Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s British boarding school who fall...

Niall Howard's debut is a noir story about the underbelly of life in a post-World-War-II circus, with a disgruntled clown, formerly a...

I was taken with the first half of this book--a rural cult, a teen mother, a strong female protagonist in an impossible situation,...

Katlia's story is based on actual events, detailing the displacement of Indigenous people and the devastating consequences of greed, the...

Book two of Thomas's Lady Sherlock series offers a robust dual mystery, clever female characters, priceless gems of insight from...

In the third book in the irresistible Veronica Speedwell series, we learn more about Stoker's past, secrets, heartbreak, and motivations;...

This second book in Raybourn's historical fiction mystery series, set in Victorian London, hooked me even more fully into Veronica and...

Julia Fine's Maddalena and the Dark is a gothic story set in 1700s Venice in which two young women's lives and destinies become...

Claudia Cravens's story of a young brothel worker in late nineteenth-century Dodge City, Kansas, offers up a tough young heroine who...

Beyond That, the Sea is a lovely character-driven historical fiction story about complicated relationships, found family, growing up, and...

The premise and setting of The Secret Book of Flora Lea are captivating. I was distracted by what felt like overly dramatic dialogue and...

Frazier offers an immersive story that morphs from a WPA-funded rural art commission to a leisurely country-wide search, an unlikely...

Read's debut novel is gorgeously written, with vivid details of mid-century Colorado, moments that change everything, impossible...

Sharratt's carefully researched, richly detailed historical fiction is based on the life of the medieval mystic who long served as an...

Six More Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres, and I loved my...

William Kent Krueger's writing is beautiful, and J.D. Jackson reads the audiobook wonderfully, but I felt impatient with the focus on...

Emilia Hart's debut novel links women in three timelines through blood and a powerful connection to the natural world as they resist male...

Harding bases his slim historical fiction novel This Other Eden on a real-life, racially integrated island off the coast of Maine,...

Kidd's dual-timeline historical fiction, based on actual events, shines in its vivid settings, richly imagined characters, sea voyage...

The early story captured my attention with ballet, an orphan's struggles, and Depression-era Chicago, but once Nocturne shifted into dark...