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 Song of Achilles
The Alice Network
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Gone With the Wind
A Gentleman in Moscow
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Treaty or Treason by Phillip  KerriganBurial Rites by Hannah KentBecoming Leidah by Michelle GriersonThe Half-Drowned King by Linnea HartsuykerZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
Historical Fiction - Scandinavia
121 books — 109 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksThe Regeneration Trilogy by Pat BarkerMaisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
WWI: The Great War (Historical Fiction)
595 books — 411 voters

A Murderous Relation by Deanna RaybournRevenge at Ravenswick by Kelly  OliverA Stroke of Malice by Anna Lee HuberThe Black Widow's Prey by N.S. WikarskiMurder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas
Historical Mystery 2020
149 books — 161 voters
The Alice Network by Kate QuinnThe Orphan's Tale by Pam JenoffBefore We Were Yours by Lisa WingateThe Women in the Castle by Jessica ShattuckWe Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Historical Fiction 2017
357 books — 873 voters

Lágrimas saladas by Luis Caparrós MirónThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónReign of Madness by Lynn CullenThe Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
Historical Fiction - Spain / Portugal
137 books — 36 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
439 books — 1,000 voters

Maddy Kobar
Tonight we are going to dazzle His Lordship's wealthy friends and leave them with empty purses, minds spinning that they allowed a couple of boys who once lived in the gutter to rob them so delightfully blind. ...more
Maddy Kobar, From Out of Feldspar

Maddy Kobar
If Grandmother were still here, this trip wouldn't have been the disappointment I felt it was. She would have known what I needed. She had raised six children, with the help of the servants, mind you, but still, six children. I had two girls now; I couldn't imagine any more. Grandmother's strength and wisdom were undefeatable in an age that had taxed women in so many ways; I couldn't even begin to imagine how many. ...more
Maddy Kobar, From Out of Feldspar

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