🏷️ Dual Timeline
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Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021
One legendary party. Four siblings. A lifetime of secrets. Set in 1980s Malibu with the kind of family drama that keeps you turning pages at 2 AM.
Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren · 2018
Macy and Elliot were best friends who shared a closet full of words and secrets. Then something tore them apart. Eleven years later, she walks into his coffee shop.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Aging Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo finally tells the truth about her seven marriages. But the real love story isn't about any of her husbands.
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013
A boy survives a museum bombing that kills his mother and walks out with a priceless painting. The painting haunts the rest of his life. Pulitzer Prize winner for a reason.
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Two sisters in Nazi-occupied France survive the war in very different ways. One hides. One fights. Both are extraordinary. The kind of book that changes you.
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
A blind French girl and a German boy during WWII. Their paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo. The prose is luminous. Pulitzer Prize winner that earned every word of praise.
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
A female spy network in WWI. A young socialite searching for her cousin after WWII. Their stories collide in a tale of revenge, resilience, and ruthlessness.
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn · 2021
Three women at Bletchley Park during WWII crack codes and keep secrets. Years later, one is locked in an asylum, and the other two must figure out who put her there.
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
Twin sisters from a small Southern Black community grow up to live very different lives. One passes as white. Their daughters meet as strangers. Identity, race, and the lies we tell ourselves.
The It Girl
Ruth Ware · 2022
At Oxford, April was the glamorous It Girl. Now she's dead. Hannah is sure the man convicted is guilty — until a journalist's call changes everything.
The Sun Down Motel
Simone St. James · 2020
Viv took the night shift at a motel in 1982 and vanished. Thirty-five years later, her niece Carly gets a job at the same motel. Same ghosts. Same danger.
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth · 2020
A cursed New England boarding school, a true-crime book about it, and the movie being made about the book. Gothic sapphic horror with a wickedly smart structure.
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
Twin sisters from a small Black community grow up to live in opposite worlds — one passes as white, the other stays. Their daughters' lives collide decades later.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Aging movie star Evelyn Hugo reveals the truth about her seven marriages and one great love. The twist about why she chose this journalist will floor you.
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn · 2021
Three women at Bletchley Park during WWII. A debutante, a shop girl, and an eccentric genius. They broke enemy codes and their friendships barely survived the secrets.
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak · 2021
A Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot fall in love as their island splits apart. Part of the story is narrated by a fig tree. Yes, really. And it works beautifully.
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021
The Riva siblings host their legendary end-of-summer party in 1983 Malibu. By morning the house is on fire. A sizzling family saga told across one wild night.
The It Girl
Ruth Ware · 2022
At Oxford, April was the girl everyone wanted to know. Then she was murdered. Ten years later, Hannah discovers the man convicted might be innocent. Time to dig up the past.
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore · 2024
A girl vanishes from an Adirondack summer camp in 1975. Her brother disappeared from the same woods fourteen years earlier. A sprawling, masterful literary mystery.
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
1947: An American girl searching for her cousin. 1915: A female spy in a German-occupied French network. Their stories collide in unexpected ways. Based on the real Alice Network of WWI.
Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren · 2018
Macy and Elliot were everything to each other growing up. Then something tore them apart. Years later, they collide again, and all those buried feelings come flooding back.
The It Girl
Ruth Ware · 2022
April was the glamorous, reckless It Girl at Oxford. Then she was murdered. Ten years later, Hannah starts to question everything she thought she knew about that night.
In the Woods
Tana French · 2007
Detective Rob Ryan investigates a child's murder in the same woods where his two friends vanished twenty years ago. He was there that night. He remembers nothing. Literary crime at its finest.
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth · 2020
A cursed boarding school. Dead girls. Yellow jackets. A modern film crew tries to make a movie about the school's dark past and starts living it. Gothic sapphic horror perfection.
