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Next up on our Queer Historical Fiction recs are the 1940s-1950s! Those marked with ✧ have magical realism or minor fantasy elements. Those with a ✦ are historical fantasy.

• Passing Strange by Ellen Klages ✦
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• The Charioteer by Mary Renault
• Train by Danny Cohen
• The Spy with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke ✧
• The War Outside by Monica Hesse
• Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy
• The Falls of the Wyona by David Brendan Hopes
  
• Carol by Patricia Highsmith
• Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
  
• Tell it to the Bees by Fiona Shaw
• Pulp by Robin Talley