Historic Fiction


The Book Thief
All the Light We Cannot See
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
The Nightingale
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
The Help
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Women
The Alice Network
The Song of Achilles
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
A Gentleman in Moscow
Gone With the Wind
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Only in New York by M.G. CrisciRules of Civility by Amor TowlesThe Second Mrs. Astor by Shana AbeTrust by Hernan DiazThe Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Historical Fiction - New York
179 books — 87 voters
The Great Alone by Kristin HannahMy Dear Hamilton by Stephanie DrayThe Romanov Empress by C.W. GortnerThe Blue by Nancy BilyeauCirce by Madeline Miller
Historical Fiction 2018
438 books — 997 voters

The Gown by Jennifer RobsonThe Queen's Secret by Karen HarperThe Royal Nanny by Karen HarperThe Other Windsor Girl by Georgie BlalockAnother Woman's Husband by Gill Paul
House of Windsor - Fiction
53 books — 28 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Help by Kathryn StockettCountry Ham by Steve CoomesThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Historical Fiction - The American South
376 books — 128 voters

Dreamland by Nancy BilyeauCode Name Hélène by Ariel LawhonThe Mirror & the Light by Hilary MantelCartier's Hope by M.J. RoseAnd They Called It Camelot by Stephanie Marie Thornton
Historical Fiction 2020
385 books — 541 voters
America's First Daughter by Stephanie DrayThe Secret Language of Stones by M.J. RoseThe Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie BenjaminThe Vatican Princess by C.W. GortnerLilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Historical Fiction 2016
358 books — 893 voters

Maddy Kobar
“ For the funeral, I had to show my proper mourning face. Truly, I longed to break down and have a full-on emotional attack; perhaps if I let myself go long enough, I might get all the pain out of my system. I had no hope of doing such a thing in front of everyone I knew. It simply wasn't proper. ...more ”
― Maddy Kobar, From Out of Feldspar

Sam  Foster
“ As a writer of historic fiction I feel little obligation to the precision of the facts, but I do feel a very strong obligation to the accuracy of the historic narrative. ”
― Sam Foster, A Panther Crosses Over

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