60 Best Historical Fiction Novels of All Time Is time travel impossible? For theoretical physicists, the jury’s still out, but book lovers can answer with a resounding “no”. Whether you’re keen to visit biblical Judaea or feel like living through the chaos of World War II, historical...
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead’s masterpiece The Underground Railroad won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. This is an amazing piece of American historical fiction that reimagines the titular Underground Railroad as an actual...
Also ranks #3 on The Best TV Shows About Ancestry Also ranks #4 on The 70+ Best Historical Fiction Shows 10 The White Queen Max Irons, James Frain, Rebecca Ferguson 2,243 votes Is The White Queen Watchworthy? Witness the strife and turmoil during the Wars of the Roses from the pe...
I think by infusing local history with historical fiction, my students will be able to think about how authors are using history, doing research, and understanding the lives of their characters. I also think they will have a greater appreciation for their town and the role the townspeople who ...
Cora is an enslaved black woman on a plantation in Georgia who decides to escape through the Underground Railroad. She’s forced to endure harrowing hardships on her search for freedom. This historical fiction book tells a gripping story about the horrors of slavery and the dark side of America...
This article analyzes Colum McCann's biofiction TransAtlantic (2013), which it reads alongside Colson Whitehead's speculative historical fiction The Underground Railroad (2016) in order to bring into sharp focus the kind of cultural, political, and intellectual service that biofi...
This chapter situates recently published historical fiction from the United States within its literary and scholarly context. Drawing on recent and established theoretical work in this area—for instance, terms such as “historiographic metafiction”...
Lily Fairchild follows the life of a pioneer woman on the Canadian frontier over 77 years of her long life. She is witness to and a pawn of the great historical events of that period: the Underground Railroad, the clearing of the forest, the coming of the railroads, the discovery of ...
After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a self-help system called Dianetics which was first expounded in book form in May 1950. He subsequently developed his ideas into a wide-ranging set of doctrines and rituals ...
This first book of The Bregdan Chronicles historical fiction series will pull you in and never let you go. You’ll experience the Civil War era (and all the years to come) through the eyes of both White and Black, Free & Slave, Southern & Northern – and you’ll fall in love with ...