Historical fiction

Miriam in the Shadows

By John Winn Miller,

Loved by 29 people

Lonesome Dove

By Larry McMurtry ,

Loved by 26 people

The Pillars of the Earth

By Ken Follett ,

The Map Colorist

Miriam in the Shadows

By John Winn Miller,

Steel Butterflies

Loved by 25 people

The Poisonwood Bible

By Barbara Kingsolver ,

Loved by 24 people

The Remains of the Day

By Kazuo Ishiguro ,

The Map Colorist

Miriam in the Shadows

By John Winn Miller,

Steel Butterflies

These Empty Places

Loved by 22 people

Catch-22

By Joseph Heller ,

Loved by 22 people

Blood Meridian

By Cormac McCarthy ,

Steel Butterflies

These Empty Places

The Map Colorist

Miriam in the Shadows

By John Winn Miller,

Steel Butterflies

These Empty Places

Written in Blood

Loved by 20 people

Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy ,

Loved by 19 people

The Name of the Rose

By Umberto Eco , William Weaver (translator) ,

Loved by 18 people

Regeneration

By Pat Barker ,

Loved by 18 people

The Time Machine

By H.G. Wells ,

The Map Colorist

Miriam in the Shadows

By John Winn Miller,

Steel Butterflies

These Empty Places

Written in Blood

The Swordsman of Venice

By Rob Samborn ,

The Hannah Document

By Laura Swan ,

Loved by 18 people

Gates of Fire

By Steven Pressfield ,

These Empty Places

Written in Blood

The Swordsman of Venice

By Rob Samborn ,

Loved by 17 people

The Killer Angels

By Michael Shaara ,

Written in Blood

The Swordsman of Venice

By Rob Samborn ,

Loved by 14 people

The Winter King

By Bernard Cornwell ,

Loved by 14 people

The Quiet American

By Graham Greene ,

Loved by 13 people

Master and Commander

By Patrick O'Brian ,

Loved by 12 people

Doomsday Book

By Connie Willis ,

Written in Blood

The Swordsman of Venice

By Rob Samborn ,

The Hannah Document

By Laura Swan ,

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

The Map Colorist

Miriam in the Shadows

By John Winn Miller,

Steel Butterflies

These Empty Places

Written in Blood

The Swordsman of Venice

By Rob Samborn ,

The Hannah Document

By Laura Swan ,

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

Haggard House

Jurassic Girl

Loved by 12 people

Devil in a Blue Dress

By Walter Mosley ,

Loved by 12 people

Alias Grace

By Margaret Atwood ,

The Hannah Document

By Laura Swan ,

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

Loved by 11 people

All the Pretty Horses

By Cormac McCarthy ,

Loved by 11 people

I Capture the Castle

By Dodie Smith ,

The Hannah Document

By Laura Swan ,

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

Haggard House

Loved by 11 people

The English Patient

By Michael Ondaatje ,

The Swordsman of Venice

By Rob Samborn ,

The Hannah Document

By Laura Swan ,

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

Haggard House

Jurassic Girl

Loved by 10 people

The Leopard

By Giuseppe Di Lampedusa ,

Loved by 10 people

Possession

By A. S. Byatt ,

Loved by 10 people

Where the Red Fern Grows

By Wilson Rawls ,

Haggard House

Jurassic Girl

Loved by 10 people

The Alienist

By Caleb Carr ,

Loved by 9 people

The First Man in Rome

By Colleen McCullough ,

The Map Colorist

Miriam in the Shadows

By John Winn Miller,

Steel Butterflies

These Empty Places

Written in Blood

The Swordsman of Venice

By Rob Samborn ,

The Hannah Document

By Laura Swan ,

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

Haggard House

Jurassic Girl

Death and a Crocodile

Margery and Me

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

Mirrors & Smoke

By Adrienne Stevenson,

Sea and Stars

Loved by 9 people

The Red Tent

By Anita Diamant ,

Loved by 9 people

Memoirs of a Geisha

By Arthur Golden ,

Haggard House

Jurassic Girl

Death and a Crocodile

Margery and Me

Loved by 8 people

The Sorrow of War

By Bảo Ninh ,

Jurassic Girl

Death and a Crocodile

Margery and Me

Loved by 8 people

Independent People

By Halldor Laxness ,

Death and a Crocodile

Margery and Me

Loved by 8 people

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

By Laurie R. King ,

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

