Historical Fantasy Books of the 2010s
The 348 most-read historical fantasy books first published between 2010 and 2019, led by Circe (2018), The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2015) and The Night Circus (2011).
This list collects 348 books from the 2010s by 263 authors, published between 2010 and 2019. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Circe
Madeline Miller
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
The Serpent's Shadow
Rick Riordan
Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare
Darkstalker
Tui T. Sutherland
Hollow City
Ransom Riggs
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
The Enchantress Returns
Chris Colfer
The World of Ice & Fire
George R. R. Martin, Elio Garcia
The City of Brass
Shannon A. Chakraborty
Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness
Nevernight
Jay Kristoff
The Dragon Republic
R. F. Kuang
A Conjuring of Light
V. E. Schwab
Kraken
China Miéville
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor LaValle, Gökçe Çiçek
Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
Clockwork Prince
Cassandra Clare
Smaragdgrün
Kerstin Gier, Anthea Bell
The Ring of Solomon
Jonathan Stroud, Johnathan Stroud
Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff
Senlin Ascends
Josiah Bancroft
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Seth Grahame-Smith
Crystal Gardens
Jayne Ann Krentz
Assassin's Creed
Oliver Bowden
The watchmaker of Filigree Street
Natasha Pulley
Eona
Alison Goodman
Once Upon a River
Diane Setterfield
Stormdancer
Jay Kristoff
Alice
Christina Henry
Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi
Loki
Mackenzi Lee
The Empire of Gold
Shannon A. Chakraborty
Sorcerer to the Crown
Zen Cho
A Noite do Tigre
Yangsze Choo
Written in My Own Hearts Blood
Various, Diana Gabaldon
The Gate Thief
Orson Scott Card
The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey
The Story of Kullervo
J.R.R. Tolkien
Changeless (The Parasol Protectorate)
Gail Carriger
Of Love and Evil
Anne Rice
The Last Magician
Lisa Maxwell
All the Crooked Saints
Maggie Stiefvater
A Dead Djinn in Cairo: A Tor.Com Original
P. Djèlí Clark
Tongues of Serpents
Naomi Novik
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
This Dark Endeavor
Kenneth Oppel
Splendors and Glooms
Laura Amy Schlitz
After Dead
Charlaine Harris
The Fledling Handbook 101
P. C. Cast, Kim Doner
Cursed
Thomas Wheeler, Frank Miller
The Spider's War
Daniel Abraham
The Diviners
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
Libba Bray
The Devourers
Indra Das
The Burning Page
Genevieve Cogman
Abe Lincoln at last!
Mary Pope Osborne
Firelight
Kristen Callihan
Bitter Seeds
Ian Tregillis
The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack
Mark Hodder
Witchmark
C. L. Polk
The Binding
Bridget Collins
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
Such Wicked Intent
Kenneth Oppel
Lovely War
Julie Berry
Shadow of the Shark (Magic Tree House #53)
Mary Pope Osborne
The Winter of the Witch
Katherine Arden
Dogs in the Dead of Night
Mary Pope Osborne
The Reluctant Assassin
Eoin Colfer
When the Sea Turned to Silver
Grace Lin
The Secret Chapter
Genevieve Cogman
Shades of Milk and Honey
Mary Robinette Kowal
An Easy Death
Charlaine Harris
Nyx in the House of Night
P. C. Cast, Karen Mahoney
Egg & Spoon
Gregory Maguire
We Ride Upon Sticks
Quan Barry
A Most Improper Magick
Stephanie Burgis
The Mechanical
Ian Tregillis
Rise of the Wolf
Jennifer A. Nielsen
A Crazy Day with Cobras
Mary Pope Osborne
The Sookie Stackhouse companion
Charlaine Harris
Abraham Lincoln
Seth Grahame-Smith
A Study in Sable
Mercedes Lackey, Gemma Dawson
Red Queen
Christina Henry
Cuckoo Song
Frances Hardinge
Blood Of Tyrants
Naomi Novik
High Time for Heroes
Mary Pope Osborne
In the House in the Dark of the Woods
Laird Hunt
League of Dragons
Naomi Novik
Wrath of Empire
Brian McClellan
Under Heaven
Guy Gavriel Kay
Sister Mine
Nalo Hopkinson
Hiddensee
Gregory Maguire
Warbound: Book Three of the Grimnoir Chronicles
Larry Correia