Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

I’m going to say this right off the bat: If you love to read historical fiction, particularly that which was inspired by the lives of real people, you need to put this book on your to-be-read list, because this is most definitely a Book Worth Reading. The only thing more impressive than the quality of the writing itself is that this is a debut novel. For a first novel, I would rank it along with Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, or Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.