Historical fiction that is unforgettable

Discover unforgettable historical fiction books that transport you to the past. Explore our curated list of the most captivating and memorable novels in the genre.

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Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. One of the …
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Dragonfly in Amber

by Diana Gabaldon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The second book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “A triumph! A powerful …
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Voyager

by Diana Gabaldon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The third book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “Triumphant . . . …
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The Fiery Cross

by Diana Gabaldon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fifth book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “A grand adventure written …
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes

by Diana Gabaldon

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The sixth book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “The large scope …
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An Echo in the Bone

by Diana Gabaldon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The seventh book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “All you’ve come to …
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The Bronze Horseman

by Paullina Simons

Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer when the sun hardly sets on the beautiful palaces and stately avenues that still speak of a different …
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Tatiana and Alexander

by Paullina Simons

Tatiana and Dasha Metanov are two sisters sharing a cramped apartment with their brother and parents in Stalin's Russia when Tatiana meets and falls in …
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Into the Wilderness

by Sara Donati

Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati’s epic novel sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into a breathtaking …
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Dawn on a Distant Shore

by Sara Donati

In an icy, untamed world of pristine beauty, a husband and wife are torn apart by fate but reunited forever by a love that can't …
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Lake in the Clouds

by Sara Donati

In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century …
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Fire Along the Sky

by Sara Donati

With epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donati’s bestselling saga of an Early American family’s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the …
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Queen of Swords

by Sara Donati

It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of …
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The Endless Forest

by Sara Donati

A latest entry in the best-selling series finds the frontier Bonner family experiencing tragedy and hope in the spring of 1824, during which Elizabeth and …
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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel …
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Kilgannon

by Kathleen Givens

A place where love and war collide--and she would be possessed by the Scottish chieftain they called . . . barbarian Enter a world of …
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The Wild Rose of Kilgannon

by Kathleen Givens

She came to the Highlands an innocent bride, but one man's love and two nations' enmity would make her a woman.... In her unforgettable novel …
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On a Highland Shore

by Kathleen Givens

When her Scottish highland village is decimated in a Viking raid two weeks before her wedding, Margaret MacDonald and her surviving siblings find shelter in …
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Rivals for the Crown

by Kathleen Givens

Award-winning author Givens brings to life the passion and political treachery of 14th-century Scotland, after a dynastic feud for the crown explodes into a war …
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The Legend

by Kathleen Givens

Identical twin brothers who dare to love two fiery women as they lead their clan into battle against the British are featured in a two-book …
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The Destiny

by Kathleen Givens

While searching for the former king, Highland chieftain and enemy of the English Crown Neil MacCurrie is captured but rescued from death by his foe's …
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World Without End

by Ken Follett

#1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in …
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A Place Called Freedom

by Ken Follett

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only …
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Here Be Dragons

by Sharon Kay Penman

Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce …
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Falls the Shadow

by Sharon Kay Penman

Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom …
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The Reckoning

by Sharon Kay Penman

Originally published: New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.
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Lonesome Dove

by Larry McMurtry

Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with …
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Mistress of the Art of Death

by Ariana Franklin

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition." In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female …
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The Serpent's Tale

by Ariana Franklin

The follow-up to Mistress of the Art of Death- in the national bestselling series hailed as "the medieval answer to Kay Scarpetta and the CSI …
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Grave Goods

by Ariana Franklin

When the bodies of two people are discovered in the remains of an arson fire that destroyed Glastonbury Abbey, Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art …
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The Tea Rose

by Jennifer Donnelly

East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled …
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The Winter Rose

by Jennifer Donnelly

It has been twelve years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and courts of Whitechapel. And yet, in the summer of 1900, East …
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The Scottish Thistle

by Cindy Vallar

Loyalty and honor. A Highland warrior prizes both more than life, and when he swears his oath on the dirk, he must obey or die. …
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