Laurins Fiction Favorites
Explore Laurins Fiction Favorites—a curated list of must-read fiction books loved by Laurin. Discover top picks, hidden gems, and beloved classics for your next literary adventure.
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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård, with Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition mankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.
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The Devil of Kilmartin
by Laurin Wittig
After the death of her father, Elena of Lamont flees her home and the brutal clansman who lusts after her, and finds herself in the arms of Symon MacLachlan, chief of the Lachlan clan, who is determined to win her heart. Original.
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
The classic story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in nineteenth-century New England.
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Flowers from the Storm
by Laura Kinsale
The Duke of Jervaulx was brilliant and dangerous. Considered dissolute, reckless, and extravagant, he was transparently referred to as the ′D of J′ in scandal sheets, where he and his various exploits featured with frequency. But sometimes the most womanising rake can be irresistible, and even his most casual attentions fascinated the sheltered Maddy Timms, quiet daughter of a simple mathematician.
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Charming the Shrew
by Laurin Wittig
From the award-winning author comes a captivating story filled with the passion, intrigue, and magic of historical Scotland--where a sharp-tongued beauty meets her match in a man who vows to tame her with the power of his love. Original.