historical books
Tales of antiquity
Historical books are writings that record or examine past events, whether as primary documents from a given era or later scholarly accounts.
The term also refers specifically to a section of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament—books like Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings that narrate Israel's history from the conquest of Canaan through the Babylonian exile.
- historiesAccounts of past events
- chronologiesSequential historical records
- biographiesAccounts of people's lives
- commentariesExplanatory notes on texts
- diariesPersonal daily records
annals · encyclopedias · parchment · folio · vellum · letters · codices · atlases · manuscripts · memoirs · palimpsests · primary sources · almanacs · government records · life stories · family tree · illuminated manuscripts · incunabula
- Hebrew BibleTanakh, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers
- Catholic BibleNew Testament, Old Testament, Gospels, Pentateuch, epistles
- Old TestamentGenesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Leviticus, Numbers
- scriptureBible, New Testament, Old Testament, verses, passages
- Bible TranslationsKing James Version, NIV, KJV, King James Bible, RSV
- scripturesBible, Vedas, Quran, Torah, Torah scroll
historical booksscience fiction
Speculative fiction with technological themes
contemporary fiction · speculative fiction · dystopian novels · cyberpunk · space opera
historical booksfiction
Imagined narrative work
mythological tales · fairy tales · imaginary worlds · fabulation · alternate history