What you'll find here
Historical fiction sets a story in a real time and place, and lets you live there for a while. The books listed here range across:
- Ancient and classical worlds. Rome, Greece, Egypt and beyond.
- Medieval and Tudor. Courts, crusades, plague years, and the lives underneath the kings.
- Georgian and Regency. Often with a romance at the heart of it.
- Victorian and Edwardian. Industry, empire, and the rules of society.
- The world wars. Soldiers, spies, the home front, and what came after.
- Family sagas. One family across generations, the century changing around them.
- Historical mysteries. A crime to solve with the tools of the time. See also mystery and thriller.
Finding your next one
- Read chapter 1 first. It shows you how the author handles the period: how the people talk, how much history arrives at once. It's free on every book that has it.
- Filter by trope. Second chance, slow burn and dual point of view (often a past and a present timeline) are common here.
- Try "Most finished". Books ranked by how many readers finish the free first chapter. Nobody can pay to be there.
- Read before release. Authors give out free advance copies here. Ask for a place and read it in your browser.
Writing historical fiction?
List your book free and add your first chapter. Say the time and place in your blurb's first line, so readers looking for a period find it straight away. How to write a blurb has worked examples, and KDP keywords and categories covers using the setting as a keyword, which KDP suggests.