For my last post of 2023, I'm taking a look back at some novels I'd read over the last twelve months but didn't get around to re...

I feel like I've been neglecting this blog over the last week. It's been a busy semester at the library, and I've also been spen...

Novels that trace an entire life can show extraordinary depth of character as the protagonists adjust to shifts in circumstance and mature p...

Originally published in 2022 for young adults, Burton’s feminist reboot of Medusa’s story has been reissued for the adult market, where myth...

Acts of resistance take many forms. For the Jews confined in the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis in November 1940, conditions are miserable: cram...

Spanning the winter of 1789–90 in Hallowell, Maine, from the freezing of the Kennebec River to its late thaw, Lawhon’s outstanding sixth nov...

From the moment two forbidden lovers – the prospective wife of an abusive minister and a reported troublemaker she ironically met at church ...

The initial round of the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards is open for voting through Sunday, November 26th. Have you made your selections yet? ...

The most celebrated general of the Union army, he negotiated the Confederacy’s surrender wearing an ordinary soldier’s garb. Born to an abol...

Teresa H. Janssen is here today with a post about transforming family history into historical fiction. Her grandmother, Josie Belle Gore, in...

Overly curious. Inquisitive. Too assertive for her own good. These are unwelcome qualities for a woman in late 1918. But Nellie Lester is on...

Given its subject, “The Wolves of Andover” is the evocatively perfect title for Kathleen Kent’s second novel, which serves as a prequel to h...

Historical mysteries in which famous people transform into amateur detectives can be minefields for their authors. If the protagonist’s pers...

A searing account of how racism reaches its long arm into all corners of American life, Griffiths’ first novel also honors the love cradled ...

Welcome to historical novelist Jessica McCann, who discusses the time involved in writing a historical novel, from the original concept to t...

Thanks to multi-published historical novelist Susanne Dunlap for writing the following guest post, which explores the decisions she makes wh...

This is a post I'd meant to finish before now, but time got away from me. Below are twelve historical novels appearing in the fall 2023 ...