BookLife Reviews: Historical Fiction
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Absolution, by Alice McDermott (Vietnam War, spouses of military)
Carnegie’s Maid, by Marie Benedict (Pittsburgh, New York, Golden Age)
Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell (Shakespearean England)
Hang the Moon, Jeanette Walls (Virginia, 1920s)
Horse, by Geraldine Brooks (post-Civil War, Kentucky and South)
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, by Lisa See
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry (Western U.S. frontier, post Civil War)
Loot, by Tania James (India, British colonialism, 1790s)
March, By Geraldine Brooks (Civil War, reimaging of Captain March of Little Women)
River Sing Me Home, by Eleanor Shearer (Barbados and Guyana 1850s))
Take My Hand, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Alabama, 1973)
The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese (India)
The Dovekeepers, by Alice Hoffman (The Masada)
The Fraud, by Zadie Smith (England, 1880s)
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride (Pittsburgh, Depression era)
The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak (Cypress 1974)
The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles
The Madwomen’s Ball, by Victoria Mas
The Marriage Portrait, by Maggie O’Farrell
The Saints of Swallow Hill, by Donna Everhart (Great Depression)
The Stars are Fire, by Anita Shreve (Maine 1847)
The Sweetness of Water, by Nathan Harris (Post Civil War)
The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish (London, Amsterdam, 17th Century)
The Whalebone Theater, by Joanna Quin (England, WWI and WWII)
The Wives, Simone Gorinnfo (Afghanistan conflict, military wives)
The Women, by Kristin Hannah (Vietnam War nurses)
The World Played Chess, by Robert Dugoni (Vietnam War)
This is Happiness, by Niall Williams (Ireland, 1958)
West With Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge
Wolves of Eden, by Kevin McCarthy