Historical Fiction

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini stretches over decades and talks about the Afghan history in which the soviets invaded and the Taliban took over and time after that.

Based on the true but fictionalized story of Pino Lella, Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan is set in Milan, Italy, and its countryside during the final two years of the Second World War.

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys was an excellent book. It's fast-paced, thoroughly-researched, basically it encompasses all the best things about historical fiction.

The Final Puzzle, an offering from author Juhi Ray, whose writing is at its best when she is exploring this territory. While there's canon lore on Akbar and his one of the nine gems Birbal, and Author Juhi has clearly done her homework, there's a lot of wiggle room there, too, for imaginative storytelling. And that is precisely what we get here.

Despite boasts that Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is “the greatest romance of our time,” this approximately 1,000-page book is not just a romance.