Historical Fiction

Adult Fiction - Historical Fiction

Updated April 14, 2023
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All the light we cannot see : a novel
Doerr, Anthony
Paper Book
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES--from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller...
Fall of giants
Follett, Ken.
Paper Book
Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.  A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining...
The siege winter
Franklin, Ariana
Paper Book
A powerful historical novel by the late Ariana Franklin and her daughter Samantha Norman, The Siege Winter is a tour de force mystery and murder, adventure and intrigue, a battle for a crown, told by two courageous young women whose fates are intertwined in twelfth century England's devastating...
The last Tudor
Gregory, Philippa
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen. Jane Grey was queen of England...
Feast of sorrow : a novel of Ancient Rome
King, Crystal
Paper Book
Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King's seminal debut features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction. On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar's...
Child of vengeance
Kirk, David
Ebook
A bold and vivid historical epic of feudal Japan, based on the real-life exploits of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto. Japan in the late 16th century was a land in turmoil. Lords of the great clans schemed against each other, served by aristocratic samurai bound to them by...
The second winter
Larsen, Craig
Ebook
WINNER - National Indie Excellence Award 2017 for Literary Fiction BRONZE WINNER - Foreword INDIES 2016, War & Military HONORABLE MENTION - San Francisco Book Festival 2017, General Fiction "A great historical novel, a touching family saga, and a noir wartime thriller all...
The prophets of Eternal Fjord
Leine, Kim
Paper Book
From the swarming streets of Copenhagen to the frozen villages of Greenland, The Prophets of Eternal Fjord is a grand, magisterial story of epic proportion. Earning rave reviews and scores of readers across the world, Kim Leine's masterpiece--sweeping across the sea in a whaler and scurrying,...
The golden age
London, Joan
Ebook
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: During WWII, a Jewish boy copes with a new homeland, a polio diagnosis--and falling in love for the first time.Frank Gold's family, Hungarian Jews, have fled the perils of World War II for the safety of Australia, but not long after their...
The last empress
Min, Anchee
Paper Book
The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China's history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch'ing dynasty. The only constant during this tumultuous time was the power wielded by one person, the...
The age of ice : a novel
Sidorova, J. M.
Paper Book
An epic debut novel about a lovelorn eighteenth-century Russian noble, cursed with longevity and an immunity to cold, whose quest for the truth behind his condition spans two thrilling centuries and a stunning array of historical events. The Empress Anna Ioannovna has issued her...
The third son : a novel
Wu, Julie
Ebook
"A boy growing up in Japanese-occupied Taiwan . . . will do anything to escape his tormenting family and reconnect with his first love . . . Compelling" (O, The Oprah Magazine).   In the middle of a terrifying air...

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