Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Historical"

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
Alchemy of Secrets (Alchemy of Secrets, #1)
May We Feed the King
The Thorn Queen (The Rose Bargain, #2)
The Foursome
Battle of the Round House (Magic & Mystery, #6)
Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy, #3)
Calico
The Amateur
The Castle in the Glen
The Island Club
Scandal of the Summer
In the Great Quiet
How to Cheat Your Own Death (Castle Knoll Files, #3)
Family of Spies
Charming Artemis (The Lancaster Family, #5)
Lost in the Summer of '69
We Don't Talk About Carol
The Keeper of Happy Endings
Sunlight Finds You
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
Wait for Me
Off the Record
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
A Calamity of Souls
Westerly: A Novel
The Man Who Read Books
Lady X
Call of the Camino
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
The Quarry Girls
Last Night in Brooklyn
The Wind Knows My Name
The Paris Library
The Italian Daughter (The Lost Daughters, #1)
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)
Hera
A Family Affair
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Fields of Asphodel (Underworld Myths)
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Gabriel's Moon
This Immortal Heart
The Hitchhikers
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
The Top of the World
The Cliffs
The Predicament
Mayluna
These Immortal Truths (Peaches & Honey, #1)
A Murder in Hollywood
Laws of Love and Logic
Murder at Gulls Nest (Nora Breen Investigates, #1)
Blood on Her Tongue
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Lumber Baron's Wife
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Homebound
Christmas at Falstone Castle (The Lancaster Family, #4.5)
Manor for Sale, Baron Included  (A Romance of Rank, #1)
Tempests & Tea Leaves (The Charmed Leaf Legacy, #1)
Finding Flora
The Water Women
The Shock of the Light
Los ingratos
The Once and Future Queen (The Lives of Guinevere, #1)
Anything But a Lord (London Vices, #2)
An Ordinary Sort of Evil (A Rip Through Time, #5)
Every Precious and Fragile Thing
La península de las casas vacías
No Friend to This House
The Keeper of Stars
La sonnambula
Una ragazza d'altri tempi
This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History
Lightning in a Mason Jar
A Language of Dragons (A Language of Dragons, #1)
The Book of Guilt
The Shrouded Queen (The Shrouded Queen #1)
25 Library Terrace
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
A Happier Life
A Bitter Cut (Lady Darby Mystery, #14)
The Women of Oak Ridge

Lisa Kleypas
He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?" "Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body." "No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death. ...more
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Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!
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