Historical Fiction

December 7, 2023
57 Books
Stats

Position	Details	Rating
#2	River Sing Me Home Eleanor Shearer	3.73
#3	Attic Child Lola Jaye	4.2
#5	The Mermaid of Black Conch Monique Roffey	2.75
#6	The House in the Orchard Elizabeth Brooks	3.33
#7	The Night Ship Jess Kidd	3.86
#8	Hester Laurie Lico Albanese	3.61
#9	Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R. F. Kuang	4.12
#10	The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Lisa See	4.42
#11	Bronze Drum Phong Nguyen	3
#12	The Many Daughters of Afong Moy Jamie Ford	3.6
#13	Woman of Light Kali Fajardo-Anstine	4
#14	The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak	4.21
#15	The Bass Rock Wyld Evie	4
#16	The Good Left Undone Adriana Trigiani	4
#17	The Final Revival of Opal & Nev Dawnie Walton	3.98
#18	Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson	3.95
#19	The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai	4.55
#20	The Cold Millions Jess Walter	3.86
#21	Peach Blossom Spring Melissa Fu	4.6
#22	A Thousand Ships Natalie Haynes	4.06
#23	Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead	3.57
#24	This Tender Land William Kent Krueger	4.24
#25	The Nightingale Kristin Hannah	4.25
#26	Damnation Spring Ash Davidson	3.63
#27	Things in Jars Jess Kidd	3.58
#28	Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell	4.14
#30	The Four Winds Kristin Hannah	4.21
#31	Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid	4.06
#32	Libertie Kaitlyn Greenidge	4.17
#33	The Mercies Kiran Millwood Hargrave	3.8
#34	Betty Tiffany McDaniel	4.58
#35	The Island of Sea Women Lisa See	4.16
#36	The Beautiful Ones Silvia Moreno-Garcia	4.21
#37	Pachinko Min Jin Lee	4.26
#38	The Book of Longings Sue Monk Kidd	4.42
#39	The Lost Apothecary Sarah Penner	3.34
#40	Infinite Country Patricia Engel	3.7
#41	The Dutch House Ann Patchett	4.04
#42	The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.24
#43	Outlawed Anna North	3.53
#44	Girls Emma Cline	2
#45	How Much of These Hills Is Gold C Pam Zhang	4.17
#46	Women Talking Miriam Toews	3.67
#47	Dominicana Angie Cruz	4.07
#48	The Great Alone Kristin Hannah	4.22
#49	The Song of the Jade Lily Kirsty Manning	4.5
#50	Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter	3.67
#51	Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward	4.04
#52	Homegoing Yaa Gyasi	4.51
#53	The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead	4.02
#54	The Summer that Melted Everything Tiffany McDaniel	4.56
#55	The New Life Tom Crewe	3.75
#56	Four Treasures of the Sky Jenny Tinghui Zhang	4.25
#57	Thrust Lidia Yuknavitch	3.5
#58	Lady Tan's Circle of Women Lisa See	4.3
#59	Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch Rivka Galchen	3.61
#60	McGlue Ottessa Moshfegh	3.71

Position	Details	Rating
#2	River Sing Me Home Eleanor Shearer	3.73
#3	Attic Child Lola Jaye	4.2
#5	The Mermaid of Black Conch Monique Roffey	2.75
#6	The House in the Orchard Elizabeth Brooks	3.33
#7	The Night Ship Jess Kidd	3.86
#8	Hester Laurie Lico Albanese	3.61
#9	Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R. F. Kuang	4.12
#10	The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Lisa See	4.42
#11	Bronze Drum Phong Nguyen	3
#12	The Many Daughters of Afong Moy Jamie Ford	3.6
#13	Woman of Light Kali Fajardo-Anstine	4
#14	The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak	4.21
#15	The Bass Rock Wyld Evie	4
#16	The Good Left Undone Adriana Trigiani	4
#17	The Final Revival of Opal & Nev Dawnie Walton	3.98
#18	Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson	3.95
#19	The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai	4.55
#20	The Cold Millions Jess Walter	3.86
#21	Peach Blossom Spring Melissa Fu	4.6
#22	A Thousand Ships Natalie Haynes	4.06
#23	Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead	3.57
#24	This Tender Land William Kent Krueger	4.24
#25	The Nightingale Kristin Hannah	4.25
#26	Damnation Spring Ash Davidson	3.63
#27	Things in Jars Jess Kidd	3.58
#28	Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell	4.14
#30	The Four Winds Kristin Hannah	4.21
#31	Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid	4.06
#32	Libertie Kaitlyn Greenidge	4.17
#33	The Mercies Kiran Millwood Hargrave	3.8
#34	Betty Tiffany McDaniel	4.58
#35	The Island of Sea Women Lisa See	4.16
#36	The Beautiful Ones Silvia Moreno-Garcia	4.21
#37	Pachinko Min Jin Lee	4.26
#38	The Book of Longings Sue Monk Kidd	4.42
#39	The Lost Apothecary Sarah Penner	3.34
#40	Infinite Country Patricia Engel	3.7
#41	The Dutch House Ann Patchett	4.04
#42	The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.24
#43	Outlawed Anna North	3.53
#44	Girls Emma Cline	2
#45	How Much of These Hills Is Gold C Pam Zhang	4.17
#46	Women Talking Miriam Toews	3.67
#47	Dominicana Angie Cruz	4.07
#48	The Great Alone Kristin Hannah	4.22
#49	The Song of the Jade Lily Kirsty Manning	4.5
#50	Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter	3.67
#51	Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward	4.04
#52	Homegoing Yaa Gyasi	4.51
#53	The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead	4.02
#54	The Summer that Melted Everything Tiffany McDaniel	4.56
#55	The New Life Tom Crewe	3.75
#56	Four Treasures of the Sky Jenny Tinghui Zhang	4.25
#57	Thrust Lidia Yuknavitch	3.5
#58	Lady Tan's Circle of Women Lisa See	4.3
#59	Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch Rivka Galchen	3.61
#60	McGlue Ottessa Moshfegh	3.71

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