Historical Fiction 80 books by Rachel Steele

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

ByPatrick Süskind,John E. Woods(Translator)

1985 • 975 Readers • 263 pages • 3.9

#25

The Dovekeepers

ByAlice Hoffman

2011 • 85 Readers • 504 pages • 3.8

#26

The Violent Century

ByLavie Tidhar

2013 • 16 Readers • 352 pages • 3.7

#27

Fingersmith

BySarah Waters

2002 • 357 Readers • 548 pages • 4

#29

Long Lankin

ByLindsey Barraclough

2012 • 8 Readers • 464 pages • 5

#31

The Night Gardener

ByJonathan Auxier

2014 • 51 Readers • 347 pages • 3.8

#32

The Ballad of Black Tom

ByVictor LaValle

2016 • 323 Readers • 149 pages • 3.7

#33

A Dark Dividing

BySarah Rayne

2004 • 3 Readers • 535 pages

#36

The Night Circus

ByErin Morgenstern

2011 • 2,118 Readers • 387 pages • 3.9

#39

#0.1 of 3 in Los Nefilim

In Midnight's Silence

ByT. Frohock

2015 • 6 Readers • 128 pages • 3

#40

Thin Air

ByMichelle Paver

2016 • 45 Readers • 223 pages • 3.7

#42

The North Water

ByIan McGuire

2016 • 132 Readers • 3.9

#43

#3 of 3 in The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

The Bedlam Stacks

ByNatasha Pulley

2017 • 61 Readers • 336 pages • 4

#46

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

ByStuart Turton

1984 • 1,348 Readers • 528 pages • 3.9

#47

The Bird King

ByG. Willow Wilson

2019 • 142 Readers • 3.8

#50

Memoirs of a Geisha

ByArthur Golden

1997 • 1,063 Readers • 435 pages • 3.9

#53

The Kite Runner

ByKhaled Hosseini

1969 • 1,809 Readers • 401 pages • 4.2

#55

The Devil in America

ByKai Ashante Wilson

2014 • 16 Readers • 43 pages • 4.4

#56

#1 of 3 in The Poppy War

The Poppy War

ByR. F. Kuang

2018 • 2,123 Readers • 544 pages • 4

#58

#1 of 3 in Shades of Magic

A Darker Shade of Magic

ByV. E. Schwab

2015 • 1,939 Readers • 400 pages • 4

#59

Little Eve

ByCatriona Ward

2018 • 105 Readers • 288 pages • 3.9

#60

Swimming in the Dark

ByTomasz Jedrowski

2020 • 273 Readers • 224 pages • 4.4

#63

All the Murmuring Bones

ByA.G. Slatter

2021 • 55 Readers • 337 pages • 4.1

#65

#1 of 3 in Between Earth and Sky

Black Sun

ByRebecca Roanhorse

2020 • 778 Readers • 464 pages • 4.1

#67

Once Upon a River

ByDiane Setterfield

2018 • 262 Readers • 496 pages • 4.2

#68

Sea of Tranquility

ByEmily St. John Mandel

2022 • 1,542 Readers • 258 pages • 4

#69

When Women Were Dragons

ByKelly Barnhill

2022 • 369 Readers • 15h 29m • 3.9

#70

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

ByDaniel James Brown

2009 • 131 Readers • 357 pages • 4.2

#72

Fairest Flesh

ByK.P. Kulski

2020 • 4 Readers • 228 pages

#74

The Historian

ByElizabeth Kostova

2005 • 505 Readers • 3.7

#76

Lapvona

ByOttessa Moshfegh

2022 • 388 Readers • 320 pages • 3.6

#77

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

ByR. F. Kuang

2022 • 2,556 Readers • 560 pages • 4.1

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

ByBrom

2021 • 434 Readers • 320 pages • 4.4

#1 of 3 in Milkweed Triptych

Bitter Seeds

ByIan Tregillis

2012 • 86 Readers • 484 pages • 3.9

Middlesex

ByJeffrey Eugenides

2002 • 706 Readers • 548 pages • 4.1

The Glass Woman

ByCaroline Lea

2019 • 27 Readers • 400 pages • 3.9

Burial Rites

ByHannah Kent

2013 • 240 Readers • 336 pages • 4

Water for Elephants

BySara Gruen

2006 • 743 Readers • 3.9

Black Rabbit Hall

ByEve Chase

14 Readers • 3.8

The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life

ByMichael Talbot

1982 • 10 Readers • 406 pages

Raptor Red

ByRobert T. Bakker

1982 • 42 Readers • 362 pages • 3.4

The Winter People

ByJennifer McMahon

2014 • 218 Readers • 336 pages • 3.6

#1 of 3 in The Fade Out

The Fade Out, Act One

ByEd Brubaker(Writer),Sean Phillips(Artist, Letterer)

