2026 Historical Fiction Books To Request At Your Local Library

release date: January 27, 2026

burn down the master’s house This is a powerful story of resistance inspired by brave people who risked everything to fight back against their own enslavement. The story is told through the eyes of characters, freed, enslaved, and enslaved, who face a reckoning as one of the darkest eras in American history comes to an end.

release date: February 3, 2026

A father, trying to lead his sons to musical stardom in a boy band, encounters the ghost of a lonely orphan who was performing in a minstrel show in search of a family. Christmas, a young boy, is haunted by a horrifying past, but finds peace with the Johnson family. It doesn’t take long for the brothers’ talents to be noticed. But just as their star begins to rise, Christmas commits an act of violence that tears the family apart.

release date: February 10, 2026

A Vampire Slayer con artist and a teenage girl team up to create a monster that terrorizes a town and helps orphan Anka escape her fate at the hands of the village chief. It’s no more complicated than any of the “curses” and “miracles” that Yana has created all over Bulgaria. However, this plan quickly takes on a life of its own, promising far more devastating consequences than Anka and Jana intended.

release date: May 5, 2026

Described as “anti-Western” treat them like buffalo It follows Nico as he comes of age in the 1880s, playing a buffalo hunter long after the last buffalo has been found for his tribe. But when teenage boys, including a beloved cousin, start going missing and mounted police refuse to investigate, Nico and his friends turn to a coalition of shotgun-throwing ranchers and female freedom fighters.

release date: August 4, 2026

In this novel, inspired by LaCour’s Creole family history, cousins ​​Odette and Delphine become closer than ever as they come of age in 1940s New Orleans. Delphine is the only person Odette can trust who knows that she loves women, and Delphine knows that she will not criticize Odette for taking a white man as her lover. But just five years later, their lives changed in ways they never expected. Odette is a widowed mother and Delphine dies as a white woman. It may be up to Odette to unite her fractured family, but doing so may be her worst decision.