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These are my favorite kinds of books -- a bit of period drama, some intrigue, maybe some romance, but definitely a flavor of the impossible made possible.
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The Night Circus
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
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The Historian
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
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A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
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The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
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Helene Wecker (Goodreads Author)
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Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)
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Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author)
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The Snow Child
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Eowyn Ivey (Goodreads Author)
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The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Alias Grace
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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The Gargoyle
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Andrew Davidson (Goodreads Author)
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The Miniaturist (The Miniaturist, #1)
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
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Uprooted
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
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Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
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Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author)
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Rebel Angels (Gemma Doyle, #2)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
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The Ghost Bride
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Yangsze Choo (Goodreads Author)
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
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Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1)
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Like Water for Chocolate
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The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1)
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
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Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
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Katherine Howe (Goodreads Author)
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
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The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
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Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Cecelia and Kate, #1)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
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The Girl Who Chased the Moon
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Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author)
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The Witch of Willow Hall
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Hester Fox (Goodreads Author)
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Hamlet
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The House of the Spirits
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
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Kindred
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Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories, #1)
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Mary Robinette Kowal (Goodreads Author)
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The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
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The Girl with Ghost Eyes
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Macbeth
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The Scorpio Races
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Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
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An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
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Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
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If I Wake
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Nikki Moyes (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 754 ratings
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Bitter Greens
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Kate Forsyth (Goodreads Author)
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The Museum of Extraordinary Things
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
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Leslye Walton (Goodreads Author)
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A Matter of Magic (Mairelon, #1-2)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
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Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin, #1)
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 110,634 ratings
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Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
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Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 113,746 ratings
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Son of the Shadows (Sevenwaters, #2)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 33,992 ratings
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Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy (Arthurian Saga, #1-3)
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Year of Wonders
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
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The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)
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The Sugar Queen
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Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author)
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This Crumbling Pageant (The Fury Triad #1)
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Patricia Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
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The Sea Child
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Linda Wilgus (Goodreads Author)
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The Hundred Secret Senses
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
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Dracula
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The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
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The Smoke Hunter
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Jacquelyn Benson (Goodreads Author)
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Mary, Everything (The Flapper Covenant, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Peter: The Untold True Story
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Bottled Goods
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Sophie van Llewyn (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 2,029 ratings
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The Wild Girl
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Kate Forsyth (Goodreads Author)
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The Lions of Al-Rassan
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
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The Map of Time
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Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood #1)
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The Immortalists
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Dark Triumph (His Fair Assassin, #2)
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Juliet
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The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2)
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Heart's Blood
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The Lie Tree
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Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1)
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Under Heaven (Under Heaven, #1)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
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Wolf Winter (Svartåsen #1)
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The Turn of the Screw
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Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
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The Penelopiad
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Wolfskin (Saga of the Light Isles, #1)
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The Snow Goose
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The Master and Margarita
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Under the Same Sky (The MacDonnells, #1)
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This Fierce Blood
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Malia Márquez (Goodreads Author)
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The Witches at the End of the World
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Ripple in the Sea
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Seduction (Reincarnationist, #5)
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The Toymakers
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Exile for Dreamers (Stranje House, #2)
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A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House, #1)
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Galore
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The Red Necklace (French Revolution, #1)
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The House On The Strand
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The Prince of Mist (Niebla, #1)
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1)
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Most of those novels are more magic with a dash of history...
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Witch Child and it's sequel Sorceress by Celia Rees are great reads as well. Witch Child is historical fiction based on the pages of a diary found sewn into a puritan era quilt.
The Sugar Queen and all of Sarah Addison Allen books are magical realism but they are in contemporary setting (not historical fiction).
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
