Historical fiction
Every historical fiction author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Historical fiction puts you inside another era, close enough to feel it in the details. These series carry their characters and families across the years in order.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Before Taylor Jenkins Reid became a novelist known for contemporary fiction that explores love, ambition, and the versions of ourselves...
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Delia Owens
Delia Owens is an American author and wildlife scientist who won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing before turning...
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Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng is an American novelist whose domestic dramas explore family secrets, identity, and the fault lines of community. Born...
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Mary Kubica
Mary Kubica is an American suspense author who explores how ordinary lives fracture under the weight of secrets. She built...
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Heather Morris
Heather Morris is a New Zealand author and screenwriter best known for The Tattooist of Auschwitz. She grew up in...
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Evie Woods
Evie Woods is an Irish author who writes historical fiction and fantasy novels laced with magical realism, working from an...
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Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American novelist who became a literary sensation in 1992 with The Secret History, a debut that...
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Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness is an American author and historian of science and medicine. She is known for her All Souls series...
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Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell, an Irish author, writes fiction and historical fiction novels. Her novel Hamnet won the 2020 Women’s Prize for...
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Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American author and physician who turned personal displacement into universal stories. He practiced medicine for ten...
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Jack Carr
Jack Carr writes military thrillers, hosts the Danger Close podcast, and co-authored the nonfiction work Targeted: Beirut, drawing all of...
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Kate Morton
Kate Morton is an Australian novelist who writes historical and women's fiction. She grew up in the mountains southeast of...
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Emily Bleeker
Emily Bleeker is an American author of psychological thrillers and women's fiction. Bleeker discovered her passion for writing after introducing...
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A.J. Finn
A.J. Finn—the pen name of former publishing editor Dan Mallory—burst onto the thriller scene in 2018 with The Woman in...
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Kevin Kwan
Kevin Kwan is a Singaporean-American author known for his novels about the wealthy. He made his debut as a published...
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James McBride
James McBride is an American author and musician who writes historical fiction and nonfiction. He grew up in Brooklyn, New...
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Luanne G. Smith
Luanne G. Smith is an American author who writes historical fantasy novels. She is best known for The Vine Witch...
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Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, journalist, and travel writer who has built a career spanning fiction and editorial work....
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Ellen Marie Wiseman
Ellen Marie Wiseman is an American author of historical fiction novels. She realized her passion for reading and writing in...
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M.L. Stedman
M.L. Stedman is an Australian author who has also published short stories in anthologies. She began writing in 1997, seeking...
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Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is an Australian author who writes young adult novels and children's books. Growing up in Sydney, Zusak became...
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Lily King
Lily King is an American novelist who writes literary fiction that probes the friction between ambition, desire, and the human...
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Petra Durst-Benning
Petra Durst-Benning is a German author of historical fiction. Her novels, including the Glassblower Trilogy and Century Trilogy series, have...
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James Islington
James Islington is an Australian fantasy novelist who made his debut in 2014 with The Shadow of What Was Lost,...
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Amy Tintera
Amy Tintera is an American author of young adult fantasy novels and adult thrillers. She grew up in Austin, Texas,...
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Sarah Penner
Sarah Penner is an American author who writes historical fiction. Penner traded the ledgers of corporate finance for the shadowed...
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Erin Morgenstern
Erin Morgenstern is an American author of fantasy novels who describes her work as "fairy tales in one way or...
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Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb is an American novelist whose fiction draws on the small-town Connecticut landscape where he grew up. Born and...
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Alka Joshi
Alka Joshi is an Indian-American novelist who writes historical fiction set in mid-twentieth-century India. Born in Rajasthan, she immigrated to...
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Simone St. James
Simone St. James is a Canadian author who writes historical ghost stories. Her debut novel, The Haunting of Maddy Clare,...
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Jean M. Auel
Jean M. Auel is an American novelist known for her Earth's Children series, a set of prehistoric fiction novels that...
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Taylor Adams
Taylor Adams is an American author who writes suspenseful thrillers. Before turning to novels, Adams worked in the film and...
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Tracy Rees
Tracy Rees is a Welsh author who writes historical fiction, women's fiction, and romance and became the first winner of...
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Lorna Cook
Lorna Cook is a historical fiction writer who began her career in journalism and PR. Her novels often explore the...
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Harper Lee
Harper Lee was an American novelist from Monroeville, Alabama, the daughter of a former newspaper editor and lawyer. She was...
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Edward Rutherfurd
Edward Rutherfurd, the pen name of Francis Edward Wintle, writes historical fiction that spans centuries. He began his career after...
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Sofía Segovia
Sofía Segovia is a Mexican novelist who reached international readers with The Murmur of Bees, a book that won recognition...
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Ronald H. Balson
Ronald H. Balson is an American attorney who writes historical fiction that excavates the lingering shadows of World War II....
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Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh is an American novelist who writes dark, psychologically unsettling fiction about characters who live on the margins. Born...
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John J. Gobbell
John J. Gobbell writes naval thrillers steeped in the authenticity only a former Navy weapons officer can deliver. He served...
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Emma Cline
Emma Cline is an American novelist and short story writer who was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists...
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Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfield is an English novelist who writes literary gothic fiction, and she made her name in 2006 with The...
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Sara Donati
Rosina Lippi writes historical fiction and romance novels under the pen name Sara Donati, and has also published under her...
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Anne Glenconner
Anne Glenconner is an English author known for her memoirs about her life at the heart of British aristocracy and...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015. That's the year Viet Thanh Nguyen published The Sympathizer and changed the conversation about war, memory, and who gets...
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Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton is a British author who writes high-concept mysteries that twist time, identity, and logic into something entirely new....
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Geoffrey Archer
Geoffrey Archer is an English author best known for his Sam Packer series of books. For thirty years, Archer worked...
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Eowyn Ivey
Eowyn Ivey is an American novelist who earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2013 for The Snow Child, her debut...
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Susan Ee
Susan Ee is an American novelist who writes young adult fantasy and was a lawyer before turning to fiction full-time....
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James Hayman
James Hayman is an American author who writes crime thrillers featuring Portland, Maine detectives Mike McCabe and Maggie Savage. Born...
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