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Most Anticipated Fall 2021 Historical Fiction Books

If your favorite way to learn about history is to immerse yourself in a novel inspired by actual events.

Fall 2021 Historical Fiction Books

If your favorite way to learn about history is to immerse yourself in a novel inspired by actual events, you’ll thoroughly enjoy some historical fiction novels hitting shelves in Fall 2021. From bestselling authors you’re already acquainted with to debut authors making their mark in the genre, we are sure you’ll find something to pique your interest. So make space on your bookshelves, stop by your favorite indie bookstore, and make those library requests after you’ve browsed our most anticipated Fall 2021 historical fiction book list!

The Royal Correspondent : A Novel Alexandra Joel

The Royal Correspondent by Alexandra Joel

The author of The Paris Model captures the glamour, style, excitement, and romance of a bygone era in this sumptuous novel—set in the Sydney and London of the 1960s—about an up-and-coming young Australian reporter with a deadly secret.

The Collector's Daughter : A Novel of the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb Gill Paul

The Collector’s Daughter by Gill Paul

Bestselling author Gill Paul returns with a brilliant novel about Lady Evelyn Herbert, the woman who took the very first step into the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and who lived in the real Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle, and the long after-effects of the Curse of Pharaohs.

The Magician : A Novel Colm Toibin

The Magician by Colm Toibin

From one of today’s most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War.

A Play for the End of the World : A novel Jai Chakrabarti

A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti

A dazzling debut novel–set in early 1970’s New York and rural India–the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of the Second World War, and a searing examination of one man’s search for forgiveness and acceptance.

Matrix : A Novel Lauren Groff

Matrix by Lauren Groff

Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.

Harlem Shuffle : A Novel Colson Whitehead

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

Harlem Shuffle’s ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It’s a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.

Olga : A Novel Bernhard Schlink, Charlotte Collins

Olga by Bernhard Schlink, Translated by Charlotte Collins

A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.

The Stolen Lady : A Novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa Laura Morelli

The Stolen Lady by Laura Morelli

From the acclaimed author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel about two women, separated by five hundred years, who each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa–with unintended consequences.

Cloud Cuckoo Land : A Novel Anthony Doerr

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope–and a book.

The Duchess  Wendy Holden

The Duchess by Wendy Holden

It was a love so strong, a king renounced his kingdom–all for that woman. Or was she just an escape route for a monarch who never wanted to rule? Bestselling author Wendy Holden takes an intimate look at one of the most notorious scandals of the 20th century.

Small Pleasures : A Novel Clare Chambers

Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers

In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett–an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion.

Beneath a Starless Sky  Tessa Harris

Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris

Lilli Sternberg’s quickening heart sounded an alarm as she rounded the street corner. Lifting her gaze to the rooftops, a roaring blaze of thick flames engulfed the side of the building and joined the stars to fill the black sky. Her father’s shop was no more.

Three Sisters : A Novel Heather Morris

Three Sisters by Heather Morris

From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka’s Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story.

The Book of Magic : A Novel Alice Hoffman

The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters.

Sistersong by Lucy Holland

My sister’s heart broke on the river – and the river took it and bore it away.

In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, there is old magic to be found in the whisper of the wind, the roots of the trees, the curl of the grass. King Cador knew this once, but now the land has turned from him, calling instead to his three children. Riva can cure others, but can’t seem to heal her own deep scars. Keyne battles to be accepted for who he truly is–the king’s son. And Sinne dreams of seeing the world, of finding adventure.

Sistersong  Lucy Holland

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America.

The Lincoln Highway : A Novel Amor Towles

The Hidden Child by Louise Fein

In this new historical novel by the author of Daughter of the Reich, Londoners Eleanor and Edward Hamilton have wealth, status, and a happy marriage—but the 1929 financial crash is looming, and they’re harboring a terrible, shameful secret. How far are they willing to go to protect their charmed life—even if it means abandoning their child to a horrific fate?

The Hidden Child : A Novel Louise Fein

The Last Checkmate by Gabriella Saab

A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange for her life, and in doing so fights to bring the man who destroyed her family to justice.

The Last Checkmate : A Novel Gabriella Saab

The Wicked Widow by Beatriz Williams

Gin Kelly, the wicked redhead, is back! Readers will delight in next installment of the Wicked City series by New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams.

The Wicked Widow : A Wicked City Novel Beatriz Williams

The French Gift by Kirsty Manning

From Kirsty Manning, author of The Song of the Jade Lily, comes a gripping World War II set historical novel about murder, secrets, and survival.

The French Gift : A Novel of World War II Paris Kirsty Manning

Still Life by Sarah Winman

From the acclaimed author of Tin Man comes a captivating, lively new novel of people brought together across four decades of love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster.

Still Life  Sarah Winman

The Pilot’s Daughter by Meredith Jaeger

The glitzy days of 1920s New York meet the devastation of those left behind in World War II in a new, delectable historical novel from USA Today bestselling author Meredith Jaeger.

The Pilot's Daughter : A Novel Meredith Jaeger

A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago’s A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court.

A Net for Small Fishes  Lucy Jago

Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa, Translated by Adrian Nathan West

The true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it.

Harsh Times : A Novel Mario Vargas Llosa, Adrian Nathan West

The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally

A vibrant and engaging novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens’s son in the Australian Outback during the 1860s.

The Dickens Boy : A Novel Thomas Keneally

The Postmistress of Paris by Meg Waite Clayton

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Train to London revisits the dark early days of the German occupation in France in this haunting novel—a love story and a tale of high-stakes danger and incomparable courage—about a young American heiress who helps artists hunted by the Nazis escape from war-torn Europe.

The Postmistress of Paris : A Novel Meg Waite Clayton

What do you think about the books on this list?

Are you looking forward to any of these books?  What historical fiction books are you looking forward to in 2021?  What books would you add to the list?

Fall 2021 Historical Fiction Books

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  1. Terrica Arden says:

    And just like that I’ve a dozen more additions to the list with every article I come across. I gotta go on a vacation to keep up the pace now haha. Although I’m amazed Joseph Woodward didn’t make the list, he’s an award winning author and rightly deserved I must say. You gotta check out his award winning author book.

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