When the Emperor Was Divine

The Nightingale Kristin Hannah

Two sisters in occupied France choose very different paths of resistance -- and both will be tested beyond anything they imagined.

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 Tattooist of Auschwitz Heather Morris

In the darkest place on earth, the man tasked with tattooing prisoners falls in love with the woman whose number he inks onto her arm.

Pachinko Min Jin Lee

Four generations of a Korean family in Japan -- a vast, tender epic about sacrifice, identity, and the cost of belonging.

The Zookeeper's Wife Diane Ackerman

After the Nazis bomb the Warsaw Zoo, the zookeeper and his wife hide 300 Jews in the empty animal cages -- one of the most extraordinary rescue operations of World War II.