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BookPage Historical Fiction

10.09.2025

Book review of The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey

Regardless of your familiarity with Catherine Chidgey novels, you won't be disappointed by this coming-of-age tale meets alternate history.

BookPage Historical Fiction

08.09.2025

Book review of The Lack of Light by Nino Haratischwili

Nino Haratischwili’s story of friendship follows the lives of four women in the years following Georgia’s independence from the Soviet Union.

BookPage Historical Fiction

05.09.2025

Toast the reading life with your book club

Celebrate the power of a great novel with four book club picks focused on bibliophiles including The Literati by Susan Coll.

BookPage Historical Fiction

02.09.2025

Book review of Mercy by Joan Silber

Joan Silber’s Mercy threads humor and intimacy through a series of chapters that could stand alone, but weave a net of connection.

BookPage Historical Fiction

02.09.2025

Book review of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (And His Mother)

Rabih Alameddine’s edgy charm leaves room for compassion, which readers will find in abundance in this challenging but exceptional book.

BookPage Historical Fiction

02.09.2025

Book review of Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye is a chronicle of leaving and loss, loving and forgiving that burns slowly and hopefully until the end.

BookPage Historical Fiction

11.08.2025

Book review of Fonseca by Jessica Francis Kane

Jessica Francis Kane writes with fascinating detail and finely tuned humor in Fonseca, a novel about British writer Penelope Fitzgerald.

BookPage Historical Fiction

11.08.2025

Book review of The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter by Peter Orner

The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter is not only a page turner, but also a tender and moving account of grief and friendship.

BookPage Historical Fiction

08.08.2025

Book review of Dusk by Robbie Arnott

The wild and striking Tasmanian highlands provide the backdrop to Robbie Arnott’s Dusk, a story of two siblings tested to the limits.

BookPage Historical Fiction

08.08.2025

Book review of The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, The Hounding, tells the story of five sisters who, according to rumor, can transform into dogs.

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30.06.2025

Book review of A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart

Nishant Batsha’s A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart chronicles the interior and exterior lives of a revolutionary couple under siege.

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30.06.2025

Book review of Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr.

Ruben Reyes Jr.’s debut novel uses the device of the multiverse to ask, what if the Salvadoran Civil War hadn’t happened?

BookPage Historical Fiction

16.06.2025

Book review of These Heathens by Mia McKenzie

Mia McKenzie's These Heathens is a whirlwind exploration of the myriad changes that characterized the early 1960s.

BookPage Historical Fiction

16.06.2025

Book review of The Scrapbook by Heather Clark

Heather Clark’s debut novel, The Scrapbook, serves up romance, history and political philosophy in ways that could hardly be more relevant.

BookPage Historical Fiction

16.06.2025

Interview with Mia McKenzie, author of These Heathens

Mia McKenzie’s third novel, These Heathens, explores the burgeoning opportunities and clashing ideologies of the ’60s.

BookPage Historical Fiction

11.06.2025

The best audiobooks of 2025—so far

For Audiobook Appreciation month, we picked the best productions from the first half of 2025, including Amal El-Mohtar's The River Has Roots.

BookPage Historical Fiction

09.06.2025

The best historical fiction of 2025—so far

2025 is flying by, with historical novel after incredible historical novel. Here are our 10 favorites so far.

BookPage Historical Fiction

02.06.2025

Book review of Flashlight by Susan Choi

Susan Choi’s Flashlight is an intellectual workout, but a rewarding one, and an astute portrait of political upheaval and family dynamics.

BookPage Historical Fiction

02.06.2025

Book review of The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater’s adult debut, The Listeners, asks the reader to see a new angle on a familiar time period: World War II.

BookPage Historical Fiction

31.05.2025

Book review of Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Taylor Jenkins Reid masterfully ratchets up the tension in Atmosphere, as ambition and affection collide for her posse of trainee astronauts.

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19.05.2025

Book review of The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien makes a case for the search for home as a central tenet of our humanity in her ambitious fourth novel, The Book of Records.

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14.05.2025

Book review of The Lilac People by Milo Todd

Milo Todd’s soulful account of trans people fighting for survival amid political persecution after World War II could hardly be timelier.

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05.05.2025

Book review of My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende's historical novel follows a 19th-century journalist’s journey of self-discovery as a correspondent in the Chilean Civil War.

BookPage Historical Fiction

21.04.2025

Book review of Gabriele by Anne Berest & Claire Berest

Anne and Claire Berest limn the life of their great-grandmother, finding a cavalcade of romance and drama at the heart of the European art world.

