Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Historical Fiction"

Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Pineapple Street
The Berry Pickers
Inheritance (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #1)
Malibu Rising
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Unmaking of June Farrow
The Villa
The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)
The Hotel Nantucket
The Lost Apothecary
The Marriage Portrait
Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
The Dutch House
The Ball at Versailles
Small Mercies
In a Single Moment
The Things We Cannot Say
Mercury
The Book of Lost Names
The Secret of Villa Alba
Mexican Gothic
The Leftover Woman
Let Us Descend
Grace (The Shackleford Sisters #1)
Wish You Were Here
The Lover
A Storm of Infinite Beauty
The Last Bookshop in London
Wellness
The Rose Code
Hamnet
Lapvona
The Saints of Swallow Hill
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
The Belvedere Murders (Heathcliff Lennox #11)
The Secret Hours
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)
Cloud Cuckoo Land
This Tender Land
Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt (The Seven Sisters, #8)
Traitors Gate (William Warwick, #6)
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
The Kingdom of Sweets
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (A Lady's Guide, #1)
A Fragile Enchantment
She's Up to No Good
The Paris Assignment
The Christie Affair
The Postcard
A Thousand Ships
The Cypress Maze
The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
The Proof of the Pudding (Her Royal Spyness #17)
Good Night, Irene
Heir of Uncertain Magic (Whimbrel House, #2)
Immortality: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology, #2)
The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Queen Charlotte
The Warsaw Orphan
The Half Moon
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
The Helsinki Affair
The Missing Sister (The Seven Sisters, #7)
This Telling
Two Dances and a Duke (The Seduction, #1)
Winter's Rise (Winter Black #4)
Queenie of Norwich
Tell Me How This Ends
The Secret Midwife
Just Once
The Vanishing of Margaret Small
The Brighter the Light
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Next in Line (William Warwick, #5)
The Untitled Books (Glass Library #3)
Murder at the Merton Library (Wrexford & Sloane, #7)
Medusa
Meant to Be
Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
Christmas Pie (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #14.5)
A Lady's Guide to Scandal (A Lady's Guide, #2)
The Seven
Beyond the Moonlit Sea
The Whalebone Theatre
Family Lore
The Paris Library
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
City of Girls
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
The Night Raven (Moonwind Mysteries #1)
Murder by Candlelight
A Night at the Tropicana
Blackouts
The Girl in the Castle

Rudyard Kipling
If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son. ...more
Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son

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I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem. ...more
Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

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