This literary type has always been one of the favorite genres among readers; simply take a look at those that have gone on to become classics. The success of this genre emanates from the fact that people are attracted by fiction based on historical facts where real and made-up characters blend together.
Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, for instance, remained many weeks in the bestseller lists upon its release. It tells the struggle to survive of two sisters during the German occupation of France in World War II and is based on a true story. Charles Dickens's classic A Tale of Two Cities is also a historical fiction set prior to and during the French Revolution.
Beneath a Scarlet Sky, by Mark T. Sullivan, takes us to World War II together where a young Italian man is forced by his parents to enlist in the Nazi army. Another recent historical fiction that has made bestseller lists is Claire Cameron's The Last Neanderthal. In this novel, two protagonists are separated by 40,000 years but united by the experience of motherhood.