Historical Fiction Books
Historical fiction reconstructs the past through invented characters and dramatized events, grounding its stories in the textures of a specific era. Expect meticulous period detail, real figures woven into fictional plots, and narratives that illuminate how earlier centuries shaped the present.
277 books
Thriller
11/22/63
Stephen King
Non-Fiction
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Historical Fiction
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
Historical Fiction
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Literary Fiction
A Month in the Country
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Mystery
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters
Non-Fiction
A People's Tragedy
Orlando Figes
Historical Fiction
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
Historical Fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Literary Fiction
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Literary Fiction
A Woman Is No Man
Etaf Rum
Absolution by Murder
Mystery
Absolution by Murder
Peter Tremayne
Historical Fiction
Across the Nightingale Floor
Lian Hearn
Historical Fiction
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Literary Fiction
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
Historical Fiction
An Iliad
Alessandro Baricco
And Quiet Flows the Don
Literary Fiction
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov
Literary Fiction
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
Contemporary Fiction
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Xochitl Gonzalez
Literary Fiction
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Fantasy
Babel
R.F. Kuang
Historical Fiction
Baudolino
Umberto Eco
Historical Fiction
Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter
Literary Fiction
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Historical Fiction
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark Sullivan
Historical Fiction
Beowulf
Seamus Heaney
Historical Fiction
Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys
Literary Fiction
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Literary Fiction
Brotherless Night
V. V. Ganeshananthan
Young Adult
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Literary Fiction
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
Historical Fiction
Cane River
Lalita Tademy
Historical Fiction
Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini
Contemporary Fiction
Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Historical Fiction
Cathedral
Ben Hopkins
Non-Fiction
Cathedral of the Sea
Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra
Literary Fiction
Christ in Concrete
Pietro di Donato
Historical Fiction
Cilka's Journey
Literary Fiction
Cinema Love
Jiaming Tang
Fantasy
Circe
Madeline Miller
Historical Fiction
City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert
Non-Fiction
City of Thieves
David Benioff
Comedy
Closing Time
Joseph Heller
Non-Fiction
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Historical Fiction
Cloud of Sparrows
Takashi Matsuoka
Historical Fiction
Clytemnestra
Costanza Casati
Historical Fiction
Code Name Helene
Ariel Lawhon
Historical Fiction
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
Historical Fiction
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
Historical Fiction
Conjure Women
Afia Atakora
Historical Fiction
Cuddy
Benjamin Myers
Historical Fiction
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Contemporary Fiction
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Literary Fiction
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
Historical Fiction
Dead Wake
Erik Larson
Mystery
Death Comes as Epiphany
Sharan Newman
Historical Fiction
Dictionary of the Khazars
Milorad Pavic
Mystery
Dissolution
C.J. Sansom
Literary Fiction
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Contemporary Fiction
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
Literary Fiction
Familiaris
David Wroblewski
Historical Fiction
Fingersmith
Thriller
Five Decembers
James Kestrel
Historical Fiction
Four Treasures of the Sky
Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Historical Fiction
Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels
Literary Fiction
Germinal
Émile Zola
Historical Fiction
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Historical Fiction
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
Literary Fiction
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Historical Fiction
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Harlem Rhapsody
Historical Fiction
Harlem Rhapsody
Victoria Christopher Murray
Historical Fiction
Harvest Home
Janet Lee Barton
Historical Fiction
Hawaii
James A. Michener
Horror
Hex
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Literary Fiction
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Historical Fiction
Horse
Geraldine Brooks
Comedy
How to Dodge a Cannonball
Dennard Dayle
Comedy
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Historical Fiction
In Memoriam
Alice Winn
Young Adult
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
Literary Fiction
James
Percival Everett
Historical Fiction
Jazz
Toni Morrison
Historical Fiction
Katherine
Anya Seton
Non-Fiction
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild
Literary Fiction
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset
Historical Fiction
Lady of Hay
Barbara Erskine
Historical Fiction
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
Historical Fiction
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Historical Fiction
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Historical Fiction
Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
