Historical Fantasy

Historical fantasy is a subgenre of historical fiction that incorporates fantastic elements (such as magic) into the narrative. There is much crossover with other subgenres of fantasy; those classes as Arthurian, Celtic, or Dark Ages could just as easily be placed in Historical Fantasy. Stories fitting this classification generally take place prior to the 20th century.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Blood on Her Tongue
The Ragpicker King (The Chronicles of Castellane, #2)
The Antidote
The Hymn to Dionysus
The Prince Without Sorrow (Obsidian Throne, #1)
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom (The Three Realms, #1)
Malinalli
Wizard of Most Wicked Ways (Whimbrel House, #4)
Rose of Jericho
To Steal from Thieves (Thieves & Kings #1)
Once Was Willem
The Journal of a Thousand Years (Glass Library, #6)
Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu (Novel) Vol. 1
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
Babel
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The Rose Bargain
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
The Sirens
The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
The Familiar
What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile, #2)
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
A Song to Drown Rivers
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms (Whimbrel House, #1)
Matilda by Roald DahlHowl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesAlanna by Tamora PierceMossflower by Brian JacquesRedwall by Brian Jacques
Children's Fantasy of the 1980s
171 books — 50 voters
My Lady Jane by Cynthia HandWitchfall by Victoria LambMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerBeware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn MeyerElizabeth I by Kathryn Lasky
YA & Middle Grade Tudor Fiction
127 books — 45 voters

Outlander by Diana GabaldonThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxSing Me Forgotten by Jessica S. OlsonA Discovery of Witches by Deborah HarknessThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Historical Fantasy Genre Books
81 books — 45 voters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierHis Majesty's Dragon by Naomi NovikThe Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel KaySon of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier
Best Historical Fantasy
305 books — 274 voters

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersBlameless by Gail CarrigerBreathe by Sara FujimuraTimeless Fate by Nenad AlmajThe Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Johanna Craven
History, Adventure, Romance
132 books — 127 voters

Babel
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Night Circus
The Familiar
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
The Song of Achilles
Circe

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