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
Bluebird Gold (Lost Legends, #1)
The Friend of the Family
Land of Dreams
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8
The Poet Empress
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
The Last Secret of Lily Adams
Call of the Camino
The Land in Winter
Family of Spies
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Tuck Everlasting: The Graphic Novel
The Keeper of Happy Endings
We Don't Talk About Carol
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
A Calamity of Souls
The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Boleyn Traitor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)
The Quarry Girls
The Once and Future Queen (The Lives of Guinevere, #1)
The Bookshop of Secrets
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
The Lost Heiress: A Novel
Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
Queen Esther
The Keeper of Stars
The Wind Knows My Name
The Paris Library
The Hitchhikers
The Moorwitch
A Good Animal
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
The Seven Daughters of Dupree
A Language of Dragons (A Language of Dragons, #1)
Gabriel's Moon
Long Island Compromise
The Blackout Murders (Homefront Sleuths #1)
All Our Beautiful Goodbyes
The Fourth Daughter
This Motherless Land
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Time of the Child
The Cliffs
My Other Heart
The Look
To Love a Lady (Dollar Princess #1)
The Hidden Girl
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
The Princess Knight
Murder at Holly House (Frank Grasby Mysteries, #1)
Lightning in a Mason Jar
The Predicament
Hera
If I Ruled the World
Blood on Her Tongue
The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
Grimm Curiosities
La península de las casas vacías
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
The Last Love Song
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Últimos días en Berlín
Every Precious and Fragile Thing
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Under the Oak Tree, Vol. 1
Shadow Ticket
The Book of Guilt
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
The Magician of Tiger Castle
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Like in Love with You
Next Time Will Be Our Turn
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Greenteeth
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
When the Fireflies Dance
A House Between Sea and Sky
Speak to Me of Home
Nemesis' Töchter: 3000 Jahre zwischen Female Rage und Zusammenhalt
Victoria
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
Remember That Day (A Ravenswood Novel)
After Paris
The Italian Daughter (The Lost Daughters, #1)
The Secrets of Good People
Under the Stars
Lázár
ホタルの嫁入り 5 [Hotaru no Yomeiri 5]
Por si un día volvemos
The Sky Beneath Us
The English Masterpiece

Michael G. Kramer
The adrenaline rush subsides as it becomes harder to catch your breath. You become light headed, then dizzy and confused as the air runs out. Reason and sense evaporate as the darkness claims you. That is how it felt to be a Tunnel Rat.
Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

Michael G. Kramer
The artillery fire which helped in holding off the enemy advance against the Australian positions appeared to be getting always closer. A radio operator called Vic Grice somehow replaced the antenna on Buick’s radio. That had been shot off, thus rendering the radio in-operational.
Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

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