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 Girl with a Thousand Faces
Behind Five Willows
A Fortune of Sand
A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams
Bone of My Bone
The Young Will Remember
The Lost Book of Lancelot
I'll Watch Your Baby
Waiting on a Friend
Last Summer at Maine Chance
Babylon, South Dakota
When No One Else Will
Now Then
An Ordinary Sort of Evil (A Rip Through Time, #5)
Returns and Exchanges
Lessons in Chemistry
The Four Winds
The Sky Beneath Her
Lake Effect
The Thorn Queen (The Rose Bargain, #2)
The Foursome
Off the Record
The Violin Maker's Secret
Alchemy of Secrets (Alchemy of Secrets, #1)
Westerly: A Novel
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
Lázár
The Island Club
How to Cheat Your Own Death (Castle Knoll Files, #3)
In the Great Quiet
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YOUR CHEATING HEART
289 books — 423 voters
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Historical Fiction 2016
354 books — 897 voters

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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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