The pay-off comes at the end in this gloomily atmospheric and immersive novel that will make you want to believe in magic, spirits, and love that transcends earthly planes.
Tag: historical fiction
Margaret Atwood · The Blind Assassin
This Booker Prize winning novel is like a meticulous Russian doll, filled with layer upon layer of narratives that gradually work together like clock-work to reveal a big family secret.
Sarah Waters · The Little Stranger
Departing from her signature settings and characters, this novel isn't just a gothic ghost story, but also an immersive piece of historical fiction set in rural post-WWII England.
Margaret Mitchell · Gone With The Wind
Popularly known as a romance, in truth Gone With the Wind is much more: An engrossing epic historical novel set during the Civil War and Reconstruction period, and all the racial issues that come with the territory.
Tori Amos in Copenhagen · September 23rd, 2017
Tour Diary of my 41st Tori show. She played a melancholy set that perfectly fit my mood and had me weep my way through it, a cathartic experience.
Daphne du Maurier · Jamaica Inn
An atmospheric gothic novel set in the cold and lonely moors of Cornwall, with a neglected and foreboding abode at the heart of it all, as in most du Maurier works.
Markus Zusak · The Book Thief
When you look past the attempt at making this a “deeper” book than it really is, with its smokescreen of awkward symbolism and metaphors, you’ve got an interesting story buried somewhere in there.
Joseph Heller · Catch-22
A satire set in WWII that examines the absurdity of war and military life through a farcical and paradoxical story confusingly told out of sequence, perfectly capturing the utter lunacy of war.
Ira Levin · The Boys From Brazil
In this wild ride of a genre-defying novel—part speculative fiction, part thriller, part sci-fi, all based on real historic figures—Levin explores a far-fetched but chilling what if?-scenario.
Madeline Miller · Circe
In her sophomore effort, Miller weaves together popular and obscure Greek myths from the perspective of Circe, the exiled sorceress painted as a villain in Homer's Odyssey, giving the stories a new feminist spin.