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Book List: Historical Fiction
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Travel back in time and immerse yourself in a different world with historical fiction!

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The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani 

Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson 

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Parts I and II by M.T. Anderson 

The Pale Blue Eye or The Black Tower by Louis Bayard

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks 

Queen of Hearts by Martha Brooks

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 

Al Capone Does My Shirts and Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko 

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke 

Martyr: an Elizabethan Thriller by Rory Clements 

Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins 

A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai 

The Clearing by Heather Davis

Revolution by Jennifer Donnolly

Kingston by Starlight by Christopher John Farley

One Thousand White Women: the Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

The Luxe series or Bright Young Things series by Anna Godbersen   

Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold 

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philppa Gregory

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland

Pompeii by Robert Harris 

Ivy by Julie Hearn

The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

The Forgotten Legion
& sequels by Ben Kane

Me and Orson Welles by Robert Kaplow 

The Prince of Poison by Pamela Kaufman

Twelve by Jasper Kent

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Snowdrops by A. D. Miller

Empress Orchid by Anchee Min 

Bloodline by Katy Moran

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 

Tamar or Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet

Tide of War: a Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War by Steven Pressfield

Pirates! by Celia Rees 

The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff

The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick   

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See 

Beneath a Marble Sky: a Novel of the Taj Mahal by John Shors

Maus: a Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott

The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti

The Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth

Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? and sequel by Eleanor Updale

Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

Booth's Daughter by Raymond Wemmlinger 

99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale by David Wellington

Distant Waves: a Novel of the Titanic Suzanne Weyn

The Fetch by Laura Whitcomb

The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf

The Monstrumologist and sequels by Rick Yancey

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak 

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