Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set in Another Time

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly themed post first created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

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This week’s theme features books set in another time, whether that be past, future, an alternate world, or otherwise! I will be focusing on fantasy books that have a historically inspired setting and I’ll also be sharing the approximate historical parallel for each one.

• Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross — World War I
• A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie — French Revolution/Industrial Revolution
• His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik — Napoleonic Wars
• The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo — Spanish Inquisition
• Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay – Renaissance Europe

• Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard — Aztec Empire
• The Throne of the Five Winds by S.C. Emmett — East Asia (Chinese Dynasties, Mongols)
• Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey — Medieval France
• Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker — Byzantine Empire
• Babel by R.F. Kuang — 19th Century London and China