Adult Historical Fiction I've Read

Unfortunately, I think I may have missed some recent titles...

Allegri, Adriana -  The Sunflower House - (1938-1941 Germany) 2024

Armstrong, Kelley - A Stitch in Time (TT 18th Cent. England - American protagonist) 4

Barnes, Kim - In the Kingdom of Men (1967 Saudi Arabia) 3.5

Bartels, Erin - We Hope for Better Things (1861/1963/contemporary Detroit) 5

Benedict, Marie - Agent 355 (based on true story of female spy during American Revolution) 3.5

Benjamin, Melanie -  The Children's Blizzard - 1888 Dakota territories
Blackwell, Elizabeth - In the Shadow of Lakecrest (1928 Lake Michigan) 1
Brooks, Geraldine - Caleb's Crossing (1660s New England) 3
Brown, Amy Belding - Flight of the Sparrow (1676 Mass. Bay Colony) 4

Bryce, Megan - To Catch a Spinster (Regency Romance, England) 2.5

Bybee, Catherine - Highland Shifter (TT America to medieval Scotland)  3.5

.............................- Redeeming Vows (  "  )  4

.............................- Silent Vows (  "  )  3,5

.............................- Binding Vows (  "  )  4
Chamberlain, Diane - Big Lies in a Small Town (contemp & 1940 NC)

Clever, Jessie - The Duke and the Wallflower (Regency-type romance)
Cornick, Nicola - The Phantom Tree (1557 England/ Time Travel) 4

Courtenay, Christina - Runes of Destiny (Contemp. & 9th century Sweden) 4
Dallas, Sandra - Prayers for Sale (1930s/Depression, Colorado)  4.5

Davis, Fiona -The Stolen Queen (1930s & 1978 Egypt;  1978 NYC)
Fortier, Anne - The Lost Sisterhood (ancient Odyssey times)  5
Gerritsen, Tess - The Bone Garden (1830 Boston) 2.5
Goolrick, Robert - A Reliable Wife, (1907 rural Wisconsin) 4

Hannah, Kristin - The Women - Vietnam
Harkness, Deborah - Shadow of Night (1591 England, France, Prague) 2.5

............................... - Time's Convert  (American & French Revolution embedded in fantasy) 4.5 

Harmel, Kristin - The Forest of Vanishing Stars (WWII Poland)
Harmon, Amy - Where the Lost Wander (1853 Overland Trail) 5

Hart, Amelia - Weyward  (1619, 1942, & contemporary England)
Hashimi, Nadia - The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (Early 20th Century Kabul, Afghanistan)  4.5

Hawker Olivia - One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow (1876 Wyoming) 3.5

.........................-The Fire and the Ore (1856 Mormon Trail/Utah)

Healey, Jane - The Women of Arlington Hall - Jane Healey (1948-1950 Washington DC. Female codebreakers)

Henry, Patti Callahan - The Secret Book of Flora Lea - 1939 & 1960 England, WWII
Hoffman, Alice - Everything My Mother Taught Me (1908 coastal Mass.) 4.5

..........................- The Museum of Extraordinary Things (1911 NYC)  5

Holmberg, Charlie N. - Keeper of Enchanated Rooms (1846 secluded island off RI & Boston) 3.5
Howe, Katherine - Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Salem Witch Trials) 4

Jenner, Natalie - The Jane Austen Society (post WWII Hampshire, England) 4.5

Johnson, Sadequa - The Keeper of Lost Children (1950 - 1968 Philadelphia)

Jones, Luisa A. - The Gilded Cage - (1897 England)

Kline, Christina Baker - The Exiles (1840s Britain & Australia, plus ship voyage) 4.5
.................................... - Orphan Train (1929 Minnesota) 4.5
Krueger, William Kent - Ordinary Grace (1961 Minnesota) 4.5

Loigman, Lynda Cohen - The Matchmaker's Gift (Contemp. & early 20th century NYC)
Lovett, Charlie - The Bookman's Tale (back & forth Cothswolds & NC) 5

Lusbuskes, Brianna - The Boxcar Librarian (Early 29th century Montana)

Mann, Catherine - Lightning in a Mason Jar (1970s & contemporary SC) 4

Meissner, Susan - A Fall of Marigolds (1911 Shirtwaist Factory Fire and 9/11) 2.5

............................The Nature of Fragile Things (1906 SF & Tucson) 4

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Mexican Gothic - 1950 Mexico
Morton, Kate - The Forgotten Garden (multiple/early 20th century: Australia & England)  5

Mosse, Kate - Sepulchre (1891 & Present) 1 DNF

Moyes, Jojo - The Giver of Stars (1937 eastern KY)

Nesbit, TaraShea - Beheld (1630 Plymouth colony) 3
Otsuka, Julia - Buddha in the Attic (1920-1940 California) 2

Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing (1952 - 70 NC coast) 5
Pulley, D. M. - The Buried Book (1952 rural farmland Michigan) 4.5

Quinn, Kate - Signal Moon (SS/1943 & 2023 England)
Raybourn, Deanna - A Curious Beginning, (1897 England) Mystery 5

Rendon, Marcie R. -  Murder on the Red River (#1 Cash Blackbear) (1970 ND/MN state line)

.............................. -Girl Gone Missing (#2 Cash Blackbear) (1970 ND/MN state line)

............................. - Sinister Graves (#3 Cash Blackbear) (1970 ND/MN state line)

Richardson, Michele - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (1936 eastern KY/Appalachia) 5
Romer, Anna - Lyrebird Hill (1898 and 2013 in alternating chapters, New South Wales, Australia)

St. James, Simone - The Broken Girls - 1950 & 2014 Vermont
Shaffer, Mary Ann & Annie Barrows - Guernsy Literary and Potato Peel Society (WWII German Occupation, England)  5
Spera, Deb - Call Your Daughter Home (1924 SC/ 3 female POV) 4.5

Stewart, Mary - Thornyhold (southern England - in the past) 5

Sullivan, J. Courtney, The Cliffs (2000 Maine and previous) 4.25

Swyler, Erica - The Book of Speculation (contemp & 200 yrs. before, northeast coast) 3.5
Taylor, Janet B. - Into the Dim Time Travel that takes us to 1200 Eleanor of Aquitaine & Becket's London

Timberlake, Amy - One Came Home (1871 Wisconsin)  2
Wallace, Michael - Crow Hollow (1676 Puritan Boston) 4
Wingate, Lisa - The Book of Lost Friends (1875 & 1987 Louisiana) 4.5

Zugg, Victor - A Ripple in Time (TT to early 1700s Charleston)

......................-The Planters (1720 SC coastline) 3.5