With sensual finesse, the historical novel "The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty" captures the decadence of a changing nation via a couple’s unique marriage. Kirsten Mickelwait’s shimmering historical novel "The Ashtrays... Read More

The traumas of war are handled with nuance in the historical novel "The Sooner You Forget", about coming home and reconciling oneself to the past. Christopher Bensinger’s wrenching historical novel "The Sooner You Forget" is about an... Read More

Set against the backdrop of the 1970s Peruvian revolution, "Ruiz" is an affecting historical novel. Ron Winter’s emotive historical novel "Ruiz" is about forbidden love, sacred duty, and social injustice. Ruiz, a beloved traveling... Read More

An expansive novel with a varied cast, "Fox Creek" is about plantation life in the South. In M. E. Torrey’s riveting historical novel "Fox Creek", Black and white people on a plantation experience and enact racial prejudice and... Read More

Capturing medieval religious uncertainty and persecution with clarity, "The Tale of the English Templar" is an evocative historical novel. In Helena P. Schrader’s provocative historical novel "The Tale of the English Templar", the... Read More

Precise and vivid, "Where You Come From Is Gone" is a philosophical historical novel covering a rural family’s shifts to adapt to changing times. The intricacies of a livelihood and rural Midwestern family dynamics are explored on a... Read More

Amnesia and the complications of rebuilding a marriage inspire Anjet Daanje’s pensive historical novel "The Remembered Soldier", in which a Belgian veteran of the Great War grapples with fragile versions of the truth. After years... Read More

In Scott Alexander Hess’s pastoral novel "Drought", an isolated man inherits a farm and learns about the estranged relative who left it to him. When Parnell, an aimless orphan, inherits a tobacco farm from his Uncle Willy, he moves to... Read More