Old and new, here are some great books I keep in my attic loft.
It Girl
2026
It Girl by Allison Pataki is a glittering, gut-punch of a novel that reimagines the life of Evelyn Nesbit—icon, ingénue, …
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Should Have Told You Sooner
2026
Should Have Told You Sooner is an emotionally layered story of lost chances, found courage, and the complicated path between …
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Beyond the Ghetto Gates
2020
Michelle Cameron’s wonderful historical novel, Beyond the Ghetto Gates, is set in Ancona, a seaport on the Adriatic in Central Italy. …
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Napoleon’s Mirage
2024
Napoleon’s Mirage by Michelle Cameron reunites the reader with the trio of main characters who inhabited the wonderful tale of …
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The Queen’s Musician
2025
I’ll say it—Mark Smeaton is my new favorite character of the Tudor era. In The Queen’s Musician, Martha Jean Johnson …
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The Vow
2024
I love great historical fiction about women. This one drew me in and made me question whether art can exist …
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In the Shadow of the Greenbrier
2024
Emily Matchar weaves an addictive tale of family secrets in her multi-generational tale, In the Shadow of the Greenbrier. Told …
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Saving Vincent
2025
This captivating novel will draw you in and hold you through its last word. I opened my copy of Saving …
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Finding Margaret Fuller
2024
You know I love Allison Pataki’s books, especially 2020’s The Queen’s Fortune: A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty …
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The King’s Mother
2024
What a second act, after the triumph that was Cecily, Annie Garthwaite gives us the Plantagenet matriarch in all her glory …
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Broken Country
2025
In the first pages of BROKEN COUNTRY, the reader learns that Gabriel Wolfe has returned to Meadowlands. Just as when …
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Reputation
2021
I could not tear myself away from this engrossing, witty Regency-era social drama. It made me think of Elizabeth Bennet …
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No Life for a Lady
2023
In the first pages of #NoLifeforaLady, Violet, its nineteenth-century twenty-something heroine, sets out to find her mother, who disappeared a …
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The Tsarina’s Daughter
2022
The death of Peter the Great in 1725 threw Russia into a succession crisis. At its center is his daughter …
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