Top new historical-fiction books out this week: 17 Mar - 23 Mar 2024
Last updated:
March 23, 2024
This week featuring new releases by Don Winslow, Lisa Ko, Brianna Labuskes, J.J. McAvoy, Elizabeth Everett, Maggie Thrash, Percival Everett, Lisa Tawn Bergren, Noah Medlock, Rowan Beaird and many more.
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City in Ruins by Don Winslow
Following City on Fire and City of Dreams , City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow’s epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career. Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich...fiction · crime · historical-fiction · mystery · family · organized-crime · suspense · thriller · audiobook · historical -
![Memory Piece by Lisa Ko]()
Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different...fiction · historical-fiction · sci-fi · contemporary · literary-fiction · poc-author · friendship · audiobook · lgbtq · female-mc -
![The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes]()
The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes
For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books. Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn’t stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis...historical-fiction · fiction · ww2 · historical · war · lgbtq · new-adult · 20th-century · female-mc · literary-fiction -
![Hathor and the Prince by J.J. McAvoy]()
Hathor and the Prince by J.J. McAvoy
Hathor Du Bell has always fought to break free from the shadow left by her revered older sister, Aphrodite. It has been two years since Hathor’s debut, and while Aphrodite has married a duke and become a duchess, Hathor has been left with the ton’s most mediocre suitors. With the London season coming to a close, Hathor’s anxieties reach a peak...romance · historical · historical-fiction · industrial-era · regency · fiction · royalty · poc-mc · enemies-to-lovers · audiobook -
![The Love Remedy by Elizabeth Everett]()
The Love Remedy by Elizabeth Everett
When a Victorian apothecary hires a stoic private investigator to protect her business, they learn there’s only one way to treat true love—with a happily ever after.When Lucinda Peterson’s recently perfected formula for a salve to treat croup goes missing, she’s certain it’s only the latest in a line of misfortunes at the hands of a rival apothecary... -
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![Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash]()
Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash
Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’90s Satanic Panic and spanning 20 years in the life of a young woman pulled into its undertow.Lacey Bond is a thirteen-year-old girl in New Hampshire growing up in the tranquility of her hippie parents’ rural daycare center. Then the Satanic Panic hits...mystery · lgbtq · fiction · historical-fiction · wlw · horror · literary-fiction · historical · spooky · killer -
![James by Percival Everett]()
James by Percival Everett
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of viewWhen the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan...north-america · usa · mississippi · historical-fiction · fiction · retellings · literary-fiction · historical · classics · slavery -
![Rip Tide by Lisa Tawn Bergren]()
Rip Tide by Lisa Tawn Bergren
The trap is set, and time is slipping away.After narrowly escaping arrest, Luciana Betarrini hurtles back to medieval Italy. Once there, she and her brother, Domenico, must decide how far they’ll go to be part of the family, and if they’re willing to risk their lives to hunt down an assassin. Meanwhile, Lady Tiliani Forelli’s family has disappeared in enemy territory...romance · time-travel · medieval · historical-fiction · christian · young-adult · historical · fantasy · action-adventure · fiction -
![A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock]()
A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty horror debut. A captivating tale of two Victorian gentlemen hiding their relationship away in a botanical garden who embark on a Frankenstein-style experiment with unexpected consequences. It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen...horror · fantasy · historical-fiction · lgbtq · gothic · historical · fiction · retellings · audiobook · sci-fi -
![The Divorcées: A Novel by Rowan Beaird]()
The Divorcées: A Novel by Rowan Beaird
Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce - except in Reno, Nevada...historical-fiction · historical · fiction · audiobook · womens-fiction · feminism · season-summer · friendship · family · book -
![Feral Alphas by Sierra Knoxly]()
Feral Alphas by Sierra Knoxly
I'm an omega used as scent bait for feral alphas fighting in underground deathmatches. I was told I’m an omega without a heat—a lie.The truth? My heats were medically suppressed, and now I’ve been sold as a secret weapon in a brutal underground where feral alphas are pitted against each other in fights to the death...romance · omegaverse · reverse-harem · dark · mlm · fantasy · age-gap · fated-mates · multi-pov · abuse -
![The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo]()
The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo
The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all set in 1920s AppalachiaLeslie Bruin is assigned to the backwoods township of Spar Creek by the Frontier Nursing Service, under its usual mandate: vaccinate the flock, birth babies, and weather the judgements of churchy locals who look at him and see a failed woman...horror · lgbtq · historical-fiction · historical · fantasy · fiction · trans-mc · gothic · rural · romance -
![Last Barrel by Stacy Lynn Miller]()
Last Barrel by Stacy Lynn Miller
Dax and Rose live the high life at the Foster House, running the poshest speakeasy on the West Coast. Half Moon Bay is about to claim its place as the top tourist destination in Northern California, and Dax and Rose see all their hopes and dreams ahead of them...romance · fiction · suspense · historical-fiction · historical · lgbtq · 20th-century · book · adult -
![The Myth of June by A.B. Daniels-Annachi]()
The Myth of June by A.B. Daniels-Annachi
When Juniper Georgian's father gazed into the face of divinity without flinching, the last Titan God, Typhon, took it upon himself to offer lifelong protection to the newborn girl.Years later, with Typhon away and June now a grown woman, she is viciously attacked by someone she thought she could trust - resulting in yet another God stepping in with a gift of their own...fantasy · myths · lgbtq · wlw · historical-fiction · fiction · retellings · romantic-love · enemies-to-lovers · lesbian-mc -
![Closer to Home by Jill Hannah Anderson]()
Closer to Home by Jill Hannah Anderson
Joleigh Moore lives an almost-reclusive life on her small farm in Missouri. But when she witnesses the murder of her boyfriend, Mack, she worries the assailants will come after her next.Planning to hide out until Mack’s killers are caught, Joleigh stows away in a neighbor’s station wagon and lands in a small Minnesota town...romance · fiction · womens-fiction · small-town · law-enforcement · police-procedural · mystery · humor · historical · feminism -
![Monday Rent Boy by Susan Doherty]()
Monday Rent Boy by Susan Doherty
By the author of the award-winning The Ghost Garden, a bravely imagined, deeply empathetic novel of two adolescent boys, bound by friendship and a terrible secret...
