TTT: Historical fiction

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. 

The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Set during the McCarthy Era, 1950s, in Washington, D.C.

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
A murder mystery set in a summer camp in two time periods: 1964 and 1975.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Set on a fictitious island off the coast of Italy during WWII.

The Antidote by Karen Russell
Set in Nebraska during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

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.

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.

The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden
Set in The Netherlands in 1961 about the aftermath of WWII and the Holocaust.

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.

The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Set in France during Nazi occupation during WWII.

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. 

-Anne