Favorite Historical Fiction Books That I Have Read

This post is coming to you as a request from a reader of mine. She said, “Please make a post of all of your favorite books you have read”. I was genuinely excited to do this as you know I love all things reading. What I didn’t expect was just how hard it would be! I have read so many amazing books over the years. It was hard to narrow it down, but luckily thanks to the Goodreads app where I keep track of my books, I could look back and see all the books I gave 4 or 5 stars to. Many of the books I included are popular reads and some are a little less known. This week’s post will cover one of my favorite genres, Historical Fiction. I will be sure to do additional Favorite Books Posts in the months to come covering other genres. But for now, I hope this list of my Favorite Historical Fiction books I have read will help you find a new favorite read or two of your own!

 

1. The Kitchen House- Kathleen Grissom
2. Water for Elephants- Sara Gruen
3. Orphan Train- Christina Baker Kline
4. The Shoemaker’s Wife- Adriana Trigiani
5. Pope Joan- Donna Woolfolk Cross
6. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford
7. Shanghai Girls- Lisa See
8. Sarah’s Key- Tatiana de Rosnay
9. The Red Tent- Anita Diamant
10. Mademoiselle Chanel- C.W. Gortner
11. The Tattooist of Auschwitz- Heather Morris
12. The Girl Who Wrote in Silk- Kelli Estes
13. Drowning Ruth- Christina Schwarz
14. The Traitor’s Wife- Allison Pataki
15. The Help- Kathryn Stockett
16. Loving Frank- Nancy Horan
17. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
18. The Other Boleyn Girl- Philippa Gregory
19. Calling Me Home- Julie Kibler
20. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- Betty Smith
21. The Four Winds- Kristin Hannah
22. The Book Thief- Markus Zusak
23. The Aviator’s Wife- Melanie Benjamin
24. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd- Jim Fergus
25. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe- Fannie Flagg
26. The Chosen- Chaim Potok
27. The Girl on the Train- Paula Hawkins
28. Enemy Women- Paulette Jiles
29. The Invention of Wings- Sue Monk Kidd
30. The Nightingale- Kristin Hannah
31. Circling the Sun- Paula McLain
32. Rules of Civility- Amor Towles
33. A Fall of Marigolds- Susan Meissner
34. The Accidental Empress- Allison Pataki
35. Sisi: Empress on Her Own- Allison Pataki
36. Before We Were Yours- Lisa Wingate
37. The Alice Network- Kate Quinn
38. Beneath a Scarlet Sky- Mark T. Sullivan
39. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe- Fannie Flagg
40. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane- Lisa See
41. Carnegie’s Maid- Marie Benedict
42. All the Light We Cannot See- Anthony Doerr
43. The Crooked Branch- Jeanine Cummins
44. Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman & C.S. Lewis- Patti Callahan
45. The Heart’s Invisible Furies- John Boyne
46. The Winthrop Woman- Anya Seton
47. The Color Purple- Alice Walker
48. The Paris Wife- Paula McLain

I hope this list of my favorite historical fiction books gets you excited to pick up a new book or two! Please feel free to comment below with a book you think I may have missed that you have loved. Or let me know if one of the books on this list is one of your favorites too. The more people who comment the more we can help one another find our next great read.

As I mentioned above I use the Goodreads app to keep track of the books I have read. I also follow friends who are readers on there as well. If you haven’t checked out Goodreads, here is a link to it. If you sign up for it please friend request me on there so we can share great reads with one another. https://www.goodreads.com/

Happy Reading Friends!

XO- Kerry

P.S.- If you want to know which of the books on this list is my all-time favorite you can check out a previous blog post of mine here where I share about this gem of a book! https://herheartstirs.com/books-a-love-story/