Anything by Kristin Hannah, they are longer books but very well written historical fiction.
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There are some great WW2 women spy books out recently. The Alice Network was pretty good. Under the Tulip Tree covers the Depression era push to record Black histories. I also liked The Four Winds about the Dust Bowl. For a little reading bubblegum I liked Carnegie’s Maid. Covers a good chunk of the richer side of the Industrial Era.
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It’s a bit earlier, 1920s, but Radium Girls was good.
The Queen’s Gambit was originally a book so you might want to check out something else by its author Walter Tevis – maybe The Hustler.
City of Thieves by David Benioff is a novel set during the siege of Leningrad.
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Briar Club by Kate Quinn
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If you like nonfiction –
“Come Fly the World: The Jet Age Story of the Women of Pan Am” by Julia Cooke
and
“The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free” by Paulina Bren.
They both cover a pretty wide swathe of time and different people, but both really grapple w/women doing their best to come into their own and live their own lives, a lot of it pre 1960s sexual revolution. Plus lots of NYC glamour and bits of gossip in the 2nd one, which is about a famous women’s hotel in NYC before women living alone was “acceptable.”
CrazyGreenCrayon on
Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe
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I really liked Masters of the Air. It randomly started playing after I finished watching something on Apple and honestly, I thought it was great!
**edit: liked**
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Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo is a fiction book about Chinese-American teen girl in San Francisco during the Red Scare, who also begins to realize she’s a lesbian. The author did a lot of research into the area and time period and the book is broken up with sections told from her parents/aunt’s perspectives and goes into their experiences as immigrants or native born US citizens.
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City of Girls
Anything by Kristin Hannah, they are longer books but very well written historical fiction.
There are some great WW2 women spy books out recently. The Alice Network was pretty good. Under the Tulip Tree covers the Depression era push to record Black histories. I also liked The Four Winds about the Dust Bowl. For a little reading bubblegum I liked Carnegie’s Maid. Covers a good chunk of the richer side of the Industrial Era.
It’s a bit earlier, 1920s, but Radium Girls was good.
Have you read the sources for those shows?
Lessons in Chemistry was a book first.
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So was the Queen’s Gambit
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The Queen’s Gambit was originally a book so you might want to check out something else by its author Walter Tevis – maybe The Hustler.
City of Thieves by David Benioff is a novel set during the siege of Leningrad.
Briar Club by Kate Quinn
If you like nonfiction –
“Come Fly the World: The Jet Age Story of the Women of Pan Am” by Julia Cooke
and
“The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free” by Paulina Bren.
They both cover a pretty wide swathe of time and different people, but both really grapple w/women doing their best to come into their own and live their own lives, a lot of it pre 1960s sexual revolution. Plus lots of NYC glamour and bits of gossip in the 2nd one, which is about a famous women’s hotel in NYC before women living alone was “acceptable.”
Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe
I really liked Masters of the Air. It randomly started playing after I finished watching something on Apple and honestly, I thought it was great!
**edit: liked**
Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo is a fiction book about Chinese-American teen girl in San Francisco during the Red Scare, who also begins to realize she’s a lesbian. The author did a lot of research into the area and time period and the book is broken up with sections told from her parents/aunt’s perspectives and goes into their experiences as immigrants or native born US citizens.