On July 23, 2018 By newsroom Topic: Best Books
Set in a particular historical period, historical fiction contains or combines speculative fiction and true history. These stories capture the spirit, manners, and social conditions of a past age with realistic detail.
All the Light We Cannot See by Doerr
Paying Guests
Euphoria by King
Brief History of Seven Killings
Narrow Road to the Deep North
Nora Webster by Toibin
Zone of Interest
Some Luck by Smiley
We Are Not Ourselves by Thomas
Invention of Wings
Lovers at the Chameleon Club
Song of the Shank by Allen
Officer and a Spy
Girls at the Kingfisher Club
Moor’s Account
Museum of Extraordinary Things
Frog Music by Donoghue
Land of Love and Drowning by Yanique
Lucky Us by Bloom
Miniaturist
Rainey Royal by Landis
Arctic Summer by Galgut
Kept
Neverhome by Hunt
Invention of Exile
Lives of Others
Long Man by Greene
Red or Dead by Peace
Serpent of Venice
Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Horan
Wayfaring Stranger by Burke
What Is Visible by Elkins
Bully of Order
Clever Girl by Hadley
Edge of Eternity by Follett
I Pity the Poor Immigrant by Lazar
Off Course by Huneven
Orenda
Painted Horses by Brooks
Signature of All Things
Wake
Architect’s Apprentice
Bitter Greens by Forsyth
Burnable Book
China Dolls by See
Day of Atonement
Dollbaby by McNeal
End of Always
End of Days
For Such a Time by Breslin
God in Every Stone
King’s Curse
Last Kind Words Saloon
Love and Treasure by Waldman
McGlue by Moshfegh
Monday
Mrs. Hemingway by Wood
One Night in Winter by Montefiore
Our Lady of the Nile by Mukasonga
Quilt for Christmas
Road to Reckoning by Lautner
Ruth’s Journey by McCaig
Steady Running of the Hour
Story of Land and Sea
Sundance by Fuller
Temporary Gentleman
Us Conductors by Michaels
Visionist
Wind Is Not a River
Above the East China Sea by Bird
After Before by Wayne
Aren’t We Sisters by Ferguson
Auschwitz Escape
Bitter Eden by Afrika
Black Hat Jack: the True Life Adventures of Deadwood Dick
Boston Girl
Cementville by Livers
Commandant of Lubizec by Hicks
Crooked Heart by Evans
Desert God by Smith
Door that Faced West
Dreaming for Freud by Kohler
Dress Thief
Electric City by Rosner
Evergreen by Rasmussen
Fall of Marigolds
Fallen Beauty by Robuck
Falling from Horses by Gloss
Flight of the Sparrow by Brown
Fortune Hunter
Four Faces of Truth by Rinaldi
Goddess of Small Victories
Gretel in the Dark by Granville
Gypsy Goddess
Hollow Ground
Hop Alley by Phillips
Hour of Lead
I Always Loved You by Oliveira
I Shall Be Near to You by McCabe
Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
In the Night of Time by Molina
In the Wolf’s Mouth by Foulds
In Times of Fading Light by Ruge
Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims by Clements
King’s Ransom
Lie
Light and the Dark
Long Sword
Man Who Loved Dogs
Map of Betrayal by Jin
Marshlands by Olshan
Melancholy II by Fosse
Motherland by Hummel
Mount Terminus by Grand
My Name Is Resolute by Turner
Orchard of Lost Souls
People in the Trees
Pioneer Girl by Nguyen
Prince’s Boy
Promise
Season of Storms by Kearsley
Secrecy by Thompson
Secret Life of Violet Grant
Secret Life of Williams Shakespeare
Secret of Magic
Silence for the Dead by St. James
Skylight by Saramago
Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing
Stonehenge Letters
Storm Still by Handke
Surfacing
Swan Gondola
Taxidermist’s Daughter
Tell by Itani
Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price
Untold
Wake by Hope
Wall
Wife
