The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff It is 1946, and Grace Healey is passing through Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on her way to work when she sees an abandoned suitcase sitting under a bench. In a moment of unrestrained curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase and finds the individual photographs of twelve young…
Category: Historical Fiction
City of Thieves
City of Thieves by David Benioff During the Nazi siege of Leningrad, Jewish Lev Beniov is arrested for looting a dead German’s body and thrown into prison, where he meets Kolya, a deserter with perfect Aryan looks. Expecting to be executed, they are surprised to be met instead with a peculiar command from a powerful…
The Winter Sea
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley In the spring of 1708, a Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers anchored off the coast of Scotland and nearly succeeded in reclaiming the throne of England for exiled James Stewart. Bestselling author Carrie McClelland intends to use this historical event as the backdrop for her next novel. …
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There he is made the Tätowierer, tattooing numbers on his fellow prisoners’ arms day after day. For almost three years, he witnesses the barbaric acts of the Nazis, uses his privileged position…
I Am David
I Am David by Anne Holm For as long as he can remember, the concentration camp in Eastern Europe has been twelve-year-old David’s only life. He knows nothing about the outside world, but when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it and runs. With the enemy around every corner, he struggles to…
The Great Alone
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah When Ernt Allbright, Leni’s father, comes home from the Vietnam War as a former POW, he is barely recognizable as the man he once was. In 1974, he makes an impulsive decision to move his family to Alaska, where they will harvest their own crops and hunt their own…
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Marie-Laure LeBlanc lives in Paris with her father, who works for the Museum of Natural History as the lock master. At age six, she becomes completely blind, and her father trains her to navigate her own way through the city. When the Nazis occupy Paris, twelve-year-old…
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini It is the second half of the twentieth century and Afghanistan is on the brink of a turning point in its history. The Kite Runner follows the friendship between Amir, the son of a wealthy man, and Hassan, the son of Amir’s father’s servant. Their friendship is doomed from…
We Were the Lucky Ones
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter We Were the Lucky Ones is the story of a Jewish family during World War II, based on the author’s own family history. When the war begins, they are separated from each other one by one, and are unable to receive news from the others. One family…
Red Sky at Noon
Red Sky at Noon by Simon Sebag Montefiore When Benya Golden is sent to the Gulags for a crime he never committed, he joins a penal battalion composed of Cossacks and convicts. In July 1942, after enrolling in the Russian cavalry, he and his fellow convicts are sent on a mission behind enemy lines and…
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