Most Read This Week In Historical Fiction

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 Fiction"

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Frozen River
All the Colors of the Dark
Katabasis
Malibu Rising
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Berry Pickers
The Briar Club
The Lost Apothecary
The Lion Women of Tehran
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
The Life Impossible
With a Vengeance
The Rose Code
The Bright Years
Hamnet
The Book of Lost Names
A Family Matter
Lightning in a Mason Jar
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits
Frankie
Wish You Were Here
Dream Count
Cloud Cuckoo Land
West With Giraffes
My Other Heart
Under the Stars
North Woods
The Story She Left Behind
The Glassmaker
The Marriage Portrait
A Calamity of Souls
Shuggie Bain
The Magician of Tiger Castle
The Missing Sister (The Seven Sisters, #7)
The Summer We Ran
Lapvona
The Boomerang
A Mind of Her Own
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Pineapple Street
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
The List of Suspicious Things
The Frozen People (Ali Dawson #1)
The Jackal's Mistress
The Sicilian Inheritance
The Keeper of Happy Endings
Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3)
Unspeakable Things
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
The Women on Platform Two
Flashlight
The Orphan Collector
These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)
De Camino
Grace (The Shackleford Sisters #1)
The Queens of Crime
The Secret Library of Hanna Reeves
Who Is the Liar
The Wind Knows My Name
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
The Possession of Alba Díaz
Alchemy of Secrets
The Book of Lost Friends
The Drowning Faith (The Poppy War, #2.5)
Speak to Me of Home
A Beautiful Family
Chain of Gold (The Last Hours, #1)
A Song to Drown Rivers
The Last Bookshop in London
Small Mercies
The Mighty Red
The Paris Library
La portalettere
The Hidden Girl
The Bombshell
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)
The Sky Beneath Us
Love Forms
The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
Yellow Wife
Seascraper
First Comes Scandal (Rokesbys, #4)
Earl Crush
The Italian Daughter (The Lost Daughters, #1)
We Don't Talk About Carol
Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)
Meant to Be
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Never
The Storyteller's Daughter
Rabbit Moon
Murder Your Employer (The McMasters Guide to Homicide, #1)
Greenteeth
Shelterwood

The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.
Pat Miller, Willfully Ignorant

Michael G. Kramer
The artillery fire which helped in holding off the enemy advance against the Australian positions appeared to be getting always closer. A radio operator called Vic Grice somehow replaced the antenna on Buick’s radio. That had been shot off, thus rendering the radio in-operational.
Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

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