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 Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Malibu Rising
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
A Calamity of Souls
The Berry Pickers
The Lost Apothecary
The Hotel Nantucket
The Dutch House
Pineapple Street
Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
The Rose Code
The Villa
The Things We Cannot Say
The Book of Lost Names
Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2)
Mexican Gothic
The Unmaking of June Farrow
A Killing on the Hill
A Storm of Infinite Beauty
The Marriage Portrait
Hamnet
Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
Wish You Were Here
West with Giraffes
The Paris Novel
Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)
Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Sicilian Inheritance
Family of Liars
Small Mercies
Wellness
Only the Brave
City of Girls
The Princess of Las Vegas
Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt (The Seven Sisters, #8)
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)
This Tender Land
The Wind Knows My Name
No. 23 Burlington Square
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
Lapvona
Let Us Descend
The Missing Sister (The Seven Sisters, #7)
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Grace (The Shackleford Sisters #1)
A Short Walk Through a Wide World
The Night Raven (Moonwind Mysteries #1)
First Comes Scandal (Rokesbys, #4)
Shuggie Bain
The Ball at Versailles
Queen Charlotte
Chain of Gold (The Last Hours, #1)
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (A Lady's Guide, #1)
The Invisible Hour
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)
Boy of Chaotic Making (Whimbrel House, #3)
The Christie Affair
The Last Bookshop in London
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Hotline
Mercury
Meant to Be
Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)
A Fragile Enchantment
The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
A Thousand Ships
The Paris Library
Unspeakable Things
A Long Petal of the Sea
Immortality: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology, #2)
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
The Stationery Shop
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Never
Your Presence Is Mandatory
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson
The Divorcées
The Whalebone Theatre
A Thousand Heartbeats
My Happy Marriage, Vol. 1
The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2)
Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3)
Just Once
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
In a Single Moment
The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)
Murder in Rose Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #27)
The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)
The Dead Letter Delivery (Glass Library, #4)
She's Up to No Good

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

Diana   Forbes
I wished he'd stop trying to put me off. It was becoming irksome. Or, if he were, then he really needed to stop acting so damned charming. ...more
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