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Historical fiction books

The Director — Daniel Kehlmann
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 — Beth Brower
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) — Larry McMurtry
The Other Bennet Sister — Janice Hadlow
The Woman in White — Wilkie Collins
Absolution — Alice McDermott
The Bright Sword — Lev Grossman
The Safekeep — Yael van der Wouden
Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan
The Thorn Birds — Colleen McCullough
In Memoriam — Alice Winn
Pet: A Novel — Catherine Chidgey
Small Pleasures — Clare Chambers
Trespasses — Louise Kennedy
The Marriage Portrait — Maggie O'Farrell
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Matrix — Lauren Groff
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch — Rivka Galchen
Great Circle — Maggie Shipstead
The Song of Achilles — Madeline Miller
Deacon King Kong — James McBride
Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell
The Mercies — Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett
The Great Believers — Rebecca Makkai
Circe — Madeline Miller
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk — Kathleen Rooney
Fingersmith — Sarah Waters
Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah
Memoirs of a Geisha — Arthur Golden
Daughter of Fortune — Isabel Allende
All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet — David Mitchell
The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead
Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena — Anthony Marra
Half Broke Horses — Jeannette Walls
The Impressionist — Hari Kunzru
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English — Natasha Solomons
The Night Circus — Erin Morgenstern
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) — Hilary Mantel
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1) — Kate Atkinson
Monday, Monday — Elizabeth Crook
The Language of Threads (Women of the Silk #2) — Gail Tsukiyama
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael Chabon
Women of the Silk (Women of the Silk #1) — Gail Tsukiyama
People of the Book — Geraldine Brooks
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan — Lisa See
Water for Elephants — Sara Gruen
Longbourn — Jo Baker
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1) — Helene Wecker
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) — Hilary Mantel
Rules of Civility — Amor Towles
Caleb's Crossing — Geraldine Brooks
The Light Between Oceans — M.L. Stedman
A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1) — Richard Peck