Literary / Historical
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989 · Literary / Historical
AmbiguousDeep regret
An English butler retraces a life of service and realizes what love and judgment he missed.
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini · 2003 · Literary / Historical
BittersweetChild sexual assaultWar violence
Amir returns to Afghanistan to confront a childhood betrayal.
Beloved
by Toni Morrison · 1987 · Literary / Historical
BittersweetInfanticideSlavery trauma
Sethe, an escaped slave, is haunted by the ghost of the daughter she killed.
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles · 2016 · Literary / Historical
HEAuthoritarian backdrop
After the Russian Revolution, Count Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in Moscow's Metropol Hotel and rebuilds a life within four walls.