list of historical novels - wiki

8/3/2019 List of Historical Novels - Wiki

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List of historical novelsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Historical novels are listed by the country in which the majority of the novel takes place.

Contents

1 Afghanistan2 Argentina3 Australia

4 Belgium5 Brazil6 Canada7 Caribbean (multiple countries)8 China

9 Colombia10 Czech Republic11 Denmark12 Dominica

13 Dominican Republic14 Egypt15 Finland16 France

17 Germany18 Greece

19 Greenland20 Hungary

21 India22 Ireland23 Israel24 Italy25 Japan

26 Korea27 Mexico28 Netherlands29 New Zealand

30 Norway31 Pakistan32 Palestine33 Panama

34 Philippines35 Portugal36 Pre-Columbian Civilizations

36.1 Aztec Empire

36.2 Inca Empire36.3 Mayan Empire

37 Poland38 Roman Republic & Empire39 Russia40 South Africa41 Spain


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41.1 Early history41.2 Roman Spain41.3 Visigothic Kingdom41.4 Medieval

41.5 Spanish Golden Age41.5.1 Exploration and conquest

41.6 18th Century

41.7 19th Century41.8 Twentieth Century

42 Sweden43 Switzerland44 Tibet45 Turkey

46 Ukraine47 United Kingdom

47.1 Earliest history47.2 Roman Britain

47.3 Medieval47.4 Early Modern47.5 Hanoverian47.6 Victorian

47.7 Twentieth Century47.8 Multiple time frames

48 United States (including areas that become part of the US)48.1 Colonial48.2 Nineteenth Century48.3 Twentieth Century

49 Vietnam50 Yemen

51 See also

Afghanistan

The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini (from Russian invasion to rise and fall of Taliban)

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini

Caravans by James Michener (Perspective of a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in the 1940s)

Argentina

On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato (19th century, during the Civil War)The Saga of the Marrano by Marcos Aguinis (17th century)Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo F. Sarmiento (19th century)

La logia de Cdiz by Jorge Fernndez Diaz (19th century, Life of San Martn)

Me llaman Artemio Furia by Florencia Bonelli (19th century)Peron's novelby Toms Eloy Martnez (20th century)

Santa Evita by Toms Eloy Martnez (20th century)El combate perpetuo by Marcos Aguinis (19th century, Almirante Brown)

La fragata Proserpina andEl queche Hiena by Luis Delgado Ban (19th century)


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Australia

Botany Bay by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall (colonization of Australia, 18thcentury)Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (end of 19th century)Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough (end of 18th century)The Switherby Pilgrims by Eleanor Spence (settlers in 1820s New South Wales)

The Playmaker andBring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally (18th century ColonialAustralia)The Lambing Flatby Nerida Newton (19th century, Colonial Australia)The Secret River by Kate Grenville (19th Colonial Australia)Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang andJack Maggs by Peter Carey (19thcentury Colonial Australia)Office of Innocence by Thomas Keneally (during World War II)Hannah by Raymond W Clarke (Australian colonial history early 19th century)

Belgium

De Leeuw van Vlaanderen by Hendrik Conscience (Flemish freedom battle of 1302)Het verdriet van Belgiby Hugo Claus (WW II and after)

Brazil

Alfarrbios by Jos de Alencar (Colonial Brazil)Iracema by Jos de Alencar (legend from Ceara, 16th century)The Guarani by Jos de Alencar (Brazil, 16th century)

Guerra dos Mascates by Jos de Alencar (Olinda x Recife, 17101712)As Minas de Prata by Jos de Alencar (Minas Gerais, 18th century)O Tempo e o Vento by rico Verssimo (from the late 18th century to 1945)Os Sertes by Euclides da Cunha (Canudos Campaign, 19th century)

Canada

Let Loose the Dogs by Maureen Jennings (19th century Toronto)Journey by James A. MichenerVancouver by David Cruise and Alison Griffiths (Vancouver area)

The Long Traverse by John BuchanThree to a Loafby Michael Goodspeed (The Great War)The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe (19th century western Canada)

Caribbean (multiple countries)

Unburnable by Marie-Elena John (the African origins of Caribbean culture and the originalinhabitants of the Caribbean, the Kalinago (Carib Indians)).Caribbean by James A. MichenerWalls of Phantoms by Courtney M Thomas (St Vincent and the Grenadines (Africans, CaribIndians), Trinidad & Tobago (Africans, East Indians))

China


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The Chinese Lake Murders and other Judge Dee mysteries by Robert van Gulik (7th century)The Court of the Lion by Eleanor Coony and Daniel Altieri (8th century, Emperor Minghuangand his consort, Grand Verity)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong (3rd century)Spirit Mirror (1988) Chia Black Dragon series by Stephen Marley (2nd century)Mortal Mask(1991) Chia Black Dragon series by Stephen Marley (2nd century)Peony by Pearl Buck (19th century, Jewish family in China)

Imperial Woman by Pearl Buck (about Empress Dowager Cixi/Tzu-Hsi)Empress Orchidby Anchee Min (about Empress Dowager Cixi)Shadow Sisters (1993) Chia Black Dragon series by Stephen Marley (7th century)Tai-Pan &Noble House by James ClavellEmpire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard (WWII)

