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Historical Fiction Books You Will love Even if You’re Not A History Nerd
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items This collection brings together extraordinary, wide-ranging stories from around the globe, bridging vastly different cultures, eras, and perspectives. Each book offers an unflinching, beautifully written look at ordinary people navigating extraordina...
Through deeply intimate letters written over decades, Celie recounts her journey through severe abuse, heartbreak, and resilience in the rural American South. This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic is a luminous, triumphant tale of love, female solidari...
The Color Purple
Abandoned as a child, Kya Clark grows up in isolation among the quiet marshes of coastal North Carolina, learning the secrets of the wild while shunned by the nearby town. But when a local golden boy is found dead, the "Marsh Girl" becomes the prime ...
Where the Crawdads Sing
In this harrowing, Pulitzer Prize-winning re-imagining of American history, young Cora escapes a brutal Georgia plantation to find a literal network of secret tracks and conductors beneath the Southern soil. As a relentless slave catcher tracks her e...
The Underground Railroad (novel)
Forced to flee her lavish Mexican estate after a sudden family tragedy, young Esperanza must swap her silk dresses for a life of hard labor in a California migrant camp during the Great Depression. This powerful story traces her transformation from a...
Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold)
Rescued from captivity in Dahomey and presented to Queen Victoria as a gift, Sarah Forbes Bonetta must navigate the golden cages and political intrigue of 19th-century royal England. This captivating historical novel brings to vivid life the real sto...
The Other Princess by Denny S. Bryce
In 1940s Ohio, a young Black girl named Pecola Breedlove desperately prays for blue eyes, believing they are the key to escaping tragic abuse and being loved in a world obsessed with white beauty standards. Toni Morrison’s breathtaking masterpiece co...
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Fair-skinned Janie Crawford refuses to settle for the life others outline for her, embarking on a turbulent, passionate journey across 1920s Florida through three distinct marriages. Rich with lyrical prose and folk wisdom, this acclaimed masterpiece...
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
When a group of young girls in 1692 Salem levels accusations of witchcraft to cover their own misdeeds, a wave of religious hysteria and paranoia engulfs the entire community. This tense, allegorical masterpiece follows farmer John Proctor as he face...
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, four distinct sisters—Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy—navigate childhood dreams, family hardship, and romantic awakenings under their mother's guidance. This timeless coming-of-age classic captures the endur...
Little Women
Spanning decades of political turmoil in Iran, two young girls from starkly different social classes form a fierce, transformative friendship that tested by secrets, betrayal, and revolution. This deeply moving novel celebrates the extraordinary cour...
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
Orphaned and mistreated, the fiercely independent Jane Eyre takes a position as a governess at the brooding Thornfield Hall, only to fall in love with its mysterious master, Edward Rochester. This Gothic romance follows her unyielding struggle to pre...
Jane Eyre - Bronte, Charlotte
In German-occupied France during World War II, two estranged sisters choose vastly different paths to survive and resist—one risking everything to hide Jewish children, the other joining the dangerous underground resistance. This epic, heartbreaking ...
The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
Haunted by the mysterious death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Lily Owens escapes her abusive father and flees across 1964 South Carolina alongside her fierce caregiver, Rosaleen. Finding refuge with a trio of eccentric, honey-making sisters, Lily ...
The Secret Life of Bees - Kidd, Sue Monk: Books
Haunted by the mysterious death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Lily Owens escapes her abusive father and flees across 1964 South Carolina alongside her fierce caregiver, Rosaleen. Finding refuge with a trio of eccentric, honey-making sisters, Lily ...
Like Water for Chocolate
The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will ...
The Book Thief book by Markus Zusak
Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Sa...
Of Mice and Men
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel foll...
East of Eden
Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March ...
The Briar Club
An indelible tale of identity, family and home that centers around identical twin sisters and their daughters, all living vastly different lives. From the acclaimed author of The Mothers, The Vanishing Half is a story that asks pertinent and, at time...
The Vanishing Half