The Hessian
by Howard Fast | 
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline | 
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon | 
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd | 
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks | 
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult | 
Viking Tales
by Jennie Hall | 
Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann | 
Sarum
by Edward Rutherfurd | 
The Autobiography of Henry VIII
by Margaret George | 
Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles | 
Of Love and Other Demons
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 
One Thousand White Women
by Jim Fergus | 
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
The Marriage of Opposites
by Alice Hoffman | 
London
by Edward Rutherfurd | 
The Son
by Philipp Meyer | 
Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier | 
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
by Margaret George | 
Tall Chimneys
by Allie Cresswell |
Among Howard Fast's historical fiction, Citizen Tom Paine-one of America's all-time best-sellers-occupies a special place, for it restored to a generation of readers the vision of Paine's revolutionary passion as the authentic roots of our national beginnings. Fast gives us "a vivid picture of Paine's mode of writing, idiosyncrasies, and character-generous, nobly unselfish, moody, often dirty, frequently drunken, a revolutionist by avocation"-Library Journal