"Historical fiction is having a moment", said Cosmopolitan. From novels inspired by Shakespeare to clever reimaginings of ...

These novels blend the substantiated with the surreal, offering new ways to understand the past through magic, monsters and ...

History and fiction buffs will love these books. TheGamer. Best Historical Fiction Novels In 2024. Story by Alexandrea Mae Alix • 5d. H istory may be written by the victors, but historical fiction?

The wildly popular novel received rave reviews in national publications and debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times fiction bestseller list last February, where it remains at No. 6.

Our picks include new novels by Hazel Gaynor, Nell Stevens, Meg Waite Clayton, Norman Lock and Heather Clark.

Keep scrolling to discover 12 of the best historical fiction books that will magically take you back in time to the 1800s, 1900s and beyond. Happy reading! For a captivating WWII story told in ...

Between 1950 and 1979, about half of the shortlisted novels met Manshel’s definition of historical fiction. In the 1980s, though, that number jumped to 67 percent, and it’s only climbed higher ...

A joyfully anachronistic bit of historical fiction about the infamous Nine Days’ Queen Lady Jane Grey, this novel reimagines her brief reign as a charmingly tongue-in-cheek shapeshifter romance.

Alexander Manshel’s new book, Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon, out November 21, tells a similar (albeit longer) story about historical fiction’s ...

Women's History Month might be winding down, but our love for women in literature never does. That's why we've got this list of historical fiction books about incredible women for you to check out ...