Beatriz Williams' 6 timeless books about history and human relationships

The best-selling author recommends works by Jane Austen, Zora Neale Hurston, and more

Beatriz Williams
Beatriz Williams is the author of Under the Stars, Husbands and Lovers and The Summer Wives
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In Beatriz Williams' new novel, Under the Stars, a mother and daughter are drawn into an 1840s mystery by the discovery of a cache of paintings. Below, the best-selling author of Husbands and Lovers and The Summer Wives names works that have shaped her own.

'The Aubrey-Maturin novels' by Patrick O'Brian (1969–2004)

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