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3815 filed under a genre
16 genres
6 with no recorded year

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Showing 495 of 3815 books, filtered by Historical Fiction Clear all

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Titles by year published

The whole timeline, back to the catalogue's oldest book. The bars widen as they go back, because equal-width bars across four thousand years would press everything before 1900 into a single pixel — where the statistics page leaves those books out of its chart and says so in the caption, the explorer has to be able to reach them, so its bars change width instead of stopping. Each bar counts the books of that era which survive the genre filter.

Two measures at a time

The books above, as dots. 336 of the 495 carry both measures and can be plotted; a book missing a measure has no place on that axis, so it is left off rather than drawn at zero. Each axis covers the middle 98% of what is shown, with 12 books outside the frame.

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100 200 300 400 500 50,000 100,000 150,000 A Faraway Island · 2009 · pages 247 · words 53,969 A Long Way From Chicago · 1998 · pages 148 · words 35,226 And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon · 2001 · pages 56 · words 1,979 Animal Farm · 1945 · pages 141 · words 29,060 An Innocent Soldier · 2005 · pages 231 · words 47,989 Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures · 2009 · pages 215 · words 15,478 Anne of Green Gables · 1935 · pages 320 · words 97,364 Answering the Cry for Freedom · 2016 · pages 240 · words 39,027 A Place to Belong · 2019 · pages 416 · words 74,805 A Place to Hang the Moon · 2021 · pages 320 · words 62,623 A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez · 2025 · pages 304 · words 17,705 Ask Me No Questions · 2006 · pages 162 · words 37,113 A Time of Miracles · 2010 · pages 180 · words 37,222 Aviva vs. the Dybbuk · 2022 · pages 171 · words 45,964 Bambi · 1929 · pages 192 · words 40,680 Becoming Joe DiMaggio · 2002 · pages 64 · words 2,238 Before We Were Free · 2002 · pages 176 · words 48,212 Beloved · 1987 · pages 324 · words 95,418 Benjamin West and his Cat Grimalkin · 1947 · pages 145 · words 25,008 Betsy-Tacy and Tib · 1941 · pages 140 · words 18,175 Between Shades of Gray · 2011 · pages 384 · words 64,750 Beverly, Right Here · 2019 · pages 256 · words 33,921 Beyond the Bright Sea · 2017 · pages 304 · words 61,837 Black Bird, Blue Road · 2022 · pages 320 · words 59,951 Black Fox of Lorne · 1956 · pages 191 · words 46,474 Black Ships Before Troy · 1993 · pages 151 · words 31,982 Black Star, Bright Dawn · 1988 · pages 134 · words 28,519 Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton · 2013 · pages 240 · words 3,947 Breaking Stalin's Nose · 2011 · pages 160 · words 15,128 Brother's Keeper · 2020 · pages 320 · words 63,948 By the Great Horn Spoon! · 1963 · pages 193 · words 38,805 Cabin on Trouble Creek · 2004 · pages 219 · words 44,700 Caddie Woodlawn · 1970 · pages 288 · words 51,659 Calico Bush · 1931 · pages 201 · words 55,559 Calico Captive · 1957 · pages 288 · words 57,137 Call It Courage · 1941 · pages 128 · words 19,326 Caminar · 2014 · pages 208 · words 14,766 Candle Island · 2025 · pages 352 · words 80,822 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch · 1955 · pages 251 · words 56,714 Catherine, Called Birdy · 1994 · pages 176 · words 47,808 Catherine's War · 2020 · pages 176 · words 9,011 Chains · 2008 · pages 316 · words 75,475 Chickenpox · 2025 · pages 240 · words 8,502 Children of the New Forest · 1847 · pages 300 · words 93,903 Christy · 1967 · pages 501 · words 177,221 Cloud and Wallfish · 2016 · pages 400 · words 77,756 Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two · 2005 · pages 240 · words 56,150 Countdown · 2010 · pages 400 · words 59,266 Counting on Grace · 2006 · pages 