Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

A Conference in Stockholm

A Conference in Stockholm
  • Author(s): Kathy Harter
  • Location(s): Stockholm, Eastern Europe, New York City (NYC), Oxford, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A noted climate activist is about to name names at a symposium in Stockholm. CIA agents Joshua Daine and Valerie Rhodes are sent on a simple retrieval mission to pick up classified information. She is kidnapped, he is shot,...

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
  • Author(s): Jackie Copleton
  • Location(s): Nagasaki, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now a widow living...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Betty Smith
  • Location(s): Williamsburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

This is a New York classic about a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, evocative of this area of New York (Williamsburg) and describes the experience of people immigrating into the city. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a...

Across Florida Straits

Across Florida Straits
  • Author(s): Marvin Cook
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Recent

ACROSS FLORIDA STRAITS follows a bastard son of a young Cuban dancer growing up in an all-inclusive Soviet resort on the south of Cuba. His lothario larceny leads to entanglement with trafficking art antiquities and a desperate need to...

After the Winter

After the Winter
  • Author(s): Guadalupe Nettel
  • Location(s): Paris, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A shy young Mexican woman moves to Paris to study literature. Cecilia has few friends, and a morbid fascination with watching the funerals taking place in Père-Lachaise cemetery outside her apartment. She suddenly strikes up a close relationship with...

An Unwanted Guest

An Unwanted Guest
  • Author(s): Shari Lapena
  • Location(s): Catskill Mountains
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway . . . but when the storm hits, no one is getting away It’s winter in the Catskills and Mitchell’s Inn, nestled deep in...

Are We Nearly There Yet?

Are We Nearly There Yet?
  • Author(s): Lucy Vine
  • Location(s): Thailand, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

Alice is turning thirty and is stuck in a rut. Her friends are all coupling up and settling down, while she’s still working as a temp, trying (and failing) not to shag her terrible ex, getting thrown out of...

At First Light

At First Light
  • Author(s): Vanessa Lafaye
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1993 and 1919

1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. 1919. Mixed-race...

Betty

Betty
  • Author(s): Tiffany McDaniel
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and violence – both from outside the family and also, devastatingly,...

Between Love and Hate

Between Love and Hate
  • Author(s): Toni Morgan
  • Location(s): China, Bahrain, Idaho, Montenegro, North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1930-2010

Short stories that spread around the world and told from the viewpoints of everyday people.

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now