Lists and Suggestions
List: Historical Fiction
The Dovekeepers
Hoffman, Alice.
A tale inspired by the tragic first-century massacre of hundreds of Jewish people at Masada presents...
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
Joinson, Suzanne.
In 1923, devout Eva English and her not-so-religious sister Lizzie embark on a journey to be mission...
The Book of Harlan
McFadden, Bernice L., author.
During World War II, two African American musicians, Harlan and Lizard, are captured by the Nazis in...
Eagle & Crane
Rindell, Suzanne, author.
"Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada--Eagle and Crane--are the star attractions of ...
The Gilded Years
Tanabe, Karin, author.
"Since childhood, Anita Hemmings has longed to attend the country's most exclusive school ...
The Essex Serpent
Perry, Sarah, 1979- author.
When Cora Seaborne's domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as m...
The Good Lord Bird
McBride, James, 1957-
Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debat...
Rebel Queen
Moran, Michelle, author.
"When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a q...
Amy Snow
Rees, Tracy, author.
It is 1831 when eight-year-old Aurelia Vennaway finds a naked baby girl abandoned in the snow on the...
The Confessions of Young Nero
George, Margaret, 1943- author.
"New York Times bestselling author Margaret George has brought history to vivid life with her c...
The Moon In the Palace
Randel, Weina Dai.
A concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the Emperor's att...
Perma Red
Earling, Debra Magpie.
Louise White Elk dreams of both belonging and escape, and of discovering love and freedom on her own...
Stolen Beauty
Lico Albanese, Laurie, 1959- author.
"From the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating n...
The Daughters of Ireland
Montefiore, Santa, 1970- author.
In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. But young Celia ...
The Hidden Light of Northern Fires
Wang, Daren, 1965- author.
Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's...
Isaiah's Daughter
Andrews, Mesu, 1963- author.
"In this epic Biblical narrative, ideal for fans of The Bible miniseries, a young woman taken i...
Ragtime
Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015.
Recounts the interrelated early twentieth-century lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufactur...
Stormbird
Iggulden, Conn.
After gentle Henry VI takes the throne and is promised a royal bride from France, the rival royal li...
The Agincourt Bride
Hickson, Joanna.
Her beauty fuelled a war. Her courage captured a king. Her passion would launch the Tudor dyna...
Girl in Disguise
Macallister, Greer, author.
Widowed and in need of a job, Kate Warne convinces Allan Pinkerton that a female detective can go pl...
The Translation of Love
Kutsukake, Lynne, author.
An emotionally gripping portrait of post-war Japan, where a newly repatriated girl must help a class...
The Watery Part of the World
Parker, Michael, 1959-
Set along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the 1800's and the 1970s, the novel follows Theo...
Once More Unto the Breach
Holloway, Meghan, author.
"Rhys Gravenor, Great War veteran-turned-farmer, arrives in Paris in the midst of the city'...

Tipping the Velvet
Waters, Sarah, 1966-
Nancy Astley, a fishmonger in Whitstable, becomes smitten by male impersonator Kitty Butler and atte...

Washington Black
Edugyan, Esi, author.
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black - or Wash - a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is...

Ceremony
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- author.
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor...

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Mathis, Ayana.
In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a c...