Historical Fiction

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 Mayor of Maxwell Street
The Bullet Swallower
The Storm We Made
Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
Most Ardently
When the Jessamine Grows
The London Bookshop Affair
The Diamond of London: A Fascinating Historical Novel of the Regency Based on True History
Hard by a Great Forest
The Excitements
The Wharton Plot
The Lost Van Gogh
The Lily of Ludgate Hill (Belles of London, #3)
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
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    Pineapple Street
    Inheritance (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #1)
    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
    Malibu Rising
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    Small Mercies
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    Historical Fiction 2014
    368 books — 2,465 voters
    The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
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    Historical Fiction 2015
    377 books — 2,213 voters
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    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    The Song of Achilles
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