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
Lady Tremaine
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Lake Effect
The Friend of the Family
Kissing the Sky
The Poet Empress
Call of the Camino
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
We Don't Talk About Carol
A Good Animal
A Ghastly Catastrophe (Veronica Speedwell, #10)
The Violin Maker's Secret
Family of Spies
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
The Quarry Girls
Two Bodies Are Better Than One (Lorraine Highsmith Mysteries Book 1)
Laws of Love and Logic
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Wait for Me
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
A Calamity of Souls
The Keeper of Happy Endings
The Paris Library
The Hitchhikers
Tuck Everlasting: The Graphic Novel
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Gabriel's Moon
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
The Heir of Whitestone
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
The Barbecue at No. 9
The Once and Future Queen (The Lives of Guinevere, #1)
Sisters in Science
After Paris
Evil Genius
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
A Language of Dragons (A Language of Dragons, #1)
The Secrets of Good People
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice
The Death of Jane Lawrence
The Moorwitch
Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)
The Lost Heiress: A Novel
The Fourth Daughter
The Wind Knows My Name
Long Island Compromise
The Predicament
El problema final
Queen Esther
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
The Last Love Song
Lightning in a Mason Jar
Grimm Curiosities
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown
Blood on Her Tongue
The Star from Calcutta (Perveen Mistry, #5)
This Motherless Land
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Jane Austen's Bookshelf
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
The Cliffs
All Our Beautiful Goodbyes
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
The Distant Daughter (The Secrets of Trelenna House #1)
The Sea Captain's Wife
Wolf Worm
The Princess Knight
The Keeper of Stars
The Harvey Girl
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
A Flower Traveled in My Blood
Almost Life
The Blackout Murders (Homefront Sleuths #1)
The White Octopus Hotel
Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power
The Book of Guilt
The Killing Time (Ali Dawson, #2)
Next Time Will Be Our Turn
A House Between Sea and Sky
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
The Magician of Tiger Castle
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
The Bookshop of Secrets
Hera
Murder at Sea (A Miss Underhay Mystery #23)
Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Greenteeth
Time of the Child
Under the Oak Tree, Vol. 1
A Love Most Daring (Bow Street #3)
To Love a Lady (Dollar Princess #1)
If I Ruled the World

Michael G. Kramer
  “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.
Michael G. Kramer

My Lady, turn away; do not look into the wagon, it is too frightening for a lady to view.
Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

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