Historical Fiction 53 books by arianna

#1 of 3 in The Winternight Trilogy

The Bear and the Nightingale

ByKatherine Arden

2017 • 955 Readers • 1,235 pages • 4

The Fountains of Silence

ByRuta Sepetys

2019 • 122 Readers • 514 pages • 4.5

What the Wind Knows

ByAmy Harmon

2019 • 103 Readers • 416 pages • 4

#1 of 2 in Days Without End

Days Without End

BySebastian Barry

2016 • 81 Readers • 274 pages • 4.4

Tell the Wolves I'm Home

ByCarol Rifka Brunt

2012 • 233 Readers • 370 pages • 4.2

Giovanni's Room

ByJames Baldwin

1956 • 493 Readers • 169 pages • 4.4

If Beale Street Could Talk

ByJames Baldwin

1974 • 216 Readers • 225 pages • 4.4

Go Tell It on the Mountain

ByJames Baldwin

1953 • 275 Readers • 184 pages • 3.9

#10

#1 of 3 in The Poppy War

The Poppy War

ByR. F. Kuang

2018 • 2,120 Readers • 544 pages • 4

#11

Patsy

ByNicole Y. Dennis-Benn

2019 • 53 Readers • 419 pages • 4.2

#12

The Vanishing Half

ByBrit Bennett

2020 • 1,157 Readers • 400 pages • 4.1

#13

The Nickel Boys

ByColson Whitehead

2019 • 573 Readers • 224 pages • 4.3

#14

Invisible Man

ByRalph Ellison

1952 • 575 Readers • 610 pages • 3.8

#15

#1 of 2 in Moloka'i

Moloka'i

ByAlan Brennert

2003 • 113 Readers • 400 pages • 4.2

#16

The Kitchen God's Wife

ByAmy Tan

1991 • 56 Readers • 454 pages • 3.9

#17

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

ByMelissa de la Cruz,Julie Kagawa,+12 more

2018 • 90 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

#18

Pachinko

ByMin Jin Lee

2017 • 1,334 Readers • 496 pages • 4.2

#19

The Great Believers

ByRebecca Makkai

2018 • 332 Readers • 431 pages • 4.6

#20

There There

ByTommy Orange

2018 • 599 Readers • 292 pages • 4

#21

A Place for Us

ByFatima Farheen Mirza

2018 • 138 Readers • 4.3

#22

Half of a Yellow Sun

ByChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2006 • 350 Readers • 541 pages • 4.3

#23

Homegoing

ByYaa Gyasi

2016 • 761 Readers • 468 pages • 4.5

#24

Purple Hibiscus

ByChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2003 • 208 Readers • 400 pages • 4.1

#25

Song of a Captive Bird

ByJasmin Darznik

2018 • 16 Readers • 401 pages • 3.5

#26

The Price of Paradise

BySusana López Rubio,Achy Obejas(Translator)

2017 • 13 Readers • 368 pages

#27

The Stationery Shop

ByMarjan Kamali

2019 • 233 Readers • 4.1

#28

2 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

ByAlexandre Dumas

1830 • 1,916 Readers • 1,276 pages • 4.3

#29

#1 of 1 in Como agua para chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate

ByLaura Esquivel,Thomas Christensen,+1 more

1989 • 265 Readers • 287 pages • 3.7

#30

Cantoras

ByCarolina De Robertis

2019 • 44 Readers • 312 pages • 4.6

#31

#1 of 2 in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

The Shadow of the Wind

ByCarlos Ruiz Zafón,Lucia Graves(Translator)

2001 • 1,227 Readers • 487 pages • 4.1

#32

The Bluest Eye

ByToni Morrison

1970 • 569 Readers • 216 pages • 4

#33

Under the Udala Trees

ByChinelo Okparanta

2015 • 94 Readers • 341 pages • 4

#34

The Foundling

ByStacey Halls

2020 • 39 Readers • 400 pages • 4

#35

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

ByAlix E. Harrow

2019 • 908 Readers • 384 pages • 4.1

#37

One Hundred Years of Solitude

ByGabriel García Márquez,Gregory Rabassa(Translator)

1967 • 1,882 Readers • 422 pages • 4.1

#38

All the Light We Cannot See

ByAnthony Doerr

2014 • 1,788 Readers • 544 pages • 4.2

#39

Middlesex

ByJeffrey Eugenides

2002 • 706 Readers • 548 pages • 4.1

#40

#1 of 3 in The Color Purple Collection

The Color Purple

ByAlice Walker

1976 • 1,046 Readers • 288 pages • 4.2

#41

#1 of 2 in Whistle Stop, AL

Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

ByFannie Flagg

1987 • 294 Readers • 391 pages • 4.2

#42

#1 of 9 in Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

ByL.M. Montgomery

1908 • 835 Readers • 384 pages • 4.3

#43

The Nightingale

ByKristin Hannah

2015 • 1,070 Readers • 448 pages • 4.3

#44

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

ByKen Kesey

1962 • 1,073 Readers • 336 pages • 4

#45

Wuthering Heights

ByEmily Brontë

197 • 1,833 Readers • 376 pages • 3.6

#46

And Then There Were None

ByAgatha Christie

1939 • 2,069 Readers • 116 pages • 4.2

#47

Fahrenheit 451

ByRay Bradbury

1953 • 3,903 Readers • 227 pages • 3.9

#48

Anna Karenina

ByLeo Tolstoy,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

1877 • 1,464 Readers • 1,480 pages • 4

#49

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

ByBetty Smith

1943 • 485 Readers • 496 pages • 4.1

#50

Critical Insights

Slaughterhouse 5

ByKurt Vonnegut

1968 • 2,603 Readers • 292 pages • 4.1

#51

#1 of 2 in Catch-22

Catch-22

ByJoseph Heller

1961 • 1,708 Readers • 466 pages • 4

#52

Siddhartha

ByHermann Hesse,Hilda Rosner(Translator)

1922 • 1,230 Readers • 152 pages • 3.9

#53

Circe

ByMadeline Miller

2018 • 2,981 Readers • 409 pages • 4.2

#54

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

ByFyodor Dostoevsky

1864 • 144 Readers • 233 pages • 4.1

#55

Reidverse

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

ByTaylor Jenkins Reid

2017 • 2,751 Readers • 400 pages • 4.3

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