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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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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.

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

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

27.01.2025

Book review of The English Problem by Beena Kamlani

Beena Kamlani’s historical debut follows an Indian man who journeys to England in the 1930s to study law and support Indian independence.

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

20.01.2025

Book review of Isola by Allegra Goodman

As an adventurous novel of redemption with a story of a woman coming into her own, the 16th-century tale, Isola, is a rewarding read.

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13.01.2025

Book review of Confessions by Catherine Airey

Catherine Airey excavates the intertwining stories of three generations of Irish American women in her debut novel, Confessions.

BookPage Historical Fiction

13.01.2025

Book review of Babylonia by Costanza Casati

Costanza Casati’s captivating and historically insightful second novel, inspired by a real Assyrian queen, is a resonant page turner.

BookPage Historical Fiction

06.01.2025

Book review of Homeseeking by Karissa Chen

Karissa Chen's Homeseeking is both a love story and a family story that captures the ever-present yearning for home embodied as people.

BookPage Historical Fiction

06.01.2025

Book review of The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf by Isa Arsén

Isa Arsén delightfully details the dramatics of the 1950s theater sphere in The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf.

BookPage Historical Fiction

06.01.2025

Book review of The Life of Herod the Great by Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston’s familiarity with the political workings of the Roman Empire makes The Life of Herod the Great a thought-provoking read.

BookPage Historical Fiction

06.01.2025

Book review of Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips (The Lost Child) explores the impact of colonial rule in the Caribbean in the absorbing Another Man in the Street.

BookPage Historical Fiction

06.01.2025

Interview with Deborah G. Plant, editor of The Life of Herod the Great

For Deborah G. Plant, to study Zora Neale Hurston is to “study myself, my culture, American society, the nature of humankind and Creation, Itself.”

BookPage Historical Fiction

09.12.2024

The best historical fiction of 2024

Each of these fabulous novels, our 19 best historical fiction titles of the year, will transport you to another time and place.

BookPage Historical Fiction

18.11.2024

Book review of Time of the Child by Niall Williams

Niall Williams demonstrates his genius for making you laugh out loud while breaking your heart at the same time in Time of the Child.

BookPage Historical Fiction

18.11.2024

Book review of The Bishop’s Villa by Sacha Naspini

The Bishop’s Villa is a gut-wrenching story set in Grosseto, a Catholic diocese rented out by its bishop as a prison camp during the Holocaust.

BookPage Historical Fiction

11.11.2024

Book review of Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers

Chambers’ historical novel Shy Creatures is tenderly told, with just the right balance of melancholy and hope to keep the pages turning.

BookPage Historical Fiction

09.11.2024

9 new books to read for Native American Heritage Month

Celebrate some of the best Native authors writing today with these absorbing titles.

BookPage Historical Fiction

04.11.2024

11 new books to read for Native American Heritage Month

Celebrate some of the best Native authors writing today with these absorbing titles.

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28.10.2024

Book review of This Motherless Land by Nikki May

Nikki May’s This Motherless Land is an engaging and thought-provoking novel about race and reinvention.

BookPage Historical Fiction

21.10.2024

4 can't-miss book club picks

Pick one of these buzzed-about novels including The Berry Pickers and Demon Copperhead to ensure your next book club meeting is great one.

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BookPage Historical Fiction - History

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 Expert of Subtle Revisions

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

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 People of Means by Nancy Johnson

Book review of Casualties of Truth by Lauren Francis-Sharma

Book review of Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Book review of Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

Book review of The English Problem by Beena Kamlani

Book review of Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

Book review of Isola by Allegra Goodman

Book review of Confessions by Catherine Airey

Book review of Babylonia by Costanza Casati

Book review of Homeseeking by Karissa Chen

Book review of The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf by Isa Arsén

Book review of The Life of Herod the Great by Zora Neale Hurston

Book review of Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips

Interview with Deborah G. Plant, editor of The Life of Herod the Great

The best historical fiction of 2024

Book review of Time of the Child by Niall Williams

Book review of The Bishop’s Villa by Sacha Naspini

Book review of Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers

9 new books to read for Native American Heritage Month

11 new books to read for Native American Heritage Month

Book review of This Motherless Land by Nikki May

4 can't-miss book club picks

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