Historical Fiction Archives

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary: A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in an elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across...

A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 27, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life....

A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mother, Isra, also had no choice when she left Palestine as a teenager to...

Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

by Bubbly Bibbly | Nov 18, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: The Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp have each come to Chicago in search of a new life. Born with magical hands, Madge has the power to discern others’ suffering, but she cannot heal her own damaged heart. To mend herself and help those in...

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 24, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from...

Doc by Mary Doria Russell

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, Western

Summary: The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named...