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013
A boy survives a museum bombing that kills his mother. He steals a painting. His life spirals through grief, addiction, and the underworld. Pulitzer-winning for good reason.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Aging Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo finally tells the truth about her seven marriages. The real love story she's been hiding will break your heart into a million pieces.
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
Two women — a WWI spy and a 1947 socialite — team up to find someone who vanished in Nazi-occupied France. Based on a real spy network. Fierce, propulsive, and unforgettable.
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
A blind French girl and a German soldier. Their paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo. Every sentence is poetry. Pulitzer-winning and absolutely deserving of it.
The It Girl
Ruth Ware · 2022
April was the glamorous, magnetic center of Hannah's college life. Then she was murdered. A man was convicted. Ten years later, Hannah discovers he might have been innocent.
Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica · 2021
Two women vanish from a quiet suburb. Then an eleven-year-old girl appears on a neighbor's doorstep — she's been gone for six years. Where was she? And who took her?
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth · 2020
Two girls at a New England boarding school die under mysterious circumstances in 1902. Over a century later, a movie is being made about them at the same school. History is repeating.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Aging Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo finally tells the truth about her seven marriages. The real love story isn't with any of her husbands. Devastating, glamorous, queer, and unforgettable.
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
A blind French girl and a German orphan boy. Their paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo. Doerr's prose is stunningly beautiful. Pulitzer Prize–winning and utterly deserved.
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn · 2021
Three very different women work as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during WWII. Years later, a secret threatens to destroy them. Kate Quinn at her absolute best.
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
Twin sisters from a small Southern town. One passes as white. One stays. Their daughters grow up worlds apart, not knowing the other exists. Identity, race, and the lies we build lives on.
Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren · 2018
Macy and Elliot were everything to each other as teens. Then something happened and she walked away. Eleven years later they meet again.
The Chalk Man
C.J. Tudor · 2018
1986: Five kids create a secret code with chalk stick figures. Then the chalk men start leading to terrible things. 2016: Someone is still drawing them.
In the Woods
Tana French · 2007
Detective Rob Ryan investigates a child murder in the woods where, as a boy, his two best friends vanished. Literary crime at its finest.
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015
Spiders evolve intelligence on a terraformed planet. The last humans are coming. Who inherits the world? Makes you root for spiders.
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013
A boy survives a museum bombing and takes a painting. It haunts him for decades. Dickensian in scope, devastating in effect.
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn · 2021
Three women at Bletchley Park during WWII. They break codes and keep secrets. Years later, one of them is in an asylum and the others must figure out why.
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
A blind French girl and a German boy. WWII brings them together. The prose is so beautiful it hurts. Pulitzer winner.
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
A female spy network in WWI. Decades later, an unlikely duo hunts for the truth. Two timelines, two fierce women, one unforgettable story.
Not Easily Conquered
dropdeaddream & WhatAreFears · 2015
Letters from the 1940s. Steve and Bucky through decades. The multimedia format (letters, news clippings) is genius.
The It Girl
Ruth Ware · 2022
April was the It Girl at Oxford. Now she's dead, and Hannah isn't sure the right man went to prison. Dark academia meets whodunit.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin · 2022
Sam and Sadie make video games together for decades. It's a love story about creativity, friendship, and the games we play. Will wreck you.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Aging Hollywood icon picks an unknown journalist to tell her life story. Seven husbands, one true love, and a secret she's kept for decades.
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn · 2021
Three women work as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during WWII. Years later, one is in an asylum and sends a coded message. Unputdownable.
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead · 2021
A female pilot disappears attempting to circumnavigate the globe pole-to-pole in 1950. Decades later, an actress plays her in the biopic.
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2019
An oral history of the rise and fall of a 1970s rock band. Daisy and Billy's chemistry could power a stadium. Basically Fleetwood Mac fanfic.
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021
Four famous siblings throw their annual end-of-summer party in 1983 Malibu. By morning the house burns. The night in between changes everything.
Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica · 2021
A woman disappears. Years later a girl comes home — but she's been missing for eleven years and everything she says raises more questions than answers.