Viking (US)

The Women

By T.C. Boyle - Published 2008 (US)Published 2009 (UK)

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The visionary, egocentric subject of this book, architect/designer Frank Lloyd Wright, changed the course of history. Whatever his faults, foibles, or eccentricities, ...Read Review

The Piano Teacher

By Janice Y.K. Lee - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

Claire and Martin Pendleton arrive in Hong Kong: Martin to work in “water,” and Claire to teach piano to Locket, daughter of wealthy ...Read Review

Sovereign

By C. J. Sansom - Published 2006 (UK)Published 2007 (US)

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

To overawe the rebellious north, Henry VIII makes a grand Progress to York. Travelling ahead are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant, Jack ...Read Review

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

By Nathaniel Philbrick - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

In this revisionist, popular history, Philbrick takes on Plymouth, the Pilgrims, and King Philip’s War. Unlike the harshness of life at Jamestown, ...Read Review

War and Peace

By Leo Tolstoy (trans. Anthony Briggs) - Published 2005

Genres:

Literary

Arguably the greatest literary masterpiece, War and Peace is an amazing blend of philosophy, history, spirituality and love told through two families, the ...Read Review

The 6th Lamentation

By William Brodrick - Published 2003

Genres:

Strictly speaking, this is not an historical novel since most of the action takes place in the mid-1990s. However, the events of ...Read Review

Dissolution

By C. J. Sansom - Published 2003Published 2003 (US)

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

       This gripping mystery is set in Tudor England during the winter of 1557, just after a rebellion against the still-new Church of England has ...Read Review