Looking for historical fiction in the time-slip lane set during the Regency / Napoleonic (~1789–1837)? Regency / Napoleonic time-slip historical fiction books collects historical novels that match both filters—Balls, war, empire, Austen-adjacent and beyond. Time travel, dual timelines, or past–present braids HisFic is a free historical fiction discovery app: open a full reading journey with the same era and story-type filters, then add region, themes, or audience. Shelves mix curated historical fiction picks with Open Library titles so even thin combinations still have books to explore.
On her twenty-sixth birthday in 1976 Los Angeles, Dana Franklin is yanked to a Maryland plantation whenever Rufus Weylin, a red-haired boy who will grow up to enslave her ancestors, is about to die—and she has to keep him alive or never be born. Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 novel is time-slip historical fiction of the early nineteenth-century South: each stay is longer, her white husband Kevin is stranded with her, and the past does not return her whole.
Regency / Napoleonic · Late 20th century · Time-slip · Literary
On a February night in 1791, in a hidden London shop, the apothecary Nella waits for a customer who wants a poison the register will record, and twelve-year-old Eliza Fanning arrives with an errand that breaks Nella’s rules. Sarah Penner’s 2021 novel is Regency time-slip historical fiction of that book of names—and of Caroline Parcewell, who centuries later finds a small vial mudlarking on the Thames and follows it back to the shop.
