Historical Fiction Online Book Group 2025 Book ListLike this list

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• Woman, Captain, Rebel

  the Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

  Willson, Margaret, 1953-

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  Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 2-3pm. "Cultural anthropologist Margaret Willson would like to introduce a fearless woman into our imagination of the sea: Thurídur Einarsdóttir. Iceland's most famous female sea captain, Captain Thurídur constantly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Killer Angels

  a Novel of the Civil War

  Shaara, Michael,

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  Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 2-3pm. "In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history, two armies fought for two conflicting dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Upper Country

  Thomas, Kai

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  Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 2-3pm. "Traveling along the path of the Underground Railroad from Virginia to Michigan, from the Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes, to the Black refugee communities of Canada, In the Upper Country weaves together…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homegoing

  Gyasi, Yaa,

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  Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 2-3pm. "Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial to live in comfort in the sprawling Cape…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anil's Ghost

  Ondaatje, Michael

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  Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 2-3pm. "In the mid-1980s a civil war is raging on the island nation of Sri Lanka. Each day, fresh corpses inundate medical clinics—many of them unidentifiable. Forensic anthropologist Anil Tissera returns to the island as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• West With Giraffes

  a Novel

  Rutledge, Lynda, 1950-

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  Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 2-3pm. "1938: The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rednecks

  Brown, Taylor, 1982-

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  Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 2-3pm. "A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Second Life of Mirielle West

  Skenandore, Amanda,

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  Wednesday, August 13, 2025, 2-3pm. "Based on the true story of America's only leper colony, the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Taste of Sugar

  a Novel

  Vera, Marisel,

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  Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 2-3pm. "It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Storm We Made

  a Novel

  Chan, Vanessa (Novelist),

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  Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 2-3pm. "Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her son Abel has disappeared and her daughter Jasmin is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hungry Ghosts

  a Novel

  Hosein, Kevin Jared,

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  Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 2-3pm. "Trinidad in the 1940s, nearing the end of American occupation and British colonialism. On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognizable to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wildes

  A Novel in Five Acts

  Bayard, Louis

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  Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 2-3pm. "Oscar Wilde, his wife, Constance, and their two sons deal with the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I."