These Historical Fiction Novels Will Sweep You Away

As it turns out, you don’t need a TARDIS to travel through time. All it takes — pardon our cheesiness — is a library card. But it’s true: More than any other medium, literature gives us the ability to experience eras and lives different far removed from our own. For a couple hundred pages, a light turns on in the darkness of history, illuminating the way things were. Here’s all the stuff you slept through in history class, made interesting and palatable by a novelist’s touch. Welcome to...