The Women
Nurse Frankie McGrath serves in Vietnam and fights to be seen at home.
1,980-word summary · 9 min read
Tag: historical
12 books with this tag.
The Poisonwood Bible
A missionary drags his wife and four daughters to the Congo in 1959, and Africa remakes each of them.
2,227-word summary · 10 min read
The Pillars of the Earth
A priory, a builder, and a town raise a cathedral through war and fire.
2,068-word summary · 9 min read
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
A London writer trades letters with Guernsey islanders after the war.
1,979-word summary · 9 min read
The Four Winds
Elsa Martinelli fights the Dust Bowl to save her Texas farm, then risks everything on the road to California.
2,099-word summary · 9 min read
The Color Purple
Celie writes letters to God and to her sister, surviving abuse in the rural South to find her own voice.
2,053-word summary · 9 min read
Girl with a Pearl Earring
A maid in Vermeer's Delft household is drawn into the painter's world and into his most famous canvas.
1,973-word summary · 9 min read
The Night Circus
Two young magicians duel inside a black-and-white circus that only opens at night, and fall in love against the rules.
2,660-word summary · 12 min read
The Great Alone
The Allbright family moves to Alaska in the 1970s where Ernt's PTSD and winter test Leni.
3,460-word summary · 15 min read
The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantes escapes Chateau d'If and returns as the Count to repay friends and ruin betrayers.
3,879-word summary · 17 min read
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bruno moves to Out-With and befriends Shmuel through a camp fence without understanding it.
3,101-word summary · 14 min read
A Tale of Two Cities
Lucie Manette frees her father from the Bastille while Sydney Carton loves her from afar through London and Paris revolt.
3,595-word summary · 16 min read