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The best historical fiction books of 2023

The finest new novels chosen by The Sunday Times’s Nick Rennison

The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times’s Nick Rennison has been picking the best new historical fiction books for readers of the newspaper for over a decade now. In the course of 2023, we will be bringing together all his monthly choices of the most engrossing new reads here in one place.

Every four weeks, Nick will add to this with his new book of the month and other selections.

And if you want to look beyond his 2023 choices, you can also find his and Antonia Senior’s top 14 picks of 2022’s historical fiction.

All in all, we hope this will build into a comprehensive collection of recommendations, that should help you find the perfect historical read, whatever your tastes.

And check back every month for Nick’s