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156 past books matching Historical Fantasy
Lush, sweeping, and deeply emotional, this classic fantasy opener is built for readers who want portal fantasy with real weight behind the magic.
The Summer Tree
Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Historical Fantasy
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A chance meeting pulls five people from our world into Fionavar, a realm of gods, myth, and a war that could reshape everything. In The Summer Tree, each of them is forced to confront who they are when faced with ancient powers, impossible choices, and a dark god bent on vengeance. Lush, sweeping, and deeply emotional, this classic fantasy opener is built for readers who want portal fantasy with real weight behind the magic.
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Taken to a realm of magic and war, five men and women from our world embark on an epic journey in the first novel in Guy Gavriel Kay’s classic, critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry.
It begins with a chance meeting that introduces the five to a man who will change their lives: a mage who brings them to the first of all worlds, Fionavar.
In this land of gods and myth, each of them is forced to discover what they are and what they are willing to do, as Fionavar stands on the brink of a terrifying war against a dark, vengeful god...
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It’s a strong pick for readers who want sweeping historical fantasy with epic stakes, ancient intrigue, and a hero built as much on cunning as strength.
King of Ithaca
Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Historical Fantasy · Pre-History | Ancient History · War Fiction
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Before Odysseus becomes a legend, he is a sharp-minded prince fighting to protect a homeland on the brink. King of Ithaca drops readers into a world of feuding kingdoms, political maneuvering, battlefield violence, and myth-soaked ambition as Odysseus heads toward Sparta and the fate that will define him. It’s a strong pick for readers who want sweeping historical fantasy with epic stakes, ancient intrigue, and a hero built as much on cunning as strength.
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Historical fantasy full of "suspense, treachery, and bone-crunching action . . . will leave fans of the genre eagerly awaiting the rest of the series" (The Times Literary Supplement).
It was a time of myth and mystery. A time when Gods walked among men. It was a time of heroes. Greece is a country in turmoil, divided by feuding kingdoms desiring wealth, power and revenge.
When Eperitus, a young exiled soldier, comes to the aid of a group of warriors in battle, little does he know that it will be the start of an incredible adventure. For he is about to join the charismatic Odysseus, Prince of Ithaca, on a vital quest to save his homeland.
Odysseus travels to Sparta to join the most famous heroes of the time in paying suit to the sensuous Helen. Armed with nothing but his wits and intelligence, he must enter a treacherous world of warfare and politics to compete for the greatest prize in Greece. But few care for the problems of an impoverished prince when war with Troy is beckoning.
An epic saga set in one of the most dramatic periods of history, King of Ithaca is a voyage of discovery of one man's journey to become a King—and a legend.
"A must read for those who enjoy good old epic battles, chilling death scenes and the extravagance of ancient Greece." —Lifestyle Magazine
"The reader does not need to be classicist to enjoy this epic and stirring tale. It makes a great novel." —Historical Novels Review
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A curse steals seven years from a woman who once commanded the magic of a legendary vineyard.
The Vine Witch
Romantasy · Historical Fantasy
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A curse steals seven years from a woman who once commanded the magic of a legendary vineyard. When Elena Boureanu finally breaks free, she returns to find Château Renard under new ownership and its vines tangled in dark enchantments. In The Vine Witch, Elena must hide her identity while uncovering the magic poisoning the land, blending historical fantasy with revenge, slow trust, and the fragile restoration of power.
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A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.
“Cleverly crafted…The Vine Witch is a grown-up fairy tale with a twisty-turn-y story line of magic, love, and betrayal that holds your attention…Pure escapism.” —Forbes
A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy set in turn-of-the-century France.
For centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorcière Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. Now, after breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of a marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life. And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger.
Vigneron Jean-Paul Martel naively favors science over superstition, and he certainly doesn’t endorse the locals’ belief in witches. But Elena knows a hex when she sees one, and the vineyard is covered in them. To stay on and help the vines recover, she’ll have to hide her true identity, along with her plans for revenge against whoever stole seven winters of her life. And she won’t rest until she can defy the evil powers that are still a threat to herself, Jean-Paul, and the ancient vine-witch legacy in the rolling hills of the Chanceaux Valley.
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Best for readers who like epic romantic fantasy with political intrigue, forbidden love, and slow-burn spice.
Daughter of the Drowned Empire
Romantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Lady Lyriana Batavia has spent years hiding her sisters’ forbidden magic, but when her own power brings a sentence of exile, she accepts a deadly contract: seven months to train without magic and pass the Emperor’s brutal test. It has a 3.8-star average from more than 9,200 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like epic romantic fantasy with political intrigue, forbidden love, and slow-burn spice.
