Happy Tuesday, y’all! This week, Jana, over at That Artsy Reader Girl, is asking us to share books set in another time. I think this is a great time to share my favorite historical fiction reads from 2024, don’t you? I mean, if they’re historical fiction, then they’re set in a different time.
While some of these books were released in 2024, not all are. I will also share the period in which the books are set. All titles are linked to Goodreads.
Here are twelve of my favorite historical fiction reads from 2024 without further ado!
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Release Date: June 2017
- Setting: 1910s & 1940s
The Heroines by Eileen Favorite
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Magical Realism
- Release Date: December 2007
- Setting: 1970s
The Woman with No Name by Audrey Blake
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Release Date: March 2024
- Setting: 1940s
A Murder Most French by Colleen Cambridge
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery
- Release Date: April 2024
- Setting: 1950s
Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Release Date: March 2021
- Setting: 1910s
Rednecks by Taylor Brown
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Release Date: May 2024
- Setting: 1920s
To Slip the Bonds of Earth by Amanda Flower
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Christmas
- Release Date: March 2024
- Setting: 1903
Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Release Date: December 2020
- Setting: 1950s
- Note: This is the first book in a trilogy; all three books are set in the 1950s.
Death at the Sanatorium by Ragnar Jonasson
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery
- Release Date: January 2019 (in Icelandic); September 2024 (in English)
- Setting: 1950s, 1980s, 2012
The War Outside by Monica Hesse
- Genre: Historical Fiction, YA
- Release Date: September 2018
- Setting: 1940s
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance, Magical Realism
- Release Date: October 2024
- Setting: 1920s, 1980s
The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Release Date: July 2023
- Setting: 1930s-1940s
And that’s my twelve favorite historical fiction reads from 2024. Have you read any of these? What were some of your favorite historical fiction reads from 2024?
Are you looking for some more books to read? Check out my other bookish lists, book reviews, and monthly reading wrap-ups.
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One of my favs last year was By Her Own Design.
The Alice Network is still on my TBR and I don’t know why I haven’t picked it up yet because I’ve heard so many amazing things about it and I enjoyed the novella that I tried by Kate Quinn. Need to bump it up the TBR!
I’ve heard good things about To Slip the Bonds of Earth.
I really enjoyed The Heroines!! And I need to add the Murder Most French to my list!
I still need to read The Alice Network, but it’s narrated by Saskia Maarleveld and that’s not my favourite narrator.
The Alice Network and The Air Raid Book Club were both really good. It’s so interesting to see the variety on everyone’s lists.