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>historical fiction in 2022: only titles set between 1880 and 1920, only books about women and/or family sagas
what the fuck is wrong with the publishing industry.

https://shereads.com/best-historical-fiction-2022/

>> No.21433467

>>21433455
>reading historical fiction
The fault lies with you, anon

>> No.21433473

>>21433467
the alternatives being fantasyshit or burgerpunk, yeah I do

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>>21433455
>>21433473

Check this historical fiction out anon. It came out only this year. It’s about two regicides in 17th century colonial America.

>> No.21433565

>>21433455
>shereads.com
What did you expect anon?

>> No.21433570

>>21433565
was first google result, all the other lists are similar

>> No.21434070

>>21433455
Any book on a list like that is going to be shit. I did just find a great contemporary historical book though, it's only half fiction all the people and events are real but technically it's not a history book but a novel.
Called Red Plenty and it's about a scientist working in Russia during the 50s/60s and how they saw the future at that time.

>> No.21434529

>>21434070
>it's only half fiction all the people and events are real
i feel like people get this confused because there are 4 kinds of historical fiction: bodice rippers (romance rags with historical setting), historical fantasy (historical-ish novel plus magic), historical fiction with a real setting but completely made up characters/events, and historical fiction with real characters following real events. all gets tossed in the same category and there are no differentiating labels so people can't articulate what they mean.

i guess there's also alt-history which is garbage like "what if the natzees had won" but i feel that's more in line with fantasy or general lit. history isn't a cherrypicking event.

i've even seen people try to label game of thrones as historical. yes people are that stupid.

>> No.21434621

I wish I knew enough to write historical fiction
I want to write Naval and Napoleonic fiction but I just don't have the skills in writing nor the knowledge to know every minute detail

>> No.21434662

>>21434621
it's torture, you don't want to get into writing this shit. just write fantasy and live a happy life.

>> No.21434667

>>21434621

I think k that's why some people turn to writing fantasy so they can along the lines of their favorite historical era without having to invest so much effort into research and accuracy. Confining the story by the real events could also be limiting, and since fantasy is all made up, they can freely mix in anachronisms from other eras.

>> No.21434679

>>21433455
Anything set before the nineteenth century would be too uber illiberal for their liking and sensibilities.

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Pic rel will save historical fiction, just you wait.

>> No.21434787

>>21434756
Shame he gave up on the project a week later. Would have loved to read it.

>> No.21434900

Anyone know of any historical fiction about royalty and nobility that isn't specifically written by women for written in a romantic kind of way?
I'm interested in the HRE and France in particular

>> No.21435753

>>21434679
this might be it. the only material they accept is feminist pandering.

>> No.21435899

>>21433455
not familiar with any of this goyslop, but most likely they are burying the last time period where there was a substantive counter culture to jewish materialism

>> No.21436336

>>21435899
it's pre-depression so it was the last period of wanton decadence