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A Book Based on a True Story Read More Reading Challenge 2019 |
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The General's Cook
by Ramin Ganeshram
The celebrated chef of President George Washington, Hercules hides the private torment of his enslaved status behind luxurious privileges and masterful culinary skills while secretly learning to read and pursuing a dangerous affair. Richly detailed and well-researched historical fiction.
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Don't Tell Me You're Afraid
by Giuseppe Catozzella
A U.S. release of a best-selling tale from Italy, based on a remarkable true story, follows the experiences of a heroic Somali girl who trains to become a world-class runner in her war-stricken country and risks her life on a migrant journey to Europe so that she can compete in the Olympic Games.
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Born to the Badge
by Mark Warren
Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. As marshal in Dodge, Wyatt establishes a reputation as a peace officer, but he knows that police work will never deliver what he wants. After joining the Black Hills gold rush and then serving a stint as railroad detective in Texas, he returns to Kansas, only to pin on the badge again and inadvertently forge his path into history.
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The Strivers' Row Spy
by Jason Overstreet
Impulsively marrying a woman who brings him more happiness than he ever imagined, 1920s college graduate Sidney is tapped by J. Edgar Hoover to become the first African-American FBI agent before using his position and talents to navigate ruthless adversaries at the risk of his marriage and safety. A first novel.
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Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen
by Mary Sharratt
A tale inspired by the life of the 12th-century abbess, composer and prophet depicts a young girl who upon being given to the Church rejects the order's masochistic piety and finds grace in studying books, growing herbs and rejoicing in divine visions before finding ways to liberate her sisters and herself.
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers and ghosts against a backdrop of period social and political turmoil.
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Little
by Edward Carey
Follows the story of a Swiss orphan who, apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor in the seamy streets of Paris, learns her craft and hones her art to become the famous Madame Tussaud.
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The Unquiet Grave
by Sharyn McCrumb
A tale based on the bizarre 1897 case of the Greenbrier Ghost follows the "talking therapy" of an asylum inmate, a black attorney who decades earlier helped to defend a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride, who famously implicated her husband from beyond the grave.
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