Superbly Written Historical Fiction

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Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,024 ratings
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,239 ratings
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Girl with a Pearl Earring 3.93 avg rating — 768,700 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 227,533 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 809,471 ratings
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I, Claudius
I, Claudius 4.25 avg rating — 71,603 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
Outlander (Outlander, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 1,132,000 ratings
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Katherine
Katherine 4.21 avg rating — 35,120 ratings
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Year of Wonders
Year of Wonders 4.01 avg rating — 171,882 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,269 ratings
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The Far Pavilions
The Far Pavilions
by: M.M. Kaye
4.20 avg rating — 44,842 ratings
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 60,128 ratings
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Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 102,602 ratings
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The Sunne in Splendour
The Sunne in Splendour 4.41 avg rating — 22,485 ratings
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The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus 3.81 avg rating — 99,474 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2) 4.34 avg rating — 378,240 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,385 ratings
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Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 16,357 ratings
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Forever Amber
Forever Amber really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19,447 ratings
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Lost Love's Return
Lost Love's Return 4.25 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
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Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5)
Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5) 4.36 avg rating — 22,228 ratings
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 90,456 ratings
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The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,564 ratings
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Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)
Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 31,749 ratings
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Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3) 4.26 avg rating — 32,090 ratings
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Johnny Tremain
Johnny Tremain 3.70 avg rating — 50,452 ratings
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In the Company of the Courtesan
In the Company of the Courtesan 3.79 avg rating — 25,811 ratings
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Revelation (Matthew Shardlake #4)
Revelation (Matthew Shardlake #4) 4.37 avg rating — 26,667 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,904,644 ratings
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My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,867 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,113 ratings
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The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 23,948 ratings
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The Winthrop Woman
The Winthrop Woman 4.12 avg rating — 6,701 ratings
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The Historian
The Historian 3.80 avg rating — 273,581 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,751,998 ratings
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Remarkable Creatures
Remarkable Creatures 3.89 avg rating — 54,484 ratings
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The Secret Magdalene
The Secret Magdalene 4.14 avg rating — 4,706 ratings
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Cobweb Bride (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, #1)
Cobweb Bride (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 2,443 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
Forty-Ninth 4.13 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Green Darkness
Green Darkness 3.97 avg rating — 6,873 ratings
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Imperium (Cicero, #1)
Imperium (Cicero, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 39,322 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
Voyager (Outlander, #3) 4.39 avg rating — 325,472 ratings
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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 269,006 ratings
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The Course of Honor
The Course of Honor 4.15 avg rating — 1,908 ratings
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Caesar (Masters of Rome, #5)
Caesar (Masters of Rome, #5) 4.40 avg rating — 8,267 ratings
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The Sultan's Harem
The Sultan's Harem 4.03 avg rating — 6,597 ratings
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Possession
Possession 3.90 avg rating — 83,121 ratings
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Slammerkin
Slammerkin 3.75 avg rating — 17,130 ratings
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The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)
The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3) 3.82 avg rating — 76,905 ratings
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The Last Sunset
The Last Sunset 4.17 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Mara, Daughter of the Nile
Mara, Daughter of the Nile 4.25 avg rating — 13,372 ratings
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Queen Margot
Queen Margot 4.16 avg rating — 14,269 ratings
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Restoration
Restoration 3.98 avg rating — 6,654 ratings
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A Suitable Wife (The Fitzgeralds of Dublin, #2)
