Top Historical Fiction Books

The top 50 books in this category, curated and ranked.

Updated April 1, 2026

All Books fantasy science fiction mystery thriller horror romance historical fiction memoir biography history philosophy science poetry young adult children's literary fiction self-help crime fiction

Rank	Book
#1	Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#2	The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
#3	11/22/63 by Stephen King
#4	The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
#5	A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
#6	Bleak House by Charles Dickens
#7	Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#8	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#9	The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
#10	The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#11	The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
#12	The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
#13	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
#14	Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
#15	Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
#16	Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#17	The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#18	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
#19	The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
#20	Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
#21	Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff
#22	Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
#23	The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
#24	Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
#25	Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
#26	Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
#27	Shōgun by James Clavell
#28	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#29	The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
#30	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
#31	One Thousand and One Nights by Richard Francis Burton
#32	All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#33	The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
#34	A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35	Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
#36	The Help by Kathryn Stockett
#37	A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
#38	The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore
#39	A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
#40	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
#41	Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
#42	Heroes by Robert Cormier
#43	The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
#44	The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
#45	The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
#46	A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
#47	The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#48	Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#49	Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
#50	Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert