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2011 Best of Fiction: Historical Fiction

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GALORE

by Michael Crummey

A lively, eccentric, mythmaking novel inspired by 200 years of Canadian history. Full review >

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THE PARIS WIFE

by Paula McLain

A pleasure to read—and a pleasure to see Hadley Richardson presented in a sympathetic light. Full review >

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THE SECRET HISTORY OF COSTAGUANA

by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

To read this novel is to enter a Borgesian rabbit hole—it’s a fiction that purports to tell the truth obscured by another... Full review >

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THE RICHEST HILL ON EARTH

by Richard S. Wheeler

Passionate, intelligently written, thoroughly entertaining historical fiction. Full review >

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