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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 — 2,156,713 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,452,194 ratings — published 2018
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.20 — 504,519 ratings — published 2020
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.04 — 98,396 ratings — published 2019
Cleopatra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,606 ratings — published 2026
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.83 — 98,686 ratings — published 2021
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.89 — 120,374 ratings — published 2018
My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.99 — 86,718 ratings — published 2016
And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,600 ratings — published 2016
Glorious Exploits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.12 — 27,939 ratings — published 2024
Boudicca's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,992 ratings — published 2025
Lilith (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.63 — 12,772 ratings — published 2023
Clytemnestra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,049 ratings — published 2023
Atalanta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.73 — 38,779 ratings — published 2023
Babylonia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,119 ratings — published 2024
Neon Gods (Dark Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.68 — 321,704 ratings — published 2021
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,618 ratings — published 2022
Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,860 ratings — published 2022
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.77 — 84,239 ratings — published 2022
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.13 — 535,874 ratings — published 2022
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.93 — 132,660 ratings — published 2013
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,899 ratings — published 2021
Romanov (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.77 — 16,520 ratings — published 2019
The Last Queen (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,528 ratings — published 2021
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.71 — 96,366 ratings — published 2005
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.40 — 45,811 ratings — published 1998
Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.92 — 186,583 ratings — published 2016
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 4.69 — 26 ratings — published
The Just City (Thessaly, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,665 ratings — published 2015
Matrix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.67 — 70,068 ratings — published 2021
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.01 — 179,451 ratings — published 2001
Four Treasures of the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,091 ratings — published 2022
Lady Tan's Circle of Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.35 — 228,669 ratings — published 2023
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.21 — 642,122 ratings — published 1997
Narrenturm (Trylogia husycka, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,353 ratings — published 2002
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,661 ratings — published 1969
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,052 ratings — published 2014
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.94 — 12,947 ratings — published 2023
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.26 — 338,293 ratings — published 2014
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,654 ratings — published 2022
The Geomagician (The Geomagician Duology #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,369 ratings — published 2026
The Nightingale Kept Singing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 5.00 — 9 ratings — published
The Black Death: A Personal History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,537 ratings — published 2008
Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.98 — 246,324 ratings — published 2023
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 4.31 — 107,594 ratings — published 2012
The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.92 — 477 ratings — published 2014
The Unicorn Hunters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,444 ratings — published 2026
The Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.59 — 37,068 ratings — published 2018
Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.76 — 15,196 ratings — published 1992
Their Will Undone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-retelling)
avg rating 3.96 — 245 ratings — published 2026