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21.04.2025

Book review of The Pretender by Jo Harkin

Jo Harkin’s saga of royalty, loyalty and treachery, The Pretender, is fit for a king . . . or a man who was merely told he would be one.

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14.04.2025

Book review of The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House

Set in an atmospheric house packed with thrilling mysteries, Joanna Davidson Politano's splendid story will win readers’ hearts.

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07.04.2025

Book review of Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Happy Land tells the story of men and women who left behind slavery’s chains for self-sufficiency, self-determination and a true community.

BookPage Historical Fiction

07.04.2025

Book review of The Eights by Joanna Miller

The Eights is a rewarding read for anyone who has ever been told they couldn’t do something but did it anyway.

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17.03.2025

Book review of The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue’s thrilling The Paris Express is a thought-provoking historical novel inspired by a real-life railway disaster.

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17.03.2025

Book review of Rooms for Vanishing by Stuart Nadler

Stuart Nadler’s poignant novel shifts among the perspectives of members of a Jewish family originally from Vienna.

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17.03.2025

Interview with Emma Donoghue, author of The Paris Express

In her thrilling historical novel, The Paris Express, Emma Donoghue takes readers on a doomed train ride at the turn of the 20th century.

BookPage Historical Fiction

17.03.2025

Book review of The Expert of Subtle Revisions

In The Expert of Subtle Revisions, Kirsten Menger-Anderson’s oddball intellectual characters are buffeted about by all kinds of crazy passions.

BookPage Historical Fiction

10.03.2025

2 inspirational novels for spring 2025

Ace, Marvel, Spy and Midnight on the Scottish Shore follow two women who are testaments to the power of courage during times of upheaval.

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04.03.2025

Book review of The Antidote by Karen Russell

In her second novel, a Dust Bowl epic, The Antidote, Karen Russell shows us that she’s the best kind of author.

BookPage Historical Fiction

25.02.2025

Book review of Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein

In Allison Epstein’s imaginative retelling of Oliver Twist, Fagin the Thief, Jacob Fagin gets his own remarkable story.

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19.02.2025

Book review of Casualties of Truth by Lauren Francis-Sharma

Casualties of Truth examines the legacy of apartheid through the life of a lawyer whose summer in Johannesburg comes back to haunt her.

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19.02.2025

Book review of People of Means by Nancy Johnson

People of Means follows a mother and daughter grappling with the ideals of Black excellence and realities of racial discrimination.

BookPage Historical Fiction

08.02.2025

Book review of Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

In Saint of the Narrows Street, you can smell the cigarette smoke wafting from the dive bar and the freezer lasagna reheated for the priest.

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08.02.2025

Book review of Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Though it delves into challenges facing women and queer people in the early 20th century, Mutual Interest, never takes itself too seriously.

BookPage Historical Fiction

27.01.2025

Book review of Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

Good Dirt reminds us that we need access to a multitude of stories for a full understanding of our country’s rich and complicated past.

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BookPage Historical Fiction - History

Book review of The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey

Book review of The Lack of Light by Nino Haratischwili

Toast the reading life with your book club

Book review of Mercy by Joan Silber

Book review of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (And His Mother)

Book review of Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

Book review of Fonseca by Jessica Francis Kane

Book review of The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter by Peter Orner

Book review of Dusk by Robbie Arnott

Book review of The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

Book review of A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart

Book review of Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr.

Book review of These Heathens by Mia McKenzie

Book review of The Scrapbook by Heather Clark

Interview with Mia McKenzie, author of These Heathens

The best audiobooks of 2025—so far

The best historical fiction of 2025—so far

Book review of Flashlight by Susan Choi

Book review of The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

Book review of Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Book review of The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien

Book review of The Lilac People by Milo Todd

Book review of My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende

Book review of Gabriele by Anne Berest & Claire Berest

Book review of The Pretender by Jo Harkin

Book review of The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House

Book review of Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Book review of The Eights by Joanna Miller

Book review of The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

Book review of Rooms for Vanishing by Stuart Nadler

Interview with Emma Donoghue, author of The Paris Express

Book review of The Expert of Subtle Revisions

2 inspirational novels for spring 2025

Book review of The Antidote by Karen Russell

Book review of Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein

Book review of Casualties of Truth by Lauren Francis-Sharma

Book review of People of Means by Nancy Johnson

Book review of Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

Book review of Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Book review of Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

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