Category When You Prefer Your History Mixed With A Little Fiction

American Dirt Jeanine Cummins Historical Fiction Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the…

The Tattooist Of Auschwitz Heather Morris World War II In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work…

A Gentleman In Moscow Amor Towles Historical Fiction In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin.…

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell Nadia Hashimi Historical Fiction In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in…

Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet Jamie Ford World War II Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the…

These Is My Words Nancy E. Turner Historical Fiction A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author’s own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and…

The House Of Eve Sadeqa Johnson Historical Fiction 1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty…

Horse Geraldine Brooks Historical Fiction Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an…

The Women Kristin Hannah Historical Fiction Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she…

Anita De Monte Laughs Last Xochitl Gonzalez Historical Fiction 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn’t. By…