A Suitable Wife (The Fitzgeralds of Dublin, #2) 4.38 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Bones of Avalon (John Dee Papers #1)
The Bones of Avalon (John Dee Papers #1) 3.69 avg rating — 1,964 ratings
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 120,559 ratings
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 4.03 avg rating — 66,779 ratings
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The Grass Crown (Masters of Rome, #2)
The Grass Crown (Masters of Rome, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 13,048 ratings
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Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey 3.98 avg rating — 34,675 ratings
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 4.30 avg rating — 499,221 ratings
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The Glass-Blowers
The Glass-Blowers 3.71 avg rating — 3,047 ratings
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Galiene: A Twelfth-Century Tale of Love and War (The Butterfly Chronicles Book 1)
Galiene: A Twelfth-Century Tale of Love and War (The Butterfly Chronicles Book 1) 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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On the Edge of Daylight
On the Edge of Daylight 4.23 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Not Just Yet. Egypt 2011: News - Incidents - Causes
Not Just Yet. Egypt 2011: News - Incidents - Causes 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Into the Unknown
Into the Unknown 4.18 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Conquest of Gaul (Marching With Caesar #2)
Conquest of Gaul (Marching With Caesar #2) 4.26 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
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A Scarlet Woman (The Fitzgeralds of Dublin, #1)
A Scarlet Woman (The Fitzgeralds of Dublin, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Domingo's Angel
Domingo's Angel 4.59 avg rating — 92 ratings
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A Discarded Son (The Fitzgeralds of Dublin, #3)
A Discarded Son (The Fitzgeralds of Dublin, #3) 4.43 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Sister Mother Warrior
Sister Mother Warrior 3.93 avg rating — 813 ratings
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A Forlorn Hope (The Fitzgeralds of Dublin, #4)
A Forlorn Hope (The Fitzgeralds of Dublin, #4) 4.44 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Fortune's Favorites (Masters of Rome, #3)
Fortune's Favorites (Masters of Rome, #3) 4.40 avg rating — 8,603 ratings
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1) 4.32 avg rating — 340,742 ratings
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Heart of the West
Heart of the West 4.10 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 92,488 ratings
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,227 ratings
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The Red Garden
The Red Garden 3.74 avg rating — 24,885 ratings
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A Place of Greater Safety
A Place of Greater Safety really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11,444 ratings
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Everything is Illuminated
Everything is Illuminated 3.89 avg rating — 182,764 ratings
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Der Schatten des Windes (Der Friedhof der Vergessenen Bücher, #1)
Der Schatten des Windes (Der Friedhof der Vergessenen Bücher, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 696,724 ratings
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The Snow Child
The Snow Child 4.01 avg rating — 166,413 ratings
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Tipping the Velvet
Tipping the Velvet 4.05 avg rating — 76,490 ratings
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The Fig Orchard
The Fig Orchard 4.14 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Will Poole's Island
Will Poole's Island
by: Tim Weed
4.09 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The False Men
The False Men 4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Origins (Song of the King's Heart, #1)
Origins (Song of the King's Heart, #1) 4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Eternal
Eternal 4.29 avg rating — 43,050 ratings
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Notes of Oisin: From an Irish Monk to a Skaldic Poet
Notes of Oisin: From an Irish Monk to a Skaldic Poet 4.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Leopard Vanguard (Leopard King Saga, #1)
The Leopard Vanguard (Leopard King Saga, #1)
by: T.A. Uner
3.97 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Anything But Treason (Adventures of a Victorian Soldier #1)
Anything But Treason (Adventures of a Victorian Soldier #1) 4.15 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Religion (Tannhauser, #1)
The Religion (Tannhauser, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 3,469 ratings
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Barbarian (Forgotten Legends of the Germanic Peoples Book 1)
Barbarian (Forgotten Legends of the Germanic Peoples Book 1) 4.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Roots of Betrayal (Clarenceux, #2)
The Roots of Betrayal (Clarenceux, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 592 ratings
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The House at the Edge of Night
The House at the Edge of Night 3.98 avg rating — 13,106 ratings
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When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 17,212 ratings
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Follow the River
Follow the River 4.23 avg rating — 22,888 ratings
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The Return of Captain John Emmett
The Return of Captain John Emmett 3.69 avg rating — 3,379 ratings
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Garden of Beasts
Garden of Beasts 3.90 avg rating — 7,153 ratings
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A Cruel Mischief (The Fitzgeralds of Dublin, #5)
A Cruel Mischief (The Fitzgeralds of Dublin, #5) 4.48 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander, #8)
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander, #8) 4.55 avg rating — 137,532 ratings
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