The Journeyer by Gary Jennings (Kubilai Khan)Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom by Li Bo (aka Steven Leibo) (19th century Sino-WesternRelations and the Taiping Rebellion)Peking: A Novel of Chinas Revolution 1921-1978 by Anthony Grey (Long March & Cultural

Revolution)The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin (18th century)

La mujer en la muralla by Alberto Laiseca (Qin Shi Huang)

Colombia

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garca MrquezThe General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Czech Republic

The Memoirs of a Prague Executioner by Josef Svtek (Religious conflicts between Catholicsand Protestants in the 17th century Prague, Bohemia; medieval justice)The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (The Prague Spring of 1968)

Denmark

The Lost Ones by Norah Lofts (Queen Caroline Matilda, 18th century)

Dominica

Unburnable by Marie-Elena JohnWide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (19th century)

Dominican Republic

In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (rebellion against Rafael Lenidas Trujillo, mid-20thcentury)The Feast of the Goatby Mario Vargas Llosa (Assassination of Trujillo and its aftermath, early

1960s)

Egypt

The Absurdity of Fates by Naguib Mahfouz 1939 !"#$%"&'(


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Radopis by Naguib Mahfouz 1943 !"#$%&'

The Struggle of Thebes by Naguib Mahfouz 1944 ()"*+,-.

The Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz 1985 (/"/01&2345,61& (the Pharaoh Akhenaten)

Cheops by Paul West (26th century BC)Pharaoh by Boles!aw Prus (fall of Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty and New Kingdom)Hypatia by Charles Kingsley (late Roman Egypt)

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (early 20th century)Ancient Evenings by Norman MailerThe Egyptian by Mika Waltari (reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten)Nefertiti: A Novelby Michelle Moran (Queen Nefertiti)The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (reign of Cleopatra VII)

River Godby Wilbur Smith

Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf (15th and 16th century)No digas que fue un sueo by Terenci Moix (reign of Cleopatra VII)El Ladrn de Tumbas by Antonio Cabanas

Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge (reign of Hatshepsut)

Scroll of Saqqara by Pauline GedgeLa boca del Nilo by Len Arsenal

Finland

The Adventurer by Mika Waltari (16th century)Purge by Sofi Oksanen (20th century)

France

The Jester by James Patterson (11th century)The Accursed King series (Les Rois Maudits) by Maurice Druon (13th-14th century)Quentin Durwardby Sir Walter Scott (Louis XI - 15th century)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (15th century)

The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracey Chevalier (during the Renaissance)

The King's Cavalier by Samuel Shellabarger (16th century)Queen Margotby Alexandre Dumas, pre (16th century)The Virgin Blue by Tracey Chevalier (during the religious wars)

The Anglique series by Anne & Serge Golon (Mid-17th century France during Louis XIV)

The d'Artagnan romances, including the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, andThe Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, pre (17th century)A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (French Revolution)

Desire by Annemarie Selinko (about Dsire Clary, time of Napoleon and after)

Les Misrables by Victor Hugo (19th century)The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, pre (19th century)The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen (exile of Napolon)

La Plevitskaya by Ally Hauptmann-Gurski (about Nadezhda Plevitskaya, A Gypsy Singer in

Tsarist Russia and in Exile (Paris 1920s, 30s) )

GermanyLichtenstein by Wilhelm Hauff (16th century)

Ekkehardby Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (10th century)The Warwolf(Der Wehrwolf) by Hermann Lns (Thirty Years' War)


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The Jew Suess (Jud Sss) by Lion Feuchtwanger (18th century, Joseph Oppenheimer)Vor dem Sturm by Theodor Fontane (19th century)

Medea (Medea: Stimmen) by Christa Wolf

Life on Both Sides of the Wallby Gunther F. SkaletzPerfume (Das Parfum) by Patrick Sskind (18th century)The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler (set in Berlin in the 1930s and involving the Nazi war ondisabled persons)Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist by Russell McCormmach (German physicist during the

early 20th century)Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (19th century)

Greece

Hades' Daughter by Sara Douglass (classical antiquity)Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War by Steven PressfieldPericles the Athenian by Rex Warner

The Palaeologian Dynasty. The Rise and Fall of Byzantium by George Leonardos

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (the Battle of Thermopylae)Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (World War I and Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922))The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel About Sappho of Lesbos by Peter Green (1993)

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault (Athens in the time of Socrates)

The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault (Greek theatre, 4th century BC)The Athenian Murders (La caverna de las ideas) by Jose Carlos Somoza (classical antiquity)Alexandros by Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Alexander the Great)The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield (the life of Alexander the Great)

Lion Of Macedon by David Gemmell(Alexander's general Parmenion)Dark Prince by David Gemmell (sequel toLion of Macedon)

Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy by Mary Renault (Alexander the Great)Funeral Games by Mary Renault (the successors of Alexander)

Voice of the Goddess by Judith Hand (set in Crete in the Bronze Age)

Elephants and Castles by Alfred Duggan,1963 (Demetrius I of Macedon)Goat Song by Frank Yerby, 1967 (set during the Peloponnesian War)Salamina by Javier Negrete, (Second Persian invasion of Greece, Themistocles)

