Genre Mash: Fantasy x Historical Fiction

Updated April 9, 2026
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The buried giant
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paper Book
From the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day   The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. Axl...
The city beautiful
Polydoros, Aden
Paper Book
Winner of the 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Young Adult 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel finalist 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist A Lambda Literary Award finalist 2021 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for Young Adult Novels...
The familiar
Bardugo, Leigh
Paper Book
" From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age. In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her...
Foul lady fortune
Gong, Chloe
Paper Book
Assassin. Immortal. Spy.From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights comes the first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies posing as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders...
The improvisers
Glover, Nicole
Paper Book
For fans of Nghi Vo, P. Djèlí Clark, and Alix E. Harrow: a new stand-alone set in the world of the critically acclaimed Murder and Magic series during Prohibition. The Improvisers is the tale of Velma, a barnstorming pilot and former magic bootlegger, who pursues dangerous enchanted...
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Clarke, Susanna
Paper Book
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England-until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a...
Kat, incorrigible
Burgis, Stephanie
Paper Book
Now in paperback, the first installment of a Regency era trilogy starring a feisty heroine with a taste for adventure. Twelve-year-old Katherine Ann Stephenson has just discovered that she's inherited her late mother's magical talents, and despite Stepmama's stern objections, she...
Nicked
Anderson. M. T.
Paper Book
Outlander
Gabaldon, Diana
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The first book in Diana Gabaldon's acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series--season 8 coming in March 2026! One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS's The Great American Read!
She who became the sun
Parker-Chan, Shelley
Paper Book
Two-time British Fantasy Award Winner Astounding Award Winner Lambda Literary Award Finalist Hugo Award Finalist Locus Award Finalist A Dragon Award Finalist Otherwise Award Finalist "I loved it."--The New...
Sisters of the Lost Marsh
Strange, Lucy
Paper Book
  From Waterstones Prize-shortlisted Lucy Strange comes an eerie and spooky Gothic tale, perfect for fans of Emma Carroll and Frances Hardinge ... 'There's no better author wandering the moors nowadays than Strange.' LEMONY SNICKET, author of A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE...
That self-same metal
Williams, Brittany N.
Paper Book
This stunning YA fantasy debut "seamlessly weaves together history, fantasy, culture, magic, and love" (New York Times bestselling author Daniel José Older) and is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Holly Black, and Justina Ireland. The Forge & Fracture Saga...
Theodosia and the serpents of chaos
LaFevers, R. L.
Paper Book
Weyward
Hart, Emilia
Paper Book
EMILIA HART'S STUNNING NEW BOOK THE SIRENS IS OUT NOW THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER OVER 700,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE As seen on BBC's BETWEEN THE COVERS 'A bewitching debut. I can't wait to see what Emilia Hart writes next' KATE MORTON 'A...
What the river knows
Ibañez, Isabel
Paper Book
'BURNING WITH ROMANCE' STEPHANIE GARBER 'ALL THE STARS' HEATHER FAWCETT 'A ROMANTIC, SPELLBINDING ADVENTURE' REBECCA ROSS The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in this lush, immersive historical romantasy set in 19th century Egypt, filled...
Where the mountain meets the moon
Lin, Grace
Paper Book
A Newbery Honor Book! A New York Times bestseller! An Al Roker's TODAY Show Book Club Pick! A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!​ A Reader's Digest Best Children's Book of All Time​!
The witch and the tsar
Gilmore, Olesya Salnikova
Paper Book
'A delicate weaving of myth and history, The Witch and the Tsar breathes new life into stories you think you know' Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf Yaga lives deep in the Russian forest, tending to any that call upon her for her healing...
Wrath becomes her
Polydoros, Aden
Paper Book
Vera was made for vengeance. Lithuania, 1943. The Nazis have killed Ezra's daughter. He can't bring Chaya back from the dead, but he can craft something in her image -- a golem, infused with pointed rage, to avenge Chaya's death. A Nazi killer made with kishuf, an ancient and...

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