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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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The Bright Sword
Ne'er Duke Well
In the Lonely Hours
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)
Masquerade
The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish
Daughters of Olympus
We Burn Daylight
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp
Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)
Navola
The Melancholy of Untold History
A Thousand Times Before
The Modern Fairies
The Four Winds
Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
A Calamity of Souls
The Cliffs
Mexican Gothic
Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2)
The Paris Novel
Long Island Compromise
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
The Quarry Girls
The Lost Letters of Aisling
The Sun Sister (The Seven Sisters, #6)
A Happier Life
The Happiest Man on Earth
The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
The Buy-In by Emma St. ClairSummerhaven by Tiffany OdekirkThe Bluff by Emma St. ClairHunted by K.M. SheaEloise and the Grump Next Door by Emma St. Clair
2022 Swoony Awards
524 books — 618 voters
The Diamond Eye by Kate QuinnThe Mayfair Bookshop by Eliza KnightThe Hacienda by Isabel CañasThe Next Ship Home by Heather  WebbThe Lives of Diamond Bessie by Jody Hadlock
Historical Fiction 2022
409 books — 443 voters

Just Don't Fall by Emma St. ClairForever Fidelity by Ginny SterlingHow to Kiss Your Enemy by Jenny ProctorThe Pocket Pair by Emma St. ClairA Holly Jilly Christmas by Emma St. Clair
2023 Swoony Awards
758 books — 769 voters
The Hunter by L.J. ShenA Secret for a Secret by Helena HuntingSecret Keeper by Christopher   HarlanQueen Move by Kennedy RyanCocksure Ace by K. Webster
May 2020 Most-Anticipated Romances
223 books — 2,691 voters

The Huntress by Kate QuinnThe Island of Sea Women by Lisa SeeThe Lost Girls of Paris by Pam JenoffLost Roses by Martha Hall KellyAmerican Princess by Stephanie Marie Thornton
Historical Fiction 2019
414 books — 718 voters
America's First Daughter by Stephanie DrayThe Secret Language of Stones by M.J. RoseThe Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie BenjaminThe Vatican Princess by C.W. GortnerLilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Historical Fiction 2016
337 books — 897 voters

The Book Thief
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
All the Light We Cannot See
The Song of Achilles
Pride and Prejudice
The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Nightingale
The Help
Memoirs of a Geisha
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2)
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)

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