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Historical Fiction Novel Rankings

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The 100 definitive historical fiction novels, ranked by literary merit, evocative worldbuilding, and narrative impact.

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War and Peace β€” Leo Tolstoy (1869)β€”
Wolf Hall β€” Hilary Mantel (2009)β€”
I, Claudius β€” Robert Graves (1934)β€”
The Pillars of the Earth β€” Ken Follett (1989)β€”
The Name of the Rose β€” Umberto Eco (1980)β€”
Beloved β€” Toni Morrison (1987)β€”
A Tale of Two Cities β€” Charles Dickens (1859)β€”
Bring Up the Bodies β€” Hilary Mantel (2012)β€”
Lonesome Dove β€” Larry McMurtry (1985)β€”
All the Light We Cannot See β€” Anthony Doerr (2014)β€”
Memoirs of Hadrian β€” Marguerite Yourcenar (1951)β€”
The Leopard β€” Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)β€”
The English Patient β€” Michael Ondaatje (1992)β€”
The Remains of the Day β€” Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)β€”
Things Fall Apart β€” Chinua Achebe (1958)β€”
Master and Commander β€” Patrick O'Brian (1969)β€”
Atonement β€” Ian McEwan (2001)β€”
The Nightingale β€” Kristin Hannah (2015)β€”
The Book Thief β€” Markus Zusak (2005)β€”
Midnight's Children β€” Salman Rushdie (1981)β€”
The Underground Railroad β€” Colson Whitehead (2016)β€”
The Three Musketeers β€” Alexandre Dumas (1844)β€”
The Count of Monte Cristo β€” Alexandre Dumas (1844)β€”
Shōgun β€” James Clavell (1975)β€”
Alias Grace β€” Margaret Atwood (1996)β€”
The Mirror & the Light β€” Hilary Mantel (2020)β€”
Regeneration β€” Pat Barker (1991)β€”
Claudius the God β€” Robert Graves (1935)β€”
Ivanhoe β€” Walter Scott (1819)β€”
Waverley β€” Walter Scott (1814)β€”
The Killer Angels β€” Michael Shaara (1974)β€”
Kristin Lavransdatter β€” Sigrid Undset (1920)β€”
The Blue Flower β€” Penelope Fitzgerald (1995)β€”
Memoirs of a Geisha β€” Arthur Golden (1997)β€”
Girl with a Pearl Earring β€” Tracy Chevalier (1999)β€”
Lincoln in the Bardo β€” George Saunders (2017)β€”
The French Lieutenant's Woman β€” John Fowles (1969)β€”
Cold Mountain β€” Charles Frazier (1997)β€”
The Shadow of the Wind β€” Carlos Ruiz ZafΓ³n (2001)β€”
The Poisonwood Bible β€” Barbara Kingsolver (1998)β€”
Burr β€” Gore Vidal (1973)β€”
Creation β€” Gore Vidal (1981)β€”
Julian β€” Gore Vidal (1964)β€”
Birdsong β€” Sebastian Faulks (1993)β€”
The Grapes of Wrath β€” John Steinbeck (1939)β€”
Silence β€” ShΕ«saku Endō (1966)β€”
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet β€” David Mitchell (2010)β€”
Pachinko β€” Min Jin Lee (2017)β€”
The Luminaries β€” Eleanor Catton (2013)β€”
Ragtime β€” E.L. Doctorow (1975)β€”
The March β€” E.L. Doctorow (1995)β€”
Fingersmith β€” Sarah Waters (2002)β€”
Tipping the Velvet β€” Sarah Waters (1998)β€”
The Night Watch β€” Sarah Waters (2006)β€”
Hamnet β€” Maggie O'Farrell (2020)β€”
The Marriage Portrait β€” Maggie O'Farrell (2022)β€”
Deacon King Kong β€” James McBride (2020)β€”
The Good Lord Bird β€” James McBride (2013)β€”
The Nickel Boys β€” Colson Whitehead (2019)β€”
A Gentleman in Moscow β€” Amor Towles (2016)β€”
World Without End β€” Ken Follett (2007)β€”
The Clan of the Cave Bear β€” Jean M. Auel (1980)β€”
The Red Tent β€” Anita Diamant (1997)β€”
The Song of Achilles β€” Madeline Miller (2011)β€”
Circe β€” Madeline Miller (2018)β€”
The Egyptian β€” Mika Waltari (1945)β€”
The Far Pavilions β€” M.M. Kaye (1978)β€”
Outlander β€” Diana Gabaldon (1991)β€”
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society β€” Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (2008)β€”
The Other Boleyn Girl β€” Philippa Gregory (2001)β€”
Possession β€” A.S. Byatt (1990)β€”
Doctor Zhivago β€” Boris Pasternak (1957)β€”
The Charterhouse of Parma β€” Stendhal (1839)β€”
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame β€” Victor Hugo (1831)β€”
SalammbΓ΄ β€” Gustave Flaubert (1862)β€”
The Help β€” Kathryn Stockett (2009)β€”
The Confessions of Nat Turner β€” William Styron (1967)β€”
Sophie's Choice β€” William Styron (1979)β€”
Homegoing β€” Yaa Gyasi (2016)β€”
Half of a Yellow Sun β€” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006)β€”
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo β€” Taylor Jenkins Reid (2017)β€”
Daisy Jones & The Six β€” Taylor Jenkins Reid (2019)β€”
The Book of Negroes β€” Lawrence Hill (2007)β€”
March β€” Geraldine Brooks (2005)β€”
Year of Wonders β€” Geraldine Brooks (2001)β€”
People of the Book β€” Geraldine Brooks (2008)β€”
The Sympathizer β€” Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015)β€”
Washington Black β€” Esi Edugyan (2018)β€”
Half-Blood Blues β€” Esi Edugyan (2011)β€”
The Post-Office Girl β€” Stefan Zweig (1982)β€”
The Eye in the Door β€” Pat Barker (1993)β€”
The Ghost Road β€” Pat Barker (1995)β€”
The Silence of the Girls β€” Pat Barker (2018)β€”
Post Captain β€” Patrick O'Brian (1972)β€”
H.M.S. Surprise β€” Patrick O'Brian (1973)β€”
The Mauritius Command β€” Patrick O'Brian (1977)β€”
Gates of Fire β€” Steven Pressfield (1998)β€”
The Source β€” James A. Michener (1965)β€”
Chesapeake β€” James A. Michener (1978)β€”
Hawaii β€” James A. Michener (1959)β€”