Listed below are several works of historical fiction (my favorite genre) I read in 2015 and liked.

An empathetic novel involving the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg espionage case.

An evocative imagining of the life of Victorine Meurent, one of Manet’s models.

An intriguing story of post-World War II race relations.

A haunting tale of Cuba.

A young woman named Ash disguises herself as a man to fight in the Union Army so her husband doesn’t have to.

A shell-shocked World War I veteran returns to his home in Cornwall but cannot shake what happened to him.