New Historical Books 2025. Throughout the year, we'll be adding best of 2024 lists not only in general nonfiction, but also in more specific genres (such as history). Posted by cybil on february 10, 2023.

Set partly in new york city and partly in french polynesia, this novel follows a family through the distress of 2020. Mario fortunato’s south (other press, 384 pp., paperback, $18.99) has been called a family saga.