Staff Picks

Category: Historical Fiction

Find your new favorite reads with this collection of top titles curated by our expert librarians.

Lisa

Cilka's Journey The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2

Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit -- and the will we have to survive.

Lisa

Three Sisters (third in the The Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy)

This true story will break your heart, but leave you amazed and uplifted by the courage and fierce love of three sisters, whose promise to each other kept them alive.

Alice

As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes.

Dawn

The Last Green Valley

Mark T. Sullivan

A compelling and inspiring story of heroism and courage in the dark days at the end of World War II.

Jeanne

The Children's Book

This is a story that spans the Victorian era through World War I about a children’s author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the lives of her family and loved ones.

Alice

West with Giraffes

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America.

Andy

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. This chronicles the life of Thomas Cromwell, and the narrative is focalised through him.

Alice

Hamnet: A Novel of The Plague

Maggie O'Farrell

A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time.

Sarah

The Secret Stealers

A young widow and brilliant French teacher Anna Cavanaugh risks everything to help liberate France from the shadows of occupation and free herself from the shadows of her former life.

Alice

The Sweetness of Water: A Novel

The touching story of the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever.

Alice

The Last Green Valley

This story is a brutal, complex, and ultimately triumphant tale that illuminates the extraordinary power of love, faith, and one family’s incredible will to survive a war to see their dreams realized.

Laura

At The Edge of the Orchard

Tracy Chevalier

Chevalier tells a fierce, beautifully crafted story, her most graceful and richly imagined work yet. She describes the grandeur of the pristine Wild West and it's the everyday adventurers.

Alison

Jeanine Cummins

This engaging book promotes empathy for migrants and was very controversial as it was written by a white American woman (who actually had a Puerto Rican mother who immigrated to the US.

Gloria

All The Light We Cannot See

A stunningly beautiful story about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Alison

This is epic historical fiction, a harrowing, tough and painful read of one of American history's darkest period, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.

Tiffany

An epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras, the Great Depression.

Jeanne

The Book of Longings

While this novel contains the historical rather than theological Jesus as a character, it is really the story of his fictional wife, Ana.

Alice

The Murmur of Bees

Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the influenza of 1918, the fate of a country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable

Andy

We Germans: A Novel

Alexander Starritt

A thrilling story of adventure and a questing rumination on the moral ambiguity of war. An exploration of the moral contradictions inherent in saving one's own life at the cost of the lives of others

Alice

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Mark T Sullivan

Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, this is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.

Tiffany

The Lions of Fifth Avenue

A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering truth."

Laura

Marilynne Robinson

This Pulizer Prize winner is an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart.

Andy

This is a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life set in 1923.

Alice

A Long Petal of the Sea

In this work of historical fictions we have an”intimate look at the relationship between one man and one woman and an epic story of love, war, family, and the search for home, this gorgeous novel, lik