Historical Fiction

July 2, 2023
53 Books
Stats

Position	Details	Rating
#2	The Bear and the Nightingale Katherine Arden	4.12
#3	The Fountains of Silence Ruta Sepetys	4.57
#4	What the Wind Knows Amy Harmon	4.11
#5	Days Without End Sebastian Barry	4.5
#6	Tell the Wolves I'm Home Carol Rifka Brunt	4.2
#7	Giovanni's Room James Baldwin	4.43
#8	If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin	4.18
#9	Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin	4.07
#10	The Poppy War R. F. Kuang	4
#11	Patsy Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn	4.08
#12	The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett	4.19
#13	The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.24
#14	Invisible man Ralph Ellison	3.77
#15	Moloka'i Alan Brennert	4.23
#16	The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan	3.83
#17	A Thousand Beginnings and Endings Ellen Oh Elsie Chapman Sona Charaipotra Preeti Chhibber Roshani Chokshi Aliette de Bodard Melissa de la Cruz Julie Kagawa Rahul Kanakia Lori M. Lee E. C. Myers Cindy Pon Aisha Saeed Shveta Thakrar Alyssa Wong Renée Ahdieh	4.2
#18	Pachinko Min Jin Lee	4.26
#19	The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai	4.55
#20	There There Tommy Orange	3.88
#21	A Place for Us Fatima Farheen Mirza	4.5
#22	Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.23
#23	Homegoing Yaa Gyasi	4.51
#24	Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.24
#25	Song of a Captive Bird Jasmin Darznik	3.5
#26	The Price of Paradise The Price of Paradise Susana López Rubio Achy Obejas (Translator)	0
#27	The Stationery Shop Marjan Kamali	4.17
#28	The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	4.27
#29	Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel Thomas Christensen Carol Christensen	3.61
#30	Cantoras Carolina De Robertis	4.6
#31	The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón	4.07
#32	The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison	3.92
#33	Under the Udala Trees Chinelo Okparanta	3.75
#34	The Foundling Stacey Halls	4.67
#35	The Ten Thousand Doors of January Alix E. Harrow	4.1
#37	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	4.09
#38	All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr	4.2
#39	Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides	4.15
#40	The Color Purple Alice Walker	4.12
#41	Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg	4.24
#42	Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery	4.31
#43	The Nightingale Kristin Hannah	4.25
#44	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey	4.09
#45	Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë Alison Booth	3.64
#46	And Then There Were None Agatha Christie	4.23
#47	Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	3.93
#48	Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Constance Garnett (Translator)	3.92
#49	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith	4.13
#50	Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut	4.09
#51	Catch-22 Joseph Heller	3.95
#52	Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Hilda Rosner (Translator)	3.93
#53	Circe Madeline Miller	4.25
#54	Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky	4.08
#55	The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid	4.28

Position	Details	Rating
#2	The Bear and the Nightingale Katherine Arden	4.12
#3	The Fountains of Silence Ruta Sepetys	4.57
#4	What the Wind Knows Amy Harmon	4.11
#5	Days Without End Sebastian Barry	4.5
#6	Tell the Wolves I'm Home Carol Rifka Brunt	4.2
#7	Giovanni's Room James Baldwin	4.43
#8	If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin	4.18
#9	Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin	4.07
#10	The Poppy War R. F. Kuang	4
#11	Patsy Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn	4.08
#12	The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett	4.19
#13	The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.24
#14	Invisible man Ralph Ellison	3.77
#15	Moloka'i Alan Brennert	4.23
#16	The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan	3.83
#17	A Thousand Beginnings and Endings Ellen Oh Elsie Chapman Sona Charaipotra Preeti Chhibber Roshani Chokshi Aliette de Bodard Melissa de la Cruz Julie Kagawa Rahul Kanakia Lori M. Lee E. C. Myers Cindy Pon Aisha Saeed Shveta Thakrar Alyssa Wong Renée Ahdieh	4.2
#18	Pachinko Min Jin Lee	4.26
#19	The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai	4.55
#20	There There Tommy Orange	3.88
#21	A Place for Us Fatima Farheen Mirza	4.5
#22	Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.23
#23	Homegoing Yaa Gyasi	4.51
#24	Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.24
#25	Song of a Captive Bird Jasmin Darznik	3.5
#26	The Price of Paradise The Price of Paradise Susana López Rubio Achy Obejas (Translator)	0
#27	The Stationery Shop Marjan Kamali	4.17
#28	The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	4.27
#29	Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel Thomas Christensen Carol Christensen	3.61
#30	Cantoras Carolina De Robertis	4.6
#31	The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón	4.07
#32	The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison	3.92
#33	Under the Udala Trees Chinelo Okparanta	3.75
#34	The Foundling Stacey Halls	4.67
#35	The Ten Thousand Doors of January Alix E. Harrow	4.1
#37	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	4.09
#38	All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr	4.2
#39	Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides	4.15
#40	The Color Purple Alice Walker	4.12
#41	Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg	4.24
#42	Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery	4.31
#43	The Nightingale Kristin Hannah	4.25
#44	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey	4.09
#45	Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë Alison Booth	3.64
#46	And Then There Were None Agatha Christie	4.23
#47	Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	3.93
#48	Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Constance Garnett (Translator)	3.92
#49	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith	4.13
#50	Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut	4.09
#51	Catch-22 Joseph Heller	3.95
#52	Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Hilda Rosner (Translator)	3.93
#53	Circe Madeline Miller	4.25
#54	Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky	4.08
#55	The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid	4.28

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