Historical Fiction set in the 1960’s
In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life — and heart — to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana,a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.
by Fiona Davis
The bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of the 1950s and 1960s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about a twenty-year friendship that will irrevocably change two women’s lives — from the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue.
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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
Meet Elizabeth Zott: “a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. This novel is “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel” (The New York Times Book Review).
by Rachel Heng
Set against a changing Singapore, this aching love story and powerful coming-of-age reckons with the legacy of British colonialism, the World War II Japanese occupation, and the pursuit of modernity. The Great Reclamation confronts the wounds of progress, the sacrifices of love, and the difficulty of defining home when nature and nation collide, literally shifting the land beneath people’s feet.
The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl’s journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings.
by Renée Rosen
It’s 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine’s brazen new editor-in-chief — Helen Gurley Brown — shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all things off-limits …
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