Historical

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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I, Medusa
Family of Spies
As Many Souls as Stars
The Wolf and His King
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Last Call at the Savoy
Gilded in Vengeance
Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen's Unsung Characters
The Great Work
The Silver Book
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
Revenge, Served Royal (Lady Petra Inquires, #3)
Lessons in Chemistry
The Four Winds
The Mad Wife
The Lost Heiress
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
Call of the Camino
The Rose Bargain (The Rose Bargain, #1)
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
The Land in Winter
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The Moorwitch
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind
Boleyn Traitor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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