Historical Fiction Books of the 1890s
The 70 most-read historical fiction books first published between 1890 and 1899, led by The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Dracula (1897) and The Time Machine (1895).
This list collects 70 books from the 1890s by 50 authors, published between 1890 and 1899. 8 are free to read and 64 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
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Rodney Stone
Arthur Conan Doyle
John Burnet of Barnes
John Buchan
The Wheels of Chance
H. G. Wells
Pharos
Guy Boothby
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Among Malay Pirates
G. A. Henty
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The witch of Salem; or, Credulity run mad
John Roy Musick
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The Were-wolf
Clemence Housman
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Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross
Florence Morse Kingsley
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Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth
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Forty-Five Guardsmen
Alexandre Dumas
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Fortune of the Rougons
Émile Zola
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Hans of Iceland
Victor Hugo
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Paul: A Herald of the Cross
Florence Morse Kingsley
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Canadians of Old
Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
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Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading)
John Kendrick Bangs
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Love and a Bottle
George Farquhar
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Diana Tempest
Mary Cholmondeley
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Germinal (English)
Émile Zola
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Last Three Soldiers
William Henry Shelton
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Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763
Samuel Madden, Charles William Chadwick Oman
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Sons of Fire
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Cliff-Dwellers
Henry Blake Fuller
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Taking the Bastile
Alexandre Dumas
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Anne of Geierstein, Volume 1
Sir Walter Scott
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Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2
Sir Walter Scott
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Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815
Thomas Wallace Knox
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Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 2: The Mesmerist's Victim
Alexandre Dumas
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Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 3: The Queen's Necklace (Version 2)
Alexandre Dumas
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Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile
Alexandre Dumas
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Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny
Alexandre Dumas
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Katharine von Bora: Dr. Martin Luther's Wife
Armin Stein
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Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem
Sutton Griggs
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Consuelo
George Sand
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Golem: A legend of old Prague
Rudolf Lothar
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Short Stories in Prose and Verse
Henry Lawson
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St. Bartholomew's Eve
G. A. Henty
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House on the Scar
Bertha Thomas
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Held Fast For England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar
G. A. Henty
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Flight of the Shadow
Laura M. Dake
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At the Gate of Samaria
William John Locke
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History of David Grieve
Mary Augusta Ward
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At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
G. A. Henty
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Dorothy's Double: The Story of a Great Deception, Volume 1
G. A. Henty
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Queen's Cup
G. A. Henty
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Sir Charles Danvers
Mary Cholmondeley
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Dorothy's Double - Volume 3
G. A. Henty
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Conscience
Hector Malot
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In the Year of Jubilee
George Gissing
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Prisoner of Morro
Upton Sinclair
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Tiger of Mysore
G. A. Henty
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On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War
G. A. Henty
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Anna Karenina (Dole translation)
Leo Tolstoy
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Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
Ambrose Bierce, Adolphe Danziger de Castro
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American Claimant
Mark Twain
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Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
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Group of Noble Dames
Thomas Hardy
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In Exile and Other Stories
Mary Hallock Foote
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Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier
Charles King
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Christmas at Thompson Hall
Anthony Trollope
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Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World
Castello Newton Holford
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Manchester Man
Isabella Varley Banks
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Iola Leroy
Frances E. W. Harper
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Master and Man
Leo Tolstoy
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Doxie Dent
John Ackworth