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Cleopatra meets Throne of Glass in this romantic fantasy series with forbidden romance, political intrigue, and slow burn spice.
Lady Lyriana Batavia is third in line to the Seat of Power in Bamaria: a position of wealth and privilege, but not safety. Bamaria falls under the rule of the Lumerian Empire, survivors of a celestial war whose island sank in the Drowning. Now all Lumerians submit to the Emperor and his strict laws about magic. He decides what magic can be practiced and what powers remain forbidden. He decides who will die for possession of forbidden magic.
Lyr’s own cousin was executed for wielding the wrong kind. And for years, Lyr has sworn to protect her older sisters, helping them conceal their own illicit magic.
But when Lyr must participate in the ceremony that reveals her power, she uncovers something else entirely. Something that means banishment from the Empire.
Faced with death in exile, and leaving her sisters behind, Lyr has no choice but to accept a deadly contract. She has seven months to train as a warrior and pass the Emperor’s brutal test of strength, without magic.
But when she’s forced to train with Lord Rhyan Hart, the man she’s secretly loved since she was a girl—a feared warrior in exile himself, forbidden to her in every way—she’s in danger of losing far more than her family, life, and country.
Rebel forces, and an invading army, are destabilizing Bamaria, just as her family’s secrets threaten to reveal themselves.
Surviving the training, and saving her sisters may mean sacrificing her own heart.
'One fantastical world. One fierce heroine to take it down! Daughter of the Drowned Empire is sexy, thrilling, and pure magic!' Cecy Robson, author of Bloodguard
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Magic is both her salvation and her slow undoing in The Moorwitch.
The Moorwitch
Romantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Magic is both her salvation and her slow undoing in The Moorwitch. Rose Pryor, a gifted Weaver bound by a dangerous fae bargain, must pose as a governess on the Scottish moors to uncover a hidden gateway to Faerie before her power dies. Torn between a controlling fae handler and a guarded young laird, she faces a choice between survival and love in this gothic romantic fantasy
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In this sweeping romantic fantasy from bestselling author Jessica Khoury, a young witch caught in a twisted bargain with the fae must disguise herself as a governess and uncover the gateway to the realm of faerie in order to save her dying magic and escape the clutches of her controlling fae handler—even as she finds herself falling for her new employer, an enigmatic young Scottish laird and the owner of a crumbling estate brimming with secrets.
Rose Pryor has sacrificed everything for magic. As a Weaver skilled in the craft of spinning spells with thread and needle, she’s always chosen magic over love, and it was magic that brought her to Lachlan, the fae with whom Rose once struck a sinister deal in order to escape her abusive home. After years of running from her past, Rose has finally managed to build a new life for herself as a teacher in a school for young Weavers. But Rose has a secret: Her magic is waning, and every spell she weaves to train her students is slowly killing her.
When Lachlan returns to collect the debt Rose owes him, she finds herself on a perilous journey to the Scottish moors where she must find him an ancient gateway to the realm of the fae, lest her precious magic be forfeit. But when her quest pits her against Conrad, a young laird with a soul as lonely as her own who hires Rose to work as a governess for his rebellious young sister, Rose finds herself torn between her promise to Lachlan and her budding feelings for her new employer as her search for the gateway puts both her magic and her heart at stake.
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Reason falters when confronted with the unknowable.
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Reason falters when confronted with the unknowable. In Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows, Dr. John Watson joins forces with Sherlock Holmes to investigate baffling deaths in London’s East End, where victims waste away under the influence of something unseen. As criminal intrigue gives way to cosmic terror, deduction meets dread. A Victorian mystery infused with Lovecraftian horror and creeping existential menace.
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson battle the denizens of Cthulhu in this “pitch-perfect” Lovecraft-Conan Doyle mashup from a New York Times bestselling author (Guardian).
It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London.
Several bodies have been found—the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks—and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before. Moreover, there are disturbing reports of creeping shadows that inspire dread in any who stray too close. Holmes deduces a connection between the deaths and a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire.
Yet both he and Watson are soon forced to accept that there are forces at work far more powerful than they could ever have imagined. Forces that can be summoned, if one is brave—or mad—enough to dare.
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Good for readers who like epic historical fantasy, Roman-inspired worlds, dangerous magic, and world-ending stakes.
