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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

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.

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

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

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

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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 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

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 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

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

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

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

08.10.2024

The best graphic novels and nonfiction of 2024

Four graphic books make major strides with powerful art and stories, going back to a classic, and venturing deep into the woods.

BookPage Historical Fiction

07.10.2024

Book review of Big Jim and the White Boy

Big Jim and the White Boy is a phenomenal graphic novel retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective.

BookPage Historical Fiction

07.10.2024

Book review of Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings is an intricate vision of the conflict between an open, generous Britain and a clenched, intolerant one.

BookPage Historical Fiction

02.10.2024

What to read this Halloween, based on your ideal spooky activity

Whether you’re a homebody or a thrill-hunter, we’ve got a seasonal, spine-tingling read for you.

BookPage Historical Fiction

30.09.2024

Book review of Pearly Everlasting by Tammy Armstrong

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.

BookPage Historical Fiction

23.09.2024

Book review of What I Know About You by Éric Chacour

Éric Chacour’s debut is an emotional family story, a tumultuous queer romance and a richly textured portrait of ’80s and ’90s Cairo.

BookPage Historical Fiction

23.09.2024

Book review of The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium challenges the rigid patriarchal world of pre-WWI Europe with horror and humor.

BookPage Historical Fiction

16.09.2024

Book review of The Wildes by Louis Bayard

In The Wildes, novelist Louis Bayard shows us poet and playwright Oscar Wilde through the eyes of his wife and sons.

BookPage Historical Fiction

13.09.2024

The Hold List: Our favorite tales of misfits

If you've ever felt like the odd one out, you'll love these four books with protagonists who can't help but stand out.

BookPage Historical Fiction

09.09.2024

Book review of Bright I Burn by Molly Aitken

Bright I Burn is strongly inspired by Ireland’s first condemned witch, whose 13th-century life Aitken imbues with a heartbreaking grit.

BookPage Historical Fiction

19.08.2024

2 Christian fiction picks for fall 2024

Acclaimed authors T.I. Lowe and Amanda Cox use the restoration of old buildings to parallel their characters’ pursuit of new beginnings.

BookPage Historical Fiction

19.08.2024

Book review of The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera

Balibrera brings a bravura, magical-realist style to this imaginative retelling of a difficult piece of Central American history.

BookPage Historical Fiction

19.08.2024

Book review of There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

In this spellbinding novel, a drop of water regenerates across continents and centuries, touching four lives linked by the Epic of Gilgamesh.

BookPage Historical Fiction

12.08.2024

Book review of Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa

Mina’s Matchbox is filled with wonder, conveying 12-year-old Tomoko’s enchantment with her extended family during her year with them.

BookPage Historical Fiction

06.08.2024

Find something new in these 5 debuts

These vibrant novels from first-time novelists grabbed our attention right from the opening lines.

BookPage Historical Fiction

05.08.2024

Book review of The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Seventh Veil of Salome is another triumph from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, a page-turning historical drama with mythic overtones.

BookPage Historical Fiction

29.07.2024

Book review of They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar

Mai Sennaar’s prose in They Dream in Gold is elemental, flowing like a river at times, then burning like fire, heightening the reader’s senses until all five mingle into one.

BookPage Historical Fiction

22.07.2024

Book review of The Modern Fairies by Clare Pollard

Award-winning poet and translator Clare Pollard has created clever fairy tales told amid gossip, flirtations and sex at the court of Versailles.