La joven de Esparta by Cristina Rodriguez

El agua y la tierra by Julio Murillo

Greenland

The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley

Hungary

Prague by Arthur Phillips (set in 1990s)

Egri csillagok(Eclipse of the Crescent Moon) by Gza Grdonyi, translated, and with an

introduction by George F. Cushing (Siege of Eger by the Ottomans, 1552)

IndiaGhare Baire (The Home and the World) by Rabindranath Tagore

Volga se Ganga by Mahapandit Rahul SankrityayanShahzada Dara Shikoh: A Bi-Volume Novel by Shyamal Gangopadhyaya based on the facts


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about Mughal ruler Shah Jahan and his sons.Kaaler Mondira, Goud Mallar, Tumi Shondhyar Megh, KumarShambhawber Kobi,

Tungobhadrar Teeray by Sharodindu Bandopadhyay

Rajshingho,Anondo Mawth (Anandamath) by Bankim Chandra ChattopadhyayShei Shomoy by Sunil GangopadhyayThe Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye (British India in the 19th century)

Parthiban Kanavu, Sivagamiyin Sabadham, Ponniyin Selvan by Kalki Krishnamurthy (1940s)

Vengaiyin Mayinthan by Akilan (1960s)Kayalvizhi by Akilan (1960s)Verti Thirunagar by Akilan (1960s)Garam Hawa by Ismat Chughtai

A Spoke in the Wheelby Amita Kanekar

Aag ka Darya or River of Fire an Urdu novel by Qurratulain Hyder.Kai Chand thay Sar-e-Aasman or Many a moon were there in the Sky an Urdu novel byShams-ur-Rehman Faruqi

Marthandavarma (1891), Dharma Raja (1911), Rama Raja Bahadur by C V Raman PillaiRecalcitrance by Anurag KumarMidnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Guardian of the Dawn by Richard Zimler (set in 17th-century Goa)The Last Mughalby William Dalrymple (historian)

White Mughals by William Dalrymple (historian)

Ireland

Bending The Boyne by J.S. Dunn (Eire at 2200 BCE)

The Big Snow by David Park (1960s)Another Kind of Life by Catherine Dunne (19th century)

The Fall of Lightby Niall Williams (19th century)The Hunger by David Rees (19th century, the Famine)

Trinity andRedemption by Leon UrisThe Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga and The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin SagabyEdward RutherfurdTroubles by James Gordon Farrell (Irish War of Independence)

A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle (Irish Revolution)

The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan (1798)Sister Fidelma series by Peter Tremayne (7th century)Lion of Irelandby Morgan Llewellyn (High King Brian Boru, 10th century)

Israel

David: The Warrior King by David J. Ferreira (A novel of King David)Day of War by Cliff Graham (A 5-book Series of King David)

Michalby Jill Eileen Smith (A 3-book Series of King David)

Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel (1970s)Exodus by Leon Uris

The Haj by Leon Uris

The Settlers by Meyer Levin

The Source by James A. MichenerAbraham and Sarah by Roberta DorrBarabbas: Felon/Friendby Marvin Harris

Bathsheba: The Love Story that Changed History by Roberta Dorr


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Beloved Rabbi by Michele TorreyBeyond the Road to Damascus by Ferrel Glade Roundy

Joseph by James R. Shott

Leah by James R. ShottMary, Handmaiden of the Lordby Virginia N. WilsonSolomon's Song by Roberta Dorr

Son of Laughter by Frederick Buechner

Stone Tables by Orson Scott CardThe Fifth Mountain by Paulo CoelhoThe Holy Embrace by Mario Brelich

The Red Tentby Anita Diamant

The Silas Diary by Gene EdwardsThe Timothy Diary by Gene EdwardsThe Titus Diary by Gene EdwardsThe Weeping Chamber by Sigmund Brouwer

Unashamedby Francine RiversUnshaken by Francine RiversUnveiledby Francine RiversThe Shepherd of Bethlehem by A.L.O.E.

Journey (Legacies of the Ancient River) by Angela Elwell Hunt

Jerusalem the City of Godby Ellen Gunderson TraylorMelchizedekby Ellen Gunderson TraylorRuth by Ellen Gunderson Traylor

Pontius Pilate: A Novelby Paul L. Maier

The Olive Tree by Cheryl ThomasPearl in the Sandby Tessa AfsharMichalby Jill Eileen Smith

Abigailby Jill Eileen Smith

The Prince: Jonathan by Francine RiversThe Robe by Lloyd C. DouglasProphet of Israelby Timothy S. WilkinsonJudge of Israelby Timothy S. Wilkinson

Italy

A Struggle for Rome (Ein Kampf um Rom) by Felix Dahn (Gothic War (535-554))The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (14th century)

Lucrezia Borgia by John Faunce (biographical novel, Renaissance)

The Family by Mario Puzo (Renaissance)Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger (Renaissance)Romola by George Eliot (Renaissance)

Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment (16th and 17th century)

The Betrothedby Alessandro Manzoni (17th century)The Castrato by Louis Goldman (18th century)A Kiss from Maddalena by Christopher Castellani (World War II)

