All the ways we said goodbye / Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. This novel connects three extraordinary women across the First World War, the Second World War, and the 1960s, as each finds refuge at the legendary Ritz Paris.

All the light we cannot see / Anthony Doerr: The paths of a blind French girl and a German boy collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Go as a river / Shelley Read: Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, it is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, home

Under the golden sun / Jenny Ashcroft: The mother who has lost her child and the child who has lost his family; women forging deep, meaningful friendships that are treated with the same importance as the romantic entanglements; and perhaps even better.

The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams: Esme, who is motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in a garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford Dictionary.

A gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles: The story of a Russian aristocrat living under house arrest in a luxury hotel for more than thirty years.

The Mitford affair / Marie Benedict: As the Nazis rise in power, novelist Nancy Mitford grows suspicious of her sisters' constant visits to Germany and the high-ranking fascist company they keep.

Woman on fire / Lisa Barr: The story of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece—forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth.

The invisible life of Addie LaRue / V.E. Schwab: France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

When we had wings / Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner: Three women shift in and out of each other's lives through the darkest days of the war, buoyed by their unwavering friendship and distant dreams of liberation.

Ariadne / Jennifer Saint: A shimmering tapestry of two sisters bound by deceit and the shadows of family history. One marries a hero, the other a god. And the secrets that their husbands keep become a monstrous backdrop to their relationship.

Beyond that, the sea / Laura Spence-Ash: the story of a British girl taken in by a prosperous New England family in the Second World War, and of the legacy of the intimate relationships that ensue.