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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Fishbone Cinderella
The Intrigue
The Half Life
Henry Tudor Must Die
Summer of Love
Song for Another Home
The Brides
All We Have Is Time
The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood
Should the Waters Take Us: A Novel
The Cloak and Dagger Club (A Cloak and Dagger Club Mystery, #1)
Just for the Season
Astronaut!
The Man
The Eye of Leviathan (The Sea Beyond, #1)
Lessons in Chemistry
The Four Winds
Meet Me in Paris
The Oxford Detective Society (The Oxford Detective Society, #1)
The Sky Beneath Her
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
Happier Here With You
The Spin
No Light but the Stars
The Museum of Second Chances
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
The Violin Maker's Secret
Lázár
The Friend of the Family
The Women in White
Lady Midnight by Cassandra ClareAge of Myth by Michael J. SullivanThief of Lies by Brenda  DrakeAnd I Darken by Kiersten WhiteInto the Dim by Janet B.  Taylor
New Series (2016)
213 books — 353 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction
8,129 books — 26,938 voters

Thoughtless by S.C. StephensSee Through Love by Rodd ThunderheartBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireUndeniable by Madeline SheehanLover Eternal by J.R. Ward
YOUR CHEATING HEART
291 books — 474 voters
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuHell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph WhiteThe Luminous Dead by Caitlin  StarlingWilder Girls by Rory Power
Queer Horror
708 books — 462 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
1,312 books — 467 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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