My Favorite Historical Fiction Books
Discover my top picks for historical fiction books! Explore captivating stories set in the past, from epic sagas to intimate tales. Perfect for history buffs and fiction lovers alike.
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Driven with the Wind
by Lynn Morris
Christian fiction's bestselling father-daughter writing team traces the adventures, struggles, successes, and romances in the early career of a young woman physician. When Shiloh asks Cheney to marry, she must refuse, as Shiloh is not a believer. Can their love survive? Will Shiloh ever become a believer?
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Trade Wind
by Mary Margaret Kaye
In the mid-nineteenth century, beautiful Hero Athena Hollis comes to Zanzibar as a missionary, but she is changed by her encounters with disease, revolution, intrigue, and the renegade slave trader Rory Frost
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Only the River Runs Free
by Bodie Thoene
An Irish village feels suffocated by English rule, until a stranger appears on Christmas Eve, setting off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of the village's inhabitants.
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A Voice in the Wind
by Francine Rivers
A Christian slave girl in ancient Rome fights to save her family and the man she loves.
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The Golden Cross
by Angela Elwell Hunt
Aidan O'Connor was raised among pickpockets and prostitutes in a Dutch colony on Java, Indonesia. But when a world famous cartographer discovers her natural talent; she is give a chance to leave her troubled life behind. Disguised as a boy, Aidan joins her benefactor at sea and begins the world of drawing the flora and fauna of the new world.
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Shadow of the Moon
by Mary Margaret Kaye
Shortly before the great Indian mutiny, young Winter de Ballesteros leaves England for India to marry Conway Barton, the Commissioner of Lunjore, whom she has not seen since childhood. Her escort is Barton's aide, Captain Alex Randall. The long tumultuous journey brings them through Calcutta to Delhi and finally to Lunjore in 1856-- on the eve of the Mutiny itself.
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Secret Place of Thunder
by Lynn Morris
Cheney is called from home to her aunts' home in Louisiana because of a mysterious illness and possible crop failure. Everyone is saying it is voodoo and now Cheney must find out the real cause.
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All Rivers to the Sea
by Bodie Thoene
In this final volume of the Galway Chronicles, Kate and Joseph struggle to survive and to keep their tenants alive as the potato crops rot.