Historical fiction

Abandoning the Script

By Linda Rosen ,

Loved by 23 people

Wolf Hall

By Hilary Mantel ,

Loved by 23 people

Atonement

By Ian McEwan ,

Serpent Visions

Abandoning the Script

By Linda Rosen ,

Dulcinea

Loved by 22 people

Their Eyes Were Watching God

By Zora Neale Hurston ,

Loved by 20 people

The Count of Monte Cristo

By Alexandre Dumas , Robin Buss (translator) ,

Serpent Visions

Abandoning the Script

By Linda Rosen ,

Dulcinea

Ashes and Ruins

Loved by 19 people

And Then There Were None

By Agatha Christie ,

Loved by 18 people

The Color Purple

By Alice Walker ,

Dulcinea

Ashes and Ruins

Serpent Visions

Abandoning the Script

By Linda Rosen ,

Dulcinea

Ashes and Ruins

Ancient Evenings

Loved by 17 people

Kindred

By Octavia E. Butler ,

Loved by 16 people

Crocodile on the Sandbank

By Elizabeth Peters ,

Loved by 15 people

The Da Vinci Code

By Dan Brown ,

Loved by 14 people

The Secret Garden

By Frances Hodgson Burnett , Tasha Tudor (illustrator) ,

Serpent Visions

Abandoning the Script

By Linda Rosen ,

Dulcinea

Ashes and Ruins

Ancient Evenings

Written in Blood

A Most Improper Summer

Loved by 14 people

The Kite Runner

By Khaled Hosseini ,

Ashes and Ruins

Ancient Evenings

Written in Blood

Loved by 14 people

The Shadow of the Wind

By Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Lucia Graves (translator) ,

Ancient Evenings

Written in Blood

Loved by 14 people

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By Mary Ann Shaffer , Annie Barrows ,

Loved by 14 people

Dissolution

By C.J. Sansom ,

Loved by 14 people

Fingersmith

By Sarah Waters ,

Loved by 14 people

War and Peace

By Leo Tolstoy , Richard Pevear (translator) , Larissa Volokhonsky (translator)

