📚 Historical Fiction

The past as stage: real decades, invented lives, and the quarrels about getting either wrong.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject historical fiction in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A Final Reckoning	G. A. Henty	1800	235
	Midwinter	John Buchan	1923	184
	The Mammoth Hunters	Jean M. Auel	1611	118
	Synthetic Men of Mars	Edgar Rice Burroughs	1940	115
	Die Blechtrommel	Günter Grass	1959	111
	Das Parfum	Patrick Süskind	1985	106
	Dom Casmurro	Machado de Assis	1900	90
	Kane & Abel	Jeffrey Archer	1979	76
	St. George and St. Michael	George MacDonald	1876	69
	The Day of the Jackal	Frederick Forsyth	1971	69
	King Rat	James Clavell	1950	49
	Dragon Seed (Progress English)	Pearl S. Buck	1941	47
	Röde Orm	Frans Gunnar Bengtsson	1943	44
	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	2004	41
	Tai-Pan (Asian Saga	James Clavell	1966	39
	Stonehenge	Bernard Cornwell	1999	37
	The Pale Horseman	Bernard Cornwell	2004	32
	Homegoing	Yaa Gyasi	2016	32
	Burr	Gore Vidal	1973	27
	The Black Swan	Eleanor Burford	1990	18
	An echo in the darkness	Francine Rivers	1994	17
	The Walking Drum	Louis L'Amour	1984	16
	As Sure as the Dawn	Francine Rivers	1995	13
	Come Love A Stranger	Kathleen E. Woodiwiss	1984	12
	A Rose In Winter	Kathleen E. Woodiwiss	1982	11
	The Hired Girl	Laura Amy Schlitz	2015	11
	Rumah Kaca	Pramoedya Ananta Toer	1975	10
	The Gates of Rome (Emperor)	Conn Iggulden	2003	10
	Nuestra parte de noche	Mariana Enríquez	2019	10
	Iron Widow	Xiran Jay Zhao	2019	10

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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