Browsing: Historical Fiction

An “extraordinary” tale (Entertainment Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of Cloud Atlas: Over the course of a year in a small English town, young Jason experiences the excitement and fear of growing up. “Alternately nostalgic, funny, and heartbreaking” (The Washington Post).

A New York Times bestseller with over 12,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: In Dublin, a colorful group comes together for an evening class — and the unexpected soon unfolds… “Reading one of Maeve Binchy’s novels is like coming home” (The Washington Post).

“Social history at its best” (Publishers Weekly): This evocative work examines the harsh lives of settlers in Montana and the Dakotas during the homesteading rush. “As good a book as I have read about rural America in a very long time” (The New York Times Book Review).

In this “stirring tale of tragedy and triumph” (Booklist), a half-Shawnee hunter named George Drouillard embarks on an extraordinary journey when he joins Lewis and Clark on their transcontinental expedition. “Fresh, original, and vivid” (Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry).

In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world’s first novel. But…

From the author of A Town Like Alice: In this “haunting evocation” (The New York Times), society reels from the devastating effects of nuclear war. “Nevil Shute was, in brief, the sort of novelist who genuinely touches the imagination and feeling” (The Times).

A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn. Little…

In this luminous New York Times bestseller, sisters Pearl and May must marry in America to save their family from ruin. But they carry a secret that will change everything… “A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood” (Booklist).

It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard…

Behind the scenes at King Arthur’s court, the priestess Morgaine battles Queen Gwenhwyfar for control of a kingdom torn by religious strife… A breathtaking fantasy saga with more than 70,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads!