All Historical Fiction Reviews

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Historical Fiction – 1900s (Not War Focused)

The Lobotomist’s Wife by Samantha Greene Woodruff
The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
The Next Ship Home by Heather Webb
The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon
The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
When Stars Rain Down cover of silhouetted female and drawn stars
When Stars Rain Down
The Fault between us book cover
The Fault Between Us by Bette Lee Crosby
When I Last Saw You book cover with girl's side visible with wooden area in background
When I Last Saw You by Bette Lee Crosby
The Show Girl book cover with girl in large feather dress
The Show Girl by Nicola Harrison
The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
A Goddess Among Men
Before We Were Yours
SJLB 2020 Top Read
Confessions on B-Flat
Paper Wife
Stitching a Life
The Forgotten Home Child
The Help
The Jane Austen Society
Veiled in Smoke
The Woman in the Green Dress
Where the Crawdads Sing
Winter Cottage
Freedom Lessons
The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus
Bones of the Redeemed
Leaving
The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
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From the Moon I Watched Her
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The Girl in the Painting
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Rhapsody
Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman

Historical Fiction – U.S. 1800s / Slavery / Post-Antebellum

Yellow Crocus
SJLB 2019 Top Read
Mustard Seed
The Book of Lost Friends
SJLB 2020 Top Read
The Kitchen House
Yellow Wife
SJLB 2021 Top Read
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What Passes as Love by Trisha R. Thomas
Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly

Historical Fiction – Colonial/Early Settling

A Bride Most Begrudging
SJLB 2010 Top Read
Where the Lost Wander
SJLB 2020 Top Read
Rebel Spy
News of the World
The Children’s Blizzard
Daughter of the King by Kerry Chaput

Historical Fiction – Kings / Queens / Courts

Courtesan
Matilda Empress
Sin Eater
SJLB 2020 Top Read
The Constant Princess
The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
The Last Wife of Henry VIII
The Virgin Queen’s Daughter
Above the Bay of Angels
SJLB 2020 Top Read
Antoinette’s Sister by Diana Giovinazzo
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The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives
Tsarina by Ellen Alpsten
The Tsarina’s Daughter by Ellen Alpsten

Historical Fiction – Wartime (Not WWII) / Rebellion

Stefan’s Promise
What the Wind Knows
A Reason for Living
The Time Capsule
Rebel Spy
Scarlet Carnation by Laila Ibrahim

Historical Fiction – WWII

A Fire Sparkling
SJLB 2019 Top Read
The Forger
SJLB 2006 Top Read
A Man Called Smith
From Sand and Ash
SJLB 2019 Top Read
Of Bitter Herbs and Sweet Confections
SJLB 2019 Top Read
On Wings of Devotion
Silent Honor
The Beekeeper’s Bullet
The Book Thief
SJLB 2010 Top Read
The Child of Auschwitz
SJLB 2019 Top Read
The Paris Architect
SJLB 2019 Top Read
The Rabbit Girls
The Socialite
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
SJLB 2020 Top Read
The Takeaway Men
The London Restoration
The Brothers of Auschwitz
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The Venice Sketchbook
The Keeper of Happy Endings book cover with girl looking at Eiffel Tower
The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis
Daughters of War by Dinah Jefferies
Beyond the Wire by James D. Shipman
The School for German Brides by Aimie K. Runyan

Historical Fiction – Other

The Brass Queen by Elizabeth Chatsworth
The Spanish Daughter by Lorena Hughes
The Mad Girls of New York by Maya Rodale
The Seamstress of New Orleans by Diane C. McPhail
The Nurse’s Secret by Amanda Skenandore
Firefly
The 19th Wife
The Forgotten Home Child
The Jane Austen Society
Everybody’s Somebody
Above the Bay of Angels
SJLB 2020 Top Read
Nocturne: The Guardian of the Opera
Folly at the Fair
A Golden Fury
The Light at Wyndcliff
Daughter of Black Lake
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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The Lost Apothecary
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The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
The Vanished Days book cover with mountains and valleys
The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley
A Dress of Violet Taffeta by Tessa Arlen

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