From stories set in Ancient Greece to colonial America, these are the biggest historical fiction books hitting shelves this ...

Business Insider's guide to the most famous books set in every state will take you on a literary trip around America.

In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige.

Check out new books by Sally Rooney ... In classic Bayardian fashion, this historical fiction novel takes a cast of real people — in this case, Oscar Wilde and his family — and weaves them ...

Health resorts are not always good for your health. In September 1913, this is the grim discovery made by Mieczysław Wojnicz, ...

But instead of living a life as a slave, he escaped bondage and became an influential anti-slavery lecturer and writer. He ...

The 2024 Booker Prize shortlist has been announced, with the largest number of women represented in its 55-year history. Five ...

The book explores the “slaveroad” that runs through American history, reckoning with the Atlantic slave trade ... on the label of fiction or nonfiction and think the way they have described ...

As civil rights activists fought to end segregation in 1960s America, one football coach had his own mission: training black ...

The in-between season offers ample chance to dive into a new book ... historical fiction, The Fraud is based on true events and juxtaposes a portrait of Victorian life and slavery in the Caribbean.

Two half-sisters and their descendants' lives are examined in this book as they traverse the 300-year legacy of slavery. With its compelling storytelling and psychological analysis, this book vividly ...