Category When You Prefer Your History Mixed With A Little Fiction

The Red Tent Anita Diamant Historical Fiction In the Bible, Dinah’s life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his…

The Color Purple Alice Walker Historical Fiction A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purpledepicts the lives of African American women in early-twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and…

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards  Historical Fiction As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it…

The Power of One Bryce Courtenay  Historical Fiction In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked…

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…