Tag Archives: Historical Fiction

Rating Title: Pride and PremeditationAuthor: Tirzah PricePublication: March 1, 2022Publisher: HarperTeenGenre: YA Fiction, Teen, Historical RomancePages: 384 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman who desires a law career must be in want of a case. So …

Rating Title: Mexican GothicAuthor: Silvia Moreno-GarciaPublication: June 30, 2020Publisher: Del ReyGenre: Historical FictionPages: 321 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a …

Rating Title: The Thread CollectorsAuthor: Shaunna J. Edwards and Alyson RichmanPublication: August 30, 2022Publisher: Graydon HouseGenre: Historical FictionPages: 382 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) 1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to …

Title: The Codebreaker’s SecretAuthor: Sara AckermanPublication: August 2, 2022Publisher: MIRAGenre: Historical FictionPages: 384 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) 1943. As war in the Pacific rages on, Isabel Cooper and her codebreaker colleagues huddle in “the dungeon” at Station HYPO in Pearl Harbor, deciphering secrets plucked from …

Title: The Book of Lost NamesAuthor: Kristin HarmelPublication: May 25, 2021Publisher: Gallery BooksGenre: Historical FictionPages: 416 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to …

Rating Title: The Librarian SpyAuthor: Madeline MartinPublication: July 26, 2022Publisher: Hanover Square PressGenre: Historical FictionPages: 400 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads): Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the …

Rating Title: Lessons in ChemistryAuthor: Bonnie GarmusPublication: April 5, 2022Publisher: DoubledayGenre: FictionPages: 394 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. …

Title: A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and MayhemAuthor: Manda CollinsPublication: November 10, 2020Publisher: ForeverGenre: Historical FictionPages: 352 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author’s Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) England, 1865 : As one of England’s most notorious newspaper columnists, Lady Katherine Bascomb believes knowledge is power. And she’s determined to inform and …

Rating Title: A Dress of Violet TaffetaAuthor: Tessa ArlenPublication: July 5, 2022Publisher: BerkleyGenre: Historical Fiction, Biographical FictionPages: 348 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) A sumptuous novel based on the fascinating true story of Belle Epoque icon Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, a woman determined to shatter …

Rating Title: A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and PoisonsAuthor: Kate KhavariPublication: June 7, 2022Publisher: Crooked Lane BooksGenre: Historical Fiction, MysteryPages: 265 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author’s Website Synopsis: (From Goodreads) Saffron Everleigh is in a race against time to free her wrongly accused professor before he goes behind bars …