50! Of Your Picks For Best Historical Fiction Books
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We excitedly awaited your answers to what you thought are the best historical fiction books and you did not disappoint! While I personally have a sweet spot for feminist historical mysteries like A Study In Scarlet Women and The Widows of Malabar Hill, I really love all historical fiction so I jotted down all the ones on this list I hadn’t read. And here’s your big ol’ list of best historical fiction books:
The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
Human Acts by Han Kang
Murder Between the Lines by Radha Vatsal
The Mortifications by Derek Palacio
A Death of No Importance by Mariah Fredericks
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela
The Red Tent by Anita Diamont
What the Lady Wants by Renee Rosen
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson
The Keening by Margaret Pinard
Hawaii by James Michener
Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian
Molokai by Alan Brennert
The Josephine Bonaparte Trilogy by Sandra Gulland
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
The Kingsbridge Trilogy by Ken Follett
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
The Physician by Noah Gordon
Shadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye
The Stranger Prince by Margaret Irwin
Sir John Fielding mysteries by Bruce Alexander
The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
North & South series by John Jakes
Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt
The Earl by Cecelia Holland
Aztec by Gary Jennings
Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L. Carter
Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Legacy by Susan Kay
Little by Edward Carey
