Category When You Prefer Your History Mixed With A Little Fiction

The Night in Lisbon Erich Maria Remarque World War II  With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is…

Gutenberg’s Apprentice Alix Christie Historical Fiction An enthralling literary novel that evokes one of the most momentous events in history, the birth of printing in medieval Germany—a story of invention, intrigue, and betrayal, rich in atmosphere and historical detail, told…

The Midwife of Auschwitz Anna Stuart Historical Fiction Auschwitz, 1943: As I held the tiny baby in my arms, my fingers traced the black tattoo etched across her little thigh. And I prayed that one day this set of numbers,…

House of Broken Angels Luis Alberto Urrea Historical Fiction “All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.”  In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately…

The Diamond Eye Kate Quinn World War II In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia…

The Child of Auschwitz Lily Graham World War II It is 1942 and Eva Adami has boarded a train to Auschwitz. Barely able to breathe due to the press of bodies and exhausted from standing up for two days, she…

Prague Spring Simon Mawer  Historical Fiction In the summer of 1968–a year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter–Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship that…

Out of the Easy Ruta Sepetys Historical Fiction It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a…

Middlemarch George Eliot Historical Fiction Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill…

For Whom The Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway  Historical Fiction For Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades, is attached…