A Tabernacle for the Sun by Linda Proud (Florence, 1470s)

Pallas and the Centaur by Linda Proud (Florence, 1480s)The Rebirth of Venus by Linda Proud (Florence, 1490s)

Silkby Alessandro Baricco (1860s)Raptor by Gary Jennings

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (Florence, Savonarola period)

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Cloud of Sparrows andAutumn Bridge by Takashi Matsuoka (19th century)One Mans Justice by Akira Yoshimura (1940s U.S. occupation)

The Dragon Kings Palace by Laura Joh Rowland (17th century)The Tale of the Heike (12th century)Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa (Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 16th century)Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa (Miyamoto Musashi, 17th century)

Sh!gun, Gai-Jin & King Ratby James Clavell

Silence by Shusaku EndoThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 11th century

Korea

Eternal Empire and Scent of the Plain by Ihn Wha Lee

Mexico

Mexico by James A. MichenerThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneEl navo Asia by Luis Delgado Ban (19th century)

Netherlands

The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade (15th century)Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Johannes Vermeer, 17th century)The Coffee Trader by David Liss (17th century)

The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, pre (17th century)

Love and Hate by J. B. Williams (20th century - aftermath of WWII)The Dykebreakby J. B. Williams (20th century - WWII and 1953 Floods)

New Zealand

Season of the Jew by Maurice Shadbolt

Norway

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (14th century)The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset (14th century)

Pakistan

Peer_e_Kamilby Umera Ahmed

Khaak aur Khoon by Naseem HijaziShaheen by Naseem HijaziAkhri Chatan by Naseem Hijazi (about Sultan Jalal Al-Din and Genghis Khan)Yousuf bin Tashfin by Naseem Hijazi

Aakhari Marka by Naseem HijaziAndheri Raat Ke Musafir by Naseem HijaziAur Talwar Toot Gai by Naseem HijaziDaastaan-e-Mujahidby Naseem Hijazi

Gumshuda Qaafley by Naseem Hijazi


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Muazzam Ali by Naseem Hijazi

Muhammad Bin Qasim by Naseem Hijazi (about Muhammad bin Qasim)

Qafla-e-Hijaz by Naseem HijaziQaisar-o-Kisra by Naseem HijaziRevenge of Cain (The Hidden Face of Bible) (http://www.revengeofcain.com) by A.Z Malik(http://www.azmalik.com)

Aurat ka Muqadma (Islam ki Adaalat main) by A.Z Malik

Punjab ke Jaaton ki Tareekh by A.Z MalikPunjab ke Mughal Qabael (Tareekh ke Ainay main) by A.Z MalikBhatti aur Buttby A.Z Malik

Rajput (Tareekh ke Ainay main) by A.Z Malik

Gakhar aur Khokhar by A.Z MalikAwanon ki Tareekh by A.Z MalikGujjar Qaum ki Tareekh by A.Z Malik

Pakistan ki Siyah Faam Aqwam by A.Z Malik

Niazi Qabeelay ki Daastan by A.Z MalikBaloch Qabaelby A.Z MalikAfghan aur Kashmiri by A.Z Malik

Araain Qabeelay ki Tareekh by A.Z Malik

Qureshi aur Sayyedby A.Z MalikChah-e-Babalby Qamar AjnalviSultan by Qamar AjnalviMere Kahani by Ali Saeed

Shahab Nama by Qudratullah ShahabGhulam bagh by Mirza Ather BaigUdaas Naslen by Abdullah HusainNasl-e-Sokhta by K Ashraf

Palestine

The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott (12th century, Third Crusade)El asombroso viaje de Pomponio Flato by Eduardo Mendoza

Panama

Con Ardientes Fulgores de Gloria by Jorge ThomasDesertores by Ramon H. Jurado

Philippines

Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal (early 1880s Philippines, under Spanish colonial rule)El filibusterismo by Jose Rizal (set 13 years after the events ofNoli Me Tangere)

The Woman Who had Two Navels by Nick Joaquin

Po-on by F. Sionil Jos (Set in the late 19th century.)

Portugal

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler (a mystical mystery set in early 16th-century

Lisbon, with the Lisbon Massacre of 1506 in the background)Hunting Midnightby Richard Zimler (set in 19th-century Porto and Charleston, South Carolina)


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Pre-Columbian Civilizations

Caminars con el Solby Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta

Aztec Empire

Aztec by Gary Jennings (before Spanish invasion)Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings (one generation after Spanish invasion)Aztec Bloodby Gary Jennings (the indigenous holocaust)

Aztec Rage by Gary Jennings, Robert Gleason, and Junius PodrugThe Luck of Huemac by Daniel PetersTlaloc Weeps For Mexico by Lszl Passuth (translated from Hungarian)Dobyvatel (The Conqueror) by Ivan Olbracht (Cortezs campaign)

Inca Empire

Inca Series: The Sun Princess, The Gold of Cuzco and The Light of Machu Picchu by AntoineB. DanielThe Incas by Daniel Peters

Mayan Empire

Tikalby Daniel Peters

Poland

An Ancient Tale (Stara Ba!") by Jzef Ignacy KraszewskiLove Never Dies by Geoffrey ZimmermanThe Deluge by Henryk Sienkiewicz

With Fire and Swordby Henryk SienkiewiczPan Wo#odyjowski by Henryk SienkiewiczKrzyzacy (The Teutonic Knights) by Henryk SienkiewiczThe Stars Can Waitby Jay Basu (World War II)

Polandby James A. MichenerThe Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler (set in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940-41)

Roman Republic & Empire

Main article: Fiction set in ancient Rome

The Secret of the Kingdom and The Roman by Mika WaltariThe Sword of Pleasure by Peter Green (Sulla, 1st century BC)The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough (1st century BC)

Young Caesar andImperial Caesar by Rex Warner (Julius Caesar, 1st century BC)TheEmperor Series by Conn Iggulden: The Gates of Rome, The Death of Kings, The Field ofSwords and The Gods of War (Life of Julius Caesar)

Marius' Mules series by S.J.A.Turney (Julius Caesar's invasion of Gaul)The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder (Last days of Julius Caesar)

Caesar,Anthony,Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula andNero's Heirs by Allan MassieKing Jesus by Robert GravesBen-Hur: A Tale of the Christby Lew Wallace


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.Judas, My Brother: The Story of the Thirteenth Disciple by Frank Yerby

A Song for Nero by Thomas Holt (1st century)Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Christians under Nero)The Roman Mysteries, a series of children's books by Caroline Lawrence(1st century)I, Claudius and Claudius, the Godby Robert Graves (Roman emperors, 1st century)

Julian by Gore Vidal (Julian the Apostate, 4th century)

Founding Fathers by Alfred Duggan (Romulus and the founding of Rome)

Winter Quarters by Alfred Duggan (Crassus' Parthian expedition)Three's Company by Alfred Duggan (The Triumvir Lepidus)

Family Favourites by Alfred Duggan (Emperor Elagabalus, 3rd century)

The Little Emperors by Alfred Duggan (Late-Roman Britain)I am a Barbarian by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Describes the life of Caligula as seen through theeyes of his slave.)

Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem (Magnus Maximus, 4th century)

The Legate's Daughter by Wallace Breem, 1975 (North Africa, Early Empire)The Darkness And The Dawn by Thomas B. Costain (barbarian invasions)Count Belisarius by Robert Graves (the Byzantine general Belisarius, 6th century)

Africanus, el hijo del cnsul,Las legiones malditas,La traicin de Roma by SantiagoPosteguillo (the Punic Wars general Publius Cornelius Scipio)

Roma sub rosa series by Steven Saylor (fictitious detective interacting with Cicero and otherhistorical characters, 1st century BC)Last of the Ninth by Stephen Lorne Bennett (Decimus Malorix seeks the survivors of a hauntedlegion during the Parthian War of Marcus Aurelius, 160s AD)link

(https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/21565)

Russia

Batu-Khan by V. H. Yanchevskyy (the Mongol invasion of medieval Russia and Ukraine)The Sons of the Steppe by Hans Baumann (Genghis Khan)Chas volka by Sergey Kalitin (the early years of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania underMindaugas and the wars of the Danes and Teutonic Knights against the Pskov and NovgorodRepublics)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Napoleonic era)The Retreatby Patrick Rambaud (Napolon's invasion)Twelve by Jasper Kent (historical fantasy during the French invasion)Thirteen Years Later by Jasper Kent (historical fantasy concerning the Decembrist Uprising of

1825)

La Plevitskaya by Ally Hauptmann-Gurski (the story of Nadezhda Plevitskaya who was aGypsy singer in Tsarist Russia and in exile in Paris)The White Nights of St. Petersburg by Geoffrey Trease (Russian Revolution)

The White Russian by Tom Bradby (1917 St. Petersburg)

Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick (Russian Revolution)The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander (Bolshevik revolution, seen through the eyes of theTsars kitchen boy)

The White Guardby Mikhail Bulgakov (Russian Civil War)

South Africa

The Covenantby James A. Michener (from prehistory onwards)

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard (19th century)

The Turning Wheels by Stuart Cloete (Great Trek)Rags of Glory by Stuart Cloete (Boer War)


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Playing the enemy by John Carlin

Spain

Early history

Nublares,El hijo de la garza andEl ltimo cazador by Antonio Prez Henares (Paleolithic)El ltimo Soldurio by Javier Lorenzo (1th century BC)Viriato by Joo Aguiar (1th century BC, Viriathus)Numancia by Jos Luis Corral (1th century BC, Numantia)El hombre de la plata by Len Arsenal (Tartessos)

Roman Spain

Hay luz en casa de Publio Fama by Juan MianaA Dying Light in Corduba by Lindsey Davis

Sertorio by Joo Aguiar (Quintus Sertorius)

Visigothic Kingdom

Sombras de mariposa by Guillermo Galvn (Liuvigild, Visigothic Kingdom)

Medieval

Tales of Count Lucanor by don Juan Manuel, prncipe de Villena (14th century)El olor de las especias by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta

