Tag: historical fiction
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Top Historical Fiction Picks April 2026
April is a busy month for my family. We have Easter and three birthdays to celebrate (and two more at the beginning of May). Easter means chocolate bunnies for the grandkids, a long-standing tradition that my grandmother did for me and I did for my sons. April’s birthdays are all adults, one on Easter Sunday.…
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Women’s History Novels
This is my category, so this is my month! I am not, however, the only person to write exceptional historical novels about women. In fact, there are so many great possibilities I can only list a few. The Ladies Alpine Society, by Edie Cay, is a four-book series about female mountain climbers. The series, starting…
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Top Historical Fiction Picks March 2026
Welcome, Spring! I know many of you live where there is still a lot of winter rain and snow, but at my home in California trees are blossoming and leafing out. The weather was almost 80 degrees on the last day of February. Of course, as the saying goes, “If March comes in like a…
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Top Historical Fiction Picks February 2026
February, for some, is the month of love. For the purposes of this blog, it’s love of books! Even though it’s a short month, February will bring us lots of amazing new historical fiction. I’ve picked what I believe to be the best ones to share with you here. BEST COVER Bianca’s Cure by Gigi…
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Top Historical Fiction Picks January 2026
Happy New Year! 2026 will bring new novels from a number of our Paper Lantern Writers. Watch for Ana Brazil’s The Magnolia Voodoo Brawler sometime this year, and Jonathan Posner’s The Assassin’s Revenge toward the end of the year. Edie Cay plans The Feast for the Senses for August, and Vanitha Sankaran will release The…