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Historical Fiction May 2026 |
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The Calamity Club
by Kathryn Stockett
The multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help returns with a bold, big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what's rightfully theirs--and the power of friendship to change everything.
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The Forgotten Midwife
by Laura Anthony
Set in the dual timelines of present-day New Jersey and 1950s Ireland, and based on real historical events, comes a powerful, poignant novel of sisterhood, family secrets, and resilience.
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The Foursome
by Christina Baker Kline
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina -- Kline's own distant relatives -- who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.
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Ghost Town
by Tom Perrotta
A gripping and darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey, from the perspective of a middle-aged writer, looking back on a series of events that changed his life--and the story he finally has the courage to tell.
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Palaces of the Crow
by Ray Nayler
In Ray Nayler's speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect.
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A Perfect Hand
by Ayelet Waldman
A richly drawn, captivating, and endlessly amusing novel of love and subterfuge between a lady's maid and her clandestine lover, set in the country estates of nineteenth-century England.
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Treat Them as Buffalo
by Blair Palmer Yoxall
An electrifying anti-Western from an exciting new Indigenous writer. As teenage boys begin to disappear from a great plains Métis community, a young man attempts to uncover the evil force lurking out of sight.
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The Yankee Sphinx: An FDR Novel
by Mark Frost
An extraordinary work of historical fiction by the co-creator of Twin Peaks--a novel about one of FDR's closest wartime advisers and the president's final days, inspired by the author's own family.
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Port Jefferson Station, New York 11776
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