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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The Isle in the Silver Sea
All of Us Murderers
Bog Queen
The Wayfinder
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Changeling Queen
The Hong Kong Widow
The Crimson Throne (The Crimson Throne, #1)
When They Burned the Butterfly
The White Octopus Hotel
The Murder at World's End (Stockingham & Pike, 1)
The Salvage
And Then There Was the One
Our Vicious Descent (Ravenous Fate Duology, 2)
Sense and Suitability
Lessons in Chemistry
The Four Winds
The Mad Wife
The Restoration Garden
The Lost Heiress
The Everlasting
Call of the Camino
The Rose Bargain (The Rose Bargain, #1)
A Family Matter
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
The Land in Winter
Boleyn Traitor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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New Series (2015)
465 books — 1,182 voters

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Historical Fiction 2017
339 books — 852 voters

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To Kill a Mockingbird
The Help
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