Book Bub: By Kristina Wright
January 29, 2018
It’s a new year, and that means it’s time to select new books for your book club to read! Are the members of your group historical fiction fans? If so, we have the perfect list for you to choose from. These are some of the best new historical fiction novels that make perfect choices for book groups because they feature complex plots, memorable characters, and settings that will sweep you away to a different era. Take a look at our historical fiction for book club recommendations below, complete with publishers’ descriptions.
A Tangled Mercy
By Joy Jordan-Lake
Told in alternating tales at once haunting and redemptive, A Tangled Mercy is a quintessentially American epic rooted in heartbreaking true events examining the harrowing depths of human brutality and betrayal, and our enduring hope for freedom and forgiveness.
After the sudden death of her troubled mother, struggling Harvard grad student Kate Drayton walks out on her lecture — and her entire New England life. Haunted by unanswered questions and her own uncertain future, she flees to Charleston, South Carolina, the place where her parents met, convinced it holds the key to understanding her fractured family and saving her career in academia. Kate is determined to unearth groundbreaking information on a failed 1822 slave revolt — the subject of her mother’s own research.
Nearly two centuries earlier, Tom Russell, a gifted blacksmith and slave, grappled with a terrible choice: arm the uprising spearheaded by members of the fiercely independent African Methodist Episcopal Church or keep his own neck out of the noose and protect the woman he loves.
Kate’s attempts to discover what drove her mother’s dangerous obsession with Charleston’s tumultuous history are derailed by a horrific massacre in the very same landmark church. In the unimaginable aftermath, Kate discovers a family she never knew existed as the city unites with a powerful message of hope and forgiveness for the world. Buy the Book
Other Books Include:
In the Midst of Winter
Isabel Allende
The Revolution of Marina M.
Janet Fitch
Little Reunions
Eileen Chang
Fools and Mortals
Bernard Cornwell
The Widows of Malabar Hill
Sujata Massey
Carnegie’s Maid
Marie Benedict
White Chrysanthemum
Mary Lynn Bracht
Winter Kept Us Warm: A Novel
Anne Raeff
The Atomic City Girls
Janet Beard
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
Only Killers and Thieves
Paul Howarth
White Houses
Amy Bloom
Tangerine
Christine Mangan
My Dear Hamilton
Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
Varina
Charles Frazier
Circe
Madeline Miller
The Home for Unwanted Girls
Joanna Goodman
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