El mercenario de Granada by Juan Eslava GalnLos malos aos by Len Arsenal (14th century, Pedro I de Castilla and Blanca de Borbn)Tiempo de bastardos by Paula Cifuentes (14th century, Beatriz de Portugal)Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving (Emirato de Granada)Los cipreses de Crdoba by Yael Guiladi (Califato de Crdoba)Catalina de Lancaster by Mara Teresa lvarez (14th century, Catalina de Lancaster)Le Testament de l'Omeyyade (El arquitecto de los cielos) by Jacques Cardona (Dinasta Omeya)El Doncel don Enrique el Doliente by Mariano Jos de Larra (Enrique III de Castilla)

Spanish Golden Age

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Don Quixote) by Miguel de CervantesSaavedra (16th century)El prisionero de Argelby Antonio Cavanillas de Blas (life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)La Celestina by Fernando de RojasLazarillo de Tormes AnonymousLife and facts of Estebanillo Gonzlez, man of good humour Anonymous (17th century)El Buscn by Francisco de QuevedoBy Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan (15th century)The Ferdinand and Isabella Trilogy by Jean Plaidy (15th century)Captain Alatriste by Arturo Prez-ReverteSobra un rey by Jos Garca Abad (15th century)El castellano de Flandes by Enrique Martnez Ruiz (16th century)The heretic by Miguel Delibes (16th century)Ladrones de tinta by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta (16th century)Tierra firme and Venganza en Sevilla by Matilde Asensi (17th century)


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That Lady by Kate O'Brien (Ana de Mendoza, Princesa of boli)Rojo amanecer en Lepanto by Luis Zueco (life of Alejandro Farnesio y Habsburgo and Juan deAustria, Battle of Lepanto)Leonor de Habsburgo by Yolanda Scheuber (Leonor de Habsburgo)Decidnos Quin mat al conde? by Nstor Lujn (court of Philip IV of Spain, murder ofCount of Villamediana)El caballero de Alcntara by Jess Snchez Adalid

Exploration and conquest

Los navegantes by Edward Rosset (Fernando de Magallanes, Juan Sebastin Elcano, Andrs deUrdaneta, Miguel Lpez de Legazpi)La aventura equinocial de Lope de Aguirre by Ramn Jos Sender Garcs (16th century,conqueror Lope de Aguirre)The Islands of Unwisdom by Robert Graves (lvaro de Mendaa)La ruta de las tormentas by Paula Cifuentes (Fourth voyage of Christopher Columbus,Ferdinand Columbus)

18th Century

El da que Espaa derrot a Inglaterra. De cmo Blas de Lezo, tuerto, manco y cojo, venci en

Cartagena de Indias a la otra Armada Invencible by Pablo Victoria (Blas de Lezo, Battle ofCartagena de Indias)Mediohombre by Alber Vzquez (Blas de Lezo, Battle of Cartagena de Indias)

19th Century

National Episodes by Benito Prez Galds (19th century)La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas "Clarn" (19th century)Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Prez Galds (19th century)El navo Prncipe de Asturias, Trafalgar by Luis Delgado Baon (19th century) is the 9th bookofUna saga marinera espaolaLa artillera by ngeles de Irisarri (Siege of Saragossa (1808))Un da de clera by Arturo Prez-Reverte (Dos de Mayo Uprising)El hsar by Arturo Prez-Reverte (Napoleonic age)La sombra del guila by Arturo Prez-Reverte (Napoleonic age)

Twentieth Century

Iberia by James A Michener (20th century)Ins y la alegra by Almudena GrandesRia de gatos. Madrid 1936by Eduardo Mendoza

Sweden

The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson (Vikings, 10th century)The Emigrants (novel) by Vilhelm Moberg (middle of 19th century)

Switzerland

Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott (15th century)


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Tibet

Blue Poppies by Jonathan Falla (during Chinese invasion)

Turkey

The Amazon and the Warrior by Judith Hand (Bronze Age, Trojan War)

Ukraine

Wounder,Roksolana by Pawlo Zagrebelny(Ukraine, IXth century; Ukraine-Osman empire)

Black councilby Panteleimon KulishThe crush by Mychailo StarytskiyThe funeral of Gods by I. Bilyk

Russka by Edward Rutherfurd

United Kingdom

Earliest history

The Strongholdby Mollie Hunter (Orkney in the 1st century BC)

Roman Britain

Under the Eagle and others in the Cato series by Simon Scarrow (Roman invasion, AD 42)

The Silver Pigs,A Body in the Bath House and The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis (crime in the

reign of Vespasian, 1st century AD)Boudica series by Manda Scott (Boudica, 1st century AD)The Horse Coin by David Wishart (Boudica, 1st century AD)

Beric the Briton, A Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. Henty (Boudica, 1st century AD)

The Mistletoe and the Swordby Anya Seton (1st century AD)

Imperial Governor by George Shipway (Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and Boudica, 1st centuryAD)

The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (2nd century AD)

The Germanicus Mosaic and other Libertus mysteries by Rosemary Rowe (2nd century AD)

Island of Ghosts by Gillian Bradshaw (2nd century AD)The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff (3rd century AD)The Forest House, and others in the series by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Medicus, and others in the series by Ruth Downie

