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BookPage Historical Fiction
21.04.2025
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.
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.
14.04.2025
Set in an atmospheric house packed with thrilling mysteries, Joanna Davidson Politano's splendid story will win readers’ hearts.
07.04.2025
The Eights is a rewarding read for anyone who has ever been told they couldn’t do something but did it anyway.
Happy Land tells the story of men and women who left behind slavery’s chains for self-sufficiency, self-determination and a true community.
17.03.2025
Stuart Nadler’s poignant novel shifts among the perspectives of members of a Jewish family originally from Vienna.
In The Expert of Subtle Revisions, Kirsten Menger-Anderson’s oddball intellectual characters are buffeted about by all kinds of crazy passions.
In her thrilling historical novel, The Paris Express, Emma Donoghue takes readers on a doomed train ride at the turn of the 20th century.
Emma Donoghue’s thrilling The Paris Express is a thought-provoking historical novel inspired by a real-life railway disaster.
10.03.2025
Ace, Marvel, Spy and Midnight on the Scottish Shore follow two women who are testaments to the power of courage during times of upheaval.
04.03.2025
In her second novel, a Dust Bowl epic, The Antidote, Karen Russell shows us that she’s the best kind of author.
25.02.2025
In Allison Epstein’s imaginative retelling of Oliver Twist, Fagin the Thief, Jacob Fagin gets his own remarkable story.
19.02.2025
People of Means follows a mother and daughter grappling with the ideals of Black excellence and realities of racial discrimination.
Casualties of Truth examines the legacy of apartheid through the life of a lawyer whose summer in Johannesburg comes back to haunt her.
08.02.2025
Though it delves into challenges facing women and queer people in the early 20th century, Mutual Interest, never takes itself too seriously.
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.
27.01.2025
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.
Beena Kamlani’s historical debut follows an Indian man who journeys to England in the 1930s to study law and support Indian independence.
20.01.2025
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.
13.01.2025
Catherine Airey excavates the intertwining stories of three generations of Irish American women in her debut novel, Confessions.
Costanza Casati’s captivating and historically insightful second novel, inspired by a real Assyrian queen, is a resonant page turner.
06.01.2025
Karissa Chen's Homeseeking is both a love story and a family story that captures the ever-present yearning for home embodied as people.
Caryl Phillips (The Lost Child) explores the impact of colonial rule in the Caribbean in the absorbing Another Man in the Street.
Isa Arsén delightfully details the dramatics of the 1950s theater sphere in The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf.
Zora Neale Hurston’s familiarity with the political workings of the Roman Empire makes The Life of Herod the Great a thought-provoking read.
For Deborah G. Plant, to study Zora Neale Hurston is to “study myself, my culture, American society, the nature of humankind and Creation, Itself.”
09.12.2024
Each of these fabulous novels, our 19 best historical fiction titles of the year, will transport you to another time and place.
18.11.2024
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.
Niall Williams demonstrates his genius for making you laugh out loud while breaking your heart at the same time in Time of the Child.
11.11.2024
Chambers’ historical novel Shy Creatures is tenderly told, with just the right balance of melancholy and hope to keep the pages turning.
09.11.2024
Celebrate some of the best Native authors writing today with these absorbing titles.
04.11.2024
28.10.2024
Nikki May’s This Motherless Land is an engaging and thought-provoking novel about race and reinvention.
21.10.2024
Pick one of these buzzed-about novels including The Berry Pickers and Demon Copperhead to ensure your next book club meeting is great one.
08.10.2024
Four graphic books make major strides with powerful art and stories, going back to a classic, and venturing deep into the woods.
07.10.2024
Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings is an intricate vision of the conflict between an open, generous Britain and a clenched, intolerant one.
Big Jim and the White Boy is a phenomenal graphic novel retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective.
02.10.2024
Whether you’re a homebody or a thrill-hunter, we’ve got a seasonal, spine-tingling read for you.
30.09.2024
Tammy Armstrong’s poetic debut, Pearly Everlasting, imagines the life of a girl and a bear raised as siblings in a cabin set deep in the pines.
23.09.2024
Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium challenges the rigid patriarchal world of pre-WWI Europe with horror and humor.