Skip to content

A Bookish Type

  • StoryGraph
  • Instagram
  • Bluesky
The Women’s Courtyard, by Khadija Mastur
Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: June 20, 2025

The Women’s Courtyard, by Khadija Mastur

Originally published in 1962, Khadija takes us into the cloistered world of a family on […]

Read More
A Resistance of Witches, by Morgan Ryan
Book Review / Historical Fantasy Posted on: June 17, 2025

A Resistance of Witches, by Morgan Ryan

The Grand Mistress of Britain’s witches has decided that they will join the war effort, […]

Read More
The Bewitching, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Book Review / Historical Fantasy Posted on: June 12, 2025June 12, 2025

The Bewitching, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Trigger warning for brief depiction of incest and rape. In her note at the end […]

Read More
Darkenbloom, by Eva Menasse
Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: June 3, 2025June 6, 2025

Darkenbloom, by Eva Menasse

Somewhere in Austria’s Burgenland, the territory pressed hard up against the border with Hungary, the town […]

Read More
Waterline, by Aram Mrjoian
Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: May 29, 2025

Waterline, by Aram Mrjoian

Trigger warning for references to suicide. The Kurkjians lot in life seems to be misery. […]

Read More
The Listeners, by Maggie Stiefvater
Book Review / Historical Fantasy / Historical Fiction Posted on: May 20, 2025

The Listeners, by Maggie Stiefvater

Nestled into the mountains of West Virginia is the Avallon Hotel and Spa. Only the […]

Read More
The Red House, by Mary Morris
Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: May 12, 2025

The Red House, by Mary Morris

Laura has always been haunted by her mother’s disappearance in 1972. She was twelve when […]

Read More
The Safekeep, by Yael van der Wouden
Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: May 9, 2025

The Safekeep, by Yael van der Wouden

The characters of Yael van den Wouden’s novel, The Safekeep, bring out the (very) amateur […]

Read More
The Names, by Florence Knapp
Book Review Posted on: April 23, 2025

The Names, by Florence Knapp

Trigger warning for interpersonal violence. Cora will never know what might have happened if she […]

Read More
The Devil Three Times, by Rickey Fayne
Book Review / Historical Fantasy / Historical Fiction Posted on: April 21, 2025

The Devil Three Times, by Rickey Fayne

Satan appears much more than three times in Rickey Fayne’s generational saga, The Devil Three […]

Read More

Posts pagination

Previous page Page 1 … Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 … Page 73 Next page

Post Categories & Genres

  • Alternate History
  • Autofiction
  • Book Review
  • Bookish Links
  • Classics
  • Commonplace Book
  • Contemporary Fantasy
  • Fantasy
  • Graphic Novels
  • Historical Fantasy
  • Historical Fiction
  • Horror
  • Literary Fiction
  • Metafiction
  • Mystery
  • Nonfiction & True Crime
  • Opinions
  • Plays
  • Satire
  • Science Fiction
  • Short Stories
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Steampunk
  • The Book Sommelier
  • The List
  • The Reading Life
  • Thriller
  • Uncategorized
  • Western
Theme Emerge Blog by Kantipur Themes
Loading Comments...