I was hooked on the behind-the-scenes feeling of Moran's historical-fiction conversations between Maria von Trapp and an assistant to...

Lisa Barr's World War II-set historical fiction follows a Jewish resistance fighter and spy through the Warsaw Ghetto to her second act...

Tales of Brave World War II Women Other titles I considered listing here were the Bossy five-star read All the Light We Cannot See; The...

C. J. Wray's story of elderly British sisters who played key roles in fighting the enemy in World War II offers lots of heart, sassy...

The Whalebone Theatre begins with offbeat children's performances on a lazy, decadent English estate in the 1920s and builds to the...

I loved each of the story's two timelines--following a stewardess on board The Titanic as well as a British spy working with the WWII...

Beyond That, the Sea is a lovely character-driven historical fiction story about complicated relationships, found family, growing up, and...

The premise and setting of The Secret Book of Flora Lea are captivating. I was distracted by what felt like overly dramatic dialogue and...

I was interested in both of Martin's World War II storylines. The author's historical fiction romance-writing is evident here, in...

This World War II-set novel is a love letter to books, to looking out for others, to forming friends-like-family connections, and to...

In Kate Quinn's newest historical fiction, she shares the story of a real World War II figure, a Russian bookworm-turned-sniper who...

Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young women and their interconnected...

Mark Sullivan explores a gripping, detailed, life-and-death period in the life of an ethnically German family at the end of World War II...

Harris's action-packed World War II story moves between the terrors of 1930s Germany and the glamour of Hollywood, and it details the...

ICYMI: Shattuck offers faulted protagonists and a fascinating, complicated set of factors in her World War II historical fiction. Jessica...

Ursula unknowingly lives her life over and over again as Atkinson explores how choices large and small cause enormous repercussions for a...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rule of Wolves, Leigh Bardugo's second and final book in the young adult King of Scars duology; I'm...

My very favorite books from May! In no particular order, here's the gist of each of the books I most loved reading during the past month:...

There's enough strength, redemption, and beauty amid the World War II suffering to give you warm fuzzies. After recently pulling together...

Shipstead has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time. I was hooked on both story lines and just...