9 Literary Daughters With Page-Turning Stories to Tell

Anne Neville is a beautiful young woman who must navigate the treachery of the English court while her father, known as “the Kingmaker,” uses her and her sister as pawns in his political game.

The acclaimed author of SCHINDLER’S LIST tells the unforgettable story of two Australian sisters who volunteer as nurses during World War I aboard a hospital ship, tending to Australian soldiers wounded in the disastrous Battle of Gallipoli.

Re-creating one of history’s most famous—and vicious—crimes, THE DAUGHTER OF TIME investigates who really killed Richard III’s nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and reveals the usurpers lying in wait behind the British throne.

This is the haunting tale of a husband who tries to protect his wife by hiding the truth that the baby daughter she delivered hasn’t died but actually has Down’s Syndrome.

In THE BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER, a young woman in San Francisco learns about family, forgiveness, and love through her mother’s writings about growing up in a remote Chinese mountain village.

After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, one family immigrates to a small town in upstate New York and embarks upon an extraordinary odyssey of identity and prejudice.

A dying boy is pulled from the river with an odd mark tattooed on his shoulder. Is witchcraft involved? That’s what hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to find out. Set in seventeenth-century Germany, this chilling and fast-paced historical thriller is penned by a descendent of the Kuisls, an infamous real-life executioner clan.

From Germany during the last year of World War II to present-day El Paso, THE BAKER’S DAUGHTER explores the intertwining lives of two women, their choices, the past, and moving forward with the courage to forgive.

We’ve all heard of the California Gold Rush of 1849, but this gripping novel views the time period through the unique perspective of a Chilean immigrant. Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California and, as she finds her place in a society of gold fever, single men, and prostitutes, her journey becomes one of self-discovery.