Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut novel, Woman of Light, retains a mythic quality while following a woman’s journey to claim her own life in the land occupied by her family for generations.
Natalie Jenner’s captivating Bloomsbury Girls has a genial, matter-of-fact style that’s exactly what’s expected for a novel about a humble London bookstore.
A beautifully composed masterpiece, Hernan Diaz’s second novel examines the insidious, carefully crafted disparities between rich and poor, truth and fiction.
Kim Michele Richardson’s companion novel to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is immersive from the very beginning.
The story of an impoverished peasant girl caught up in the tumult of Chairman Mao’s China comes to life through the fullness of Vanessa Hua’s imagination.
Hold on tight, as the space-time ride in Rachel Barenbaum’s second novel, Atomic Anna, is far beyond the ordinary.
Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s spirited first novel brings history to light through the story of a girl’s journey to self-discovery and self-acceptance.
Kate Quinn’s track record for delivering captivating historical fiction continues with the remarkable story of the notorious Russian sniper known as Lady Death.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s illuminating third novel was inspired by a 1973 lawsuit involving sisters who were sterilized without consent in Montgomery, Alabama.
The stories of real-life French Resistance fighters Violette Szabo and Virginia d’Albert-Lake needed to be told. Erika Robuck has done their memory great honor.
Lee Kravetz’s novel is a fascinating fictional re-creation of Sylvia Plath’s final decade and a paean to the allure of poetry.
Johann Sebastian Bach’s creativity, family and devotion to God provide a restorative balm for a grieving young man in James Runcie’s novel.
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