Ancient Evenings

Written in Blood

A Most Improper Summer

A Haunting at Venus Bay

Serpent Visions

Abandoning the Script

By Linda Rosen ,

Dulcinea

Ashes and Ruins

Ancient Evenings

Written in Blood

A Most Improper Summer

A Haunting at Venus Bay

The Wondrous Springs of Balmorhea

Sea and Stars

Loved by 13 people

Cold Mountain

By Charles Frazier ,

Loved by 13 people

Cloud Atlas

By David Mitchell ,

A Most Improper Summer

A Haunting at Venus Bay

Loved by 13 people

The Sun Also Rises

By Ernest Hemingway ,

Loved by 13 people

The Joy Luck Club

By Amy Tan ,

A Most Improper Summer

A Haunting at Venus Bay

The Wondrous Springs of Balmorhea

Loved by 12 people

Suite Française

By Irene Nemirovsky ,

Written in Blood

A Most Improper Summer

A Haunting at Venus Bay

The Wondrous Springs of Balmorhea

Sea and Stars

Loved by 12 people

Stories of Your Life and Others

By Ted Chiang ,

Loved by 12 people

The Secret Life of Bees

By Sue Monk Kidd ,

Loved by 12 people

The Thirteenth Tale

By Diane Setterfield ,

The Wondrous Springs of Balmorhea

Sea and Stars

Loved by 12 people

Eye of the Needle

By Ken Follett ,

Loved by 12 people

Shutter Island

By Dennis Lehane ,

Serpent Visions

Abandoning the Script

By Linda Rosen ,

Dulcinea

Ashes and Ruins

Ancient Evenings

Written in Blood

A Most Improper Summer

A Haunting at Venus Bay

The Wondrous Springs of Balmorhea

Sea and Stars

Fables & Lies

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

The Golden Promise of Cripple Creek

Wheel Man

The Bootlegger's Betrayal

Loved by 11 people

Life and Fate

By Vasily Grossman ,

Loved by 11 people

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By Milan Kundera ,

The Wondrous Springs of Balmorhea

Sea and Stars

Fables & Lies

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

Loved by 11 people

Year of Wonders

By Geraldine Brooks ,

Sea and Stars

Fables & Lies

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

Loved by 11 people

The Other Boleyn Girl

By Philippa Gregory ,

Fables & Lies

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

Loved by 10 people

The Little Stranger

By Sarah Waters ,

A Haunting at Venus Bay

The Wondrous Springs of Balmorhea

Sea and Stars

Fables & Lies

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

The Golden Promise of Cripple Creek

Wheel Man

Loved by 10 people

Small Island

By Andrea Levy ,

Loved by 10 people

A Thousand Splendid Suns

By Khaled Hosseini ,

Loved by 10 people

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

By Michael Chabon ,

Loved by 10 people

Bel Canto

By Ann Patchett ,

Loved by 9 people

The Call of the Wild

By Jack London ,

The Golden Promise of Cripple Creek

Wheel Man

Fables & Lies

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

The Golden Promise of Cripple Creek

Wheel Man

The Bootlegger's Betrayal

Loved by 9 people

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

By Jamie Ford ,

Loved by 9 people

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

By Alan Bradley ,

The Golden Promise of Cripple Creek

Wheel Man

The Bootlegger's Betrayal

Loved by 9 people

Maisie Dobbs

By Jacqueline Winspear ,

Loved by 8 people

A Journal of the Plague Year

By Daniel Defoe ,

The Golden Promise of Cripple Creek

Wheel Man

The Bootlegger's Betrayal

Fried Chicken Castañeda

Loved by 8 people

The Known World

By Edward P. Jones ,

Loved by 8 people

The Last Kingdom

By Bernard Cornwell ,

The Bootlegger's Betrayal

Fried Chicken Castañeda

Loved by 8 people

Her Royal Spyness

By Rhys Bowen ,

Loved by 8 people

Sea of Poppies

By Amitav Ghosh ,

Loved by 8 people

Girl with a Pearl Earring

By Tracy Chevalier ,

Loved by 8 people

Pompeii

By Robert Harris ,

Fables & Lies

Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

The Golden Promise of Cripple Creek

Wheel Man

The Bootlegger's Betrayal

Fried Chicken Castañeda

We Are Made

By John Ludlam ,

Plow

By Saz Keukan,

The All-Girl, No Man Little Darlin's

War and Preservation

Loved by 7 people

City of Thieves

By David Benioff ,

Fried Chicken Castañeda

We Are Made

By John Ludlam ,

Plow

By Saz Keukan,

Loved by 7 people

Passing

By Nella Larsen ,

We Are Made

By John Ludlam ,

Plow

By Saz Keukan,

Loved by 7 people

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

By Michael Chabon ,

Loved by 7 people

The Feast of the Goat

By Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman (translator) ,

Loved by 7 people

Gulliver's Travels

By Jonathan Swift ,

Fried Chicken Castañeda

We Are Made

By John Ludlam ,

Plow

By Saz Keukan,

The All-Girl, No Man Little Darlin's

War and Preservation

Loved by 7 people

Rosemary's Baby

By Ira Levin ,

We Are Made

By John Ludlam ,

Plow

By Saz Keukan,

The All-Girl, No Man Little Darlin's

War and Preservation

The Bootlegger's Betrayal

Fried Chicken Castañeda

We Are Made

By John Ludlam ,

Plow

By Saz Keukan,

The All-Girl, No Man Little Darlin's

War and Preservation

Lake Song

Loved by 7 people

The Master

By Colm Toίbίn ,

Loved by 7 people

The Help

By Kathryn Stockett ,

The All-Girl, No Man Little Darlin's

War and Preservation

Loved by 7 people

Half of a Yellow Sun

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ,

Loved by 7 people

Labyrinth

By Kate Mosse ,

The All-Girl, No Man Little Darlin's

War and Preservation

Lake Song

Loved by 6 people

March

By Geraldine Brooks ,

Loved by 6 people

The Sheltering Sky

By Paul Bowles ,

Loved by 6 people

Esperanza Rising

By Pam Muñoz Ryan ,

Loved by 6 people

Madame Bovary

By Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall (translator) ,

Lake Song

The Lyon's Last Chance

By Edie Cay ,

Loved by 6 people

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By Mark Twain ,

Loved by 6 people

Frenchman's Creek

By Daphne du Maurier ,

Loved by 6 people

Affinity

By Sarah Waters ,

Loved by 6 people

The Penelopiad

By Margaret Atwood ,

Lake Song

The Lyon's Last Chance

By Edie Cay ,

Margery and Me

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Loved by 6 people

The Good Earth

By Pearl S. Buck ,

The Lyon's Last Chance

By Edie Cay ,

Margery and Me

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Loved by 6 people

What Is the What

By Dave Eggers ,

Margery and Me

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Lake Song

The Lyon's Last Chance

By Edie Cay ,

Margery and Me

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Bessie

By Linda Kass ,

Loved by 6 people

Enemy Women

By Paulette Jiles ,

Loved by 6 people

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By Thomas Hardy , Simon Gatrell (editor) , Juliet Grindle (editor)

