Historical Fiction Books of the 1900s
The 79 most-read historical fiction books first published between 1900 and 1909, led by The Wind in the Willows (1908), I Will Repay (1900) and The Sea-Hawk (1900).
This list collects 79 books from the 1900s by 63 authors, published between 1900 and 1909. 4 are free to read and 74 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
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I Will Repay
Emma Orczy
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The Sea-Hawk
Rafael Sabatini
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Salute to Adventurers
John Buchan
The Gap in the Curtain
John Buchan
The House Behind the Cedars
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Prestige
Christopher Priest
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The Eagle's Shadow
James Branch Cabell
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Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1)
John Galsworthy
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Valley of Decision
Edith Wharton
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Carmen
Prosper MΓ©rimΓ©e
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Great Man: a Frolic
Arnold Bennett
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Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West
Frank Norris
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Fraternity
John Galsworthy
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His Masterpiece
Γmile Zola
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Red Pottage
Mary Cholmondeley
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Metropolis
Upton Sinclair
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Marriage of William Ashe
Mary Augusta Ward
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Inner Shrine
Basil King
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Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
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Leonora
Arnold Bennett
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Darnley
George Payne Rainsford James
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Order Number 11
Caroline Abbot Stanley
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Tattlings of a Retired Politician
Forrest Crissey
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By What Authority?
Robert Hugh Benson
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An Outback Marriage
Banjo Paterson
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New Republic; or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House
William Hurrell Mallock
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Last Rebel
Joseph A. Altsheler
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Queen's Necklace
Alexandre Dumas
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Blind Brother (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
Homer Greene
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Gudrun
Ferdinand Schmidt
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Masquerader (Version 2)
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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Gambler (version 2)
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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Where Love Is
William John Locke
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Death Disk
Mark Twain
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In Old Plantation Days
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Brethren (Version 2)
H. Rider Haggard
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Perfect Tribute
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
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Privy Seal: His Last Venture
Ford Madox Ford
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In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers
G. A. Henty
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By the Marshes of Minas
Charles G. D. Roberts
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Historical Romance of the American Negro
Charles H. Fowler
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Lady Rose's Daughter (Version 2)
Mary Augusta Ward
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Fifth Queen Crowned
Ford Madox Ford
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Sin of Monsieur Antoine, Volume 1
George Sand
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Island Pharisees
John Galsworthy
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In the Days of Queen Elizabeth
Eva March Tappan
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Lady of Blossholme
H. Rider Haggard
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Shakspere: Personal Recollections
John A. Joyce
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Garthowen: A Story of a Welsh Homestead
Allen Raine
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Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape from Siberia
G. A. Henty
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Poems and Some Satires of Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell
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Love-at-Arms
Rafael Sabatini
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Deep Moat Grange
S. R. Crockett
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Bud
Neil Munro
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Joy of Life (Joie de Vivre), Book Twelve of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Γmile Zola
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Mother Earth, Vol. 1, No. 11, January 1907
Various
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The Rover Boys on The Farm
Arthur M. Winfield
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Daughter of the Sioux
Charles King
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Colonel Greatheart
H. C. Bailey
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Virginian
Owen Wister
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Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest
Stewart Edward White
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Raiding with Morgan
Byron A. Dunn
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Prince of Good Fellows
Robert Barr
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To Have And To Hold
Mary Johnston
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House with the Green Shutters
George Douglas Brown
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Horse's Tale
Mark Twain
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Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
Alexander Hunter
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Doom Castle
Neil Munro
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Blazed Trail
Stewart Edward White
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Fifth Queen
Ford Madox Ford
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Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
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Pharaoh and the Priest
BolesΕaw Prus
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Key to the Riddle
Margaret S. Comrie
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Bishop's Secret
Fergus Hume
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Elsie's Children
Martha Finley
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Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
ThΓ©ophile Gautier
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Leopard's Spots
Thomas Dixon, Jr.
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Traitor
Thomas Dixon, Jr.