The Poisonwood Bible

The Mirror and the Light Hilary Mantel

The final years of Thomas Cromwell -- at the absolute height of his power and one step from the scaffold -- in the most dazzling historical trilogy ever written.

Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel

Thomas Cromwell rises from obscurity to become Henry VIII's most trusted -- and feared -- advisor. Tense, brilliant, and immediate.

Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr

A lost ancient text links five characters across three timelines -- medieval Constantinople, twenty-first-century Idaho, a generation ship to the stars -- all reading the same story.

Homegoing Yaa Gyasi

Two half-sisters in eighteenth-century Ghana and their descendants across seven generations -- one line sold into slavery, one living in Ghana through colonialism and independence.

The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende

Four generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed South American country, where clairvoyance is as ordinary as political violence and love survives everything except itself.