Historical Fiction

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a...

A sweeping family epic spanning three generations, Middlesex may be huge in scope but through an accessible and unforgettable narrative voice, it transcends genre and lodges itself in must-read territory.Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize...

The masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths of human nature, this is a landmark in modern American...

An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper...

Jayne Anne Phillips’ historical epic set in a West Virginia lunatic asylum is a story of the persistence of life and the power of family, from the author of Black Trinkets and Machine.PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK...

Blackpool, 1938. Miss Margaret Finch - a rather demure young woman - has just begun work in a position that relies on her discretion and powers of observation. Then, her path is crossed by the disgraced Rector of Stiffkey (aka Harold Davidson), who is...

A People Magazine Pick.“In delicious, decadent prose, Denene Millner does what few authors can–compose a sprawling multigenerational tale that is necessary American reading. One Blood sings the song of the South in a voice that is...

A teenage girl's difficult journey towards adulthood in a time of war. "A school story for grownups that is also about our inability or refusal to protect children from history" SARAH MOSS "Of all Szabo's novels, Abigail deserves the widest readership...

Thomas Brussig’s classic German novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall.Young Micha Kuppisch lives on the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story—an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history. In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off...

Now in paperback, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is a dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes—“an intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion” (Claire Messud, Harper’s) An epic storyteller with the most...

In this sexy and scandalous historical romance the New York Times bestselling author of This Man delivers the story of a successful businessman as he’s pulled away from his work and under the spell of the alluring Taya Winter. Frank Melrose is...

"Habila's fictionalization...reveals the true casualties of oppression better than any news or history."—Library Journal. Lomba is a young journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, the most dangerous city in the world. His mind is...

Now back in print for the first time since 1969, a stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century.Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorce is not just a...

“A very real, passionate retelling of Morgan le Fay's story, with detail about political and magical lives, and the women who are such a vital part of the tale.” —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author.“Sophie...

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar. Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy comes the powerful third installment to the Women of Troy series.I never saw Cassandra as a victim. I saw a woman as focused on a single aim as any raptor stooping to its prey; but then, I...

The third book in award‑winning author Claire North's Songs of Penelope Trilogy, a "powerful, fresh, and unflinching" (Jennifer Saint) reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world...

From the author of The Familiars comes another slice of atmospheric historical fiction, as the residents of a house for fallen women collide with a millionairess in fear of her recently released stalker. From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of...

The author of the bestselling Pandora returns with another richly atmospheric gothic page-turner, as a disgraced physician discovers dark secrets in an eighteenth-century Welsh backwater. Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post...