Five historical fiction titles about resistance

Rachel Brittain is a writer, Day Dreamer, and Amateur Aerialist. Her short fiction has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Andromeda Spaceways, and others. She is a contributing editor for Book Riot, where she screams into the void about her love of books. Brittain lives in Northwest Arkansas with a rambunctious rescue pup, a snake, and a houseful of plants (most of which aren’t carnivorous).

At Book Riot she tagged "five historical fiction books [which] depict resistance against violence and authoritarianism in many forms." One entry on the list:

The Lilac People by Milo Todd

The persecution of LGBTQ people throughout the Nazi regime in Germany is often overlooked when discussing WWII. Given the ongoing (and worsening) persecution of trans people in the United States and elsewhere, this book feels especially important to highlight right now. In it, a trans man and his girlfriend living in Berlin manage to escape capture by assuming fake identities and living in isolation for years. But when a young man stumbles onto their farm on the brink of death, wearing prison garb, Bertie and Sofie know that they have no choice but to help him, even if it means risking the very fate he’s likely just escaped.

Read about another entry on the list.

The Lilac People is among Susie Dumond's ten must-read LGBTQ+ historical fiction books.

Q&A with Milo Todd.

--Marshal Zeringue