List of All Historical Fantasy Books

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
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 Cloud of Outrageous Blue	Stamper, Vesper	2020	YA A	High Middle Ages	1348-1349	Europe	England	Plagues Medieval Life Bubonic Plague	HF	N
Graceless Heart	Ibanez, Isabel	2026	A	Renaissance	1478	Europe	Italy	Italian Renaissance Medici Family	HF	N
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
The Familiar	Bardugo, Leigh	2024	A	Renaissance	1590	Europe	Spain	Spanish Inquisition Jewish Persecution Sephardic Jews	HF	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
What Moves the Dead	Kingfisher, T.	2022	YA A	Industrial Age	1890	Europe	Great Britain	Victorian Era LGBTQ+ Fungi	HF	N
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
The First Bright Thing	Dawson, J.R.	2023	A	Modern Age	1917-1926	North America	United States	Jewish Life	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
The Night War	Brubaker Bradley, Kimberly	2024	MG UMG	Modern Age	1942	Europe	France	WWII Resistance	HF	CB
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
What Fell From the Sky	Cuevas, Adrianna	2025	MG	Modern Age	1952	North America	United States	Cold War Aliens	HF	CB
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
Right Back At You	Mackler, Carolyn	2025	MG UMG	Modern Age	1987-2023	North America	United States	Jewish Life bullying	HF	CB
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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List of abbreviations:

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