The Eagle and the Raven, by Pauline Gedge

Medieval

The Saxon Shore by Jack Whyte (Arthurian, set in the 6th or 7th century)The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Arthurian)

Grail Prince by Nancy McKenzie (Galahad)The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell (Alfred the Great, 9th century)The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer (William the Conqueror, 11th century)Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley (Norman Conquest)

King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett (11th century Scotland)


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The Gift & the Promise by Sarah Pernell (11th centuary)

A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters (First in the Brother Cadfael series set in the reign ofKing Stephen)Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (12th century)

Kay the Left-Handedby Leslie Barringer (12th century))

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (12th century)The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott (14th century Scotland)

The Grail Questby Bernard Cornwell (Hundred Year's War, 14th century)Katherine by Anya Seton (Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, 14th century)

Queen in Waiting by Norah Lofts (Eleanor of Aquitaine)The Wallace, one of over fifty novels based on events and people of the Middle Ages byScottish author Nigel Tranter

World Without Endby Ken Follett (14th century)

Know Ye Not Agincourt? by Leslie Barringer (15th century)

Early Modern

The House of Niccol andLymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett (Scotland and beyond in the15th and 16th centuries respectively)The Load of Unicorn by Cynthia Harnett (Caxton, 15th century London)

A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith (Wars of the Roses)

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman (Wars of the Roses)The Concubine by Norah Lofts (about Anne Boleyn)The Other Boleyn Girlby Philippa Gregory (about Mary Boleyn)

I, Elizabeth: the Word of a Queen by Rosalind Miles (Queen Elizabeth I)

Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott (Queen Elizabeth I and Amy Robsart)Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease (English Renaissance theatre/Elizabethan Cumberland and

London)Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson (Elizabethan persecution of Catholics)

The Voyage Destiny by Robert Nye (about Sir Walter Raleigh)Conceitby Mary Novik (about John Donne, 17th century)As Meat Loves Saltby Maria McCann (English Civil War)Woodstockby Sir Walter Scott (English Civil War)

Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott (English Civil War)

The Green and the Goldby Christopher Peachment (17th century)A Tale of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott (17th Century Scottish Rebellion)Captain Bloodby Rafael Sabatini (17th century, the Monmouth rebellion and its aftermath)

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (an account of the Great Plague of London,

published in 1722)A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory (17th century, Slave Trade in Bristol)Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor (17th century, Restoration)

Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer (Cromwell and Charles II)

The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (The English Civil War, the rule of Charles II, the early18th century)

Hanoverian

The Serpent in the Garden by Janet Gleeson (18th century London)

Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott (1715 Jacobite Rising)Waverley by Sir Walter Scott (1745 Jacobite Rising)Redgauntletby Sir Walter Scott (Jacobites in Dumfries, 1760s)Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty by Charles Dickens (Gordon Riots)A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Set during the Terror in Paris)


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Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell (British Army in the Napoleonic Wars)

Horatio Hornblower series by C. S. Forester (British navy in the Napoleonic Wars)AubreyMaturin series by Patrick O'Brian (British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars)Ramage series by Dudley Pope (British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars)Bolitho Novels by Alexander Kent (British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars)

Revolution series by Simon Scarrow (Wellington and Napoleon)Judith by Brian Cleeve (Set at the turn of the 19th century)Regency romances by Georgette Heyer (mostly comic love stories loosely modeled on the

works of Jane Austen)Thomas Kydd Series by Julian Stockwin, set during the French and Napoleonic Wars

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig (set during Napoleonic rule ofFrance, partially historical novel about English spies and romance)

Victorian

The Fiend in Human by John MacLachlan Gray (1850s London)

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (1860s London and elsewhere)

The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser (Victorian era)

Laura Blundy by Julie Myerson (Victorian London)

Twentieth Century

The Wishing Game by Patrick Redmond (life in a strict and uncanny boarding school in ruralNorfolk in the 1950s)

The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe (1970s)

Multiple time frames

Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd Tells the story of England through the eyes of six families inthe Salisbury area, stretching from Prehistoric Britain through the 1980s

United States (including areas that become part of the US)

Alaska by James A. Michener (Alaska)Centennialby James A. Michener (Colorado)Chesapeake by James A. Michener (Chesapeake Bay/Delmarva Peninsula)

Hawaii by James A. Michener (Hawai!i)

Texas by James A. Michener (Texas)

Colonial

Great Smith by Edison Marshall (Captain John Smith and the colonization of America)The Reenactmentby Marc McKeel. (James River massacres, Virginia, 1622)

City in the Dawn by Hervey Allen. Four works in a series about a frontiersman in 1750s

Next to Valour by John Edward Jennings (French and Indian War)Richard Carvelby Winston Churchill (Maryland and the American Revolution)Arundelfollowed byRabble in Arms by Kenneth Roberts (American Revolution)The Hornet's Nestby Jimmy Carter (American Revolution)

Into the Valley: The Settlers by Rosanne Bittner (Revolutionary War)Shadow Patriots, a Novel of the Revolution by Lucia St. Clair Robson (A story about GeorgeWashington's Culper Spy Ring and a woman spy known only as 355)Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Boston in the 1770s)

