Historical-fiction Books Without Jump Scares

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

The Confusion. Volume II of the Baroque Cycle

Europe central

My Brother Sam Is Dead

The Sparrow

Perfume

Life on the Mississippi

The Great Train Robbery

L'amica geniale

Eaters of the Dead

The Alienist

The Historian

The Lost Symbol

Ben Hur

The Tea Planter's Bride

The Crucible

Crispin--The Cross of Lead

Ulysses

Midwinter

Washington Square

Paris Trout

A Language of Dragons

Pharos

Helen of Troy