Fans of historical fiction will enjoy The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. The authors give readers a close-up look at legendary American financier, J.P. Morgan, and the woman he hired to be his personal librarian, Belle Da Costa Greene, in the early 1900s. Unbeknownst to Morgan, Greene was a Black woman whose complexion was fair enough to pass for white with a Portuguese background. How interesting to think about the Morgan family’s surprise when they learned, at a much later time, that Greene was Black. The details of Greene’s day to day job, the volumes and art she curated for Morgan, the extravagant trips overseas to research and buy Italian, Greek, and Medieval pieces, will captivate readers, just as much as Greene’s stress of hiding her true identity. She supported her family too, so if her secret was revealed during her life-time, the consequences could have been severe. JP Morgan’s library still stands in New York today, and has been made into a museum that is worth a visit.