Historical Fantasy

Historical fantasy is a subgenre of historical fiction that incorporates fantastic elements (such as magic) into the narrative. There is much crossover with other subgenres of fantasy; those classes as Arthurian, Celtic, or Dark Ages could just as easily be placed in Historical Fantasy. Stories fitting this classification generally take place prior to the 20th century.

Lady Tremaine
Wolf Worm
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
Daughter of Egypt
Innamorata (The House of Teeth, #1)
The Fox and the Devil
The Geomagician
The Book of Fallen Leaves (The Autumn Empire, #1)
Aicha
The Beheading Game
The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru
A Widow's Charm
Sweetbitter Song
Entwined (The Entwined Duology, #1)
The Quarter Queen
Babel
The Everlasting
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
The Rose Bargain (The Rose Bargain, #1)
The Poet Empress
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The Thorn Queen (The Rose Bargain, #2)
The Sirens
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
The Amalfi Curse
The Familiar
Cleopatra
The Book of Lost Hours
Babel
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Familiar
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
The Night Circus
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
The Song of Achilles
Circe

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