Top Ten Tuesday: Historical Fiction Read in 2025
I've recently started playing around with Storygraph. As I record a book the App assigns a genre or genres to it. All of the selections I am listing I've read in 2025, all are considered historical fiction by Storygraph, and I liked the titles I am sharing.
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| The Briar Club by Kate Quinn Set during the McCarthy Era, 1950s, in Washington, D.C. |
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| The God of the Woods by Liz Moore A murder mystery set in a summer camp in two time periods: 1964 and 1975. |
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| Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Set on a fictitious island off the coast of Italy during WWII. |
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| The Antidote by Karen Russell Set in Nebraska during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. |
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| The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon Set in Massachusetts (now Maine) in 1789, based on the diaries of Martha Ballard, a midwife who lived during that time. |
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| Let's Call Her Barbie by Renee Rosen Starting in 1956 this is the story about Ruth Handler and her most famous invention: the Barbie doll. |
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| The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden Set in The Netherlands in 1961 about the aftermath of WWII and the Holocaust. |
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| A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean Based on the author's childhood memories of fishing with his father and brother in the rivers of Montana in the 1930s. |
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| The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel Set in France during Nazi occupation during WWII. |
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| Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin Based on the the author's experiences growing up in a very conservative, religious family in Harlem in the 1930s. |