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Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction is a popular literary genre where the fictional plot takes place within a setting of real historical events. Take a step back in time with dramas, romances, mysteries and fantasies set in pivotal moments of our history.

Staff Picks:

The Nightingale

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is a gripping historical fiction novel set in France during World War II. It follows...

The Women

The Women by Kristin Hannah is a compelling historical fiction novel that traces the life and experiences of a young...

The Lost Bookshop

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods invites readers into a magical world where a hidden bookshop holds secrets and forgotten...

The Four Winds

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah is a powerful historical fiction novel set during the Great Depression. It follows the...

The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller reimagines the Greek myth of Achilles through the eyes of his companion Patroclus....

James

James by Percival Everett is a historical fiction novel that intricately explores themes of identity and transformation. The narrative unwinds...

Atmosphere

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a general fiction novel that explores the intricate dynamics within a close-knit group of...

Before We Were Yours

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate is a gripping historical fiction novel that alternates between the past and present....

Historically Accurate (Fictional) Quotes:

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”


― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.”


― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.”


― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.”


― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Love is what remains when everything else is gone.”


― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds