20th-Century Historical Fiction

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Unknown author

Dog Fighter, the

Marc Bojanowski

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

The Return

Victoria Hislop

Polostan

Neal Stephenson

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

The Night Watchman

Louise Erdrich

Swimming in the Dark

Tomasz Jedrowski

On the Rooftop

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott

Growth of the Soil

Knut Hamsun

Panther in the Basement

Amos Oz

The Group

Mary McCarthy

The Peasants

Wladyslaw Reymont

April 1917

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Clare Kitson

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

A Painted House

John Grisham

Kate & Frida

Kelsey Jaffer, Ines del Castillo

Acts of Love and War

Maggie Brookes

1933 Was a Bad Year

John Fante

I Was Anastasia

Ariel Lawhon

The Four Winds

Kristin Hannah

The Great Alone

Kristin Hannah

Birds Without Wings

Louis de Bernieres

The Filling Station

Vanessa Miller

The Seamstress of New Orleans

Diane C. McPhail

A Daughter of the Land

Gene Stratton Porter

The Home and the World

Rabindranath Tagore

The Beautiful and the Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather, Marcelle Clements

This Is Happiness

Niall Williams

The Big Man's Daughter

Owen Fitzstephen

Stella Dallas

Olive Higgins Prouty

Bread Givers

Anzia Yezierska

The Friend of the Family

Dean Koontz

The Lord

Soraya Antonius, Selma Dabbagh

A Home for Unloved Orphans

Rachel Wesson

So Big

Edna Ferber

Pit: a Story of Chicago

Frank Norris