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Fiona Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of several historical fiction novels set in iconic New York City buildings, including The Stolen Queen, The Magnolia Palace, The Address, and The Lions of Fifth Avenue, which was a Good Morning America book club pick. Her novels have been chosen as “One Book, One Community” reads and her articles have appeared in publications like The Wall Street Journal and Oprah magazine.

She first came to New York as an actress, but fell in love with writing after getting a master's degree at Columbia Journalism School. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages and she's based in New York City.
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Fiona Davis Hi Andrea - what a great question! Congrats on the Goodreads win and I hope you enjoy the book. I absolutely adore your quest to read 50 Canadian-them…moreHi Andrea - what a great question! Congrats on the Goodreads win and I hope you enjoy the book. I absolutely adore your quest to read 50 Canadian-themed/authored books this year, and I do still identify as Canadian. I've got my certified birth certificate to prove it :) and love visiting Montreal and Toronto when I can. I'd be honored to be included in your 150th celebration. Best, F. (less)
Fiona Davis Thank you a ton! The next book will be out January 2025 and is set at the Met Museum. I'm so excited to share it with you.

Before then, in March of 202…more
Thank you a ton! The next book will be out January 2025 and is set at the Met Museum. I'm so excited to share it with you.

Before then, in March of 2024, I'll be releasing an audiobook novella that I wrote with Greg Wands called The Gimlet Slip. It's set in Prohibition era NYC and includes a woman who runs a criminal empire out of the Plaza Hotel. More on that here:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/boo...(less)
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The Magnolia Palace

3.87 avg rating — 82,394 ratings — published 2022 — 18 editions
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The Lions of Fifth Avenue

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The Stolen Queen

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The Address

3.97 avg rating — 53,094 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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The Spectacular

4.08 avg rating — 46,270 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions
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The Dollhouse

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The Masterpiece

3.87 avg rating — 33,332 ratings — published 2018 — 15 editions
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The Chelsea Girls

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A Wild Rose (A Point in Tim...

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Watch LIONS on GMA!

I was so thrilled when GMA picked THE LIONS OF FIFTH AVENUE for their August Book Club Pick. Amazing! You can watch the interview and learn more about the research and inspiration behind the book here:
LIONS on GMA

Enjoy and happy reading!
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Hi Vida - I'm so glad you're enjoying the books and that's a really good question. It all depends on the story - take The Spectacular, for example. In real life, a Rockette in the 1950s didn't help take down a serial bomber. For the book, I interview See Full Answer
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Crazy for the Countess by Jess  Russell
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RITA Finalist Jess Russell is a triple threat: Her heroines are utterly original, smart and scrappy; her plots are rich with Regency-era details that ground the reader from page one; and she knows how to construct a love story that obeys all the rule ...more
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Hi Whitney - thanks so much for reaching out! The paperback of The Stolen Queen will be out January 2026, and then my next book is set for January 2027. The location is the Morris-Jumel Mansion, the oldest house in Manhattan. Check it out if you get See Full Answer
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BEYOND VANITY is a fascinating, in-depth look at how hair styles have changed over time, as well as the effect they’ve had on history and culture. It’s chock full of photos and illustrations and truly an enlightening read, filled with surprises. For ...more
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I love all of Lynda's books and Love Elixir is no exception. She beautifully balances past and present, and Augusta Stern practically leaps off the page. It's smart, funny, and surprising yet ultimately so satisfying. Another winner that I will be sh ...more
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Engrossing, smart, and unforgettable, I loved Anna Bright Is Hiding Something, an intriguing cat-and-mouse game filled with crackling dialogue and characters so vibrant they practically leap off the page. Highly recommended!!
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“No matter how she had suffered, Darby hadn’t retreated from life after all. In fact, she’d embraced it. Quietly, carefully, but with dignity and love.”
Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse

“Leave it to a librarian to point out the alliteration in my life’s tragedies.”
Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue

“So how did you get into journalism?” “In high school I worked on the paper. Then I majored in journalism in college. I loved collecting facts and then making a story out of them. The perfect combo of science and art. How about you?”
Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse

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The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
The Spectacular
Fiona Davis

New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis transports us back to 1950s Manhattan and the glamorous Radio City Music Hall. . . .

New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion is over the moon to have been selected to be one of the Rockettes, Radio City Music Hall’s glamorous precision-dancing troupe. It’s an honor to perform in the world’s most spectacular theater, an art deco masterpiece. But with four shows a day as well as grueling rehearsals, not to mention exacting standards of perfection to live up to, Marion quickly realizes that the life of a Rockette has both extraordinary highs and devastating lows.

Then one night a bomb explodes in the theater. It’s only the latest in a string of explosions around the city orchestrated by a person the press has nicknamed the "Big Apple Bomber." They have been terrorizing the citizens of New York for sixteen years by planting bombs in popular, crowded spaces. With the public in an uproar over the lack of any real leads after a yearslong manhunt, the police, at Marion’s urging, turn in desperation to a radical new technique: psychological profiling.

As Marion finds herself pulled deeper into the investigation, she realizes that as much as she’s been training herself to blend in—performing in perfect unison with all the other identical Rockettes—if she hopes to catch the bomber, she’ll need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. But she may be forced to sacrifice everything she’s worked for, as well as the people she loves the most.
 
  16 votes 34.0%

Someone Else's Shoes
Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes

A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars.

Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else’s shoes?

Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope--she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in.

That’s because Sam Kemp – in the bleakest point of her life – has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag--she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat. When she tries on Nisha’s six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, the resulting jolt of confidence that makes her realize something must change—and that thing is herself.

Full of Jojo Moyes’ signature humor, brilliant storytelling, and warmth, Someone Else’s Shoes is a story about how just one little thing can suddenly change everything.
 
  10 votes 21.3%

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) by Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
 
  9 votes 19.1%

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.
 
  7 votes 14.9%

The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
The Little Liar
Mitch Albom

Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Greek city during the Holocaust, to America, where the intertwined lives of three survivors are forever changed by the perils of deception and the grace of redemption. Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to “new homes” where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. But when the final train is at the station, Nico sees his family being loaded into a large boxcar crowded with other neighbors. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that he helped send the people he loved—and all the others—to their doom at Auschwitz. Nico never tells the truth again. In The Little Liar, his first novel set during the Holocaust, Mitch Albom interweaves the stories of Nico, his brother Sebastian, and their schoolmate Fanni, who miraculously survive the death camps and spend years searching for Nico, who has become a pathological liar, and the Nazi officer who radically changed their lives. As the decades pass, Albom reveals the consequences of what they said, did, and endured. A moving parable that explores honesty, survival, revenge and devotion, The Little Liar is Mitch Albom at his very best. Narrated by the voice of Truth itself, it is a timeless story about the harm we inflict with our deceits, and the power of love to ultimately redeem us.
 
  5 votes 10.6%

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