The Legions of Fire
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Historical Fantasy
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“Recommended for all action fantasy fans” by Booklist, a group of magicians perform a strange dance on a volcanic island intended to open a gateway for supernatural creatures that will allow them to devastate the whole Earth and destroy all life. The Legions of Fire has a 4.3-star rating from 69 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like epic historical fantasy, Roman-inspired worlds, dangerous magic, and world-ending stakes.
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In this epic historical fantasy saga debut by the author of the Lord of the Isles, four young people must face dangerous magic to save the world.
"Drake . . . vividly recreates the attitudes of patrician Romans in this fantasy tale. . . . Fans of fantasy and historical fiction will enjoy." —Publishers Weekly
In this novel of magical menace to the survival of all humanity, David Drake introduces a new fantasy world, Carce, based on Europe during the later Roman Empire.
Far in the north, a group of magicians perform a strange dance on a volcanic island. They intend to open a gateway for supernatural creatures that will allow them to devastate the planet and destroy all life. Not knowing the cause, two young men, Corylus and Varus, and two women, Hedia and Alphena, each separately pursue the answer to mysterious and threatening happenings that prefigure disaster in the great city of Carce, the center of civilization. Through magical voyages in other realities where fantastic creatures, and even gods, help or hinder them, each of them must succeed or not just the city but the world will end in fire.
The Legions of Fire is the first of a fantasy quartet set in the world of the city of Carce.
"Recommended for all action fantasy fans, not least because three of the four protagonists are on the verge of adulthood, which promises a bildungsroman atmosphere throughout the succeeding volumes." —Booklist
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When gods treat mortals as pieces on a board, vengeance can echo across centuries.
Hades’ Daughter
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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When gods treat mortals as pieces on a board, vengeance can echo across centuries. In Hades' Daughter, the fall of Troy sends the warrior Brutus eastward under divine vision, unaware he walks into a legacy of betrayal rooted in the ancient Labyrinth. This mythic historical fantasy weaves Greek legend, cursed bloodlines, and power struggles into a sweeping saga of destiny and revenge.
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Ancient Greece: A place where the gods hold mortal life cheap, mere playthings to amuse, delight, and abuse at their will.
But those puny mortals are not wholly devoid of power and at the core of their fabulous city-states lies the Labyrinth, where they can shape the powers of the heavens to their own design. When Theseus entered the Labyrinth and came away with the prize of freedom and his beloved Adrianne, Mistress of the Labyrinth, his future seemed assured... Until he abandoned her for the unforgivable sin of bearing him only a daughter, and the world seemed to change. From that day forward, all the Labyrinths in the ancient world started to decay. It slowly became clear that power was fading from the city-states.
Was it the natural decline that comes to all cultures or was it because the power of the Labyrinth had been corrupted by a woman spurned?
A hundred years pass—Troy has fallen and the Trojans are a scattered and humbled people. The warrior Brutus is of the line of kings and gods. He wears the golden kingship bands of Troy proudly—but they are his only mementos of a former glory, for he is a man without a country and is left little else but pride and a memory of the latent power that he could wield if but given a chance. When he receives a god-sent vision of a distant shore where he can rebuild the ancient kingdom, he will move heaven and earth to reach his destiny.
Ever eastward he is drawn, to a lovely and mystical green land that offers him a haven—and a dream of power and conquest. Nothing will deter him... not even the entreaties of the young princess whom he took as his wife and bedded against her will. First her hatred—and now her love—torment and bind him. She is the only one who realizes the danger he is stepping into, and she will do anything to save him... and his son, whom she carries in her womb.
For in the mists of Albion there lies a woman of power—a woman who has used her siren call to cloud Brutus's mind and has her own reasons for luring the warrior to these lush shores....
She is the long-descended granddaughter of Adrianne, and she has in her heart a hatred that has been passed down for generations. Her plans for Brutus will enact a revenge that could destroy the gods themselves.
If Brutus makes the journey successfully, it will be the next step in the Game of the Labyrinth and might start a complicated contest of wills that could span centuries....
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A single act of cruelty echoes across centuries, binding lives that have not yet been lived.
Daggerspell
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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A single act of cruelty echoes across centuries, binding lives that have not yet been lived. In a land shaped by reincarnation and forgotten vows, Jill and those around her are drawn into a struggle born four hundred years earlier. In Daggerspell, destiny unfolds through intertwined lifetimes, ancient magic, and the slow reckoning of choices that refuse to remain in the past.
