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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/


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  1. Stephanie Shurtleff says

    March 13, 2021 at 9:36 am

    Are these in order of your favorites? I’ve got some reading to do then! I enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha….

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    • Kerry says

      March 13, 2021 at 9:40 am

      Hi Stephanie- No they are not in any particular order. They are all books that I gave either 4 or 5 stars to on Goodreads.

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  2. Michelle says

    March 12, 2021 at 2:46 pm

    Kerry – I love reading yet your list made me realize I’ve not ventured into historical fiction. Your blog post has inspired me to start reading at least one off this list. Thanks for the nudge. And the pot pie recipe looks amazing!

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    • Kerry says

      March 13, 2021 at 9:43 am

      Hi Michelle- So glad you are going to pick up some Historical Fiction. I LOVE this genre so much!!

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