Historical Fiction Books of the 2010s
The 377 most-read historical fiction books first published between 2010 and 2019, led by Circe (2018), Daisy Jones & The Six (2019) and The One and Only Ivan (2011).
This list collects 377 books from the 2010s by 338 authors, published between 2010 and 2019. 1 has a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Circe
Madeline Miller
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate
A Darker Shade of Magic
V. E. Schwab
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, Amir Tsukerman
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
Chain of Gold
Cassandra Clare
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Mackenzi Lee
Habibi
Craig Thompson
City of Girls: A Novel
Elizabeth Gilbert
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James
Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
Blackout
Connie Willis
Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff
Machines Like Me
Ian McEwan
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Largo pétalo de mar
Isabel Allende
Assassin's Creed
Oliver Bowden
The watchmaker of Filigree Street
Natasha Pulley
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
The Origins
Lisa Jane Smith
Frog Music
Emma Donoghue
The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters
The Fountains of Silence
Ruta Sepetys
The Absolutist
John Boyne
Written in My Own Hearts Blood
Various, Diana Gabaldon
The Hellion and the Highlander
Lynsay Sands
The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
To Marry A Scottish Laird
Lynsay Sands, Kieron Elliott
All Clear
Connie Willis
Hild
Nicola Griffith
Taming the Highland Bride
Lynsay Sands
All the Crooked Saints
Maggie Stiefvater
Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman
In Bed with the Duke:(Governess Brides #9)
Christina Dodd
This House is Haunted
John Boyne
Splendors and Glooms
Laura Amy Schlitz
The Ghost Bride
Yangsze Choo
The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry
The Exile
Diana Gabaldon
Half-blood Blues
Esi Edugyan
The Bartered Bride Collection 9 Complete Stories
Cathy Marie Hake
An English Bride in Scotland
Lynsay Sands
The Diviners
Libba Bray
Dracul
Dacre Stoker, J. D. Barker
The Ripper
Lisa Jane Smith
The Surrender of a Lady
Tiffany Clare
The Uninvited
Heather Graham
Bellman & Black
Diane Setterfield
The Chemistry of Tears
Peter Carey
The Serpent of Venice
Christopher Moore
Firelight
Kristen Callihan
All Out
Saundra Mitchell
The Daylight Gate
Jeanette Winterson
The Abominable
Dan Simmons
The curse of the Wendigo
Richard Yancey
The Magician's Lie
Greer Macallister
Time and Time Again
Ben Elton
Stealing the Preacher
Karen Witemeyer
Heart of a Samurai
Margi Preus
The Lesser Dead
Christopher Buehlman
Assassin's Creed
Christie Golden, Paz Pruneda Gonzalvez
One Night in Scotland
Karen Hawkins
Pirate King
Laurie R. King
The Guinevere deception
Kiersten White
We Ride Upon Sticks
Quan Barry
The God of the Hive
Laurie R. King
The Technologists
Matthew Pearl
The Scottish witch
Cathy Maxwell
Dominion
C. J. Sansom
A Wartime Summer
Katie Flynn
Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter
Surrender to the Highlander
Lynsay Sands
Viking in Love
Sandra Hill
The Winter Bride
Anne Gracie
The Glass Woman
Caroline Lea
Captive Brides Collection
Susan Page Davis, Cynthia Hickey
Confessions of the Fox
Jordy Rosenberg
The Devil's Heart
Cathy Maxwell
Commedia Della Morte
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Deathless Girls
Kiran-Millwood-Hargrave
The House of Impossible Beauties
Joseph Cassara
Reign
Lily Blake
Gun Dealers' Daughter
Gina Apostol
The Asylum
John Harwood
Invictus
Ryan Graudin
The Life She Was Given
Ellen Marie Wiseman
On Swift Horses
Shannon Pufahl
The Sparsholt Affair
Alan Hollinghurst
Neverhome
Laird Hunt
Redeemed
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Flight of Dreams
Ariel Lawhon, Orly Mazor-Yuval
A place called Winter
Patrick Gale
Alcestis
Katharine Beutner
My Cat Yugoslavia
Pajtim Statovci