Life and Fate
Literary Fiction
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
Literary Fiction
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Historical Fiction
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Literary Fiction
Long Island
Colm Toibin
Historical Fiction
Machines Like Me
Ian McEwan
Mystery
Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear
Historical Fiction
Mariana
Susanna Kearsley
Memphis
Historical Fiction
Memphis
Tara M. Stringfellow
Non-Fiction
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut
Romance
Mrs. Hemingway
Naomi Wood
Literary Fiction
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Romance
My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier
Literary Fiction
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
Historical Fiction
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Fantasy
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Historical Fiction
Off to Be the Wizard
Scott Meyer
Historical Fiction
Ours
Phillip B. Williams
Historical Fiction
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Historical Fiction
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Literary Fiction
Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz
Non-Fiction
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
Taylor Branch
Historical Fiction
Peachtree Road
Anne Rivers Siddons
Historical Fiction
Q
Luther Blissett
Literary Fiction
Red Cavalry
Isaac Babel
Historical Fiction
River Sing Me Home
Eleanor Shearer
Non-Fiction
Sarah's Key
Tatiana de Rosnay
Historical Fiction
Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally
Non-Fiction
Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson
Historical Fiction
She Would Be King
Wayétu Moore
Historical Fiction
Shogun
James Clavell
Historical Fiction
Sisters Under the Rising Sun
Heather Morris
Comedy
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
Historical Fiction
Stone Blind
Natalie Haynes
Historical Fiction
Tai-Pan
James Clavell
Historical Fiction
Taiko
Eiji Yoshikawa
Historical Fiction
Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Non-Fiction
Tao Te Ching
老子
Historical Fiction
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Historical Fiction
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn
Literary Fiction
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Historical Fiction
The American Daughters
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Literary Fiction
The Antidote
Karen Russell
Historical Fiction
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation
M.T. Anderson
Non-Fiction
The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino
Historical Fiction
The Baroque Cycle
Neal Stephenson
Philosophy
The Bible
Various
Historical Fiction
The Black Lyon
Jude Deveraux
The Blood of Flowers
Literary Fiction
The Blood of Flowers
Anita Amirrezvani
Historical Fiction
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Historical Fiction
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson
Historical Fiction
The Book of Night Women
Marlon James
Historical Fiction
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
Jeremy Dronfield
Non-Fiction
The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown
Historical Fiction
The Briar Club
Kate Quinn
Historical Fiction
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons
Young Adult
The Cay
Theodore Taylor
Historical Fiction
The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Edith Eger
Historical Fiction
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean M. Auel
Historical Fiction
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
Literary Fiction
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Literary Fiction
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
Historical Fiction
The Diamond Eye
Kate Quinn
Literary Fiction
The Distance Home
Paula Saunders
Literary Fiction
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
Historical Fiction
The First Ladies
Marie Benedict
Historical Fiction
The Foxes of Harrow
Frank Yerby
Mystery
The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon
Historical Fiction
The Gamble
LaVyrle Spencer
Historical Fiction
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Mackenzi Lee
Historical Fiction
The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes
The Glassmaker
Historical Fiction
The Glassmaker
Tracy Chevalier
Historical Fiction
The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
Historical Fiction
The Good Lord Bird
James McBride
Historical Fiction
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Historical Fiction
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
Historical Fiction
The Great Divide
Cristina Henriquez
Historical Fiction
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer
Historical Fiction
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
Historical Fiction
The Heaven Tree
Edith Pargeter
Literary Fiction
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
Horror
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
The House Behind the Cedars
Historical Fiction
The House Behind the Cedars
Charles W. Chesnutt
Historical Fiction
The House Girl
Tara Conklin
Historical Fiction
The House of Eve
Sadeqa Johnson
Literary Fiction
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Thriller
The Huntress
Kate Quinn
Fantasy
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab
Dystopian
The Iron Heel
Jack London
Historical Fiction
The Iron King
Maurice Druon
Non-Fiction
The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See
Non-Fiction
The Jersey Brothers
Sally Mott Freeman
Literary Fiction
The Kindly Ones
Jonathan Littell
Historical Fiction
The King Must Die
Mary Renault
Historical Fiction
