The Best Historical Fiction Books

Updated 2026-10-07 · 30 books

Editorial introduction coming soon.

1. 1

   Leaves No Longer Green

   Arup Kumar Dutta

   FictionHistorical Fiction
2. 2

   And The Mountain Echoed [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2001] KHALED HOSSEINI

   Khaled Hosseini

   Prize For FictionCommunity lifeInterpersonal relations
3. 3

   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   FictionFamiliesLiterary
4. 4

   A Conjuring of Light

   V. E. Schwab

   FantasyMagiciansMagic
5. 5

   A Darker Shade of Magic

   V. E. Schwab

   Quantum theoryMagicFiction
6. 6

   A Gathering of Shadows (A Darker Shade of Magic)

   V. E. Schwab

   FantasyContestsMagic
7. 7

   The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

   V. E. Schwab

   FictionFantasyHistorical
8. 8

   The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

   V. E. Schwab

   FictionFantasyHistorical
9. 9

   Queens and the Hive

   Edith Sitwell

   Elizabeth iQueen Of EnglandFiction
10. 10

    The Queen of Whale Cay

    Kate Summerscale

    MillionairesBiographyWomen
11. 11

    The map of love

    Ahdaf Soueif

    FictionInterracial marriageDomestic fiction
12. 12

    The House on Half Moon Street [May 03, 2018] Reeve, Alex

    Alex Reeve

    London (england)FictionMystery & Detective
13. 13

    Empress Orchid

    Anchee Min

    FictionHistoricalGeneral
14. 14

    Pearl of China

    Anchee Min

    FictionBiographicalHistorical
15. 15

    The last empress

    Anchee Min

    FictionEmpressesHistory
16. 16

    Memory Stones

    Caroline Brothers

    FictionHistoryArgentina
17. 17

    Lost Book of the Grail

    Charlie Lovett

    FictionMystery & DetectiveGeneral
18. 18

    This Side of Brightness

    Colum Mccann

    FictionHistoricalGeneral
19. 19

    Transatlantic Novel - Bloomsbury

    C. McCann

    For The Man BookerFictionHistorical
20. 20

    The crooked maid

    Dan Vyleta

    For The Man BookerFamily secretsSurvival
21. 21

    The two Hotel Francforts

    David Leavitt

    FictionEroticaHistorical
22. 22

    Saint from Texas

    Edmund White

    FictionComing Of AgeSisters
23. 23

    Signature of All Things

    Elizabeth Gilbert

    PaintersWomen botanistsEnlightenment
24. 24

    Royals EXPORT

    Emma Forrest

    London (england)FictionHistorical
25. 25

    Mr Mac and Me

    Esther Freud

    World WarFictionEngland
26. 26

    The calligrapher's daughter

    Eugenia Kim

    FictionKoreaHistorical
27. 27

    The harbour

    Francesca Brill

    World WarFictionHong kong (china)
28. 28

    Painter of Silence

    Georgina Harding

    FictionHistoricalGeneral
29. 29

    My own dear brother

    Holly Müller

    Women’S Prize For FictionComing of ageFiction
30. 30

    Orlando King

    Isabel Colegate

    English literatureFictionHistorical

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