Historical Fiction about Real Life Women

Updated June 10, 2026
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Sisters in arms
Alderson, Kaia
Paper Book
"Sisters in Arms is heartwarming but fierce, a novel brimming with camaraderie and fire, starring women you'd love to make your friends. Prickly, musical Grace and bubbly, privileged Eliza may not make the most natural allies, but it's fight or die when they're thrown together in...
White houses
Bloom, Amy
Paper Book
For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a "sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women" (People)--Eleanor Roosevelt and "first friend" Lorena Hickok. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS...
The Mademoiselle Alliance
Lester, Natasha
Paper Book
How did a young Parisian mother, celebrated for her beauty and glamour, come to lead the largest spy network in occupied France? "A passionate, fiery tribute to a historical woman so extraordinary she almost defies belief."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of...
The only woman in the room
Benedict, Marie
Paper Book
The New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in...
MALINALLI (SPANISH EDITION)
Chapa, Veronica
Paper Book
El recuento imaginado de los triunfos y pesares de una de las mujeres más controversiales e incomprendidas de la historia de México y su mitología, perfecto para lectores de Dioses de jade y sombra, de Silvia Moreno García, y La herencia de Orquídea Divina, de Zoraida Córdova....
Sister mother warrior : a novel
Riley, Vanessa
Paper Book
ONE OF USA TODAY'S "BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER!" Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West...
The queen of Sugar Hill : a novel of Hattie McDaniel
Billingsley, ReShonda Tate
Paper Book
As seen on The TODAY Show! Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood's most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars--and the first Black person ever to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy in the...
The Chanel sisters
Little, Judithe
Paper Book
A USA Today and Globe and Mail bestseller! A novel of survival, love, loss, triumph--and the sisters who changed fashion forever Antoinette and Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel know they're destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a...
Learned by heart
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder, this novel is based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York. "A wrenching love story." --Chris Bohjalian, The...
The brightest star in Paris
Biller, Diana
Paper Book
Diana Biller's The Brightest Star in Paris is a thrilling story of first loves and second chances. She never expected her first love to return, but is he here to stay? Amelie St. James is a fraud. After the Siege of Paris, she became "St. Amie...
Someone always nearby
Albert, Susan Wittig
Paper Book
In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. &...

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