Best Historical Fiction Books — Community Picks

Discover the top Historical Fiction books as rated by the RateYourReads community. 849 books in this genre.

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• The Name of the Rose
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
• Les Trois Mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas
• Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather