Historical

Historical fiction presents a story set in the past, often during a significant time period. In historical fiction, the time period is an important part of the setting and often of the story itself.

Historical fiction may include fictional characters, well-known historical figures or a mixture of the two. Authors of historical fiction usually pay close attention to the details of their stories (settings, clothing, dialogue, etc.) to ensure that they fit the time periods in which the narratives take place.

In some historical fiction, famous events appear from points of view not recorded in histor
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The Seven Daughters of Dupree
The Poet Empress
Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)
Women of a Promiscuous Nature
Fruit of the Flesh
Burn Down Master's House
This House Will Feed
The Infamous Gilberts
To Ride a Rising Storm (Nampeshiweisit, #2)
Butterfly Games
The Last of Earth
The Age of Calamities
If I Ruled the World
George Falls Through Time
Like in Love with You
Lessons in Chemistry
The Four Winds
Bluebird Gold (Lost Legends, #1)
The Friend of the Family
Land of Dreams
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8
The Poet Empress
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
The Last Secret of Lily Adams
Call of the Camino
The Land in Winter
Family of Spies
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Tuck Everlasting: The Graphic Novel
The Keeper of Happy Endings
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
341 books — 854 voters

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana ZapataKiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsUnder Locke by Mariana ZapataKulti by Mariana ZapataCall Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Best Grumpy Hot Men of Romance
441 books — 420 voters
Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick DaltonThe Witch's Heart by Genevieve GornichecThe Lost Apothecary by Sarah PennerThe Kindest Lie by Nancy    JohnsonHall of Smoke by H.M. Long
2021 Debuts - Adult
276 books — 486 voters

The Buy-In by Emma St. ClairSummerhaven by Tiffany OdekirkThe Bluff by Emma St. ClairHunted by K.M. SheaEloise and the Grump Next Door by Emma St. Clair
2022 Swoony Awards
516 books — 596 voters

The Book Thief
All the Light We Cannot See
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
The Song of Achilles
Pride and Prejudice
The Nightingale
The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Help
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2)
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgertons, #4)

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