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.

Fishbone Cinderella
Henry Tudor Must Die
All We Have Is Time
The Eye of Leviathan (The Sea Beyond, #1)
The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood
Harbour of Hungry Ghosts (Chronicles of the Yiugwai Hunters, #1)
Theodora’s Tea Shop
Ladies of the Knight
The Unicorn Hunters
This Immortal Heart
Muñeca
It Came from Neverland
The Shrouded Queen
Tillinghast
A Prince Among Pirates
Babel
The Everlasting
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
The Poet Empress
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The Sirens
The Rose Bargain (The Rose Bargain, #1)
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
The Familiar
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
The Thorn Queen (The Rose Bargain, #2)
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
The Amalfi Curse
The Unicorn Hunters
The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)
A Matter of Magic by Patricia C. WredeLove, Lies and Spies by Cindy AnsteyThe Season by Sarah MacLeanBewitching Season by Marissa DoyleSorcery & Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede
Young Adult Regency
125 books — 53 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesAlanna by Tamora PierceMossflower by Brian JacquesRedwall by Brian Jacques
Children's Fantasy of the 1980s
174 books — 55 voters
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterJames and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan AikenA Wizard of Earthsea by ursula-k-le-guin-illustrate...
Children's Fantasy of the 1960s
87 books — 39 voters

Babel
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The Familiar
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Night Circus
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
The Song of Achilles
Circe

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