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
Worth the Fall by Claudia ConnorSeduction and Snacks by Tara SivecSmooth Talking Stranger by Lisa KleypasNever Too Far by Abbi GlinesLaw Man by Kristen Ashley
Children In Romance
404 books — 316 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
370 books — 523 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhHuế  1968 by Mark BowdenWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreThe Full Circle for Mick by Michael G. Kramer
History Books - Fact and Fiction
1,281 books — 434 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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