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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Beasts of a Little Land
The Righteous (The Beautiful, #3)
The Spanish Daughter
Duke Gone Rogue (Love on Holiday, #1)
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
A Scoundrel of Her Own (Sinful Wallflowers, #3)
Shadows of Swanford Abbey
Elinor: A Riveting Story Based on the Lost Colony of Roanoke (Daughters of the Lost Colony)
Murder Under Her Skin (Pentecost and Parker, #2)
Heart of the Impaler
The Redemption of Philip Thane (The Penhallow Dynasty, #6)
Girls Before Earls (Rogues to Lovers, #1)
Fortune Favors the Duke (Cambridge Brotherhood, #1)
The Rebel and the Rake (League of Scoundrels, #2)
North of the Stars
The Four Winds
Circe
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2)
Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
Mexican Gothic
The Last Rose of Shanghai
Flying Angels
The Happiest Man on Earth
The Storyteller of Casablanca
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Northern Spy
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Skylark's Secret
Murder at Teal's Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks
The Book Thief
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
All the Light We Cannot See
Pride and Prejudice
The Diary of a Young Girl
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Help
The Song of Achilles
The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Nightingale
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)

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