Historical Fantasy

The past, with the magic left in. Real periods and real cities where the supernatural is simply part of the record, and history bends around it.

On the Fantasy & the Invented shelf.

Books shelved as Historical Fantasy

• La hija del doctor Moreau — Silvia Moreno-García
• An Inconvenient Vow — Alice Coldbreath
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue — V.E. Schwab
• Her Bridegroom, Bought and Paid For — Alice Coldbreath
• Ring Shout — P. Djèlí Clark
• Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell
• A Breath of Snow and Ashes — Diana Gabaldon
• Medieval Girlfriends — Juliette Cousin
• Child of Flame — Kate Elliott
• These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1) — Chloe Gong
• Northern Wrath — Thilde Kold Holdt
• The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea — Maggie Tokuda-Hall
• The Water Dancer — Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Tapestry of Fate — S. A. Chakraborty
• The Queen of Spades — Alexander Pushkin
• The Wood at Midwinter — Susanna Clarke
• Child of the Prophecy — Juliet Marillier
• Babel: An Arcane History — R.F. Kuang
• Longshadow — Olivia Atwater
• Blood and Gold — Anne Rice
• Daughter of the Otherworld — Shauna Lawless
• Wed by Proxy — Alice Coldbreath
• The Great Hunt — Robert Jordan
• Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone — Diana Gabaldon

Related genres

• Fantasy
• Epic Fantasy
• Urban Fantasy
• Dark Fantasy
• Cozy Fantasy
• Dragons
• Fairy Tale Retelling
• LitRPG
• Asian-inspired Fantasy
• Military Fantasy
• Grimdark
• Contemporary Fantasy
• Court Intrigue
• Fae
• Portal Fantasy
• Sapphic Fantasy
• Quest Fantasy
• Flintlock Fantasy
• Necromancy
• Roman-inspired Fantasy
• Dying Earth

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