New Historical Fiction to Read in 2023
Let your 2023 be book-filled with new historical novels that will transport you to another era!
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by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film — and awakens one woman’s hidden powers.
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The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
by Katie Lumsden
Nobody ever goes to Hartwood Hall. Folks say it’s cursed … A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Victorian fiction.
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River Sing Me Home
by Eleanor Shearer
This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery is a “celebration of motherhood and female resilience” (The Observer).
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The Great Reclamation
by Rachel Heng
Set against a changing Singapore, this a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country. An aching love story and powerful coming-of-age, The Great Reclamation confronts the wounds of progress, the sacrifices of love, and the difficulty of defining home when nature and nation collide, literally shifting the land beneath people’s feet.
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When We Lost Our Heads
by Heather O’Neill
Charismatic Marie Antoine is the daughter of the richest man in 19th-century Montreal. She has everything she wants, except for a best friend — until clever, scheming Sadie Arnett moves to the neighborhood. Traveling from a repressive finishing school to a vibrant brothel, taking readers firsthand into the brutality of factory life and the opulent lives of Montreal’s wealthy, When We Lost Our Heads dazzlingly explores gender, sex, desire, class, and the terrifying power of the human heart when it can’t let someone go.
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White Fox
by Owen Matthews
A page-turning thriller about two competing KGB operatives on a race across Russia and against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK.
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Loyalty
by Lisa Scottoline
Readers will be transported to the dramatic and ruggedly beautiful island of Sicily, the jewel of the Mediterranean, where lush lemon groves and mouth-watering cuisine contrast with a turbulent history of colonization, corruption, and the rise of the Mafia. Scottoline brings her decades of thriller writing to historical fiction, creating in Loyalty a singular novel that no reader will be able to put down.
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The Cuban Heiress
by Chanel Cleeton
In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women’s pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle.
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Symphony of Secrets
by Brendan Slocumb
From the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy. A gripping story about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time—that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth and right history’s wrongs, Bern Hendricks will stop at nothing to finally give Josephine the recognition she deserves.
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Fire Rush
by Jacqueline Crooks
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of the 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, and self-discovery that vibrates with the liberating power of music.
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The Golden Doves
by Martha Hall Kelly
Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II — a pulse-pounding novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls.
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Stars in an Italian Sky
by Jill Santopolo
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost comes a sweeping story of two star-crossed lovers in post-World War II Italy, and a blossoming relationship generations later that will reveal a long-buried family secret.
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The Shadow of Perseus
by Claire Heywood
National bestselling author of Daughters of Sparta, Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version — his mother, Danae; his trophy, Medusa; and his wife, Andromeda — but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all.
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Crook Manifesto
by Colson Whitehead
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. Crook Manifesto is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family. Whitehead’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time great evocations of a place and a time.
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First Comes Summer
by Maria Hesselager
The spellbinding story of a young woman’s dangerous passion as it plays out over the course of an eerie summer. Deeply unsettling and brilliantly imagined, First Comes Summer captures the terror of losing the world you’ve always known — and the uncanny extremes to which you might go to hold on to it.
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Time’s Undoing
by Cheryl A. Head
A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago — inspired by the author’s own family history.
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Welcome Me to the Kingdom
by Mai Nardone
An immersive debut set across the temples, slums, and gated estates of late-twentieth-century Bangkok, telling the story of three families striving to control their destinies in a merciless, sometimes brutally violent, metropolis.
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In Memoriam
by Alice Winn
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I. An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is breathtaking.
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Ada’s Room
by Sharon Dodua Otoo
A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. This novel is a feat of imagination and breaks down simplistic notions of history as a straight line; one woman’s experience matters to another’s 400 years later. In this deeply moving, at times mordantly funny, ultimately hopeful book, there is a connection between all those fighting for love, for family, for justice, and for a home.
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The Last Russian Doll
by Kristen Loesch
A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center.
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The Red Balcony
by Jonathan Wilson
Based on actual events, a gripping novel of sex, love, history, and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandatory Palestine, by the acclaimed author of A Palestine Affair.
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Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
by Renée Rosen
It’s 1938, and a young woman selling face cream out of a New York City beauty parlor is determined to prove she can have it all. Her name is Estée Lauder, and she’s about to take the world by storm, in this dazzling new novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Social Graces and Park Avenue Summer.
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Her Lost Words
by Stephanie Marie Thornton
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends — a mother and daughter — discovering each other and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton.
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