Browsing: Historical Fiction

“A splendid treat” (Chicago Tribune): This epic, sprawling New York Times bestseller follows a professor’s family in New England as they navigate conflicts, joys, and culture clashes. “Accomplished, substantive, and penetrating” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

A New York Times bestseller and Printz Award winner: When Verity, a young spy, is captured in Nazi-occupied France, she’s forced to trade her secrets for a chance at survival. A “tour de force… Unforgettable and wrenching” (Kirkus Reviews starred review).

A stunning #1 New York Times bestseller! When children start vanishing from the wealthy estate where Serafina lives in secret, she risks everything to learn their abductor’s identity. “An enchanting mystery” (Kirkus Reviews).

“Reading In the Unlikely Event is like reconnecting with a long-lost friend” (The New Yorker): When Miri returns to her hometown, she must confront a tragedy that rocked her community decades ago. “Judy Blume isn’t just revered, she’s revolutionary” (The New York Times Book Review).

Book One of the Magnificent Devices series, a novel of 54,000 words. London, 1889. Victoria is Queen. Charles Darwin’s son…

A masterful work of “astonishing power” (Newsweek) from the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude: As teenagers, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fell in love, but life pulled them apart. Fifty years later, is it possible for them to find another chance at happiness?

When a stranger saves her life, healer Blackthorn and her companion, Grim, seek to begin again — and are soon entangled in dangerous intrigue. An “enchanting tale” (New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Carey) that’s a “feast for the imagination” (Publishers Weekly starred review).

The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely…

From a hugely influential author comes a National Book Award winner and one of Time’s All-Time 100 Greatest Novels. In the final days of World War II, Allied intelligence discovers that the Nazis’ V-2 rocket attacks correspond directly to the sexual exploits of one American G.I.

From a New York Times bestselling author: Accused of murder, a midwife in 19th-century Colorado struggles to prove her innocence in a novel that “evokes a powerful sense of time and place” (The Denver Post).