The Best Historical Fiction Books

Updated 2026-07-25 · 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 Darker Shade of Magic

   V. E. Schwab

   B E S T S E L L E R SQuantum theoryMagic
5. 5

   A Gathering of Shadows (A Darker Shade of Magic)

   V. E. Schwab

   B E S T S E L L E R SFantasyContests
6. 6

   The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

   V. E. Schwab

   B E S T S E L L E R SFictionFantasy
7. 7

   The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

   V. E. Schwab

   FictionFantasyHistorical
8. 8

   Queens and the Hive

   Edith Sitwell

   Elizabeth iQueen Of EnglandFiction
9. 9

   The Queen of Whale Cay

   Kate Summerscale

   MillionairesBiographyWomen
10. 10

    The map of love

    Ahdaf Soueif

    FictionInterracial marriageDomestic fiction
11. 11

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

    Alex Reeve

    London (england)FictionMystery & Detective
12. 12

    Empress Orchid

    Anchee Min

    FictionHistoricalGeneral
13. 13

    Pearl of China

    Anchee Min

    FictionBiographicalHistorical
14. 14

    The last empress

    Anchee Min

    FictionEmpressesHistory
15. 15

    Memory Stones

    Caroline Brothers

    FictionHistoryArgentina
16. 16

    Lost Book of the Grail

    Charlie Lovett

    FictionMystery & DetectiveGeneral
17. 17

    This Side of Brightness

    Colum Mccann

    FictionHistoricalGeneral
18. 18

    Transatlantic Novel - Bloomsbury

    C. McCann

    For The Man BookerFictionHistorical
19. 19

    The crooked maid

    Dan Vyleta

    For The Man BookerFamily secretsSurvival
20. 20

    The two Hotel Francforts

    David Leavitt

    FictionEroticaHistorical
21. 21

    Saint from Texas

    Edmund White

    FictionComing Of AgeSisters
22. 22

    Signature of All Things

    Elizabeth Gilbert

    PaintersWomen botanistsEnlightenment
23. 23

    Royals EXPORT

    Emma Forrest

    London (england)FictionHistorical
24. 24

    Mr Mac and Me

    Esther Freud

    World WarFictionEngland
25. 25

    The calligrapher's daughter

    Eugenia Kim

    FictionKoreaHistorical
26. 26

    The harbour

    Francesca Brill

    World WarFictionHong kong (china)
27. 27

    Painter of Silence

    Georgina Harding

    FictionHistoricalGeneral
28. 28

    My own dear brother

    Holly Müller

    Women’S Prize For FictionComing of ageFiction
29. 29

    Orlando King

    Isabel Colegate

    English literatureFictionHistorical
30. 30

    Cry to Dream Again

    Jane Hawking

    World warFictionRomance

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