Most Read This Week In Historical

Historical fiction presents a story set in the past, often during a significant time period. In historical fiction, the time period is an important part of the setting and often of the story itself.

Historical fiction may include fictional characters, well-known historical figures or a mixture of the two. Authors of historical fiction usually pay close attention to the details of their stories (settings, clothing, dialogue, etc.) to ensure that they fit the time periods in which the narratives take place.

In some historical fiction, famous events appear from points of view not recorded in histor
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Historical"

Lessons in Chemistry
The Four Winds
Bluebird Gold (Lost Legends, #1)
Land of Dreams
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
The Last Secret of Lily Adams
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8
The Land in Winter
The Murder at World's End (Stockingham & Pike, #1)
Call of the Camino
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
Skylark
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
The Quarry Girls
The Lost Heiress: A Novel
The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits
Family of Spies
The Keeper of Happy Endings
A Calamity of Souls
The Once and Future Queen (The Lives of Guinevere, #1)
Boleyn Traitor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)
Queen Esther
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
A Language of Dragons (A Language of Dragons, #1)
The Poet Empress
The Paris Library
The Look
The Keeper of Stars
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Murder at Holly House (Frank Grasby Mysteries, #1)
The Hitchhikers
Long Island Compromise
The Wind Knows My Name
The Moorwitch
Shadow Ticket
Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)
Gabriel's Moon
Remember That Day (A Ravenswood Novel)
The Blackout Murders (Homefront Sleuths #1)
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Grimm Curiosities
The Hidden Girl
The Cliffs
The Predicament
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
The Magician of Tiger Castle
My Other Heart
Under the Stars
The Last Death of the Year (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #6)
Lightning in a Mason Jar
All Our Beautiful Goodbyes
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)
The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
To Love a Lady (Dollar Princess #1)
Next Time Will Be Our Turn
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Blood on Her Tongue
Under the Oak Tree, Vol. 1
Lázár
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
The Last Love Song
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Princess Knight
The Secrets of Wycliffe Manor (Gravesyde Priory Mysteries #1)
We Don't Talk About Carol
The Fourth Daughter
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Where Butterflies Wander
Hera
Every Precious and Fragile Thing
Time of the Child
La península de las casas vacías
The Bookshop of Secrets
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
Nemesis' Töchter: 3000 Jahre zwischen Female Rage und Zusammenhalt
All We Thought We Knew
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
A Mind of Her Own
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
Tuck Everlasting: The Graphic Novel
Yesteryear
Murder at Gulls Nest (Nora Breen Investigates, #1)
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
The Italian Daughter (The Lost Daughters, #1)
This Motherless Land
The Book of Guilt
Últimos días en Berlín
Miss Bee e il giardino avvelenato
The White Octopus Hotel
The Night Ends with Fire (The Dragon Spirit, #1)
A House Between Sea and Sky
The Night Guests

Michael G. Kramer
The Minister of Army answered, “Bob, I thought that you would have been an astute and clever enough a politician to think of this yourself, but seeing how you have asked me, I suggest that you wait until eight in the night on Thursday 29/April/1965 to announce that Australia will send the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment to fight in South Vietnam. By you waiting until the evening of 29/April/1965 to announce this in Parliament, the labour opposition leader of Arthur Caldwell and his dep ...more
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