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Historical Fiction Books
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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26752 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,829,736 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22799 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,930,545 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19989 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.64 — 1,977,191 ratings — published 2015
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 13635 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,139,938 ratings — published 1991
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13565 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,983,143 ratings — published 2009
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 13037 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 817,432 ratings — published 1989
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12297 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,936,043 ratings — published 2017
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 11744 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,911,356 ratings — published 2011
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11338 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,093,249 ratings — published 1997
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 11035 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 799,753 ratings — published 2008
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10350 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 599,289 ratings — published 2017
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10236 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,425,564 ratings — published 2024
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 10062 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 647,861 ratings — published 2016
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 9723 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,758,154 ratings — published 1960
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
by (shelved 9641 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 510,588 ratings — published 2001
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 9635 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,435,964 ratings — published 2003
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 9611 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 605,118 ratings — published 2017
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9195 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 931,484 ratings — published 2021
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 9078 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,136,702 ratings — published 2018
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8819 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,805,934 ratings — published 2019
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8725 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 248,932 ratings — published 2016
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8410 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 271,521 ratings — published 2011
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 8303 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 229,914 ratings — published 2009
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8281 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 947,552 ratings — published 2006
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7855 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 438,314 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 7596 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,532,658 ratings — published 2018
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7555 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,249,573 ratings — published 1936
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 7427 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 773,772 ratings — published 1999
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7345 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,703,314 ratings — published 2007
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7342 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 393,101 ratings — published 2016
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 7238 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,688,331 ratings — published 2006
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7233 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 612,803 ratings — published 1989
Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
by (shelved 7089 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 381,028 ratings — published 1992
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 6907 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 126,846 ratings — published 2012
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6895 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 709,025 ratings — published 2017
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6808 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 627,114 ratings — published 1997
Lessons in Chemistry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6793 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,718,296 ratings — published 2022
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 6687 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 706,088 ratings — published 2001
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6679 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 322,108 ratings — published 2020
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6667 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,306,509 ratings — published 2018
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 6454 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 352,146 ratings — published 2021
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 6180 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 336,034 ratings — published 2016
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6109 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,118,911 ratings — published 2018
The Frozen River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6082 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 457,026 ratings — published 2023
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6060 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,698,008 ratings — published 1813
The Lost Apothecary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6050 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 3.76 — 481,237 ratings — published 2021
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6049 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 492,098 ratings — published 2006
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6013 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,435,757 ratings — published 2020
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 5937 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 460,545 ratings — published 2013
Voyager (Outlander, #3)
by (shelved 5901 times as historical-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 327,580 ratings — published 1993
“It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“Look at that! The entire Australian kit dates from the 1940s and the uniforms are falling apart at the seams, the fucking boots you have issued to us are the same and everything is rotten. As for bloody weapons, we are issued with the Owen sub-machine gun. While the gun is still a very good weapon, the 9mm ammunition it uses is old WW2 stock and its propellants have deteriorated to the point where I doubt if the round will penetrate the back-pack of a fleeing Noggie!”
― A Gracious Enemy
― A Gracious Enemy
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