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
Lake Effect
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
The Poet Empress
The Friend of the Family
Call of the Camino
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
The Violin Maker's Secret
We Don't Talk About Carol
Family of Spies
Wait for Me
A Good Animal
The Quarry Girls
A Ghastly Catastrophe (Veronica Speedwell, #10)
Two Bodies Are Better Than One (Lorraine Highsmith Mysteries Book 1)
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Laws of Love and Logic
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
The Keeper of Happy Endings
A Calamity of Souls
The Hitchhikers
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
Sisters in Science
Tuck Everlasting: The Graphic Novel
The Paris Library
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
The Barbecue at No. 9
Gabriel's Moon
The Heir of Whitestone
The Once and Future Queen (The Lives of Guinevere, #1)
Evil Genius
A Language of Dragons (A Language of Dragons, #1)
薬屋のひとりごと 15 [Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 15]
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
The Moorwitch
When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice
Long Island Compromise
The Fourth Daughter
The Wind Knows My Name
Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)
The Lost Heiress: A Novel
The Blackout Murders (Homefront Sleuths #1)
Wolf Worm
The Death of Jane Lawrence
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
The Cliffs
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Last Love Song
Liberty Street
The Secrets of Good People
The Keeper of Stars
After Paris
Blood on Her Tongue
Grimm Curiosities
Jane Austen's Bookshelf
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück
The Sea Captain's Wife
Next Time Will Be Our Turn
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
El problema final
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Predicament
Lightning in a Mason Jar
Queen Esther
The Italian Daughter (The Lost Daughters, #1)
From Cradle to Grave (Royal Spyness #19)
A Flower Traveled in My Blood
Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power
Lázár
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
The Killing Time (Ali Dawson, #2)
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
The Bookshop of Secrets
A House Between Sea and Sky
The Magician of Tiger Castle
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
La península de las casas vacías
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
A Love Most Daring (Bow Street #3)
The Distant Daughter (The Secrets of Trelenna House #1)
The Look
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
This Motherless Land
Murder at the Black Cat Cafe (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #7)
Every Precious and Fragile Thing
The Princess Knight
Spoiled Milk
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Murder at Gulls Nest (Nora Breen Investigates, #1)
An Accidental Marriage (The Gentlemen's Gamble)

Diana   Forbes
I felt hot under my Mutton sleeves. "I just wish he'd have the decency to say whatever he came to say in front of his wife." "Perhaps his wife is busy today." "She shouldn't be." His wife should track him like a bloodhound. ...more
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

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