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Cecelia Mecca
217 ratings 4.43 ·
adult · fiction · historical · medieval · book · ancient-civilization · steamy · romance · action-adventure · historical-fiction · british-isles · scotland · united-kingdom · literary-fiction · europe · female-mc · audiobook · paranormal · forced-proximity · enemies-to-lovers
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Jean Grainger
374 ratings 4.43 ·
fiction · book · adult · historical-fiction · historical · family · literary-fiction · audiobook · romance · female-mc · 20th-century · epic · friendship · action-adventure · womens-fiction · war · ww2 · violent-conflict · mystery · spirituality
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Ellie Midwood
119 ratings 4.39 ·
adult · fiction · book · 20th-century · historical · historical-fiction · ww2 · violent-conflict · war · literary-fiction · romance · epic · realistic · audiobook · dark · drama · abuse · urban · politics · religion
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Mark Wandrey
129 ratings 4.39 ·
aliens · fiction · first-contact · invasion · adult · sci-fi · galactic-empire · violent-conflict · military · exploration · space-travel · soldiers · colonization · space-fleet · space · action-adventure · book · literary-fiction · space-opera · anthologies
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Judith Keim
302 ratings 4.39 ·
fiction · contemporary · adult · book · female-mc · romance · womens-fiction · family · literary-fiction · sad · psychological · humor · spirituality · friendship · domestic-drama · audiobook · holidays · epic · breakup · religion
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Hannah Ellis
237 ratings 4.36 ·
fiction · adult · book · contemporary · humor · female-mc · literary-fiction · romance · family · womens-fiction · friendship · small-town · cozy · new-adult · friends-to-lovers · europe · holidays · steamy · comedy · action-adventure
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Barbara Hinske
103 ratings 4.34 ·
adult · fiction · literary-fiction · female-mc · book · contemporary · audiobook · epic · womens-fiction · crime · cozy · romance · family · mystery · breakup · domestic-drama · urban · new-adult · holidays · friendship
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Abbie Zanders
475 ratings 4.33 ·
adult · fiction · romance · book · contemporary · female-mc · literary-fiction · action-adventure · military · small-town · suspense · paranormal · humor · alpha-mc · audiobook · steamy · family · shapeshifters · fantasy · violent-conflict
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Caimh McDonnell
117 ratings 4.32 ·
adult · crime · fiction · mystery · book · contemporary · humor · audiobook · police-procedural · law-enforcement · dark-humor · literary-fiction · male-author · comedy · suspense · thriller · action-adventure · hard-boiled · noir · pulp
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R.D. Brady
141 ratings 4.29 ·
fiction · action-adventure · adult · book · suspense · paranormal · mystery · female-mc · supernatural · literary-fiction · urban-fantasy · epic · political-intrigue · psychics · conspiracies · alternate-history · pulp · angels · travel · urban
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Tracey Alvarez
157 ratings 4.25 ·
fiction · adult · romance · contemporary · womens-fiction · family · small-town · book · literary-fiction · epic · female-mc · humor · enemies-to-lovers · anthologies · holidays · poc-mc · action-adventure · friends-to-lovers · children · animals
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Gemma Liviero
105 ratings 4.24 ·
literary-fiction · war · fiction · historical · audiobook · violent-conflict · historical-fiction · 20th-century · book · adult · drama · ww2 · family · mystery · romance · ww1 · action-adventure · kidnapping · journey · military
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Louise Penny
685 ratings 4.22 ·
crime · book · adult · murder · fiction · audiobook · suspense · contemporary · thriller · mystery · cozy · whodunit · police-procedural · killer · law-enforcement · 21st-century · female-author · literary-fiction · family · drama
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Marius Gabriel
116 ratings 4.22 ·
ww2 · adult · war · fiction · historical · 20th-century · violent-conflict · book · historical-fiction · audiobook · literary-fiction · female-mc · romance · action-adventure · drama · womens-fiction · espionage · military · journey · mystery
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Kat T. Masen
245 ratings 4.21 ·
