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Most Read This Week In Historical Fiction

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 ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Historical Fiction"

The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

The Distant Daughter (The Secrets of Trelenna House #1)

The Missing Sister (The Seven Sisters, #7)

These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)

The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)

Murder in the Painted Mask (Ginger Gold Mystery, #27)

The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)

A Language of Dragons (A Language of Dragons, #1)

Birdie and the Beastly Duke (The Wishing Well #3)

The Drowning Faith (The Poppy War, #2.5)

The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)

The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)

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Quotes Tagged “Historical Fiction”

“ But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary. ...more ”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

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