There’s a number of interesting historical fiction books on the docket for 2024, with a couple I’m looking forward to in particular.
I just finished The Women by Kristin Hannah, about female veterans of Vietnam, which I thought was really solid.
I also have my eye on titles like The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang, and potentially The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez.
This list is a roundup of the best New and Anticipated 2024 Historical Fiction New Release Books, based on early reviews and buzz and what I’ve read. I’ll be updating this list as new titles are released or announced, as I read more of these books, etc. — so check back later for more!
The Women
Kristin Hannah
What It's About: From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation...
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Publication Date: February 6, 2024
4.74 out of 5 on Goodreads
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The Briar Club
Kate Quinn
What It's About: A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences...
Publication Date: July 9, 2024
4.94 out of 5 on Goodreads
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The Phoenix Crown
Kate Quinn
What It's About: From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles.
San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage...
Publication Date: February 13, 2024
4.12 out of 5 on Goodreads
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The Great Divide
Cristina Henriquez
What It's About: An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there, by Cristina Henríquez, acclaimed author of The Book of Unknown Americans
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built...
Publication Date: March 5, 2024
4.09 out of 5 on Goodreads
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The Mayor of Maxwell Street
Avery Cunningham
What It's About: When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate, the two are thrust into the dangerous world of Prohibition-era Chicago.
The year is 1921, and America is burning. A fire of vice and virtue rages on every shore with Chicago at its beating heart...
Publication Date: January 30, 2024
3.65 out of 5 on Goodreads
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The Storm We Made
Vanessa Chan
What It's About: A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII—and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family.
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basem*nt to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations...
Publication Date: January 2, 2024
3.98 out of 5 on Goodreads
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Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange
What It's About: The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There There —winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, the American Book Award, and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2018— Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather’s shooting in There There...
Publication Date: February 27, 2024
4.10 out of 5 on Goodreads
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The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson
Ellen Baker
What It's About: Orphan Train meets Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in this compelling multigenerational novel of survival, love, and the families we make.
In 1924, four-year-old Cecily Larson’s mother reluctantly drops her off at an orphanage in Chicago, promising to be back once she’s made enough money to support both Cecily and herself...
Publication Date: February 20, 2024
4.17 out of 5 on Goodreads
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Husbands & Lovers
Beatriz Williams
What It's About: Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover second chances at love in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives.
A sprawling and exciting new novel from Beatriz Williams, the acclaimed author of A Hundred Summers and The Summer Wives.
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
4.43 out of 5 on Goodreads
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The Things We Didn't Know
Elba Iris Pérez
What It's About: The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores a young girl’s childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts factory town.
Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they’ve known...
Publication Date: February 6, 2024
4.03 out of 5 on Goodreads
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The Princess of Las Vegas
Chris Bohjalian
What It's About: THE PRINCESS IS FAKE. THE MURDERS ARE REAL • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and The Lioness, a Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of money and murder in this twisting tale of organized crime, cryptocurrency, and family secrets on the Las Vegas strip...
Publication Date: March 26, 2024
3.96 out of 5 on Goodreads
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When the Jessamine Grows
Donna Everhart
What It's About: From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel with an unforgettable heroine—the extraordinary Joetta McBride, who defiantly opens her North Carolina home and farm to soldiers from both sides during the Civil War.
Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed...
Publication Date: January 23, 2024
4.33 out of 5 on Goodreads
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Every Time We Say Goodbye
Natalie Jenner
What It's About: In this new book from the author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls, a group of British and American expatriates in 1950s Rome become embroiled in controversy while making a movie about a female Italian resistance fighter during the occupation codenamed La Scolaretta: the Schoolgirl assassin...
Publication Date: May 14, 2024
3.95 out of 5 on Goodreads
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