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Montgomery Library's Guide to Genre Reading

Historical Fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre where the plot takes place in the past.

Selected Titles

Find these books on the New Books/Leisure Reading cart by the Library Help Desk or on the shelves in the Mainstacks area.

Additional Recommended Titles

These titles and others may be found in Mainstacks on Montgomery Library's main floor. 

PR 6065 .F36 H35 2021

Hamnet / Maggie O'Farrell

PR 6063 .A438 B75 2021

Bring up the Bodies / Hilary Mantel

PR 6063 .A438 M36 2021

The Mirror & the Light / Hilary Mantel

PR 6063 .A438 W65 2021

Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel

PS 3552 .U73248 C6 2005

Cold sassy tree / Olive Ann Burns.

PS 3553 .H473 S95 2022

Switchboard Soldiers: A Novel / Jennifer Chiaverini

PS 3563.O8749 B4 1988b

Beloved / by Toni Morrison

PS 3564 .A827 A76 1999

Ahab's wife, or, The star-gazer / by Sena Jeter Naslund 

PS 3566 .H479 N54 2023   Night Watch (Pulitzer Prize Winner - Fiction)
PS 3569.A7897 L56 2017

Lincoln in the bardo / George Saunders

PS 3608 .E578 O53 2021

Once upon a wardrobe / Patti Callahan

PS 3618 .I34474 B66 2019

The book woman of Troublesome Creek / Kim Michele Richardson.