2015 • 44 Readers • 120 pages • 3.8

Circe

ByMadeline Miller

2018 • 2,992 Readers • 409 pages • 4.2

#1 of 8 in Fevre Dream

Fevre Dream

ByGeorge R.R. Martin

1982 • 178 Readers • 461 pages • 3.7

#1 of 3 in The Alchemy Wars

The Mechanical

ByIan Tregillis

2015 • 85 Readers • 440 pages • 3.9

#1-5 of 1 in These Savage Shores

These Savage Shores

ByRam V.

2019 • 10 Readers • 176 pages • 4.5

#1 of 3 in Doran

Wise Child

ByMonica Furlong

1987 • 35 Readers • 228 pages • 4

Chooseable-Path Adventures

To Be or Not To Be

ByRyan North

2013 • 46 Readers • 768 pages • 4.1

Our Share of Night

ByMariana Enríquez,Megan McDowell(Translator)

2019 • 369 Readers • 720 pages • 3.8

The Prestige

ByChristopher Priest

1995 • 184 Readers • 360 pages • 3.9

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

ByKate Moore

2016 • 461 Readers • 404 pages • 4.2

The People in the Trees

ByHanya Yanagihara

2013 • 195 Readers • 476 pages • 3.5

Airman

ByEoin Colfer

2007 • 50 Readers • 424 pages • 4

The Snow Child

ByEowyn Ivey

2011 • 292 Readers • 4

#1 of 3 in The Color Purple Collection

The Color Purple

ByAlice Walker

1976 • 1,047 Readers • 288 pages • 4.2

Edith Holler

ByEdward Carey

2023 • 12 Readers • 394 pages • 3

Book of a Thousand Days

ByShannon Hale

70 Readers • 3.8

#1-4 of 2 in Miss Pas Touche

Miss Don't Touch Me: Complete Set

ByHubert,Kerascoët

2009 • 5 Readers • 192 pages • 4

Tigana

ByGuy Gavriel Kay

1990 • 537 Readers • 687 pages • 4

#1 of 2 in The Golem and the Jinni

The Golem and the Jinni

ByHelene Wecker

2013 • 567 Readers • 4.2

The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

ByJohn Connolly

2013 • 8 Readers • 128 pages • 4.3

#1 of 8 in Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna

ByChris Dingess

2014 • 11 Readers • 128 pages • 4.3

A green and ancient light

ByFrederic S. Durbin

2016 • 14 Readers • 299 pages • 3.9

The Devil All the Time

ByDonald Ray Pollock

2011 • 196 Readers • 261 pages • 4.1

Blood Meridian

ByCormac McCarthy

1985 • 1,069 Readers • 368 pages • 4.1

Between Two Fires

ByChristopher Buehlman

2012 • 469 Readers • 436 pages • 4.2

#1.5 of 1 in Strange & Norrell

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

BySusanna Clarke

2004 • 161 Readers • 256 pages • 3.6

#1 of 1 in Sundered Veil

The Half Killed

ByQuenby Olson

2015 • 6 Readers • 3.5

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

ByBarbara Comyns

1954 • 31 Readers • 218 pages • 4.3

#1 of 3 in The Winternight Trilogy

The Bear and the Nightingale

ByKatherine Arden

2017 • 966 Readers • 1,235 pages • 4

#1 of 6 in The Queen's Thief

The Thief

ByMegan Whalen Turner

1996 • 414 Readers • 242 pages • 3.7

#1 of 3 in The Border Trilogy

All the Pretty Horses

ByCormac McCarthy

1992 • 387 Readers • 322 pages • 4.1

Silk

ByAlessandro Baricco

1996 • 62 Readers • 110 pages • 3.8

#1 of 4 in The Monstrumologist

The Monstrumologist

ByRick Yancey

2009 • 110 Readers • 450 pages • 3.6

Dark Matter

ByMichelle Paver

2010 • 158 Readers • 6h 4m • 4

Red Rabbit

ByAlex Grecian

2023 • 92 Readers • 455 pages • 4

BioShock: Rapture

ByJohn Shirley

2012 • 42 Readers • 436 pages • 3.7

The Waiting Room

ByF.G. Cottam

2010 • 9 Readers • 294 pages • 4

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