232 · words 52,141 Courage to Run · 2002 · pages 137 · words 29,968 Crispin: The Cross of Lead · 2003 · pages 262 · words 48,194 Daniel Boone · 1940 · pages 94 · words 19,852 Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi · 2004 · pages 298 · words 58,803 Daughter of the Mountains · 1993 · pages 191 · words 48,770 Dave at Night · 1999 · pages 288 · words 58,717 Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue · 2005 · pages 177 · words 25,393 Days of Terror · 1981 · pages 152 · words 42,365 Death Comes for the Archbishop · 1927 · pages 297 · words 66,721 Dobry · 1935 · pages 192 · words 36,060 Doe Sia · 1999 · pages 203 · words 30,672 Dragonfly Eyes · 2022 · pages 384 · words 96,463 Dragonwings · 1975 · pages 248 · words 68,278 Echoes of the White Giraffe · 1993 · pages 144 · words 34,470 Echo Mountain · 2020 · pages 368 · words 78,320 Elijah of Buxton · 2007 · pages 341 · words 77,916 Escape Across the Wide Sea · 2004 · pages 210 · words 34,408 Escape by Night · 2011 · pages 128 · words 10,663 Escape from Warsaw · 1990 · pages 218 · words 40,851 Esperanza Rising · 2000 · pages 304 · words 41,905 Etiquette & Espionage · 2013 · pages 320 · words 72,351 Eyes of the Emperor · 2005 · pages 240 · words 42,894 Feathers · 2007 · pages 118 · words 26,624 Finding Langston · 2018 · pages 112 · words 22,883 Freewater · 2022 · pages 416 · words 77,047 Full Cicada Moon · 2015 · pages 400 · words 35,705 Full of Beans · 2016 · pages 208 · words 28,064 Gabriel and the Hour Book · 1906 · pages 100 · words 21,728 Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon · 1928 · pages 192 · words 38,724 Gifts from the Sea · 2003 · pages 112 · words 17,929 Girlhood Journeys: Isabella · 1997 · pages 71 · words 11,310 Golden Goblet · 1961 · pages 248 · words 67,994 Gone Crazy in Alabama · 2015 · pages 304 · words 59,159 Guns for General Washington · 1990 · pages 122 · words 22,032 Guy Mannering · 1815 · pages 552 · words 183,908 Hannah of Fairfield · 1999 · pages 96 · words 11,443 Hattie Big Sky · 2006 · pages 289 · words 70,376 Heart of a Samurai · 2010 · pages 305 · words 51,267 Heaven to Betsy · 1945 · pages 268 · words 63,708 House of the Red Fish · 2006 · pages 291 · words 55,994 How to Find What You're Not Looking For · 2021 · pages 384 · words 68,512 I Am David · 1963 · pages 256 · words 50,753 I, Juan de Pareja · 1965 · pages 180 · words 44,454 I Must Betray You · 2022 · pages 336 · words 59,088 Incident at Hawk's Hill · 1971 · pages 207 · words 51,061 In Freedom's Cause · 1884 · pages 320 · words 128,609 Inside Out & Back Again · 2011 · pages 262 · words 14,925 In the Reign of Terror · 1887 · pages 148 · words 98,691 Island of the Blue Dolphins · 1960 · pages 194 · words 4,531 It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz's Story of Hope · 2019 · pages 160 · words 10,096 Jacob Have I Loved · 1981 · pages 244 · words 52,594 Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots · 2018 · pages 192 · words 13,310 Jefferson's Sons · 2011 · pages 368 · words 81,452 Johnny Tremain · 1943 · pages 322 · words 83,124 Journey to the River Sea · 2001 · pages 336 · words 75,226 Journey to Topaz · 1971 · pages 149 · words 34,288 Justin Morgan Had a Horse · 1954 · pages 176 · words 30,779 Killer Angels · 1974 · pages 345 · words 101,851 Kim · 1901 · pages 366 · words 103,576 Kite Rider · 2002 · pages 288 · words 62,607 Letters from Cuba · 2020 · pages 272 · words 50,715 Letters from Rifka · 1992 · pages 160 · words 28,448 Lifeboat 12 · 2018 · pages 336 · words 26,349 Lily's Crossing · 1997 · pages 192 · words 36,019 Little House in the Big Woods · 1932 · pages 238 · words 33,586 Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy · 2004 · pages 219 · words 63,580 Lonesome Gods · 1983 · pages 545 · words 140,701 Louisiana's Way Home · 2018 · pages 240 · words 31,222 Lucky Broken Girl · 2017 · pages 256 · words 49,919 Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance · 2004 · pages 279 · words 50,534 Maggie's Door · 2003 · pages 176 · words 30,913 Maid Marian: A Novel · 2004 · pages 314 · words 103,127 Mara, Daughter of the Nile · 1953 · pages 279 · words 86,380 Masterpiece · 2008 · pages 304 · words 51,897 Max in the House of Spies · 2024 · pages 336 · words 58,975 May B. · 2012 · pages 240 · words 14,441 Men of Iron · 1993 · pages 372 · words 67,758 Middle Passage · 1998 · pages 209 · words 63,698 Midnight Without a Moon · 2017 · pages 320 · words 65,564 Miracles on Maple Hill · 1956 · pages 256 · words 46,896 Mister Orange · 2012 · pages 159 · words 37,537 Moon over Manifest · 2011 · pages 368 · words 81,369 Mr. Midshipman Easy · 1836 · pages 360 · words 146,263 Mr. Midshipman Hornblower · 1950 · pages 310 · words 83,529 Murder Is Bad Manners · 2015 · pages 320 · words 59,588 My Family for the War · 2012 · pages 402 · words 105,411 My Name is Sally Little Song · 2006 · pages 183 · words 25,714 National Velvet · 1953 · pages 245 · words 67,848 Naya Nuki · 1983 · pages 175 · words 27,031 Night Journeys · 1979 · pages 160 · words 28,726 No Promises in the Wind · 1970 · pages 223 · words 52,777 Nory Ryan's Song · 2000 · pages 176 · words 31,741 Number the Stars · 1989 · pages 137 · words 27,197 One Big Open Sky · 2024 · pages 304 · words 45,439 One Came Home · 2013 · pages 272 · words 57,577 One Crazy Summer · 2010 · pages 224 · words 45,483 Onyx & Beyond · 2024 · pages 224 · words 16,337 Otto of the Silver Hand · 1888 · pages 192 · words 29,529 Out of the Dust · 1998 · pages 227 · words 19,756 Ox, House, Stick · 2007 · pages 48 · words 5,767 Paperboy · 2013 · pages 240 · words 50,773 Parachute Kids · 2023 · pages 288 · words 15,920 Pax · 2016 · pages 304 · words 50,075 Perilous Road · 1958 · pages 176 · words 33,460 Prairie Lotus · 2020 · pages 272 · words 45,307 P.S. Be Eleven · 2013 · pages 288 · words 53,593 Queen of Hearts · 2010 · pages 214 · words 43,448 Radiant · 2025 · pages 320 · words 21,148 Raiders from the Sea · 2003 · pages 199 · words 36,103 Raymie Nightingale · 2016 · pages 272 · words 33,384 Rebellion 1776 · 2025 · pages 416 · words 88,704 Rebound · 2018 · pages 416 · words 27,804 Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky · 2014 · pages 216 · words 41,907 Red Falcons of Tremoine · 1956 · pages 256 · words 52,500 Red Moon at Sharpsburg · 2007 · pages 236 · words 55,606 Red, White, and Whole · 2021 · pages 224 · words 21,359 Refugee · 2017 · pages 338 · words 65,915 Revolution · 2014 · pages 544 · words 105,988 Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party · 2007 · pages 248 · words 43,520 Rifles for Watie · 1957 · pages 352 · words 86,265 Rilla of Ingleside · 1921 · pages 277 · words 91,310 Root Magic · 2021 · pages 352 · words 78,787 Run, Boy, Run · 2003 · pages 186 · words 44,796 Rural Hours · 1850 · pages 352 · words 161,658 Salt Magic · 2021 · pages 240 · words 8,899 Sarah Plain and Tall · 1985 · pages 64 · words 8,377 Sarah Whitcher’s Story · 1971 · pages 95 · words 14,589 Scaramouche · 1921 · pages 359 · words 115,103 Scattergood · 2025 · pages 320 · words 69,221 Scout: The Secret of the Swamp · 1950 · pages 224 · words 60,955 Seabird · 1978 · pages 64 · words 9,946 Seaman: The Dog Who Explored the West With Lewis & Clark · 1999 · pages 187 · words 54,159 SeeSaw Girl · 1999 · pages 90 · words 16,442 Shane · 1949 · pages 119 · words 42,909 Show Me a Sign · 2020 · pages 288 · words 46,187 Silenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide · 2025 · pages 240 · words 11,249 Smoky, the Cowhorse · 1927 · pages 310 · words 78,567 Snow Treasure · 1942 · pages 208 · words 34,121 So Far from the Bamboo Grove · 1986 · pages 183 · words 40,696 Soldier Bear · 2011 · pages 145 · words 30,412 Soldier Dog · 2013 · pages 256 · words 55,949 Song of a Blackbird · 2025 · pages 256 · words 14,183 Son of a Gun · 2012 · pages 125 · words 19,029 Stella by Starlight · 2015 · pages 336 · words 51,847 Stone Fox · 1983 · pages 81 · words 8,957 Stones for My Father · 2011 · pages 176 · words 39,903 Stones in Water · 1997 · pages 224 · words 46,911 Stop the Train! · 2003 · pages 304 · words 69,373 Storm Warriors · 2002 · pages 176 · words 36,432 Strudel Stories · 1999 · pages 144 · words 17,816 Sweetgrass Basket · 2005 · pages 243 · words 31,627 Sylvia & Aki · 2011 · pages 160 · words 23,537 The Assistant · 2000 · pages 246 · words 80,698 The Birchbark House · 1999 · pages 250 · words 43,840 The Black Arrow · 1883 · pages 242 · words 74,163 The Blackbird Girls · 2020 · pages 352 · words 83,362 The Bletchley Riddle · 2024 · pages 400 · words 71,665 The Bluest Sky · 2022 · pages 320 · words 68,701 The Book Thief · 2006 · pages 552 · words 118,933 The Boundless · 2014 · pages 336 · words 75,781 The Boy Who Dared · 2008 · pages 202 · words 33,914 The Bridge of San Luis Rey · 1955 · pages 148 · words 31,879 The Bronze Bow · 1997 · pages 256 · words 68,215 The Buffalo Knife · 1990 · pages 123 · words 25,678 The Cabin Faced West · 1958 · pages 128 · words 18,158 The Cat of Bubastes · 1889 · pages 339 · words 129,410 The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale · 2011 · pages 228 · words 36,642 The Courage of Sarah Noble · 1954 · pages 64 · words 6,715 The Dark Frigate · 1924 · pages 246 · words 69,394 The Devil's Arithmetic · 1988 · pages 170 · words 38,286 The Door in the Wall · 1949 · pages 120 · words 27,565 The Door of No Return · 2022 · pages 432 · words 27,401 The Dragon and the Raven · 1885 · pages 238 · words 95,697 The Dreamer · 2010 · pages 384 · words 28,871 The Eagle of the Ninth · 1954 · pages 294 · words 86,864 Thee, Hannah! · 1970 · pages 98 · words 14,712 The Enemy's Daughter · 2025 · pages 288 · words 72,090 The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate · 2009 · pages 340 · words 80,972 The Fire-Eaters · 2005 · pages 218 · words 37,751 The First Four Years · 1971 · pages 135 · words 24,046 The First State of Being · 2024 · pages 272 · words 40,025 The Forestwife · 1995 · pages 170 · words 43,781 The Game of Silence · 2005 · pages 272 · words 53,684 The Golden Bull · 2008 · pages 206 · words 33,157 The Good Earth · 1931 · pages 418 · words 114,157 The Good Master · 1963 · pages 196 · words 37,665 The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day · 1975 · pages 182 · words 51,843 The Hidden Treasure of Glaston · 1946 · pages 340 · words 80,757 The Hired Girl · 2015 · pages 400 · words 115,564 The House of Dies Drear · 1968 · pages 279 · words 58,619 The House of Sixty Fathers · 1987 · pages 189 · words 40,922 The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps · 1994 · pages 90 · words 12,392 The King's Fifth · 1966 · pages 272 · words 62,309 The King's Shadow · 1997 · pages 272 · words 72,829 The Land · 2001 · pages 375 · words 118,345 The Last Mission · 1979 · pages 182 · words 43,506 The Legend of Auntie Po · 2021 · pages 304 · words 7,167 The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West · 2006 · pages 137 · words 35,380 The Lily Pond · 2011 · pages 224 · words 44,868 The Little Riders · 1963 · pages 80 · words 13,333 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come · 1903 · pages 336 · words 95,097 The Lost Year · 2023 · pages 368 · words 73,444 The Mad Wolf's Daughter · 2018 · pages 288 · words 53,412 The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams · 2023 · pages 224 · words 43,686 The Matchlock Gun · 1941 · pages 80 · words 5,708 The Midwife's Apprentice · 1996 · pages 128 · words 21,603 The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P Figg · 2009 · pages 224 · words 45,255 The Night Diary · 2018 · pages 272 · words 51,983 The Night the Bells Rang · 1991 · pages 79 · words 8,090 The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli · 2025 · pages 432 · words 82,620 The Pecan Sheller · 2025 · pages 256 · words 41,974 