Historical Fiction Books
Novels set in a clearly defined past, where period detail and historical truth do real work alongside the story.
106 books
Thriller
11/22/63
Stephen King
Romance
A Burning
Lori Wick
Non-Fiction
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Fantasy
A Knight in Shining Armor
Jude Deveraux
A Secret History of Witches
Romance
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
Literary Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities
Historical Fiction
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
Literary Fiction
All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker
Thriller
American Tabloid
James Ellroy
Literary Fiction
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
An Echo in the Bone
Historical Fiction
An Iliad
Alessandro Baricco
Mystery
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Iain Pears
Anna Karenina
Literary Fiction
Arrow of God
Historical Fiction
Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter
Beauty
Literary Fiction
Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate
Historical Fiction
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark Sullivan
Historical Fiction
Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys
Young Adult
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Historical Fiction
Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini
Non-Fiction
Cathedral of the Sea
Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra
Non-Fiction
Centennial
Ayn Rand
Romance
Christy
Catherine Marshall
Historical Fiction
Cilka's Journey
Non-Fiction
City of Thieves
David Benioff
Thriller
City on Fire
Garth Risk Hallberg
Non-Fiction
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Historical Fiction
Code Name Helene
Ariel Lawhon
Non-Fiction
Code Name Verity
Non-Fiction
Cryptonomicon
Historical Fiction
Dictionary of the Khazars
Milorad Pavic
Non-Fiction
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
Non-Fiction
Fevre Dream
George R. R. Martin
Historical Fiction
Fingersmith
Romance
Forever Amber
Kathleen Winsor
Historical Fiction
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
Half a Soul
Olivia Atwater
Historical Fiction
Harvest Home
Janet Lee Barton
Horse Heaven
Zane Grey
Literary Fiction
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang
Comedy
How to Dodge a Cannonball
Dennard Dayle
Romance
Into the Wilderness
Sara Donati
Fantasy
Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin
Thriller
Leaving Berlin
Legion
Les Miserables
Non-Fiction
Lilac Girls
Literary Fiction
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Non-Fiction
Love and Ruin
Paula McLain
Mystery
Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear
Matrix
Sophia Stewart
Romance
Mrs. Hemingway
Ariel Lawhon
Fantasy
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
Non-Fiction
Nevada
Zane Grey
Literary Fiction
News of the World
Paulette Jiles
North Woods
Daniel Mason
Historical Fiction
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Non-Fiction
People of the Book
Jeanne DuPrau
Historical Fiction
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn
Historical Fiction
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Emma Orczy
Contemporary Fiction
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Non-Fiction
The Secret River
Kate Grenville
Thriller
The Secrets We Kept
Lara Prescott
The Seven Sisters
Lucinda Riley
The Shadow King
Young Adult
The Sign of the Beaver
Elizabeth George Speare
Historical Fiction
The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker
Non-Fiction
The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey
Historical Fiction
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
The Storyteller
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
Historical Fiction
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris
Romance
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
Non-Fiction
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Ayana Mathis
Historical Fiction
The Unbroken
Mildred D. Taylor
Non-Fiction
The Underground Railroad
Literary Fiction
The Vanished Days
Susanna Kearsley
Thriller
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Natasha Pulley
Fantasy
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Ways We Hide
Historical Fiction
The Winds of War
Herman Wouk
Historical Fiction
The Winter Sea
Susanna Kearsley
Historical Fiction
The Women
Kristin Hannah
Literary Fiction
The Women of Chateau Lafayette
Stephanie Dray
Literary Fiction
This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger
Tracks
Louise Erdrich
Comedy
True Grit
Charles Portis
Literary Fiction
Trust
Hernan Diaz
Underworld
Non-Fiction
Utopia Avenue
David Mitchell
Vanity Fair
Literary Fiction
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Romance
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
Historical Fiction
We Were the Lucky Ones
Georgia Hunter
Historical Fiction
Weyward
Emilia Hart
What the River Knows
Isabel Ibanez
Historical Fiction
What the Wind Knows
Amy Harmon
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
Non-Fiction
Year of Wonders
Historical Fiction
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Therese Anne Fowler
