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The best historical fiction of 2024 so farTwelve excellent historical novels from the first half of 2024.
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FamiliarisDavid Wroblewski’s second novel, Familiaris , leaps back two generations from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle to follow John Sawtelle and his wife...
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MalasWith her debut novel, Malas , Marcela Fuentes puts her own electrifying spin on the legend of La Llorona (the Weeping Woman), turning it into a...
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Marcela Fuentes: Fates and furiesRebellious women face a family curse in Marcela Fuentes’ debut novel Malas , infused with folklore and Tejano culture.
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Your Pride reading list for 2024Call your queer bookclub—we've rounded up the 24 best LGBTQ+ books of 2024 so far!
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The SafekeepIn Yael van der Wouden’s mesmerizing debut, The Safekeep , Isabel lives a circumscribed life in her dead mother’s house until her brother’s...
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ClearCarys Davies sets Clear at the crux of two historic upheavals in 1800s Scotland but keeps her focus on her characters.
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For Claire Messud, all the world’s a stageClaire Messud’s latest family saga follows the French Algerian Cassars, who find themselves bit players in the global shifts following WWII.
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This Strange Eventful HistoryWith thrilling, adventurous sentences, Claire Messud leads readers along the elusive edges of life, where family and national histories entwine....
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The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying ClubThe Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club brings to life a historical moment, just after WWI, when both everything and nothing had...
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Whale FallWhale Fall is a rich and quietly compelling novel that vividly captures the transformation of an isolated community in the British Isles.
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Long IslandLong Island revisits Eilis Lacey more than 20 years after the events of Colm Toibin’s 2009 novel, Brooklyn, which introduced readers to this...
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Village WeaversVillage Weavers is full of vibrancy, wistfulness and even playfulness, capably portraying the enduring tenacity of women in uncertain times.
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Glorious ExploitsFerdia Lennon’s unique voice sparkles with a darkly comic undertone in his debut novel, Glorious Exploits , a quirkily uplifting commentary on...
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JamesIn an era of retellings, Percival Everett’s James stands out for staying true to Mark Twain’s voice, tale-spinning talent and humor, while also...
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Our top 10 books for March 2024The best new books of the month include highly anticipated follow-ups from Sloane Crosley, Sasha LaPointe and Juan Gómez-Jurado.
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3 Christian fiction picks for spring 2024Three Christian historical novels laud the power of faith, love and commitment in overcoming risk and tragedy.
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The Great DivideCristina Henríquez’s polyvocal novel is a moving and powerful epic about the human cost of building the Panama Canal. It’s easy to imagine, in...
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The Woman in the Sable CoatThe Woman in the Sable Coat isn’t a typical story of plucky, cheerful British heroines making a difference to the war effort: Although World War...
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Four sweeping family sagas to captivate your book clubJourney from India to Palestine, from Vietnam to midcentury America in these stellar reads.
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King NyxKirsten Bakis, author of Lives of the Monster Dogs, creates an atmosphere of gut-churning dread from the very first chapter of King Nyx . This is...
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Tommy Orange on the strange experience of writing a second novelThe author shares the surprising genesis of his second book, moments from his life that became part of the story of There There , and the song...
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Mrs. GulliverIn Mrs. Gulliver , Valerie Martin offers us an idyll, perhaps even a comedy. All’s well that ends well. We hope.
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Wandering StarsTommy Orange’s Wandering Stars sensitively depicts Orvil Red Feather’s path to recovery after the tragedy in There, There , as well as...
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The Fox WifeSet in Manchuria in 1908, The Fox Wife combines Chinese myths about fox gods who live among people and the story of a detective determined to...
