While Goodreads put out a list of the 72 Hit Books of the Year (So Far) divided by genre, they’re also putting out separate mid-year lists, including most popular debuts, most popular horror books, and top nonfiction of 2022 so far. It also has announced the most popular historical fiction of the year so far, according to early reviews and how many users have added these titles to their “Want to Read” shelf.

Anecdotally, here at Book Riot we’ve seen a rise in demand for content about historical fiction. Luckily, there are plenty of new historical fiction titles out this year that readers can pick up now.

Here are the 15 most popular historical fiction books, according to Goodreads, that have been published so far in 2022:

the covers of the first five historical fiction books listed

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Violeta by Isabel Allende
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
The Lobotomist’s Wife by Samantha Greene Woodruff
French Braid by Anne Tyler
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart

Check out the full list of all 36 titles at Goodreads.

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