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Historical Retelling Books
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The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,220,228 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,509,617 ratings — published 2018
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.20 — 529,696 ratings — published 2020
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.04 — 101,668 ratings — published 2019
Cleopatra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,391 ratings — published 2026
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.83 — 100,332 ratings — published 2021
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.89 — 123,444 ratings — published 2018
My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.99 — 87,887 ratings — published 2016
And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.80 — 53,721 ratings — published 2016
Glorious Exploits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.11 — 30,656 ratings — published 2024
Boudicca's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,832 ratings — published 2025
Lilith (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.63 — 13,528 ratings — published 2023
Clytemnestra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.22 — 71,106 ratings — published 2023
Atalanta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.73 — 39,855 ratings — published 2023
Babylonia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,484 ratings — published 2024
Neon Gods (Dark Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.67 — 325,824 ratings — published 2021
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,852 ratings — published 2022
Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.69 — 5,931 ratings — published 2022
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.77 — 86,987 ratings — published 2022
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.12 — 558,130 ratings — published 2022
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.93 — 137,008 ratings — published 2013
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.78 — 157,759 ratings — published 2021
Romanov (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.77 — 16,687 ratings — published 2019
The Last Queen (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,934 ratings — published 2021
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.70 — 101,740 ratings — published 2005
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.40 — 46,547 ratings — published 1998
Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.92 — 188,736 ratings — published 2016
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,063,071 ratings — published 1623
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.75 — 429,705 ratings — published 1958
1666 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,362 ratings — published 2024
The Imposter King (The Imposter King, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.77 — 193 ratings — published
Henry Tudor Must Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,523 ratings — published 2026
Mrs Van Gogh (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,221 ratings — published 2023
The Pretender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,713 ratings — published 2025
Canticle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,941 ratings — published 2025
A Song to Drown Rivers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.85 — 43,246 ratings — published 2024
They Can't Burn Us All (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.11 — 317 ratings — published 2026
Empire of Shadows (Raiders of the Arcana, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,889 ratings — published 2024
The Pirate Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.32 — 40,526 ratings — published 2026
VALOUR: A romantasy retelling of Shackleton's Antarctic expedition (Beasts of the Hidden Wilds Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.41 — 72 ratings — published
The Just City (Thessaly, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,030 ratings — published 2015
Matrix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.67 — 71,232 ratings — published 2021
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.01 — 180,945 ratings — published 2001
Four Treasures of the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,450 ratings — published 2022
Lady Tan's Circle of Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.35 — 236,133 ratings — published 2023
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.21 — 646,891 ratings — published 1997
Narrenturm (Trylogia husycka, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,639 ratings — published 2002
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.06 — 66,555 ratings — published 1969
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,769 ratings — published 2014
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,484 ratings — published 2023