Books like Sacred Hearts
12 books with a reading profile close to Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
history, narrative
Set in the early 1970s New York rock scene, this oral history follows the rise and fracturing of an unlikely musical duo.
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2
American Wife
history, narrative
Alice Blackwell, a quiet, bookish girl from Wisconsin, becomes a librarian and a teacher, and later marries Charlie Blackwell, a wealthy Republican who becomes President of the United States.
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3
Betty
history, narrative
Set in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains during the mid-twentieth century, the narrative follows Betty Carpenter, one of eight siblings born to a white mother and a Cherokee father.
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4
Memphis
history, narrative
Spanning three generations of a Black family in Memphis, Tennessee, this novel centers on the women of one family, who must handle poverty, domestic violence and racism while keeping alive a sense of faith and creativit…
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5
The Mercies
history, narrative
In 1617, a sudden storm kills every man in the remote Norwegian fishing village of Vardø.
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6
A Northern Light
history, narrative
Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, the story follows Mattie Gokey, a farm girl torn between a university scholarship and her obligations to her widowed father and siblings.
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7
The Bastard of Istanbul
by Elif Shafak
history, narrative
Asya Kazancı is a nineteen-year-old Turkish girl in Istanbul, raised in a household of women, with no knowledge of who her father is.
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8
Yellow Wife
history, narrative
Born into a life of relative privilege on a Virginia plantation, Pheby Delores Brown is promised her freedom at age eighteen.
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9
Girl at War
by Sara Nović
history, narrative
Ten-year-old Ana Jurić lives a carefree life in Zagreb until the Yugoslav Civil War erupts in 1991.
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10
The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
history, narrative
In 1930s British Malaya, Cecily Alcantara works as a low-level clerk while feeling the sting of colonial hierarchy.
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11
The Weight of Ink
history, narrative
In 2000s London, historian Helen Watt, who is ill and near retirement, is called to an old house where workers have found a hidden cache of seventeenth-century Jewish papers.
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12
The Mad Women's Ball
by Victoria Mas
history, narrative
Set in 1885 at the Salpêtrière asylum in Paris, the narrative follows Eugénie Cléry, a young woman committed to the institution by her father after she reveals her ability to speak with spirits.
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