Non-Romance Historical Fiction with Female Lead

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The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,962,169 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees 4.10 avg rating — 1,337,524 ratings
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People of the Book
People of the Book 4.04 avg rating — 153,731 ratings
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Year of Wonders
Year of Wonders 4.01 avg rating — 171,881 ratings
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The Owl Killers
The Owl Killers 3.82 avg rating — 4,342 ratings
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Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 125,854 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray 4.37 avg rating — 268,414 ratings
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 278,697 ratings
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 120,558 ratings
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 4.30 avg rating — 499,223 ratings
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Someone Knows My Name
Someone Knows My Name 4.47 avg rating — 90,245 ratings
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Alias Grace
Alias Grace 4.04 avg rating — 153,263 ratings
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Remarkable Creatures
Remarkable Creatures 3.89 avg rating — 54,485 ratings
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Flow Down Like Silver
Flow Down Like Silver 4.01 avg rating — 4,508 ratings
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The Alchemist's Daughter (Bianca Goddard Mysteries, #1)
The Alchemist's Daughter (Bianca Goddard Mysteries, #1) 3.47 avg rating — 1,311 ratings
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 86,565 ratings
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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt 3.96 avg rating — 86,779 ratings
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Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 28,560 ratings
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Kristin Lavransdatter
Kristin Lavransdatter 4.31 avg rating — 13,883 ratings
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Fever
Fever 3.73 avg rating — 16,065 ratings
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Honolulu
Honolulu 4.08 avg rating — 25,160 ratings
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A Single Thread
A Single Thread 3.75 avg rating — 32,353 ratings
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The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture 3.84 avg rating — 22,631 ratings
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A Theory of Expanded Love
A Theory of Expanded Love 4.23 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 63,443 ratings
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The Midwife
The Midwife 4.03 avg rating — 883 ratings
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Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1)
Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 12,544 ratings
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The Tiger Queens: the Women of Genghis Khan
The Tiger Queens: the Women of Genghis Khan 4.25 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
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Imperial Woman
Imperial Woman 4.09 avg rating — 9,081 ratings
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The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,784 ratings
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The Jane Austen Society
The Jane Austen Society 3.73 avg rating — 50,682 ratings
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The Last Runaway
The Last Runaway 3.85 avg rating — 38,627 ratings
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Sacred Hearts
Sacred Hearts 3.79 avg rating — 13,364 ratings
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Queen Margot
Queen Margot 4.16 avg rating — 14,269 ratings
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White Gardenia
White Gardenia 3.99 avg rating — 4,723 ratings
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Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody #1)
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 77,756 ratings
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The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 180,704 ratings
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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution 3.97 avg rating — 22,305 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,337 ratings
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The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici 3.99 avg rating — 10,732 ratings
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Beloved
Beloved 3.97 avg rating — 476,964 ratings
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Girl in Translation
Girl in Translation
by: Jean Kwok
3.99 avg rating — 58,177 ratings
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The Concubine
The Concubine 3.97 avg rating — 3,214 ratings
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America's First Daughter
America's First Daughter 4.23 avg rating — 66,615 ratings
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The Christie Affair
The Christie Affair 3.71 avg rating — 95,088 ratings
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Burial Rites
Burial Rites 4.04 avg rating — 121,014 ratings
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Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1)
Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 33,313 ratings
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Dark Palace
Dark Palace really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Bloomsbury Girls
Bloomsbury Girls 3.85 avg rating — 16,804 ratings
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The Bearded Girl (The Julius Romeros Extravaganza #1)
The Bearded Girl (The Julius Romeros Extravaganza #1) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Great Maria
Great Maria 4.09 avg rating — 592 ratings
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Dragonfly
Dragonfly 4.32 avg rating — 12,516 ratings
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The Rose Code
The Rose Code 4.45 avg rating — 340,568 ratings
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A Long Petal of the Sea
A Long Petal of the Sea 4.06 avg rating — 110,133 ratings
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Sacajawea
Sacajawea 4.25 avg rating — 16,317 ratings