The Porcupine Year · 2008 · pages 193 · words 36,882 The Ravenmaster's Secret · 2003 · pages 225 · words 42,889 The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano · 2012 · pages 205 · words 38,132 The River Between Us · 2003 · pages 164 · words 35,154 The Rock and the River · 2009 · pages 290 · words 59,211 The Samurai's Tale · 1984 · pages 256 · words 61,650 The Scarlet Pimpernel · 1905 · pages 182 · words 85,162 The Shakespeare Stealer · 1998 · pages 208 · words 47,688 The Shining Company · 1990 · pages 295 · words 77,809 The Sign of the Beaver · 1983 · pages 148 · words 32,818 The Sign Painter's Secret · 1991 · pages 48 · words 7,518 The Slave Dancer · 1974 · pages 176 · words 40,176 The Star of Kazan · 2004 · pages 405 · words 96,516 The Stolen Songbird · 2025 · pages 336 · words 60,260 The Storm in the Barn · 2009 · pages 208 · words 2,260 The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story · 2025 · pages 192 · words 32,698 The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts · 2004 · pages 190 · words 38,642 The Tofu Quilt · 2009 · pages 125 · words 7,113 The Trouble with May Amelia · 2011 · pages 204 · words 38,244 The Trumpeter of Krakow · 1929 · pages 208 · words 59,275 The Ugly One · 2013 · pages 256 · words 49,903 The Vine Basket · 2013 · pages 256 · words 49,173 The Virginian · 1979 · pages 352 · words 127,671 The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed · 2002 · pages 224 · words 42,565 The War I Finally Won · 2017 · pages 400 · words 67,377 The War That Saved My Life · 2014 · pages 320 · words 62,451 The War Within These Walls · 2013 · pages 175 · words 6,701 The Watsons Go to Birmingham · 1995 · pages 224 · words 50,225 The Wednesday Wars · 2007 · pages 264 · words 73,675 The Well · 1995 · pages 96 · words 18,860 The White Stag · 1938 · pages 94 · words 14,415 The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid · 2017 · pages 432 · words 89,457 The Windeby Puzzle · 2023 · pages 224 · words 28,931 The Winged Watchman · 1962 · pages 191 · words 43,483 The Witch of Blackbird Pond · 1959 · pages 256 · words 60,027 The Wolf's Boy · 2016 · pages 240 · words 49,979 This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II · 2020 · pages 384 · words 90,943 Toliver's Secret · 1976 · pages 176 · words 27,946 Tree in the Trail · 1970 · pages 54 · words 8,617 Tree of Freedom · 1949 · pages 279 · words 60,306 Turtle in Paradise · 2010 · pages 208 · words 30,474 Twenty and Ten · 1952 · pages 76 · words 12,036 Underground to Canada · 1978 · pages 144 · words 34,565 Under the Blood Red Sun · 1994 · pages 256 · words 54,740 Under the Egg · 2014 · pages 247 · words 46,195 Under the Persimmon Tree · 2005 · pages 288 · words 58,225 Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam · 1997 · pages 128 · words 16,915 Waterless Mountain · 1932 · pages 212 · words 49,884 We Dream of Space · 2020 · pages 400 · words 48,045 What Elephants Know · 2016 · pages 288 · words 58,653 What Zeesie Saw on Delancey Street · 2000 · pages 32 · words 2,239 When My Name Was Keoko · 2002 · pages 208 · words 54,951 When the Soldiers Were Gone · 1999 · pages 101 · words 16,611 Whittington · 2005 · pages 208 · words 35,423 Will's Race for Home · 2025 · pages 208 · words 25,989 Witness · 2001 · pages 161 · words 14,825 Wolf Hollow · 2016 · pages 304 · words 60,499 Words on Fire · 2019 · pages 336 · words 72,694 Year of Impossible Goodbyes · 1991 · pages 169 · words 45,897 Year of the Black Pony · 1976 · pages 171 · words 41,967 Yellow Star · 2006 · pages 227 · words 23,750 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze · 1933 · pages 302 · words 59,742 Zia · 1976 · pages 208 · words 35,384 Zorro · 2005 · pages 390 · words 142,881 Number of pages Word count

The 495 books that match

295 more match and are not listed here. Narrow the shelf with a bar above and they will come into view — the list is capped so that it stays a list.