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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books

America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor

By Nicole Evelina - Published 2023

Genres:

Nonfiction

The less-known history of Virginia and Francis Minor’s efforts to present the issue of woman’s suffrage before the Supreme Court is ...Read Review

Epic Historic Adventures: Fearless Frederic

By Felice Arena - Published 2022

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Set in Paris during the flood of 1910, this is the story of how thirteen-year-old Frederic Lefosse and his friends, Thierry and Claire, not ...Read Review

The Postcard

By Anne Berest - By Tina Kover (trans.) - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

After a postcard without a sender arrives at her mother’s house inscribed with the names of relatives who perished at Auschwitz, life ...Read Review

The President’s Wife

By Tracey Enerson Wood - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1915, Edith Galt, a wealthy widow living in Washington, DC, is introduced to Helen Bones, a cousin to President Woodrow Wilson, who is ...Read Review

The Paris Deception

By Bryn Turnbull - Published 2023

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During WW2, Paris was filled with German military forces. Some focused on more than warfare – they saw potential for personal profit from selling ...Read Review

Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace

By Tracey Buchanan - Published 2023

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Widow Minerva Place is used to a quiet, orderly life, and she prefers it that way. She has little interest in idle chit-chat ...Read Review

The Madwomen of Paris

By Jennifer Cody Epstein - Published 2023

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In this novel, set in a monolithic asylum in Paris in the late 1800s, protagonist Laure is both a former inmate and current ...Read Review

Too Good to Hang (Bradecote & Catchpoll)

By Sarah Hawkswood - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the 11th in Hawkswood’s Bradecote & Catchpoll series, and there is something new in the mix. I have read several ...Read Review

Family Reins: The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty

By Billy Busch - Published 2023

Genres:

Nonfiction

Family Reins chronicles the history of the Anheuser-Busch brewing company, makers of Budweiser beer, from its beginnings in 1857 to its legacy today. Its ...Read Review

Once Upon a Hillside

By Angela McAllister - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

A hill.  A distinctive hill: a Down, with flower-spangled turf over white chalk, a stand of woods and a mound at its summit. ...Read Review