Historical Fiction

Recent historical fiction releases.
Updated June 13, 2025
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The Briar Club
Kate Quinn
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era. Washington, D.C., 1950 Everyone keeps to themselves at...
The Stolen Queen
Fiona Davis
Paper Book
*A New York Times Bestseller* From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City's most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back. Egypt, 1936: When anthropology...
The Pretender: A Novel
Jo Harkin
Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition 'An absolute delight ... Funny, moving, filthy and original ... A frontrunner for historical fiction book of...
My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende
'A spellbinding masterpiece' SANTA MONTEFIORE'Isabel Allende is a literary treasure' KRISTIN HANNAH 'A captivating novel of love and war from one of our most revered storytellers' KATE MORTON The new historical novel from literary legend Isabel...
The Paris Express
Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue, the "soul-stirring" (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history...
The Listeners
Maggie Stiefvater
Polostan
Neal Stephenson
Paper Book
'Inventive' THE TIMES From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy--an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age. ...
The Antidote
Karen Russell
'Powerful' Financial Times 'A pure dust storm of utter genius' DAISY JOHNSON 'As profound as it is wonderfully strange' LAUREN GROFF What do we choose to remember and what do we allow ourselves to forget? Visit the...
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
Paper Book
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF GOODREADS MYSTERY & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'I was totally gripped' DOUGLAS STUART 'Immersive and enthralling' PAULA HAWKINS ---------------------------------------------------- When...
The Eights
Joanna Miller
'Entertaining and moving...I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters' TRACY CHEVALIER 'I ADORED it. What a fantastic read. My book of the year' JILL MANSELL - They knew they were changing history. They didn't know...
Good Dirt
Charmaine Wilkerson
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick "Engrossing . . . Wilkerson...
The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali
Paper Book
'As heart-wrenching as it is achingly beautiful' Sadeqa Johnson, author of The House of Eve 'Heartbreaking and life affirming' Adrienne Brodeur, author of Little Monsters 'Courage, friendship, loyalty, hardship, love - this...
The Jackal's Mistress
Chris Bohjalian
In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she's willing to risk for the life of a stranger, from the New York Times bestselling author of such...
The Lotus Shoes
Jane Yang
The Sirens
Emilia Hart
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward, a Good Morning America Pick Sisters separated by centuries. Voices that can't be drowned out. 'Beautiful and magnificent' Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE 'A profoundly moving and rich...
The Booklover's Library
Madeline Martin
Paper Book
Nicked: A Novel
M. T. Anderson
Paper Book
The Queen of Fives: A Novel
Alex Hay
Paper Book
Last Twilight in Paris
Pam Jenoff
Paper Book
" A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman's quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival, from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff London, 1953. Louise is...
Let's Call Her Barbie
Renée Rosen
" She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel by USA Today bestselling author Renée Rosen. When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and...
The Amalfi Curse
Sarah Penner
Powerful witchcraft. A hunt for sunken treasure. Forbidden love on the high seas. Beware the Amalfi Curse... 'Sarah Penner transported me to the sea-swept cliffs of Positano and introduced me to characters I'll never forget. A magical read!' - Emilia Hart, New York Times...
All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker
Paper Book
A missing persons mystery, a serial killer thriller, and an epic love story - with a unique twist on each...* * * * *Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of local teenager Joseph 'Patch' Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, who is broken...
The Bright Sword
Lev Grossman
Paper Book
A book of the year for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Vulture, Esquire, Goodreads, Elle, NPR, Vox, New York Post, Lit Hub, Cosmo, People, Paste, Vanity Fair, Polygon, BookBub, BookRiot and more! 'This Year's Must-Read Novel . . . Grossman's...
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