Excellent Historical Fiction
Explore our curated list of excellent historical fiction books, featuring captivating stories and richly detailed settings from the past. Discover must-read novels that bring history to life.
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Akhenaten
by Naguib Mahfouz
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most …
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I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
Considered an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings of the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and the Mad Caligula to …
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Saint Francis
by Nikos Kazantzakis
Kazantzakis infuses this tale with a fervent vision that is uniquely his own, highlighting the saint's heroic single-mindedness in the face of extreme physical and …
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War and Peace
by graf Leo Tolstoy
Presents a new translation of the classic reflecting the life and times of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars, in a book accompanied by an …
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Facsimile of the first edition, published, fall 1895 at New York by D. Appleton and Company.
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Lincoln
by Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad …
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One of the most chilling novels about the oppression of totalitarian regimes and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison …
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Badenheim Nineteen-thirty-nine
by Aharon Apelfeld
A tale of Europe in the days just before the war. It tells of a small group of Jewish holiday makers in the resort of …
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Libraries
by Don DeLillo
An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's Libra contains an introduction by the author …
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War in the Land of Egypt
by Muḥammad Yūsuf Quʻayd
A tale of modern-day serfdom in Egypt. The protagonist is a youth, sold by his family to a villager who needs a hand, his own …