Historical fiction provides the opportunity to travel not only to long-ago eras, but also to far-off locations that you may never visit. If I had to pick my top genre, this would be it.
Here are some of my absolute favourites — the cream of the crop of this special genre.
11.22.63 – Stephen King
Alice Network, The – Kate Quinn
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
Attic Child, The – Lola Jaye
Beneath a Scarlet Sky – Mark Sullivan
Bluebird – Sharon Cameron
Book Thief, The – Markus Zusak
Covenant of Water, The – Abraham Verghese
Crow Mary – Kathleen Grissom
Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
Diamond Eye, The – Kate Quinn
Exiles, The – Christina Baker Kline
Forest of Vanishing Stars, The – Kristin Harmel
Fountains of Silence, The – Ruta Sepetys
German Wife, The – Kelly Rimmer
Glory Over Everything – Kathleen Grissom
Go As a River – Shelley Read
Golden Poppies – Laila Ibrahim
Great Alone, The – Kristin Hannah
Heart’s Invisible Furies, The – John Boyne
Help, The – Kathryn Stockett
I Must Betray You – Ruta Sepetys
Invention of Wings, The – Sue Monk Kidd
Keeper of Lost Children – Sadeqa Johnson
Kitchen House, The – Kathleen Grissom
Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
Librarian of Auschwitz, The – Antonio Iturbe
Light in Hidden Places, The – Sharon Cameron
Lincoln Highway, The – Amor Towles
Little Liar, The – Mitch Albom
Lost Girls of Paris, The – Pam Jenoff
Mustard Seed – Laila Ibrahim
Nature of Fragile Things, The – Susan Meissner
Nightingale, The – Kristin Hannah
Only the Beautiful – Susan Meissner
Orphan’s Tale, The – Pam Jenoff
Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline
Power of One, The – Bryce Courtney
Prince of the Skies, The– Antonio Iturbe
Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys
Scarlet Carnation – Laila Ibrahim
Storyteller, The – Jodi Picoult
Take my Hand – Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Tattooist of Auschwitz, The – Heather Morris
Things We Cannot Say, The – Kelly Rimmer
Thousand Splendid Suns, A – Khaled Hosseini
Three Sisters – Heather Morris
Truths I Never Told You – Kelly Rimmer
Violeta – Isabel Allende
Warsaw Orphan, The – Kelly Rimmer
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
Winemaker’s Wife, The – Kristin Harmel
Winter Garden – Kristin Hannah
Woman with the Blue Star, The – Pam Jenoff
Yellow Crocus – Laila Ibrahim
Yellow Wife – Sadeqa Johnson