Haggard House

Jurassic Girl

Death and a Crocodile

Margery and Me

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

Mirrors & Smoke

By Adrienne Stevenson,

Loved by 8 people

A Morbid Taste for Bones

By Ellis Peters ,

Loved by 8 people

Tipping the Velvet

By Sarah Waters ,

Loved by 8 people

A Prayer for Owen Meany

By John Irving ,

Loved by 7 people

Timeline

By Michael Crichton ,

Loved by 7 people

The Sparrow

By Mary Doria Russell ,

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

Mirrors & Smoke

By Adrienne Stevenson,

Death and a Crocodile

Margery and Me

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

Mirrors & Smoke

By Adrienne Stevenson,

Sea and Stars

Loved by 6 people

The Winds of War

By Herman Wouk ,

Loved by 6 people

Redeeming Love

By Francine Rivers ,

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

Mirrors & Smoke

By Adrienne Stevenson,

Sea and Stars

Loved by 6 people

Outer Dark

By Cormac McCarthy ,

Loved by 6 people

Ulysses

By James Joyce ,

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

Mirrors & Smoke

By Adrienne Stevenson,

Sea and Stars

The Viscount's Pearl

Loved by 6 people

A Thousand Acres

By Jane Smiley ,

Loved by 6 people

Dinosaurs Before Dark

By Mary Pope Osborne , Sal Murdocca (illustrator) ,

Sea and Stars

The Viscount's Pearl

Loved by 6 people

Musashi

By Eiji Yoshikawa , Charles Terry (translator) ,

Loved by 6 people

The Lions of Al-Rassan

By Guy Gavriel Kay ,

Loved by 5 people

The Power and the Glory

By Graham Greene ,

Loved by 5 people

Robinson Crusoe

By Daniel Defoe ,

Death and a Crocodile

Margery and Me

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

Mirrors & Smoke

By Adrienne Stevenson,

Sea and Stars

The Viscount's Pearl

Murders in the Marquee

Almost Home

The Golden Land

Brideen

Loved by 5 people

An Instance of the Fingerpost

By Iain Pears ,

The Viscount's Pearl

Murders in the Marquee

Almost Home

Loved by 5 people

Berlin Noir

By Philip Kerr ,

Murders in the Marquee

Almost Home

Loved by 5 people

Cryptonomicon

By Neal Stephenson ,

Loved by 5 people

Candide

By Voltaire ,

Loved by 5 people

The Age of Light

By Whitney Scharer ,

The Viscount's Pearl

Murders in the Marquee

Almost Home

The Golden Land

Brideen

Loved by 5 people

The Shipping News

By Annie Proulx ,

Murders in the Marquee

Almost Home

The Golden Land

Brideen

Sea and Stars

The Viscount's Pearl

Murders in the Marquee

Almost Home

The Golden Land

Brideen

Fried Chicken Castañeda

Loved by 5 people

Another Country

By James Baldwin ,

Loved by 4 people

Berlin Diary

By William L. Shirer ,

The Golden Land

Brideen

Loved by 4 people

My Ántonia

By Willa Cather ,

Loved by 4 people

Sharpe's Tiger

By Bernard Cornwell ,

The Golden Land

Brideen

Fried Chicken Castañeda

Loved by 4 people

The Radetzky March

By Joseph Roth , Joachim Neugroschel (translator) ,

Loved by 4 people

The Face of a Stranger

By Anne Perry ,

Loved by 4 people

Murder Must Advertise

By Dorothy L. Sayers ,

Loved by 4 people

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

By Jane Smiley ,

Fried Chicken Castañeda

Church Shoes

Loved by 4 people

Catherine, Called Birdy

By Karen Cushman ,

Loved by 4 people

The Thirty-Nine Steps

By John Buchan ,

Loved by 4 people

One Thousand White Women

By Jim Fergus ,

Loved by 4 people

To Say Nothing of the Dog

By Connie Willis ,

Fried Chicken Castañeda

Church Shoes

The Thornwyck Rose

By Lauren Lee Merewether,

Congress's Cryptographer

Loved by 4 people

The Bone Houses

By Emily Lloyd-Jones ,

Church Shoes

The Thornwyck Rose

By Lauren Lee Merewether,

Congress's Cryptographer

Loved by 4 people

Kingdom of the Wicked

By Kerri Maniscalco ,

The Thornwyck Rose

By Lauren Lee Merewether,

Congress's Cryptographer

Fried Chicken Castañeda

Church Shoes

The Thornwyck Rose

By Lauren Lee Merewether,

Congress's Cryptographer

Wheel Man

Loved by 4 people

Little House on the Prairie

By Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams (illustrator) ,

Loved by 4 people

Absalom, Absalom!

