Historical

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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Junie
Under the Same Stars
Hungerstone
The Dressmakers of London
Upon a Starlit Tide
Greenteeth
The Lost Passenger
Idle Grounds
Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
People of Means
The Spirit Collection of Thorne Hall
Maya & Natasha
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
Mutual Interest
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Lessons in Chemistry
The Four Winds
American Housewife
Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
His Forefathers and Mick 2nd Edition
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
The Rose Bargain
The Happiest Man on Earth
Every Precious and Fragile Thing
Deep Cuts
A Calamity of Souls
Wizard of Most Wicked Ways (Whimbrel House, #4)
The Jackal's Mistress
When the World Fell Silent
The Journal of a Thousand Years (Glass Library, #6)
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Sizzling Summer Sensations
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434 books — 406 voters
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Historical Fiction 2016
337 books — 874 voters

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Historical Fiction 2022
407 books — 429 voters
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The Book Thief
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
All the Light We Cannot See
The Song of Achilles
Pride & Prejudice
The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Nightingale
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Help
Memoirs of a Geisha
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2)
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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