The Kitchen House
Kathleen Grissom
Historical Fiction
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
Thriller
The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell
Non-Fiction
The Last of the Wine
Mary Renault
Historical Fiction
The Light Over London
Julia Kelly
Literary Fiction
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
The Lion Women of Tehran
Historical Fiction
The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali
Historical Fiction
The Long Ships
Frans G. Bengtsson
Historical Fiction
The Lost Apothecary
Sarah Penner
Historical Fiction
The Lost Bookshop
Evie Woods
Historical Fiction
The Lost Girls of Paris
Pam Jenoff
Historical Fiction
The Lost Queen
Signe Pike
Historical Fiction
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Historical Fiction
The Luminaries
Literary Fiction
The MANIAC
Benjamín Labatut
Literary Fiction
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead
Chanelle Benz
Historical Fiction
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Historical Fiction
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Historical Fiction
The Only Woman in the Room
Marie Benedict
The Palace of Eros
Historical Fiction
The Palace of Eros
Caro De Robertis
Non-Fiction
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu
Science Fiction
The Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Historical Fiction
The Paris Wife
Paula McLain
Historical Fiction
The Passage
Justin Cronin
Historical Fiction
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Nadia Hashimi
Historical Fiction
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Ann Weisgarber
The Phoenix Crown
Historical Fiction
The Phoenix Crown
Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
Historical Fiction
The Physician
Noah Gordon
Historical Fiction
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
Literary Fiction
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
The Radetzky March
Literary Fiction
The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
Memoir
The Radium Girls
Kate Moore
Literary Fiction
The Reader
Bernhard Schlink
Horror
The Reformatory
Tananarive Due
Literary Fiction
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Historical Fiction
The Road to Jerusalem
Jan Guillou
Historical Fiction
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn
Historical Fiction
The Rose Garden
Susanna Kearsley
The Samurai
Historical Fiction
The Samurai
Shusaku Endo
Historical Fiction
The Samurai's Garden
Gail Tsukiyama
Literary Fiction
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Historical Fiction
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Emma Orczy
Contemporary Fiction
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Historical Fiction
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Historical Fiction
The Shadowy Horses
Susanna Kearsley
Young Adult
The Sign of the Beaver
Elizabeth George Speare
Historical Fiction
The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert
Historical Fiction
The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker
Historical Fiction
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Historical Fiction
The Sparrow
Historical Fiction
The Stationery Shop
Marjan Kamali
Fantasy
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Historical Fiction
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Historical Fiction
The Sunne in Splendour
Sharon Kay Penman
Literary Fiction
The Swallowed Man
Edward Carey
Historical Fiction
The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris
Literary Fiction
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Historical Fiction
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris
Romance
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
Historical Fiction
The Unbroken
C.L. Clark
Non-Fiction
The Underground Railroad
Literary Fiction
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Literary Fiction
The Waterworks
E.L. Doctorow
Non-Fiction
The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
David Fromkin
Historical Fiction
The Winds of War
Herman Wouk
Historical Fiction
The Winter Sea
Susanna Kearsley
Historical Fiction
The Women
Kristin Hannah
Historical Fiction
The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman
Literary Fiction
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak
Literary Fiction
Time of the Child
Niall Williams
Historical Fiction
Transcription
Kate Atkinson
Literary Fiction
Trust
Hernan Diaz
Literary Fiction
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange
Literary Fiction
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Historical Fiction
Washington Black
Esi Edugyan
Romance
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
We Must Not Think of Ourselves
Historical Fiction
We Must Not Think of Ourselves
Lauren Grodstein
Historical Fiction
We Were the Lucky Ones
Georgia Hunter
Historical Fiction
Wench
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Historical Fiction
Weyward
Emilia Hart
Horror
What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher
Historical Fiction
What the Wind Knows
Amy Harmon
Historical Fiction
When the Moon Is Low
Nadia Hashimi
Historical Fiction
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
Memoir
Wild Swans
Jung Chang
Contemporary Fiction
Winter Garden
Kristin Hannah
Thriller
Winter in Madrid
C. J. Sansom
Historical Fiction
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Thriller
World Without End
Ken Follett
Fantasy
Wrath Goddess Sing
Maya Deane
Non-Fiction
Year of Wonders
Historical Fiction
Yellow Wife
Sadeqa Johnson
Literary Fiction
Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart
Historical Fiction
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Therese Anne Fowler
