Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr. Rosenblum’s List / Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English | 2008 | Natasha Solomons | Buy |
| 2 | The Novel in the Viola / The House at Tyneford | 2011 | Natasha Solomons | Buy |
| 3 | The Gallery of Vanished Husbands | 2013 | Natasha Solomons | Buy |
| 4 | The Song Collector / The Song of Hartgrove Hall | 2015 | Natasha Solomons | Buy |
| 5 | House of Gold | 2018 | Natasha Solomons | Buy |
| 6 | I, Mona Lisa | 2022 | Natasha Solomons | Buy |
| 7 | Fair Rosaline | 2023 | Natasha Solomons | Buy |
| 8 | I Am Cleopatra | 2025 | Natasha Solomons | Buy |
Natasha Solomons’ eight standalone novels cover a wide range of historical periods and settings, though they share common interests in art, music, and the inner lives of women navigating worlds that were not built for them. Her debut, Mr. Rosenblum’s List (2008), is set in 1940s England and has a lighter, more comic tone than her later work. The Novel in the Viola (2011) moves to a grand country house on the Dorset coast just before World War II, while The Gallery of Vanished Husbands (2013) is set in the London art scene of the early 1960s.
The later novels have grown more ambitious in their historical reach. I, Mona Lisa (2022) is set in Renaissance Florence and gives a first-person voice to Lisa Gherardini, the subject of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting. Fair Rosaline (2023) reimagines Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet through a character who barely appears in the original play. I Am Cleopatra (2025) takes the same approach with the Egyptian queen. Throughout all eight books, Solomons writes with close attention to period detail and a consistent interest in how women assert themselves within the constraints of their time.