • 2004
A French wife and the German officer billeted in her home share a forbidden intimacy.
3.86
79k+
🇫🇷 Occupied France💘 Enemies To Lovers⚖️ Moral Ambiguity
Suite Française Summary
Suite Française 85%
A French wife and the German officer billeted in her home share a forbidden intimacy.
by Irène Némirovsky 2004
3.86
79k+ ratings
🇫🇷 Occupied France💘 Enemies To Lovers⚖️ Moral Ambiguity
The Lioness of Boston
by Emily Franklin • 2023
A New York heiress marries into Boston society and discovers every door is bolted shut.
3.64
10k+
🏛️ Gilded Age Boston🚪 Outsider In Society🏗️ Woman Builds Legacy
The Lioness of Boston Summary
The Lioness of Boston 85%
A New York heiress marries into Boston society and discovers every door is bolted shut.
by Emily Franklin 2023
3.64
10k+ ratings
🏛️ Gilded Age Boston🚪 Outsider In Society🏗️ Woman Builds Legacy
The Paris Daughter
by Kristin Harmel • 2023
She left her daughter with a friend in wartime. The friend's surviving child holds the secret.
4.23
72k+
🗽 American Expats In Paris🤝 Wartime Friendship📚 Parisian Bookshop
The Paris Daughter Summary
The Paris Daughter 85%
She left her daughter with a friend in wartime. The friend's surviving child holds the secret.
by Kristin Harmel 2023
4.23
72k+ ratings
🗽 American Expats In Paris🤝 Wartime Friendship📚 Parisian Bookshop
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne • 1872
A London gentleman wagers everything on circling the globe in eighty days, tailed by a detective.
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🎩 Victorian Adventure⏱️ Race Against Clock🤝 Unlikely Companions
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A London gentleman wagers everything on circling the globe in eighty days, tailed by a detective.
by Jules Verne 1872
3.95
286k+ ratings
🎩 Victorian Adventure⏱️ Race Against Clock🤝 Unlikely Companions
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