On the Way to the End of the World by Adrianne Harun
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A random group of small town acquaintances set out on a 50-mile walk in Adrianne Harun’s new novel.
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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
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A review of James McBride’s new novel.
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Trust by Hernan Diaz
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel plays games with narrative reliability.
Read MoreAct of Oblivion by Robert Harris
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A historical novel in which the killers of King Charles I are ruthlessly hunted.
Read MoreDominus by Steven Saylor
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A big historical novel about two families living through some of the most turbulent years in Rome’s history.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2020: Historical Fiction!
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The most distinguished books in the category of historical fiction.
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Katheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir
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Historian Alison Weir writes a long novel about King Henry VIII’s very young fifth wife.
Read MoreThe Reckoning by MJ Trow
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In the latest exciting MJ Trow murder mystery, the playwright Christopher Marlowe has an appointment in Deptford …
Read MoreThe Queen of Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen
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A sumptuous historical novel about the notorious Coco Chanel.
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The Land Beyond the Sea by Sharon Kay Penman
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Beloved historical novelist Sharon Kay Penman’s latest book dramatizes the tensions of the 12-century Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2019: Historical Fiction!
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Escape into the past with the best of 2019’s historical fiction!
Read MoreThe Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
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Russell’s prose is appropriately simplistic, but rich with nuance.
Read MoreDeep River by Karl Marlantes
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Marlantes writes smoothly readable prose and has a solid skill at developing characters over time.
Read MoreThe Damascus Road by Jay Parini
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A squarely straight-laced affair, a prosier elaboration of the Epistles, an Act Two of the Apostles.
Read MoreLandfall by Thomas Mallon
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In this third book as in the first two, a prodigious amount of research congregates right beneath the chatty, fast-moving surface of the plot.
Read MoreAmerican Pop by Snowden Wright
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A multi-generational historical novel about the Forster family and their burgeoning but perpetually troubled soft drink company.
Read MoreEva Salomon's War by Gabriella Goliger
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The author effectively captures the historical and moral ambiguities of Mandate Palestine.
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