Best Mature Historical Fanfics
The 18 most-loved mature historical fanfics on AO3, ranked by kudos. Period settings raise the stakes on intimacy: letters take weeks, reputations can kill, and a glance across a ballroom carries a novel's worth of meaning.
Top 18 Mature Historical Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with historical and rated Mature.
Terrible, But Great
by Isalise
“Harry Potter.” The cold burrowed into his flesh; the scent of cloying death and molding earth clogged his senses. “The Boy Who Lived.” A strange sense of unimaginable loss and disappointment rose inside of Harry. That brilliant, yet cruel boy could’ve been so much more if he’d not stepped
Holly & Yew
by LovelyLotus
After a bout of accidental magic when Harry is six, Vernon goes too far. When Harry wakes up, he is gravely wounded and more than fifty years in the past in another world. After some shuffling, Harry ends up at Wool's. There, he meets Tom Riddle, his mysterious roommate, eventual best friend, and th
Relativity.
by Ideasofmarch
"We would like to give you a chance.”“A chance?”“That’s right.”“A chance at what?”“Why, at living, Mr Potter.”-When Harry Potter is approached by a mysterious third party organisation that offers him the chance of a lifetime, he finds himself flung five decades into the past with a new name, new pa
The Thirteen Letters
by dropdeaddream
Womb to tomb, sweetheart.
The Stormlight Archive Regency Romance
by babylonsheep
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen, 1813. Adolin Kholin, duke, dandy and darling of the Kholinar ton, has one flaw: his bachelorhood. To Jasnah Kholin, this is an opportunity to secure an advantageou
Mother of Exiles (A Titanic AU)
by BladeoftheNebula
“You’ll never guess what just happened!” Steve said, taking a deep breath to try and calm his breathing. “I met someone. A guy from first class.” Dublin 1912: Steve Rogers is barely making ends meet, living in the tenement slums of Dublin. But a stroke of good luck gives him and his best friend
The Beast of Casterbridge
by formulaic_beam
Orphaned at ten and raised by a bitter, unstable aunt in the slums of London, Katniss Everdeen learns early that survival requires silence and gratitude. Years later, working as a nurse, she tears an advertisement from a newspaper. A reclusive, scarred farmer in Casterbridge offers an impossible sal
Bonds of Iron, Bands of Gold
by isawsevenbirds
When Prince Yuuri of Hasetsu is captured by the Petersburgian Empire, he must adapt to a harsh new life as the prisoner of his political enemy. But it quickly becomes apparent that Prince Victor is not the man he expected.
born under a lucky star
by Keira_63
On her eighteenth birthday, Alina’s guardian tells her she’s a very special girl born under a lucky star, and that the two of them will change the world together.
Of Silk, Snow, and Sacrifice
by Mimi (thatanonwriter)
But the aurora burned on with magnificent indifference, rippling its curtains of green and violet and pale-white fire across the sky above the northernmost capital in the known world, illuminating the palace towers in colors no painter had ever perfectly captured and no poet had ever precisely named
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
by astral_projection0
For three years, Pinkerton detective Satoru Gojo—known to criminals as The Reaper—has hunted the most infamous outlaw west of the Mississippi. When he finally captures Ryomen Sukuna and boards a train bound for Chicago, he expects a quiet journey to justice. Instead, a bandit attack derails the loco
The Young Deer
by tcm007066
Lyle Morgan becomes an outlaw in 1870, dragging his young son Arthur into a life of crime and hardship on the American frontier. From dusty trails and desperate heists to the harsh realities of survival, Lyle's choices shape the boy who will one day ride with Dutch van der Linde. When Lyle's path en
【Elsanna】嶙峋的群山
by lmzimayday
二战AU谍战 英国SOE特工 X 美国OSS特工
One Noble Act
by AbAbsurdo
Mycroft's certainty of a betrayal that cost him his best friend didn't stop him from putting himself in danger to save Greg's life. If he got there in time.Greg always wanted to do the right thing. The noble thing. And protect those he loved and treasured.
If The World Falls To Pieces (At Least I'll Be With You)
by ceurandil
Poland will be liberated, then Fingon and Majdros will marry – that was the plan. But now Fingon is a fugitive and Majdros imprisoned in a mental institution. Fingon must get him out, that was never a question. But this will not be easy. And then, they will have to escape the only home they ever kne
Heaven's Mandate
by mr_clairdycat
· · ─────── ·𖥸· ─────── · ·An Historical AU where Ajax, Grand Duke of Moscov, is married to Zhongli, Crown Prince of China. Both of them are tied to their duty, pawns in a game of chess as they do their best for their homelands' interests, but through this arranged political marriage they soon grow
Il Musa
by spiked_spiegel
“…During one performance at a meeting for the Giustizia e Libertá, Stella caught the attention of a resistance fighter named Itzhak ‘Spike’ Spiegel, a Jewish man who fled from Dachau, Germany to fight against the fascist government and aid the Italian Resistance Movement. This initial meeting eventu
Revolution Cataclysm
by JimmyVanechko78
Revolution Cataclysm is set in a alternate cold war world where the US has split up due to communist revolutions. The story takes place in Chicago of 1978. Jimmy a war veteran alongside his friend Richard must survive a communist revolution in the city.
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About This List
This list of 18mature Historical fanfics spans 1,657,265 total words. Kudos range from 1 on the newest entries to 28,703 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Mature (18 of 18 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Alternate Universe - Historical · Time Travel · Time Travel Fix-It · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Slow Burn.
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