A Founding Mother is a compelling, deeply researched novel that puts Abigail Adams where she belongs: seated alongside America’s earliest, most prominent and influential founding male figures.

The Man in the Stone Cottage by Stephanie Cowell is a novel of the Brontë sisters. I imagine myself reading it again one day. Not only does curling up with this book feel like having been handed a steaming cup of tea while sitting by a warm fire in a vintage cottage on a chilly English moor, the story also invites readers to speculate about whether Emily Brontë had a secret relationship with a man.

When We Were Brilliant is biofiction about the iconic photojournalist Eve Arnold and her relationship with one of her most famous subjects, Marilyn Monroe. Eve and Marilyn had a lot in common. Both were trying to set themselves apart in a man’s world, and and each made sacrifices, one in order to achieve fame, the other to fully unleash her creative instincts.