Historical Fiction Books of the 1880s
The 47 most-read historical fiction books first published between 1880 and 1889, led by Treasure Island (1880), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and She (1886).
This list collects 47 books from the 1880s by 32 authors, published between 1880 and 1889. 6 are free to read and 42 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
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She
H. Rider Haggard
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David Balfour
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
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Washington Square
Henry James
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The Story of Siegfried
James Baldwin, Howard Pyle
Die Gred
Georg Moritz Ebers
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War and Peace Vol. 2 (Dole Translation)
Leo Tolstoy
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Ladies' Paradise
Émile Zola
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Monte-Cristo's Daughter
Edmund Flagg
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Dead Souls
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
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Round About a Great Estate
Richard Jefferies
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White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five"
Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
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Robert Elsmere
Mary Augusta Ward
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Ninety-Three
Victor Hugo
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Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)
Émile Zola
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Gaspar Ruiz
Joseph Conrad
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Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars
G. A. Henty
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By Shore and Sedge
Bret Harte
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Saxby: a tale of old and new England
Emma Leslie
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Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories
Louisa May Alcott
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Piping Hot (Pot Bouille), Book Ten of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Émile Zola
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Three Years at Glenwood
Margaret Winslow
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Germinal, Book Thirteen in the Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2 in English)
Émile Zola
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L'Oeuvre (The Masterpiece), Book Fourteen of the Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Émile Zola
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Young Buglers
G. A. Henty
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Lusiads
Luís Vaz de Camões
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True to the Old Flag
G. A. Henty
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Cat of Bubastes
G. A. Henty
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Plain Tales from the Hills
Rudyard Kipling
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Through the Fray
G. A. Henty
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Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs
Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
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Steel Hammer
Louis Ulbach
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Gray Mills of Farley
Sarah Orne Jewett
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1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2)
Mark Twain
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War and Peace Vol. 1 (Dole Translation)
Leo Tolstoy
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Joshua
Georg Ebers
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Bonaventure, A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
George Washington Cable
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Young Carthaginian
G. A. Henty
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Post Haste
R. M. Ballantyne
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Imaginary Conversations (Dramatic Reading)
Walter Savage Landor
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Under Drake's Flag: A Tale Of The Spanish Main
G. A. Henty
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Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
Washington Irving
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Landleaguers
Anthony Trollope
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Vital Question, or, What is to be Done?
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
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Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California
G. A. Henty