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Fanshawe Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1828 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Published anonymously at his own expense in 1828, Hawthorne's first novel is an engrossing apprentice work. Shares American Historical fiction, Social life and customs

The Heidenmauer (The heathens' wall); or the Benedictines James Fenimore Cooper · 1832 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging The Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines – A Story of the Rhine is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1832. The novel is a socio-political novel set in 16th century Bavaria that focuses on the competition between various socio-political classes and the tension caused by the Reformation.The Heidenmauer is Cooper's second novel in what one critic would call his European Trilogy,… Shares Yellowback books, Historical Fiction

Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection first published in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name. Contains: The Gray Champion Sunday At Home The Wedding Knell The Minister's Black Veil The Maypole of Merry Mount The Gentle Boy Mr Higginbotham's Catastrophe Little Annie's Ramble Wakefield A Rill… Shares American Historical fiction, New england, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction

La fête du mais Thomas Tryon · 1969 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place was straight out of a bygone era, with well-cared-for Colonial houses, a white-steepled church fronting a broad Common. Ned and Beth Constantine chanced upon the hamlet and immediately fell in love with it. This was exactly the haven they dream of. Or so they thought. For Ned and his family,… Shares New england, Social life and customs

Dark Rooms

Dark Rooms Lili Anolik · 2015 · ★ 3.2 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school.Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly—a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession—but memory and instinct… Shares New england

Home as found James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · ★ 5.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Historical Fiction with this book.

The Story of a Mine Bret Harte · 1877 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Yellowback books, Social life and customs with this book.

New-England tale Catharine Maria Sedgwick · 1822 · ★ 3.2 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted in its entirety, each with a foreword by General Editor Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in a historical and literary perspective. Written in 1822, A New-England Tale is the first of the many novels, tales, and short magazine pieces Catharine Sedgwick published… Shares New england, Social life and customs

Pan Michael An historical novel Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1893 · ★ 5.0 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving… Shares Historical Fiction

St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald · 1876 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers… Shares Historical Fiction

The Walking Drum William johnstone · 1984 · ★ 4.2 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century. Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the… Shares American Historical fiction, Historical Fiction

A Bitter Cut

A Bitter Cut Anna Lee Huber · 2026 Lady Kiera Darby plans to spend the summer reconnecting with friends and family in anticipation of the betrothal of her beloved brother. But when a future in-law is implicated in a murder, the party takes a deadly turn. . . .July 1833. Lady Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, are settling into their newly renovated home at Bevington Park in Warkwickshire with their young daughter. With… Shares Historical Fiction

Selected Tales and Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1900 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares American Historical fiction, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction with this book. Shares American Historical fiction, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction

Dragon Seed (Progress English) Pearl S. Buck · 1941 · ★ 4.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Dragon Seed is a fictional novel which describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937. Shares American Historical fiction, Historical Fiction

The last Puritan George Santayana · 1935 · 602p · ≈ 20h · Challenging "Published in 1935, George Santayana's The Last Puritan was the American philosopher's only novel and it became an instant best seller, immediately linked in its painful voyage of self-discovery to The Education of Henry Adams. It is essentially a novel of ideas expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden. Oliver escapes puritanical self-destruction, the inability to celebrate… Shares New england

The Nonesuch Georgette Heyer · 1962 · ★ 4.1 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate At the age of five-and-thirty, Sir Waldo Hawkridge, wealthy, handsome, eligible, illustrious, and known as the nonesuch for his athletic prowess, and when he comes north to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom hall in the West Riding, his arrival leads to the most entertaining of ramifications. When they learned that Sir Waldo Hawkridge was coming, the village gentry were thrown into a… Shares Social life and customs, Historical Fiction

Silvertip's Strike Frederick Faust · 1942 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Steve Wycombe was a low-down snake till the day he died … and even after death. To his three worst enemies—Morris Delgas, Harry Rutherford, and Jim Silver—he left his land, stock, and cash. It was his last evil plan, shrewd and vindictive. To profit from his inheritance, the three would have to run his ranch together. Wycombe knew the criminals, Delgas and Rutherford, wouldn’t cooperate with… Shares American

Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte · 1946 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Social life and customs with this book.

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