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Time travel is not the sole dominion of the fantasy genre. There's an alternative way to journey into the past: historical fiction. This season there are many highly anticipated titles to add to your Want to Read shelf, from Taylor Jenkins Reid's 1970s rock and roll romp Daisy Jones & the Six to Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert's 1940s love story City of Girls.
Be sure to tell us in the comments which books you're most excited to read!
While clearing out an estate, a woman finds the mementos of a lost relationship...and the beginning of an emotional World War II journey.
Release date: January 8
Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own dark secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII.
Release date: January 22
At a time when women were supposed to keep the home fires burning, photographer Dorothea Lange dared to be different. In this new novel by the author of The Other Alcott, we see the world through her eyes.
Release date: January 22
Born with the soul of a hunter and the language of the gods, a young Inuit shaman fights for survival in the frozen lands of North America in 1000 AD. To protect her people, she invokes the spirits of the sky, the sea, and the air.
Release date: January 31
An abandoned suitcase at Grand Central Terminal leads recently widowed Grace Healey to a ring of female secret agents in this tale of friendship and courage during World War II from the author of The Orphan's Tale.
Release date: February 5
From the author of The Ghost Bride comes a sweeping novel about a dance-hall girl and an orphan boy whose fates become entangled in 1930s Malaysia over an old Chinese superstition about men who can turn into tigers.
Release date: February 12
From the author of The Tuscan Child comes a heartrending novel of a woman’s love and sacrifice during the First World War.
Release date: February 12
A battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot join forces to track down the Huntress, a deadly Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America in this thrilling tale from the author of The Alice Network.
Release date: February 26
Coming of age in Los Angeles in the late '60s, Daisy embraces the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the era, leading her to a date with her musical destiny in this rollicking oral history from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
Release date: March 5
On the Korean island of Jeju, two best friends begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective. As the girls take up their work, they know they are beginning a life of danger. From the author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
Release date: March 5
Along the banks of the Zambezi River, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the story of a small African nation, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis.
Release date: March 5
Set a generation before her bestselling novel, The Lilac Girls, this story focuses on Eliza Ferriday as she embarks on a trip of a lifetime to the turbulent streets of St. Petersburg and the avenues of Paris under the shadow of World War I.
Release date: April 9
A postmortem photographer in Victorian England unearths dark secrets of the past that may hold the key to his future in this gothic debut novel.
Release date: April 9
Readers will travel to the glamour of 1965 New York City and Cosmopolitan magazine, where a brazen new editor-in-chief—Helen Gurley Brown—shocks America by daring to talk to women about all things off-limits.
Release date: April 30
The author of Eat, Pray, Love returns to fiction with a bold tale of glamour and adventure set in New York during the 1940s. It follows Vivian Morris as she rubs elbows with showgirls—and makes a mistake that will alter the course of her life.
Release date: June 4
In this powerful follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller The Underground Railroad, two young boys endure a hellish reform school intent on turning delinquent boys into honorable men in Jim Crow-era Florida.
Release date: July 16
Which of these books are you adding to your Want to Read shelf? Let's talk books in the comments!
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