New Historical Fiction To Read This Fall
Time travel to distant eras and locales with this collection of historical novels coming to shelves this fall.
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Add to BookshelfThe Wildest Sun
by Asha Lemmie
Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie’s next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young woman’s search for the larger-than-life literary figure she believes to be her father — Ernest Hemingway.
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All You Have to Do Is Call
by Kerri Maher
A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for our right to choose, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller.
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The Gentleman’s Gambit
by Evie Dunmore
Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: An ailing estate, academic writer’s block, a tense time for England’s women’s rights campaign — the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father’s distractingly attractive young colleague.
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The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community.
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The Fraud
by Zadie Smith
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story — and who gets to be believed.
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What Wild Women Do
by Karma Brown
An aspiring contemporary screenwriter, a 1970s socialite-turned-feminist, and the camp in the woods that ties their stories together forever, in #1 internationally bestselling author Karma Brown’s new novel about ambition, betrayal, and the wildness that exists in all of us.
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North Woods
by Daniel Mason
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries — a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
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The Caretaker
by Ron Rash
Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash (“One of the great American authors at work today” —The New York Times) is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to justify in the name of duty, family, honor, and love.
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They’re Going to Love You
by Meg Howrey
A gripping novel set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles. They’re Going to Love You is a gripping and gorgeously written novel of heartbreaking intensity. With psychological precision and a masterfully revealed secret at its heart, it asks what it takes to be an artist in America, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love.
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All You Have To Do
by Autumn Allen
Powerful, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, this debut YA novel by author Autumn Allen is a gripping look at what it takes (and takes and takes) for two Black students to succeed in prestigious academic institutions in America.
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The Children’s Bach
by Helen Garner
Set in suburban Melbourne in the early 1980s, The Children’s Bach centers on Dexter and Athena Fox, their two sons, and the insulated world they’ve built together. Despite the routine challenges of domestic life, they are largely happy. But when a friend from Dexter’s past resurfaces and introduces the couple to the city’s bohemian underground — unbound by routine and driven by desire — Athena begins to wonder if life might hold more for her, and the tenuous bonds that tie the Foxes together start to fray.
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The Wolves of Eternity
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel that questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves — and the limits of what we can understand about life itself.
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Where Is Anne Frank
by Ari Folman
A new graphic novel that brings to life Kitty, Anne Frank’s imaginary friend to whom she addressed her diary — from the same creative team that produced the international bestselling and award-winning Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation.
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Untamed Shore
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In this dark coming-of-age noir, a “Patricia Highsmith-like tale of grifts and con artists” (Crime Time), a young woman becomes embroiled in a web of lies and deceit — with potentially deadly consequences — from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night.
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Shoot the Moon
by Isa Arsén
Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands a job as a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, the work is everything she dreamed, and while she feels a budding attraction to one of the engineers, she can’t get distracted. Not now. Affecting, urgent, and immersive, Shoot the Moon tells the story of one woman’s quest to honor both her head and her heart amid the human toll of scientific progress and the persistent, unignorable yearning for home.
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The Scent of Burnt Flowers
by Blitz Bazawule
Fleeing persecution in 1960s America, a Black couple seeks asylum in Ghana, but fresh dangers and old secrets threaten their newfound freedom in this hypnotic debut novel. Now in paperback.
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Lessons
by Ian McEwan
From the bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man’s life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic, Roland Baines sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it. Now in paperback.
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Edith Holler
by Edward Carey
The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse — and the mysterious figure who threatens its very survival. Teeming with unforgettable characters and illuminated by the author’s trademark fantastical illustrations, Edith Holler is a surprisingly modern fable of one young woman’s struggle to escape her family’s control — and to reveal inconvenient truths about the way children are used.
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The Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how — and if — we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.
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The Armor of Light
by Ken Follett
The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.
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