10 books for fans of The Muse
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The Miniaturist
The Miniaturist • Book 1
by Jessie Burton, Unknown Author
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Burton weaves a tale of prophetic miniatures and Dutch Golden Age secrets as young Nella discovers her dollhouse predicts—or controls—her family's fate. The mystery deepens with every tiny, impossible detail.
★ 3.62 Goodreads (153.6K ratings) - 2
The Kitchen House
by Kathleen Grissom
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An Irish orphan raised alongside enslaved people on a Virginia plantation faces impossible choices when racial boundaries blur. Grissom exposes how human connections transcend society's brutal hierarchies through devastating, intimate detail.
★ 4.24 Goodreads (304.9K ratings) - 3
Scarlet Carnation
Freedman/Johnson • Book 4
by Laila Ibrahim
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May and Naomi, connected by their grandmothers' shared plantation history, fight for their place in early 20th-century America as WWI reshapes the world around them.
★ 4.17 Goodreads (8.5K ratings) - 4
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
Early American Studies
by Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman
★ 4.08 Goodreads (378 ratings) - 5
Citizens Creek
by Lalita Tademy
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Cow Tom survives slavery, serves as Creek translator during the Indian Wars, and fights for freedom that his granddaughter will later defend. Tademy traces an extraordinary family's journey through America's most brutal chapters.
★ 3.90 Goodreads (1.4K ratings) - 6
Red River
Tademy Family Chronicles • Book 2
by Lalita Tademy
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Following up Cane River, Tademy uncovers her family's earlier struggles during a little-chronicled period of American history. Meticulous research meets luminous storytelling in this generational saga.
★ 3.89 Goodreads (3.5K ratings) - 7
'Til the Well Runs Dry
by Lauren Francis-Sharma
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Marcia guards dangerous family secrets in 1940s Trinidad until love for an ambitious policeman sets off decades of consequences across two countries and generations.
★ 3.88 Goodreads (2.6K ratings) - 8
The Jewel of the Blues
by Monica Chenault-Kilgore
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Billed as The Little Girl with the Big Voice, Lucille Love has spent her life in a traveling gospel band, always moving to stay ahead of trouble until Chicago's jazz scene changes everything.
★ 3.32 Goodreads (354 ratings) - 9
A Duke, the Spy, an Artist, and a Lie
Rogues and Remarkable Women • Book 3
by Vanessa Riley
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A secret society of widows faces their final challenge when an English spy must track his neglected wife through London's underground art scene in this Regency romance with Jamaican influences.
★ 3.31 Goodreads (631 ratings) - 10
The Things We Cannot Say
by Kelly Rimmer
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Rimmer weaves together a Polish woman's wartime survival story with her granddaughter's modern family struggles, including caring for an autistic child. The parallel narratives explore how family secrets across generations can both wound and ultimately heal.
★ 4.54 Goodreads (284.0K ratings)