Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of 2023
Time travel to distant eras and locales with this collection of historical novels coming to shelves in 2023.
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by Eleanor Shearer
Rare. Moving. Powerful. 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 remarkable debut.
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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 that reckons with the legacy of British colonialism, the World War II Japanese occupation, and the pursuit of modernity, 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
“Every decent friendship comes with a drop of hatred. But that hatred is like honey in the tea. It makes it addictive.” 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 …
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A Love by Design
by Elizabeth Everett
You couldn’t design a better hero than the very eligible and extremely charming Earl Grantham. Unless, of course, you are Margaret Gault, who wants nothing to do with the man who broke her youthful heart.
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White Fox
by Owen Matthews
The gripping, taut thriller follows two competing KGB operatives in a race against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK. This is a page-turning thriller across Russia, where characters facing impossible odds are forced to decide between truth, justice, and all-out war.
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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 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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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 Chanel Cleeton’s page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle.
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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
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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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, Welcome Me to the Kingdom tells the story of three families striving to control their own 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 a time of war. An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking novel.
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Ada’s Room
by Sharon Dodua Otoo
This kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents reveals the connections between four women – who share a name and a purpose – in their struggle for survival. 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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A Sinister Revenge
by Deanna Raybourn
Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.
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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, and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandatory Palestine, by the acclaimed author of A Palestine Affair.
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Silver Nitrate
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood. As they work together to unravel a mystery of a film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.
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