The Way It Was by Gerard Mac (American War of Independence)


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Resiste Tucson by Alber Vzquez (Spanish wars against Apaches)Los acasos by Javier Pascual (Spanish wars against Apaches)La fragata Princesa by Luis Delgado Ban (Discovering of Nootka Island)

Nineteenth Century

Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia by Jessica James (American Civil War)

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (American Civil War)Angels Watching Over Me by Michael Phillips (The South in the 1850s)The Battle of Milroy Station by Robert Fowler (Civil War)Blood and Bitter Windby Earl Murray (California gold rush)

Bucking the Tiger; Raising Holy Hell by Bruce Olds (Western Frontier/Doc Holliday;

American Civil War/John Brown)

Centennialby James A. MichenerCloudsplitter by Russell Banks (Abolitionist John Brown - Pre Civil War America).

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (American Civil War)

Action at Aquila by Hervey Allen (American Civil War)

Traveller by Richard Adams (American Civil War, told by Robert E. Lee's horse)Daughter of the Loom by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller (19th century Lowell,Massachusetts)

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherDragonwyckby Anya Seton (The Patroon system, Anti-Rent Wars and the Astor Place Riots)Freedom Landby Martin Marcus (Seminole War)Gone with the Windby Margaret Mitchell (American Civil War and aftermath)

Home to Trinity by Delia Parr (1830s Pennsylvania)Hope by Mary Ryan (Colorado gold rush)I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall (Lewis and Clark Expedition)

In the Company of Angels (http://inthecompanyofangels.net) by David Farland (WillieHandcart Company of 1856)

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (American Civil War)Burr, 1876andLincoln by Gore VidalLee and Grant at Appomattox by MacKinlay Kantor

More than a Dream by Lauraine Snelling (Scandinavian immigrants in 1897 Minnesota)

Mrs Keckly Sends Her Regards by Tim Jorgenson (American Civil War; Abraham Lincoln;Mary Todd Lincoln; Elizabeth Keckly)My Theodosia by Anya Seton (The life of Theodosia Burr Alston, her father Aaron Burr's VicePresidency and his subsequent years)

Oscar Wilde Discovers America by Louis Edwards (Oscar Wilde tours the United States)Property by Valerie Martin (slave rebellion)The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (American Civil War)Ride the Windby Lucia St. Clair Robson (The story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her life with the

Comanches.)The Runaway Quiltby Jennifer Chiaverini (the Underground Railroad)The Shield that Fell from Heaven by William S. Kerr (American Civil War)The Turquoise by Anya Seton (The Santa Fe Trail and New York society)

Unholy Fire by Robert Mrazek (Civil War)Unto a Good Land, The Settlers, The Last Letter Home by Vilhelm Moberg (19th century,Swedish immigrants to USA)

Waltz into Darkness by William Irish (New Orleans in 1880)White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke (Civil War)

Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell (Immigrants and the steel mills of Pittsburgh, from 1880)

Twentieth Century


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"The Hindenburg Letter" by Roger L. Conlee (a Hearst reporter infiltrates Nazi Germany)1919 - Misfortune's Endby Paula PhelanCryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (American soldiers in World War II)

Death of a Circus by Chandra Prasad (New England, Traveling Circus, roustabouts, fire eater,

wirewalker, intrigue and poverty of 1930s)Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (1893 Chicago Columbian World's Fair and HH Holmesserial killer)

Drop City (novel) (60s counterculture: hippie commune moves from California to Alaska)Fanny and Sue by Karen Stolz (St. Louis during the Great Depression)The Final Confession of Mabel Starkby Robert Hough (female animal trainer in Barnum &Bailey circus during 1930s)A Greater Glory by James Scott Bell (early 1900s in Los Angeles)

Lucy by Ellen Feldman (1930s and 1940s)Lanny Buddseries by Upton Sinclair (19131949)The Moments Lostby Bruce Olds (1900-15 Chicago/Unionism/Michigan Upper PeninsulaCopper Mine Strike of 1913)

Nevada by Clint McCullough (1920s to 1980s)

A Place Called Rainwater by Dorothy Garlock (Oklahoma in the late 1920s)The Road to Wellville by T. C. Boyle (the story of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of thecornflake, and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. It is set in 1907)

Shadow Boxer by Eddie Muller (San Francisco late 1940s)

Sweet Sunday by John Lawton (1960s New York)Two Trains Running by Andrew Vachss (Politics and organized crime in the Midwest influencethe 1960 presidential election)

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (Japanese-Americans during World War II)

The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani (Immigrants in 1950s Wilmington, DE)Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin (1984) (Canadians on road trip across America in the

tracks of French exploration)Walls of Phantoms by Courtney Thomas (Boston, 1989)

Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (Centers on three families: Immigrant, African-American, andAnglo-Saxon at the turn of the century)

Vietnam

The Tapestries by Kien NguyenThe Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

Yemen

The Hostage by Zaid M. DammajThe Tragedy of Waq Al-Waq by Muhammad M. Al-ZubairiWa Islamah by Ali Ahmed BaKatheer

See also

Historical fiction

Historical novelNovelFiction set in ancient Rome

Fiction set in ancient Greece

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