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The Governess
The Governess 3.26 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Code Name Nanette: Behind Enemy Lines (Joe Parker: The Saga of Blood and History Book 2)
Code Name Nanette: Behind Enemy Lines (Joe Parker: The Saga of Blood and History Book 2) 3.82 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Patriots
The Patriots 3.83 avg rating — 2,921 ratings
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The Green Phoenix: A Novel of Empress Xiaozhuang, the Woman Who Re-Made Asia
The Green Phoenix: A Novel of Empress Xiaozhuang, the Woman Who Re-Made Asia 3.96 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Gold Digger, The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor
Gold Digger, The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor 4.14 avg rating — 826 ratings
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Charlotte Sophie Bentinck
Charlotte Sophie Bentinck 3.76 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession 3.60 avg rating — 4,251 ratings
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The Unsealing: Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age
The Unsealing: Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age 3.91 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Hester Dymock (Those Regency Belles Book 1)
Hester Dymock (Those Regency Belles Book 1) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Small Island
Small Island 4.01 avg rating — 37,171 ratings
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The Lost Crown
The Lost Crown 3.82 avg rating — 2,004 ratings
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The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen
The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen
by: Tosca Lee
4.07 avg rating — 1,669 ratings
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De groten der aarde of Bentinck tegen Bentinck; een geschiedverhaal
De groten der aarde of Bentinck tegen Bentinck; een geschiedverhaal 3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Secret Life of Mrs. London
The Secret Life of Mrs. London 3.88 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Een gevaarlijke verhouding of Daal-en-Bergse brieven
Een gevaarlijke verhouding of Daal-en-Bergse brieven 3.59 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Observations
The Observations 3.62 avg rating — 7,396 ratings
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Daughter of Egypt
Daughter of Egypt 4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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I, Elizabeth
I, Elizabeth 4.02 avg rating — 13,544 ratings
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A Perilous Alliance (Ursula Blanchard, #13)
A Perilous Alliance (Ursula Blanchard, #13) 3.83 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Purge
Purge 3.91 avg rating — 20,152 ratings
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Cress Delahanty
Cress Delahanty 3.91 avg rating — 301 ratings
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The Countess
The Countess 3.55 avg rating — 2,560 ratings
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The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)
The Winter Palace (Catherine #1) 3.60 avg rating — 14,374 ratings
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The Sea Road
The Sea Road 3.85 avg rating — 610 ratings
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Emerald
Emerald 3.73 avg rating — 79 ratings
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A Memory of Violets
A Memory of Violets 3.97 avg rating — 13,550 ratings
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Crown of Aloes
Crown of Aloes 3.68 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons (Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series)
Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons (Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series) 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Secret Eleanor
The Secret Eleanor 3.50 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Threads of Treason
Threads of Treason
by: Mary Bale
3.38 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Shell Games: The Life and Times of Pearl McGill, Industrial Spy and Pioneer Labor Activist
Shell Games: The Life and Times of Pearl McGill, Industrial Spy and Pioneer Labor Activist really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Indiscretions of the Queen (Georgian Saga, #8)
Indiscretions of the Queen (Georgian Saga, #8) 3.89 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Murder in the Queen's Wardrobe (A Mistress Jaffrey Mystery, #1)
Murder in the Queen's Wardrobe (A Mistress Jaffrey Mystery, #1) 3.56 avg rating — 381 ratings
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The Regent's Daughter (Georgian Saga, #9)
The Regent's Daughter (Georgian Saga, #9) 4.01 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The Silver Touch
The Silver Touch 3.96 avg rating — 505 ratings
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The Constant Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #6)
The Constant Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #6) 3.93 avg rating — 166,043 ratings
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Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1)
Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 58,392 ratings
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Meg Roper: Daughter of Sir Thomas More
Meg Roper: Daughter of Sir Thomas More 4.05 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Book of Night Women
The Book of Night Women 4.37 avg rating — 14,808 ratings
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The Apothecary's Daughter
The Apothecary's Daughter 3.92 avg rating — 2,835 ratings
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The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia 3.91 avg rating — 5,362 ratings
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The Queen's Husband (Queen Victoria, #3)
The Queen's Husband (Queen Victoria, #3) 3.89 avg rating — 517 ratings
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The Scarlet Contessa: A Novel of the Italian Renaissance
The Scarlet Contessa: A Novel of the Italian Renaissance 3.81 avg rating — 3,246 ratings
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Caroline, the Queen (Georgian Saga, #3)
Caroline, the Queen (Georgian Saga, #3) 3.88 avg rating — 373 ratings
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35,555 ratings
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