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“This grand saga is by a wide margin the best Celtic fantasy around.”—Chicago Sun-Times
Even as a young girl, Jill was a favorite of the magical, mysterious Wildfolk, who appeared to her from their invisible realm. Little did she know her extraordinary friends represented but a glimpse of a forgotten past and a fateful future. Four hundred years—and many lifetimes—ago, one selfish young lord caused the death of two innocent lovers. Then and there he vowed never to rest until he'd rightened that wrong-and laid the foundation for the lives of Jill and all those whom she would hold dear: her father, the mercenary soldier Cullyn; the exiled berserker Rhodry Maelwaedd; and the ancient and powerful herbman Nevyn, all bound in a struggle against darkness. . . and a quest to fulfill the destinies determined centuries ago.
Here in this newly revised edition comes the incredible novel that began one of the best-loved fantasy seers in recent years—a tale of bold adventure and timeless love, perilous battle and pure magic. For long-standing fans of Deverry and those who have yet to experience this exciting series, Daggerspell is a rare and special treat.
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Power shifts quietly in courts where survival depends on patience and calculation.
Wolfblade
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Power shifts quietly in courts where survival depends on patience and calculation. Marla Wolfblade moves through a web of conspirators, family rivals, and political factions while fighting to secure her son’s future in a rigidly patriarchal world. In Wolfblade, strategy replaces steel as alliances, secrets, and hard-earned political insight determine who holds power and who is sacrificed to preserve it.
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Marla Wolfblade of Hythria is determined to restore her family's great name, but conspirators surround her: the Sorcerers' Collective, the Patriots -- even members of her own family. She must make sure her son Damin lives to be old enough to restore the Wolfblade name to its former glory.
Elezaar the Dwarf is a small man with big secrets -- but that doesn't matter to Marla Wolfblade. Her brother is the High Prince of Hythria, and, in this fiercely patriarchal society, her fate will be decided on his whim. She needs someone politically astute to guide her through the maze of court politics -- and Elezaar the Dwarf knows more than he lets on.
As Elezaar teaches Marla the Rules of Gaining and Wielding Power, Marla starts on the road to becoming a tactician and a wily diplomat -- but will that be enough to keep her son alive?
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A strong match for readers who enjoy military fantasy, political intrigue, gunpowder magic, and large-scale rebellion.
Sins of Empire
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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A Goodreads Choice Award nominee, this flintlock fantasy follows a spy, a mercenary, and a powder mage caught in the unrest and conspiracies threatening Fatrasta, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 5,400 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who enjoy military fantasy, political intrigue, gunpowder magic, and large-scale rebellion.
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A new epic fantasy trilogy about a young nation at odds with the ancient forces that have begun to stir as fortune seekers and sorcerers flock to the frontier. Set in of Brian McClellan's Powder Mage trilogy.
A world on the cusp of a new age. . .
The young nation of Fatrasta is a turbulent place -- a frontier destination for criminals, fortune-hunters, brave settlers, and sorcerers seeking relics of the past. Only the iron will of the lady chancellor and her secret police holds the capital city of Landfall together against the unrest of an oppressed population and the machinations of powerful empires.
Sedition is a dangerous word. . .
The insurrection that threatens Landfall must be purged with guile and force, a task which falls on the shoulders of a spy named Michel Bravis, convicted war hero Mad Ben Styke, and Lady Vlora Flint, a mercenary general with a past as turbulent as Landfall's present.
The past haunts us all. . .
As loyalties are tested, revealed, and destroyed, a grim specter as old as time has been unearthed in this wild land, and the people of Landfall will soon discover that rebellion is the least of their worries.
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Arriving in postwar London, David is drawn into the hidden world of the Arcane Houses after his talent for shadow magic is revealed.
The Arcane Houses of London
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy · Urban Fantasy
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Arriving in postwar London, David is drawn into the hidden world of the Arcane Houses after his talent for shadow magic is revealed. Taken in by a guild of thieves, he finds refuge that comes with dangerous secrets. As darkness stirs in the city’s magical borderlands, David must choose who to trust to survive what’s coming.
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“The house called me to you the other night for two reasons. Firstly, because you were deep in nightmares and secondly, because you have a talent for shadow magic, David.”
The year is 1945, and David, a young man with a mysterious past, has escaped war-torn Europe. When he arrives in London, David is quickly pulled into the world of the Arcane Houses.
He could have joined House Artifice, who craft magical objects, or House Vigile, who oversee law and order. Instead, he's taken in by Thorne House, home of thieves and knaves.
Under the protection of the enigmatic Master Thorne, David has at last found sanctuary. But not all is as it seems.
Something dark is stirring in the magical Borderlands of London, and David will need all his wits and courage to survive the coming storm.
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