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Historical Retelling Books
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The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,095,629 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,410,568 ratings — published 2018
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.04 — 95,233 ratings — published 2019
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.83 — 97,022 ratings — published 2021
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.89 — 117,233 ratings — published 2018
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.21 — 474,797 ratings — published 2020
My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.99 — 85,499 ratings — published 2016
And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,482 ratings — published 2016
Glorious Exploits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,080 ratings — published 2024
Cleopatra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,175 ratings — published 2026
Boudicca's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,032 ratings — published 2025
Lilith (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.63 — 12,155 ratings — published 2023
Clytemnestra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.21 — 63,445 ratings — published 2023
Atalanta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.74 — 37,507 ratings — published 2023
Babylonia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,878 ratings — published 2024
Neon Gods (Dark Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.68 — 317,517 ratings — published 2021
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,691 ratings — published 2022
Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.69 — 5,703 ratings — published 2022
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.78 — 81,705 ratings — published 2022
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.13 — 515,404 ratings — published 2022
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.93 — 129,226 ratings — published 2013
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.78 — 151,898 ratings — published 2021
Romanov (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.77 — 16,344 ratings — published 2019
The Last Queen (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,178 ratings — published 2021
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.71 — 91,862 ratings — published 2005
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.40 — 45,157 ratings — published 1998
Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.92 — 184,637 ratings — published 2016
The Geomagician (The Geomagician Duology #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,517 ratings — published 2026
The Nightingale Kept Singing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 5.00 — 8 ratings — published
The Black Death: A Personal History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,521 ratings — published 2008
Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.98 — 239,855 ratings — published 2023
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.31 — 106,707 ratings — published 2012
The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.93 — 450 ratings — published 2014
The Unicorn Hunters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,023 ratings — published 2026
The Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.59 — 36,511 ratings — published 2018
Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.76 — 15,132 ratings — published 1992
Their Will Undone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.14 — 119 ratings — published 2026
The Dead Queens Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.58 — 2,670 ratings — published 2019
The Only Woman in the Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.87 — 112,996 ratings — published 2019
The Other Moctezuma Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.28 — 528 ratings — published 2026
The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,306 ratings — published 2018
Dreaming the Eagle (Boudica, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,616 ratings — published 2003
Circle of Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.88 — 35,966 ratings — published 2025
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,957 ratings — published 2024
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,958 ratings — published 2014
All in Her Hands (Nora Beady, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,149 ratings — published 2026
Woman at Point Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,160 ratings — published 1975
The Frozen River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.37 — 650,354 ratings — published 2023
The Dovekeepers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.07 — 80,868 ratings — published 2011
Fulvia (Fulvia, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.95 — 475 ratings — published 2025
