Historical Fiction

Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir...

How do you comfort a man who has just lost his best friend?How does it feel to see fear in your wife's eyes?What does it mean to come home? In one of the most acclaimed and celebrated collections of stories for years, Redeployment takes...

A stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a...

Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those...

The Booker-shortlisted international bestselling author returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother's life. Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming...

In the 1960s, young Edith is sent from England to a remote village in Italy with a solemn task: care for her pregnant sister, Lydia, whose career as a ballet dancer has been upended by scandal. Edith is to witness the birth, make a...

Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world—perfect for readers of Behold the Dreamers, White Ivy,...

A hurricane is gathering strength in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the small coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's father, a hard drinker and mostly absent, is suddenly anxious—but for once, it's not the bottle he reaches for. Esch and her three brothers...

March, 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, though, and after Japan’s defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split...

Paris, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work. Instead, she obsesses over a kitchen renovation and befriends a new neighbor―a younger woman called Clémentine who has just moved into the...

In a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his father gone, Isaku is forced to grow up well before his time. He must learn how to catch fish, how to...

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a...

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a...

I have a mouth, but must not speak;Ears, but must not hear;Eyes, but must not see. Joseon, 1800. Sixteen-year-old Seol—homesick, orphaned, and bound by servitude to the police bureau—has come to embody an old curse: May you live in interesting times. Ordered to aid...

The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour, a French silkworm merchant, scours the world for rare, gleaming eggs. When disease devastates Europe’s supply, he is driven beyond the known world to Japan—a land famed for its exquisite silk and fierce suspicion of outsiders. There, he...

With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta...

The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author. Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest...

Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not...

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom, a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma's girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond...

Set in a Swiss boarding school after the war, the novel begins simply: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But innocence quickly gives way to obsession. With chilling calm, the young narrator recounts her consuming fixation on Frédérique—the...

Set in early 1980s Poland during the final years of Communism, Swimming in the Dark is a lyrical and moving story of first love, political upheaval, and impossible choices. University student Ludwik falls deeply in love with the charismatic Janusz after they meet at...

A tender yet bittersweet tale of love between two women, woven through a rich reflection on language, history, and power. In May 1938, young novelist Aoyama Chizuko leaves Nagasaki behind and arrives in Japanese-ruled Taiwan. Though invited as a guest of the colonial government,...

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner. Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black...

The Boxed Set by Deborah Harkness brings together the first three novels in her acclaimed series: A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life. This beautifully designed collection immerses readers in a world where history, magic and romance intertwine. The trilogy follows...

100th Anniversary Celebration: A richly illustrated deluxe edition of the American classic, with illuminating commentary by a preeminent Fitzgerald scholar. Drawn from the authoritative Library of America edition of Fitzgerald’s writings, this deluxe edition features: - A new introduction by Amor Towles, bestselling author...

The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work...

Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks...

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what...

Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy—he hunts, sows crops, plays games...

Anthony and Gloria Patch, would-be Jazz Age aristocrats, embody the corruption and excess of 1920s New York: beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As presumptive heirs to a vast fortune, they begin married life living far beyond their means, their days consumed with drinking, dancing,...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic. Nina has always lived on the edges of Loisail’s glittering society—partly because she’s new to the city, mostly because her telekinesis tends to burst out...

The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testamentsweaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of...

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow...

Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known... In a remote mountain village where ghosts...

Ebenezer Le Page is eighty years old and has lived his entire life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of land caught between England and France, yet entirely a world unto itself. Fiercely independent and nearing the end of his days,...

A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past. Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far...

Set in Germany during World War II, The Book Thief follows Liesel Meminger, a young girl whose life is transformed by the power of books. Sent to live with a foster family outside Munich, she discovers comfort and hope in stolen stories as war...

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be...

In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later...

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early-twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through...

The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of “the man of two minds” as he comes as a refugee to France and turns...

In this sweeping tale of adventure, Alexandre Dumas weaves together suspense, intrigue, romance, revenge, and the ultimate triumph of justice—elements that have secured the novel’s enduring status as a literary classic. Set in post-Napoleonic France, the story follows Edmond Dantès, a promising young sailor...

The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a...

It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so,...

Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton’s second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us...

While filming in France, the legendary filmmaker G. W. Pabst witnesses the collapse of the world he once knew and flees to Hollywood in search of safety. Yet in California, he finds himself stripped of relevance—an artist without influence, even as former collaborators like Greta Garbo...

Nadolny's masterpiece, The Discovery of Slowness tells the incredible story of Sir John Franklin, a sailor and explorer who battled the frozen Arctic wastes and paved the way for the discovery of the Northwest Passage. Ridiculed for his slowness in his youth, Franklin's quiet...

The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone...

Powerful, richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.  At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to...

In September 1913, Mieczysław, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money...