Loved by 5 people

The Bronze Horseman

By Paullina Simons ,

Loved by 5 people

The Plot Against America

By Philip Roth ,

Loved by 5 people

The Blue Flower

By Penelope Fitzgerald ,

Fried Chicken Castañeda

We Are Made

By John Ludlam ,

Plow

By Saz Keukan,

The All-Girl, No Man Little Darlin's

War and Preservation

Lake Song

The Lyon's Last Chance

By Edie Cay ,

Margery and Me

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Bessie

By Linda Kass ,

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Jurassic Girl

Satan's Diary

The Viscount's Pearl

Loved by 5 people

Austerlitz

By W.G. Sebald ,

Bessie

By Linda Kass ,

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

Loved by 5 people

The Historian

By Elizabeth Kostova ,

The Lyon's Last Chance

By Edie Cay ,

Margery and Me

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Bessie

By Linda Kass ,

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Jurassic Girl

Loved by 5 people

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

By Marina Lewycka ,

Bessie

By Linda Kass ,

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Loved by 5 people

Sarah's Key

By Tatiana De Rosnay ,

Loved by 5 people

Death on the Nile

By Agatha Christie ,

Bessie

By Linda Kass ,

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Jurassic Girl

Lake Song

The Lyon's Last Chance

By Edie Cay ,

Margery and Me

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Bessie

By Linda Kass ,

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Jurassic Girl

Satan's Diary

The Viscount's Pearl

Loved by 5 people

The Crimson Petal and the White

By Michel Faber ,

Loved by 5 people

Birds Without Wings

By Louis De Bernieres ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Jurassic Girl

Loved by 5 people

The Terror

By Dan Simmons ,

Loved by 5 people

The Lacuna

By Barbara Kingsolver ,

Loved by 4 people

Eagle in the Snow

By Wallace Breem ,

City of the Muse

By Kate Hilton ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Jurassic Girl

Satan's Diary

The Viscount's Pearl

Loved by 4 people

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

By Lisa See ,

Loved by 4 people

The Go-Between

By L. P. Hartley ,

Jurassic Girl

Satan's Diary

The Viscount's Pearl

Loved by 4 people

Some Danger Involved

By Will Thomas ,

Satan's Diary

The Viscount's Pearl

Loved by 4 people

What Angels Fear

By C. S. Harris ,

Loved by 4 people

The Forgotten Garden

By Kate Morton ,

Loved by 4 people

Child 44

By Tom Rob Smith ,

Loved by 4 people

The Templar Legacy

By Steve Berry ,

Satan's Diary

The Viscount's Pearl

Stan on Guard

By K.R. Wilson ,

The Last Whaler

Loved by 4 people

On Stranger Tides

By Tim Powers ,

Loved by 4 people

The Enchanted April

By Elizabeth von Arnim ,

Stan on Guard

By K.R. Wilson ,

The Last Whaler

Loved by 4 people

Cocaine Blues

By Kerry Greenwood ,

Loved by 4 people

The Hummingbird's Daughter

By Luis Alberto Urrea ,

Stan on Guard

By K.R. Wilson ,

The Last Whaler

Catching It Lovely

Loved by 4 people

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

By Louise Erdrich ,

Loved by 4 people

How I Live Now

By Meg Rosoff ,

Satan's Diary

The Viscount's Pearl

Stan on Guard

By K.R. Wilson ,

The Last Whaler

Catching It Lovely

Lady of the Quay

By Amanda Roberts ,

These Empty Places

By Sarah Loudin Thomas ,

Loved by 4 people

Native Son

By Richard Wright ,

Loved by 4 people

Imperium

By Robert Harris ,

Catching It Lovely

Lady of the Quay

By Amanda Roberts ,

Stan on Guard

By K.R. Wilson ,

The Last Whaler

Catching It Lovely