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Complete timeline dump of all Historical Fantasy Books on HistoryBookByBook.com (default sorted chronologically by Time Frame):
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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The Palace of Illusions | Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee | 2008 | YA A | Early Civilization | 6000-5000 BCE | Asia | India | Hindu Mythology | M HF | N |
Quiver | Spinner, Stephanie | 2002 | UMG YA | Classical Age | 900-800 BCE | Europe | Greece | Greek Mythology | M F HF | N |
Mark of the Thief | Nielsen, Jennifer A. | 2015 | MG UMG | Classical Age | 50 | Europe | Italy | Praetor War Roman Slaves | F HF | CB |
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Gidwitz, Adam | 2016 | UMG | High Middle Ages | 1242 | Europe | France | Medieval Life | HF | CB |
A Fire Among Clouds: Codex Black | Lozano, Camilo Moncada | 2023 | YA | Renaissance | 1493 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Mesoamerican Mythology | HF | GN |
My Lady Jane | Hand, Cynthia Ashton, Brodi Meadows, Jodi | 2016 | YA A | Renaissance | 1553-1573 | Europe | Great Britain | Tudors Lady Jane Grey | HF Bio | N |
The Perilous Gard | Pope, Elizabeth Marie | 2001 | UMG YA | Renaissance | 1558 | Europe | Great Britain | Tudors Mary Tudor | HF | N |
My Contrary Mary | Hand, Cynthia Ashton, Brodi Meadows, Jodi | 2021 | YA A | Renaissance | 1568-1587 | Europe | Great Britain | Tudors Mary Stuart | HF Bio | N |
Revolution | Donnelly, Jennifer | 2010 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1785-1795 | Europe | France | French Revolution | HF | N |
My Imaginary Mary | Hand, Cynthia Ashton, Brodi Meadows, Jodi | 2022 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1800-1851 | Europe | Great Britain | Mary Shelley | HF Bio | N |
Kindred | Butler, Octavia E. | 1979 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1815-1976 | North America | United States | Antebellum South Slavery Racism Time Travel | HF | N |
Babel: or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History | Kuang, R.F. | 2022 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1828-1839 | Europe | Great Britain | Colonization Revolution Oxford | HF | N |
My Plain Jane | Hand, Cynthia Ashton, Brodi Meadows, Jodi | 2018 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1834 | Europe | Great Britain | Jane Eyre | HF | N |
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Auxier, Jonathan | 2020 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1874 | Europe | Great Britain | Child Labor Victorian Era | HF | CB |
My Calamity Jane | Hand, Cynthia Ashton, Brodi Meadows, Jodi | 2020 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1876 | North America | United States | Calamity Jane | HF Bio | N |
Dread Nation | Ireland, Justina | 2018 | YA | Industrial Age | 1880 | North America | United States | Reconstruction LGBTQ+ | HF | N |
Deathless Divide | Ireland, Justina | 2020 | YA | Industrial Age | 1880 | North America | United States | Reconstruction | HF | N |
What the River Knows | Ibañez, Isabel | 2023 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1880 | Africa | Egypt | Egyptology Archaeology Cleopatra | HF | N |
The Prairie Thief | Wiley, Melissa | 2013 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1880-1889 | North America | United States | Prairie Life | HF | CB |
Jackaby | Ritter, William | 2015 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1892 | North America | United States | Gilded Age | F HF | N |
The Golem and the Jinni | Wecker, Helene | 2013 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1899 | North America | United States | Immigrants Gilded Age Jewish History | HF | N |
The Gilded Girl | Coleman, Alyssa | 2021 | MG | Modern Age | 1905-1907 | North America | United States | Gilded Age magic | HF | CB |
The Hidden Palace | Wecker, Helene | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1910-1918 | North America | United States | Immigrants Jewish History | HF | N |
Lovely War | Berry, Julie | 2019 | YA | Modern Age | 1914-1945 | Europe | France | WWI | F HF | N |
