Historical Novels

I was delighted to find  The Twelfth Enchantment , by one of my favorite historical fiction writers, David Liss - don't know how I misse...

Re-reading and taking a fresh look at  Los Alamos , by Joseph Kanon, was the second follow-up to a previous post about the film  Oppenheimer...

Following up on the previous post about the film Oppenheimer , it seemed like a good time to re-read and comment on Stallion Gate , a 1986 n...

  The Wikipedia article calls Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer  an "epic biographical thriller drama film". It also gets pretty...

Before beginning Booth , Karen Joy Fowler's masterful 2022 historical novel, a reader might fairly assume that the central character of ...

The Song of Achilles  (2011), the first novel by classics scholar Madeline Miller, retells Homer's ''The Iliad'' from bo...

Jane Smiley won a Pulitzer Prize for a different historical novel - A Thousand Acres  - but I was attracted to A Dangerous Business  because...

The Years of Rice and Salt  is a 2002 novel by Kim Stanley Robinson. Not exactly what is usually considered to be a historical novel, this w...

The Mirror and the Light (2020), by Hilary Mantel, concludes the trilogy of historical novels about Thomas Cromwell,  chief minister to Hen...

The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington  (2019) is a work of history by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. Far from the...