Library News
Escape to the Past: New and Popular Historical Fiction
Posted on August 27th, 2014
Because historical novels can whisk readers away to a different time and place, they can be great choices for summer reading. Here’s a list of 30 new and popular titles covering a wide variety of eras and locales.
All are available for checkout. Click on each title to jump to Booth Library’s Online Catalog and get a synopsis and shelf location for each book.
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
20th-century England
Sarah Blake, The Postmistress
World War II England
Barbara Taylor Bradford, Cavendon Hall
World War I England
Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist
Early 20th-century Washington State
Bernard Cornwell, 1356: A Novel
Medieval England
Laurel Corona, Penelope’s Daughter
Ancient Greece
Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
1930s South
Sarah Dunant, Blood & Beauty: The Borgias
Renaissance Italy
David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife
19th-century Utah
Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
Malaya, 1949
Ariana Franklin, A Murderous Procession
Medieval England
Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra
Ancient Egypt
Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
19th-century America
Daisy Goodwin, The American Heiress
Victorian England
Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
Tudor England
Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Depression-era America
Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky
19th-century Europe, California, and the South Seas
Conn Iggulden, Emperor: The Gates of Rome
Ancient Rome
Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
19th-century Iceland
Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings
Early 19th-century Charleston, South Carolina
Barbara Kyle, The King’s Daughter
Tudor England
Valerie Martin, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
19th-century America and at sea
Colum McCann, TransAtlantic
Newfoundland in 1909, Dublin in 1845, and New York in 1998
Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
Early 20th-century Vermont
Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
World War II and modern England
TaraShea Nesbit, The Wives of Los Alamos
World War II-era New Mexico
Laura Joh Rowland, The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte
Victorian England
Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
19th and early 20th-century Shanghai and San Francisco
James Wilde, Time of the Wolf
Medieval England
