Historical books
Historical books on in prose, ranked by community signal — 40 titles across the catalogue.
Wind and Truth
Brandon Sanderson
2025
Yesteryear
Dorothy Garlock
2024
Edgedancer
Brandon Sanderson
2024
Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson
2024
Rhythm of War
Brandon Sanderson
2024
There are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak
2024
Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson
2024
Verona in Autumn
Tom Lloyd
2023
Clytemnestra
Costanza Casati
2023
The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
Lucy Barker
2023
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
2023
Babel
R. F. Kuang
2022
Babel
Rebecca F. Kuang
2022
Free Love
Tessa Hadley
2022
The Manningtree Witches
A. K. Blakemore
2021
Incomparable World
S. I. Martin
2021
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
2021
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
2021
How to Stop Time
Matt Haig
2019
Mistborn: Secret History
Brandon Sanderson
2019
The Binding
Bridget Collins
2019
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
2019
CIRCE
Madeline Miller
2018
The Bedlam Stacks
Natasha Pulley
2017
Arcanum Unbounded
Brandon Sanderson
2017
Pirates: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Charles Johnson
2017
Empress Dowager Cixi
Jung Chang
2014
The Time of Contempt
Andrzej Sapkowski
2013
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
2012
The Third Reich
Roberto Bolaño
2012
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
2011
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
2011
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
2011
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
2010
The Ladies of Grace Adieu And Other Stories
Susanna Clarke
2007
The Innocent
Ian McEwan
1998
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
1995
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
1971
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
1948
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
1813
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