The Foreshadowing | Sedgwick, Marcus | 2005 | YA | Modern Age | 1915 | Europe | Great Britain France | WWI | F HF | N |
Lone Women | LaValle, Victor | 2023 | A | Modern Age | 1915 | North America | United States | Horror Westward Expansion | HF | N |
Ring Shout | Clark, P. Djeli | 2020 | A | Modern Age | 1922 | North America | United States | Racism Jim Crow | HF | B |
These Violent Delights | Gong, Clohe | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1926 | Asia | China | Romeo and Juliet | HF | N |
Our Violent Ends | Gong, Clohe | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1927 | Asia | China | Romeo and Juliet | HF | N |
The Water Horse | King-Smith, Dick | 2007 | MG | Modern Age | 1930-1939 | Europe | Scotland | Folk Tales | HF | CB |
The Night Tiger | Choo, UYangsze | 2019 | A | Modern Age | 1931 | Asia | Malaysia | Malaysian Folklore | HF | N |
Maus I | Spiegelman, Art | 1986 | YA A | Modern Age | 1935-1945 | Europe | Germany | WWII | HF F | GN |
Maus II | Spiegelman, Art | 1992 | YA A | Modern Age | 1935-1945 | Europe | Germany | WWII | HF F | GN |
Atomic Anna | Barenbaum, Rachel | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1992 | Europe North America | Russia United States | Chernobyl Communism Soviet Union | HF | N |
Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust | Shusterman, Neal | 2023 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | various | Holocaust Jewish Resistance | HF | GN |
The Devil's Arithmetic | Yolen, Jane | 1988 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F HF | CB |
Displacement | Hughes, Kiku | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | HF | GN |
The Shadow War | Smith, Lindsay | 2020 | YA | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Germany | WWII | HF | N |
Wrath Becomes Her | Polydoros, Aden | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1943 | Europe | Lithuania | WWII Jewish Resistance | HF | N |
The Dollmaker of Krakow | Romero, R. M. | 2016 | UMG | Modern Age | 1945 | Europe | Poland | WWII | F HF | CB |
Kursed | Smith, Lindsay | 2015 | YA | Modern Age | 1945 | Europe | Soviet Union | WWII | HF | N |
The Death of Jane Lawrence: A Novel | Starling, Caitlin | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 1950 | Europe | Great Britain | Gothic Fantasy Victorian Era | HF | N |
The Reformatory | Due, Tananarive | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1950 | North America | United States | Segregation Civil Rights Great Migration Jim Crow | HF | N |
Red Scare: A Graphic Novel | Walsh, Liam Francis | 2022 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1953 | North America | United States | McCarthyism Cold War | HF | GN |
Sekret | Smith, Lindsay | 2015 | YA | Modern Age | 1963 | Europe | Soviet Union | Cold War | HF | N |
Skandal | Smith, Lindsay | 2016 | YA | Modern Age | 1964 | North America | Soviet Union United States | Cold War | HF | N |
The Witch Who Came in from the Cold | Smith, Lindsay | 2017 | YA | Modern Age | 1970 | Europe | Czechoslovakia | Cold War | HF | N |
When You Reach Me | Stead, Rebecca | 2009 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1979 | North America | United States | American Life Time Travel | HF | N |
Riot Baby | Onyebuchi, Tochi | 2020 | A | Modern Age | 1992 | North America | United States | LA Riots | HF | N |
Bill and Pete go Down the Nile | DePaola, Tomie | 1987 | LE | Early Civilization | 1987 | Africa | Egypt | Ancient Egypt | F HF | PB |
Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel | Doerr, Anthony | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 2020 | Asia North America | Turkey United States | Historical Fiction | HF | N |
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Reading Age | Genre | Format |
LE = lower elementary MG = middle grade (8-12 yrs.) UMG = upper-middle grade (11-14 yrs.) YA = young adult (14+) A = adult (18+) |
NF - non fiction F = fiction Bio = biography HF = historical fantasy AH = alternate history OV - own voices M = mythology S = spine book |
PB = picture book GN = graphic novel ER = early reader CB = chapter book B = book (NF) N = novel M = memoir |