Gifts for Lovers of Historical Fiction
For that friend or relative who loves stories set in another era, this holiday, give epic and unforgettable historical fiction novels including favorites by Ken Follett, Maggie O’Farrell, and more!
Find even more stories through The Year in Books, our curated collection celebrating the books and authors that helped us connect in 2023.
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Add to BookshelfThe Marriage Portrait
by Maggie O'Farrell
The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de’ Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court. Now in paperback.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
Discover Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2023 and Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year! 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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The Wind Knows My Name
by Isabel Allende
“The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration” (People), from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea.
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The Spectacular
by Fiona Davis
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace comes a thrilling story about love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of dreams, set amidst the glamour and glitz of Radio City Music Hall in its mid-century heyday.
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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.
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Crook Manifesto
by Colson Whitehead
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.
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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.
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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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Take My Hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done to her patients.
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Under the Tamarind Tree
by Nigar Alam
A compellingly heartbreaking debut novel about the echoes of Partition and four friends whose dark secrets lead to a life-changing night that comes back to haunt them decades later. Captivating and atmospheric, Under the Tamarind Tree shows us the high-stakes ripple effects of generational trauma, and the lengths people will go to protect the ones they love.
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I Must Betray You
by Ruta Sepetys
A gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea. Now in paperback.
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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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The Wildest Sun
by Asha Lemmie
Asha Lemmie’s 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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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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The Great Reclamation
by Rachel Heng
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country.
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The First Ladies
by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune — an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian.
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Mademoiselle Revolution
by Zoe Sivak
A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Now in paperback!
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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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Loyalty
by Lisa Scottoline
#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily.
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Do Tell
by Lindsay Lynch
A scintillating debut novel that brings the golden age of Hollywood to glittering life, from star-studded opening nights to backlot brawls, on-location Westerns to the Hollywood Canteen. Through character actress turned gossip columnist Edie O’Dare’s eyes, Lindsay Lynch draws back the curtain on classic Hollywood’s secrets.
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Miss Aldridge Regrets
by Louise Hare
The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for…
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