Historical Fiction

Invented stories set in real periods of the past, bringing another time and place to life around their characters.

Historical Fiction books shared by readers across our community.

Circe
Madeline Miller
Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian
3.5
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
Blue at the Mizzen
Patrick O'Brian
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Clarissa Oakes
Patrick O'Brian
Comanche Moon
Larry McMurtry
Desolation Island
Patrick O'Brian
H.M.S. Surprise
Patrick O'Brian
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Patrick O'Brian The Making of the Novelist
Nikolai Tolstoy
Post Captain
Patrick O'Brian
Regeneration
Pat Barker
The Commodore
Patrick O'Brian
The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker
The Far Side of the World
Patrick O'Brian
The Fortune of War
Patrick O'Brian
The Ghost Road
Pat Barker
The Hundred Days
Patrick O'Brian
The Ionian Mission
Patrick O'Brian
The Letter of Marque
Patrick O'Brian
The Mauritius Command
Patrick O'Brian
The Nutmeg of Consolation
Patrick O'Brian
The Reverse of the Medal
Patrick O'Brian
The Surgeon's Mate
Patrick O'Brian
The Thirteen-Gun Salute
Patrick O'Brian
The Wine-Dark Sea
Patrick O'Brian
The Yellow Admiral
Patrick O'Brian
Treason's Harbour
Patrick O'Brian
World Without End
Ken Follett
A Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
Daughter of the Red Deer
Joan Wolf
Go Set A Watchman
Harper Lee
Little Town on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally
Take A Girl Like You
Kingsley Amis
The Call of the Wild / White Fang
Jack London
The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett
The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
The Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel
The North Water
Ian McGuire
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Water For Elephants
Sara Gruen
Winter Days in the Big Woods (My First Little House Books)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell
How to Be Both
Ali Smith
Let Me Die in His Footsteps
Lori Roy
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
May We Be Forgiven
A. M. Homes
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
Perfume
Patrick Süskind
Possession
A. S. Byatt
Property
Valerie Martin
Rites of Passage
William Golding
Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth
Small Island
Andrea Levy
Staying On
Paul Scott
The Bottoms
Joe R. Lansdale
The Janissary Tree
Jason Goodwin
The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver
The Prestige
Christopher Priest
The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
The Siege of Krishnapur
J. G. Farrell
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis
When I Lived in Modern Times
Linda Grant