Editors' Choice

The Marchesa

By Sarah Dunant - Published 2025

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

On an unspecified day in the present, Isabella D’Este waits in the shadows of the Mantua Reading Room for her newest scholar ...Read Review

Huguette

By Cara Black - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

Cara Black, author of the Aimée Leduc mystery series, has written a fast-paced, gritty thriller about a young woman’s fight to ...Read Review

Love, Sex & Frankenstein

By Caroline Lea - Published 2025

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1816, Mary Shelley famously visited Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley, their baby William, Mary’s stepsister Claire, Lord Byron, and Lord Byron’...Read Review

The Irish Yankee

By Regan Walker - Published 2025

Genres:

AdventureNautical

In June 1775, two months after the first battle of the Revolutionary War, Irish Yankee Jeremiah O’Brien gives up his lumber business and ...Read Review

Sharpe’s Storm (The Sharpe Series, 19)

By Bernard Cornwell - Published 2025

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

A benchmark of quality in military historical fiction, the long-running Sharpe series already takes the eponymous hard-fighting rifleman from 1799 to the 1820s, but ...Read Review

The Girl in the Green Dress: A Mystery Featuring Zelda Fitzgerald

By Mariah Fredericks - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A locked-room murder mystery in 1920 New York City brings together an unlikely and delightful sleuthing pair in Mariah Fredericks’ witty The Girl in ...Read Review

Narrow the Road

By James Wade - Published 2025

Genres:

Western

Living in Shawnee Prairie, Texas, in 1932, young Will Carter knows more than he wants to about dying. The bank is about to foreclose ...Read Review

The Bruegel Boy

By Emma Darwin - Published 2025

Genres:

The Bruegel Boy is an engrossing read set during the religious conflicts, the Beeldenstorm, in Flanders and Holland during the mid-1560s, and ...Read Review

I Am Cleopatra

By Natasha Solomons - Published 2025

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This reimagining of Cleopatra’s life begins in her youth and ends with the aftermath of Julius Caesar’s death. From childhood, Cleopatra ...Read Review

The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush

By Susan Gregg Gilmore - Published 2025

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When 12-year-old Leonard insists on burying his amputated leg with a full-blown funeral, it starts a chain of events that eventually engulfs more ...Read Review

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