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
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Historical Fiction"

The Frozen River
The Lion Women of Tehran
Malibu Rising
All the Colors of the Dark
The Briar Club
The Berry Pickers
Lake Effect
The Rose Code
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
The Lost Apothecary
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives
The Life Impossible
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Alchemy of Secrets (Alchemy of Secrets, #1)
Wish You Were Here
The Marriage Portrait
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Thorn Queen (The Rose Bargain, #2)
West with Giraffes
Where the Wildflowers Grow
The Friend of the Family
The Water Women: A Novel
The Last Secret of Lily Adams
The List of Suspicious Things
Skylark
The Murder at World's End (Stockingham & Pike, #1)
Wait for Me
Mona's Eyes
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
North Woods
The Women on Platform Two
The Last Labyrinth
When the Wolves Are Silent (Sebastian St. Cyr, #21)
A Calamity of Souls
The Missing Sister (The Seven Sisters, #7)
All the Little Houses
We Don't Talk About Carol
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Lapvona
Kissing the Sky
Burn Down Master's House
Saoirse
The Keeper of Happy Endings
The Story She Left Behind
The Sicilian Inheritance
The Glassmaker
Great Circle
Meant to Be
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Laws of Love and Logic
Dream Count
Yellow Wife
Tuck Everlasting: The Graphic Novel
Almost Life
The First Ladies
Pineapple Street
Workhorse
A Ghastly Catastrophe (Veronica Speedwell, #10)
The Land in Winter
The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits
The Hitchhikers
Tea & Alchemy
Ce que je sais de toi
The Last Bookshop in London
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Under Water
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)
Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3)
Coffin Moon
La portalettere
The Paris Library
Trust No One
Never
The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)
The Lost Daughter of Sparta
The Wind Knows My Name
The Queens of Crime
No One Is Safe (Noone #1)
Lázár
The Frozen People (Ali Dawson #1)
The Book of Kindness
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
A Language of Dragons (A Language of Dragons, #1)
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
The Heir of Whitestone
A Much Maligned Miss (Victorian Reversal of Fortune, #2)
Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)
All Our Beautiful Goodbyes
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (A Lady's Guide, #1)
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
The Blackout Murders (Homefront Sleuths #1)
The Barbecue at No. 9
The Hidden Girl
The Saints of Swallow Hill
Evil Genius
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2)
The Lost Heiress: A Novel
Celestial Lights
The Moorwitch

The filigreed iron gates of the Navy Yard were open wide between two pillars that featured large spread-winged eagles on orbs. Men were standing around as women came out together in their overalls after their shifts. Before the war women didn’t work at the Navy Yard, but with men joining up or drafted and a new campaign with a poster of 'Rosie the Riveter' it did its job encouraging woman to work outside the home for the war effort. ...more
A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
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