While I love all of her books (she is a must-read author for me), The Chelsea Girls is a standout.ĭaisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reidĭaisy Jones & the Six is a fictional band that made it big in the 1970s who dealt with everything fame brings – drugs, worshipping fans, no privacy and competing egos. The book tells the tale of two fictional female characters, a playwright and an actress, navigating the Broadway scene of the ’50s, during the height of McCarthyism and the Red Scare. The Chelsea Girls is Davis’s latest novel and is set at the Chelsea Hotel, an institution for artists, writers, actors and more. The story is also a beautiful tribute to literature and the power of reading.įiona Davis chooses one iconic New York City building for each of her books and constructs a tale around that building. Richardson features numerous issues from 1930s Kentucky – horrific coal mining conditions, the true blue-skinned people that lived in Appalachia and the Pack Horse library service. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a tale of family, prejudice and perseverance, and one woman’s determination to find her own way despite her hardscrabble existence. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creekby Kim Michele Richardson Readers will revel in the beautiful and lyrical prose as well as the details of Miller’s storied career including her documentation of the concentration camps following World War II. In The Age of Light, Scharer tackles Lee Miller’s relationship with and the impact she had on Surrealist May Ray’s photography and legacy as well as Miller’s own career as a photographer. These are the must-read historical fiction books of 2019. Here are seven standout books of 2019 that I have enjoyed and six more that are generating a ton of buzz… and they all sound fabulous.

The genre has flourished in recent years providing a plethora of choices. The appeal of historical fiction is its ability to transport the reader to another time and place while highlighting a little-known or underreported event in history. See the books that won our annual She Reads Awards for the Best Historical Fiction Books.

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