fiction · adult · contemporary · romance · literary-fiction · new-adult · steamy · billionaire · book · angst · friends-to-lovers · urban · family · age-gap · dark · love-triangle · anthologies · enemies-to-lovers · domestic-drama · forbidden-love
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Rachael Lucas
132 ratings 4.20 ·
fiction · romance · book · contemporary · adult · womens-fiction · literary-fiction · humor · holidays · spirituality · christian · new-adult · family · animals · literary · classics · female-mc · audiobook · female-author · season-winter
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Roberta Kagan
157 ratings 4.20 ·
historical-fiction · book · adult · fiction · historical · 20th-century · ww2 · literary-fiction · war · violent-conflict · romance · family · suspense · germany · drama · europe · spirituality · audiobook · western-central-europe · christian
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Martha Hall Kelly
121 ratings 4.20 ·
20th-century · family · historical · violent-conflict · ww2 · historical-fiction · literary-fiction · war · fiction · book · audiobook · female-mc · action-adventure · friendship · womens-fiction · adult · urban · young-adult · death · survival
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Jan Karon
410 ratings 4.19 ·
family · book · fiction · religious · spirituality · christian · audiobook · realistic · contemporary · humor · small-town · religion · adult · literary-fiction · womens-fiction · cozy · female-author · drama · friendship · rural
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Lucinda Riley
454 ratings 4.17 ·
historical-fiction · book · womens-fiction · drama · fiction · romance · family · mystery · historical · audiobook · adult · literary-fiction · female-author · action-adventure · 20th-century · female-mc · secrets · young-adult · realistic · royalty
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Madeline Miller
179 ratings 4.17 ·
myths · historical-fiction · retellings · fiction · fantasy · adult · book · historical · literary-fiction · audiobook · female-author · lgbtq · dark-academia · romance · feminism · young-adult · action-adventure · literary · classics · south-east-europe
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Barbara O'Neal
237 ratings 4.14 ·
fiction · female-mc · audiobook · family · womens-fiction · book · adult · contemporary · romance · friendship · literary-fiction · drama · mystery · realistic · female-author · culinary · magical-realism · suspense · epic · grief
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Robert Galbraith
225 ratings 4.13 ·
fiction · mystery · crime · audiobook · action-adventure · contemporary · book · suspense · investigator · murder · female-author · thriller · drama · law-enforcement · adult · killer · death · 21st-century · whodunit · realistic
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Almudena Grandes
100 ratings 4.09 ·
book · adult · drama · literary-fiction · female-author · fiction · female-mc · urban · romance · coming-of-age · epic · 21st-century · family · suspense · historical · 20th-century · historical-fiction · violent-conflict · contemporary · industrial-era
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Thrity Umrigar
184 ratings 4.06 ·
book · literary-fiction · family · adult · fiction · female-mc · realistic · poc-author · poc-mc · audiobook · historical-fiction · drama · friendship · journey · contemporary · female-author · psychological · marriage · historical · womens-fiction
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Olga Tokarczuk
127 ratings 4.04 ·
action-adventure · journey · adult · literary-fiction · female-author · fiction · magical-realism · audiobook · literary · classics · book · contemporary · historical-fiction · philosophy · 21st-century · religion · 20th-century · psychological · epic · spirituality
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Edward Rutherfurd
214 ratings 4.03 ·
literary-fiction · war · adult · fiction · epic · historical · audiobook · violent-conflict · historical-fiction · action-adventure · family · book · early-modern · 20th-century · drama · journey · medieval · spirituality · religion · urban
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Richard Preston
155 ratings 3.99 ·- Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston
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fiction · literary-fiction · adult · horror · law-enforcement · political-intrigue · audiobook · mystery · crime · contemporary · suspense · action-adventure · anthologies · technothriller · medical · outdoors · dystopia · survival · dark · violent-conflict
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