Goodreads|Amazon Release date: March 19, 2019 Publisher: Berkley Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to … Continue reading The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner
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In Another Time by Jillian Cantor
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: March 5, 2019 Publisher: Harper Perennial Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: Love brought them together. But only time can save them… 1931, Germany. Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna Ginsberg, a budding concert violinist, and immediately he feels a powerful chemistry between them. It isn’t long before they fall in love and begin … Continue reading In Another Time by Jillian Cantor
The Beautiful Strangers by Camille DiMaio
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: March 5, 2019 Publisher: Lake Union Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: A legendary hotel on the Pacific becomes a haven where dreams, love, and a beguiling mystery come alive. 1958. Kate Morgan, tethered to her family’s failing San Francisco restaurant, is looking for an escape. She gets her chance by honoring a cryptic … Continue reading The Beautiful Strangers by Camille DiMaio
The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: February 5, 2019 Publisher: Lake Union Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: 1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She’ll work in city hall, marry her fiancé when he returns from the war, and settle down in the Boston suburbs. But when her fiancé is reported missing after being shot down in … Continue reading The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey
The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: January 22, 2019 Publisher: Bantam Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone's lips these days is "flickers"--the … Continue reading The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin
The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: January 22, 2019 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer’s … Continue reading The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Best Historical Fiction and Audiobooks of 2018
After this I only have one more post to share so my best reads series is almost wrapped up! Today I'll be sharing my favorite HF and also my favorite audiobooks. I've always liked audiobooks but this year I listened to so many more than in the past and I believe audiobooks are very underrated. … Continue reading Best Historical Fiction and Audiobooks of 2018
Tony’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
Goodreads Release date: November 20, 2018 Publisher: Harper Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: Shortly before World War II, Chi Chi Donatelli and Saverio Armandonada meet one summer on the Jersey shore and fall in love. Both are talented and ambitious, and both share the dream of becoming singers for the legendary orchestras of the time: Glenn … Continue reading Tony’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
November Road by Lou Berney
About November Road• Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (October 9, 2018) Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America—a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long … Continue reading November Road by Lou Berney
The Girl They Left Behind by Roxanne Veletzos
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: October 9, 2018 Publisher: Atria Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: On a freezing night in January 1941, a little Jewish girl is found on the steps of an apartment building in Bucharest. With Romania recently allied with the Nazis, the Jewish population is in grave danger, undergoing increasingly violent persecution. The girl is … Continue reading The Girl They Left Behind by Roxanne Veletzos
