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The Four Winds by Kristin HannahShadow Of The Moor by Michael Nash-WhitmoreThe Rose Code by Kate QuinnThe Lost Apothecary by Sarah PennerThe Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray
Historical Fiction 2021
464 books — 908 voters
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila HarrisThe Kindest Lie by Nancy JohnsonThe Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne JeffersWild Women and the Blues by Denny S. BryceThis Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
Forthcoming Books for 2021 by African-Americans
95 books — 85 voters

Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#ReadPOC: List of Historical Fiction by Authors of Color
211 books — 35 voters
Broken by Jenny LawsonAmerican Sherlock by Kate Winkler DawsonThe Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea StewartCrossings by Alex LandraginCatherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Fantastic Strangelings Book Club (The Bloggess)
15 books — 6 voters

Nefertiti by Michelle MoranThe Heretic Queen by Michelle MoranCleopatra's Daughter by Michelle MoranThe Secret History by Stephanie Marie ThorntonRebel Queen by Michelle Moran
Queens Outside of England
66 books — 23 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Superbly Written Historical Fiction
513 books — 276 voters

Radetzkymars by Joseph RothThe Last Queen by C.W. GortnerThe Assassination of the Archduke by Greg KingThe Reluctant Empress by Brigitte HamannMayerling by Fritz Judtmann
The Hapsburgs
52 books — 21 voters
Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle MoranThe Last Queen by C.W. GortnerThe Heretic Queen by Michelle MoranRebel Queen by Michelle MoranThe Second Empress by Michelle Moran
Overlooked Royal Women
87 books — 24 voters

I Want My Hat Back by Jon KlassenCreepy Carrots! by Aaron ReynoldsAll My Friends Are Dead by Avery MonsenThis Is Not My Hat by Jon KlassenAll My Friends Are Still Dead by Avery Monsen
Dark Humor Picture Books for Children
27 books — 13 voters
The Duke of Windsor Conspiracy by David PhilipsThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrBeneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. SullivanThe Alice Network by Kate Quinn
WW2: The Resistance - Fiction & Non-Fiction
417 books — 262 voters

The Huntress by Kate QuinnThe Island of Sea Women by Lisa SeeThe Lost Girls of Paris by Pam JenoffLost Roses by Martha Hall KellyAmerican Princess by Stephanie Marie Thornton
Historical Fiction 2019
426 books — 667 voters
Impossible Saints by Clarissa HarwoodA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftA Time For Courage by Kathryn LaskyFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierThe Woman's Hour by Elaine F. Weiss
Women's Suffrage
431 books — 140 voters


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