By William Faulkner ,

Loved by 4 people

American Pastoral

By Philip Roth ,

Loved by 4 people

The Famished Road

By Ben Okri ,

Loved by 4 people

A Place of Greater Safety

By Hilary Mantel ,

The Viscount's Pearl

Murders in the Marquee

Almost Home

The Golden Land

Brideen

Fried Chicken Castañeda

Church Shoes

The Thornwyck Rose

By Lauren Lee Merewether,

Congress's Cryptographer

Wheel Man

Crossing

Voices on the Wind

Serpent Visions

The Woman and Her Stars

By Penny Haw ,

A Most Improper Summer

Loved by 4 people

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By Baroness Emmuska Orczy ,

Wheel Man

Crossing

Loved by 4 people

Night Watch

By Jayne Anne Phillips ,

Church Shoes

The Thornwyck Rose

By Lauren Lee Merewether,

Congress's Cryptographer

Wheel Man

Crossing

Voices on the Wind

Serpent Visions

Loved by 3 people

Uncle Tom's Cabin

By Harriet Beecher Stowe ,

Wheel Man

Crossing

Voices on the Wind

Loved by 3 people

River God

By Wilbur Smith ,

Loved by 3 people

The Memoirs of Cleopatra

By Margaret George ,

Wheel Man

Crossing

Voices on the Wind

Serpent Visions

Fried Chicken Castañeda

Church Shoes

The Thornwyck Rose

By Lauren Lee Merewether,

Congress's Cryptographer

Wheel Man

Crossing

Voices on the Wind

Serpent Visions

The Woman and Her Stars

By Penny Haw ,

A Most Improper Summer

Loved by 3 people

Morality Play

By Barry Unsworth ,

Loved by 3 people

Bleak House

By Charles Dickens ,

Voices on the Wind

Serpent Visions

Loved by 3 people

Sophie's World

By Jostein Gaarder , Paulette Møller (translator) ,

Loved by 3 people

A Free Man of Color

By Barbara Hambly ,

Loved by 3 people

I Am David

By Anne Holm , L.W. Kingsland (translator) ,

Crossing

Voices on the Wind

Serpent Visions

The Woman and Her Stars

By Penny Haw ,

A Most Improper Summer

Loved by 3 people

These is My Words

By Nancy E. Turner ,

Loved by 3 people

War of the Rats

By David L. Robbins ,

Serpent Visions

The Woman and Her Stars

By Penny Haw ,

A Most Improper Summer

Loved by 3 people

Under the Wide and Starry Sky

By Nancy Horan ,

The Woman and Her Stars

By Penny Haw ,

A Most Improper Summer

Loved by 3 people

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

By Christopher Paul Curtis ,

Loved by 3 people

The Innocent

By Ian McEwan ,

Loved by 3 people

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By Victor Hugo , Lucy Corvino (illustrator) ,

Loved by 3 people

The Loser

By Thomas Bernhard ,

The Woman and Her Stars

By Penny Haw ,

A Most Improper Summer

The Last Whaler

The Ginseng Girl

By Ruth Talbot ,

Loved by 3 people

Enigma

By Robert Harris ,

Loved by 3 people

The Light in the Forest

By Conrad Richter ,

The Last Whaler

The Ginseng Girl

By Ruth Talbot ,

Loved by 3 people

Was

By Geoff Ryman ,

Loved by 3 people

Mapp and Lucia

By E.F. Benson ,

The Last Whaler

The Ginseng Girl

By Ruth Talbot ,

Dulcinea

Loved by 3 people

Charlotte Gray

By Sebastian Faulks ,

Loved by 3 people

The Last Camel Died at Noon

By Elizabeth Peters ,

The Woman and Her Stars

By Penny Haw ,

A Most Improper Summer

The Last Whaler

The Ginseng Girl

By Ruth Talbot ,

Dulcinea

Satan's Diary

By Nicholas Ponticello ,

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

By Amanda Cockrell ,

Loved by 3 people

Good Night, Mr. Tom

By Michelle Magorian ,

Loved by 3 people

Voss

By Patrick White ,

Dulcinea

Satan's Diary

By Nicholas Ponticello ,

The Last Whaler

The Ginseng Girl

By Ruth Talbot ,

Dulcinea