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.

Canticle
Dark Sisters
Dawn of the Firebird
Something Wicked (Idle Reputations, #1)
The Heroic Legends Series - Solomon Kane: The Lair of the Mari Lwyd
I, Medusa
Fallen City (Fallen City Duology, #1)
The Moorwitch
The Wolf and His King
As Many Souls as Stars
The Sacred Space Between
The Devil in Oxford (Ruby Vaughn, #3)
Gilded in Vengeance
The Great Work
The Cathedral of Lost Souls (The Hecate Cavendish, #2)
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Babel
The Everlasting
I, Medusa
The Rose Bargain (The Rose Bargain, #1)
Tea & Alchemy
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The Sirens
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
The Poet Empress
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
The Familiar
The Amalfi Curse
The Book of Lost Hours
The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeA Natural History of Dragons by Marie BrennanThe Journals of Professor Guthridge by Kyt WrightShades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Gaslamp
126 books — 36 voters

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik11/22/63 by Stephen  KingThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadDread Nation by Justina IrelandThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Task 2 #ReadHarder 2019
111 books — 59 voters
The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Prestige by Christopher PriestWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia  FurstenbergThe Magician's Lie by Greer Macallister
Magicians in Historical Fiction
53 books — 64 voters

Babel
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Familiar
The Night Circus
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #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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