Most Read This Week In Historical

Historical fiction presents a story set in the past, often during a significant time period. In historical fiction, the time period is an important part of the setting and often of the story itself.

Historical fiction may include fictional characters, well-known historical figures or a mixture of the two. Authors of historical fiction usually pay close attention to the details of their stories (settings, clothing, dialogue, etc.) to ensure that they fit the time periods in which the narratives take place.

In some historical fiction, famous events appear from points of view not recorded in histor
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Historical"

The Four Winds
The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)
The Paris Novel
Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
A Calamity of Souls
Mexican Gothic
Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2)
The Cliffs
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Twilight Territory
The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
The Happiest Man on Earth
The Quarry Girls
A Happier Life
The Lost Letters of Aisling
These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)
Grace (The Shackleford Sisters #1)
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
The Sun Sister (The Seven Sisters, #6)
The Paris Library
Daughter of Fire
Honey
The Wind Knows My Name
Only the Brave
The Goddess of Warsaw
The Glassmaker
The Stationery Shop
Kairos
Night Watch
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
No. 23 Burlington Square
The Princess of Las Vegas
Wrong Earl, Right Dare (Wagers and Wallflowers, #7)
Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women, #1)
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
A Storm of Infinite Beauty
The Bootlegger's Daughter
Let Us Descend
Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)
Swift River
First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20)
Sunburn
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Last Secret of Lily Adams
The Boys from Biloxi
The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
A Killing on the Hill
The Curse of the Flores Women
Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
The Royal Librarian
The Secret Hours
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
The Coast Road
The Betrothed (The Betrothed, #1)
A Daughter of Fair Verona (Daughter of Montague, #1)
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
Shanghai
All the Glimmering Stars
Sisters Under the Rising Sun
Whale Fall
When the Earl Met His Match (Wedded by Scandal, #4)
Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1)
The Life She Wanted
The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
In a Single Moment
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
The Berlin Sisters
My Happy Marriage, Vol. 1
Lady in the Lake
A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock, #8)
Mayluna
Familiaris
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
A Pocket Full of Mischief (Those Very Bad Fairbanks #10)
Hope (The Shackleford Sisters, #4)
On the Way to the Wedding: 2nd Epilogue (Bridgertons, #8.5)
Mrs. Everything
악역의 엔딩은 죽음뿐 1 (Villains are Destined to Die, Vol. 1)
Forever Her Scot (Dukes Most Wanted #6)
The Divorcées
Betty
Salt & Broom
Shrines of Gaiety
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Disturbing the Dead (A Rip Through Time, #3)
Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies (Peaches and Honey, #2)
Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)
The Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1)
Close to Home
Medusa
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
The Mad Women's Ball

Michael G. Kramer
  “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.
Michael G. Kramer

Michael Tobert
Séamus’s eyebrows, like the antennae of the potato beetle but with a greater sense of grievance, poke forward as he delivers his first utterance of the morning.
Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

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