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Historical fiction puts you inside a different time and makes it feel real. The best of it reconstructs the past with empathy as well as accuracy, giving you both a story and the world that produced it.

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Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel · 2009 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →
The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett · 1989 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Book Thief Markus Zusak · 2005 Essential Read See details →
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr · 2014 Essential Read See details →

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Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel · 2012 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
Regeneration Pat Barker · 1991 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1905 Recommended See details →
An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa May Alcott · 1869 Recommended See details →
Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare · 1734 Recommended See details →
Astoria Washington Irving · 1800 Recommended See details →
Cymbeline William Shakespeare · 1734 Recommended See details →
Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1821 Recommended See details →
Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather · 1732 Recommended See details →
Henry IV, Part 1 William Shakespeare · 1598 Recommended See details →
Henry IV, Part 2 William Shakespeare · 1600 Recommended See details →
Heretics Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1905 Recommended See details →
Huntingtower John Buchan · 1910 Recommended See details →
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet A. Jacobs · 1861 Recommended See details →
King Henry V William Shakespeare · 1600 Recommended See details →
King Henry VIII William Shakespeare · 1670 Recommended See details →
King John William Shakespeare · 1700 Recommended See details →
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens · 1800 Recommended See details →
Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore · 1656 Recommended See details →
Manon Lescaut Abbé Prévost · 1734 Recommended See details →
Memoirs of Fanny Hill John Cleland · 1749 Recommended See details →
One of Ours Willa Cather · 1922 Recommended See details →
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens · 1800 Recommended See details →
Princesse de Clèves Madame de La Fayette · 1678 Recommended See details →
Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1895 Recommended See details →
Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1920 Recommended See details →
Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott · 1817 Recommended See details →
Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle · 1896 Recommended See details →
Shirley Charlotte Brontë · 1800 Recommended See details →
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1933 Recommended See details →
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton · 1920 Recommended See details →
The Call of the Canyon Zane Grey · 1921 Recommended See details →
The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens · 1846 Recommended See details →
The Dragon and the Raven G. A. Henty · 1800 Recommended See details →
The Elusive Pimpernel (Scarlet Pimpernel) Emma Orczy · 1908 Recommended See details →
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Arthur Conan Doyle · 1896 Recommended See details →
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare · 1602 Recommended See details →
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 Recommended See details →
The Spirit of the Border Zane Grey · 1906 Recommended See details →
The Warden Anthony Trollope · 1809 Recommended See details →
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy · 1800 Recommended See details →
The Young Buglers G. A. Henty · 1880 Recommended See details →
The blue castle Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1926 Recommended See details →
The deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper · 1841 Recommended See details →
The moon and sixpence William Somerset Maugham · 1919 Recommended See details →
The pioneers James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 Recommended See details →
Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1800 Recommended See details →
Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since ... Sir Walter Scott · 1800 Recommended See details →
Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster · 1920 Recommended See details →
White Fang Jack London · 1905 Recommended See details →
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Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel · 2009 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel · 2012 Recommended See details →

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