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A Novel Based on a Real Person Read More Reading Challenge 2018 |
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold.
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The Indigo Girl
by Natasha Boyd
To save her family's plantation, sixteen-year-old Eliza Lucas strikes up a deal with a slave, who in exchange for being taught to read will teach Eliza the secrets of the indigo trade. Based on a true story.
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Paradise Sky
by Joe R. Lansdale
On the run after an infamous landowner murders his father, Willie becomes an expert marksman before turning Buffalo Soldier, befriending Wild Bill Hickok and earning the nickname "Deadwood Dick."
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Jack 1939
by Francine Mathews
Tapped by President Franklin Roosevelt to travel to Europe and learn what the Nazis are actually planning, 22-year-old John F. Kennedy, a sickly and unpromising second son of Roosevelt's Ambassador to Britain, becomes embroiled in the President's high-stakes effort to stop the flow of German money that is influencing the 1940 U.S. election. (suspense).
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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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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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The Last Days of Night
by Graham Moore
When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals and deception.
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Isadora
by Amelia Gray
In a dramatic portrayal of the artist who lived and loved without limits, even in the darkest days of her life, Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance, teeters on the brink of sanity after a freak accident in Paris in 1913 results in the drowning death of her two children.
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Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years
by Thomas Mallon
An analysis of the Reagan Administration shares insights into the 40th president's character and decisions while evaluating key historical events and the influences of such figures as Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon.
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Bitter Greens
by Kate Forsyth
A story of desire, black magic, and love interweaves the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true-life story of French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force, who was banished from the court of Versailles by Louis XIV after a series of scandalous love affairs.
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