25 Best Historical Fiction Books to Take You Back in Time

by Good Housekeeping

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24 books

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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver, 2005

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead, 2018

The Book of Longings

Sue Monk Kidd, 2020

In the Shadow of the Banyan

Vaddey Ratner, 2012

Atonement

Ian McEwan, 2003

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier, 2001

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

C. Pam Zhang, 2021

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco, 2014

The Night Watchman

Louise Erdrich, 2020

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe, 2013

A Long Petal of the Sea

Isabel Allende, 2020

The Sympathizer

A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2015

The Rose Code

Kate Quinn, 2021

Vera

Carol Edgarian, 2021

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

Min Jin Lee, 2017

Half Life

Jillian Cantor, 2021

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 2003

The Four Winds

Kristin Hannah, 2021

Swimming Back to Trout River

Linda Rui Feng, 2021

Beloved

Toni Morrison, 2004

The Orphan Collector

A Heroic Novel of Survival During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Ellen Marie Wiseman, 2020

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi, 2016

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy, 2008

The Mountains Sing

Que Mai Phan Nguyen, 2021