Category When You Prefer Your History Mixed With A Little Fiction

The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Historical Fiction Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her…

The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Historical Fiction Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in…

A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Historical Fiction Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure…

News of the World Paulette Giles Historical Fiction In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered…

Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate Historical Fiction Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one…

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid Historical Fiction Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique…

The Alice Network Kate Quinn Historical Fiction 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She’s also…

Mischling Affinity Konar World War II  Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past.  Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad.  It’s 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and…

And The Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini Historical Fiction Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one…

The Orphan Keeper Camron Wright Historical Fiction Seven-year-old Chellamuthu’s life – and his destiny – is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is…