List of historical novels

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

Contents 1 Argentina 2 Australia 3 Belgium 4 Brazil 5 Canada 6 Caribbean (multiple countries) 7 China 8 Colombia 9 Denmark 10 Dominica 11 Dominican Republic 12 Egypt 13 Finland 14 France 15 Germany 16 Greece 17 Greenland 18 Hungary 19 India 20 Ireland 21 Israel 22 Italy 23 Japan 24 Macedonia 25 Mexico 26 Netherlands 27 New Zealand 28 Norway 29 Pakistan 30 Philippines 31 Pre-Colombian civilisations 31.1 Aztec Empire 31.2 Inca Empire 31.3 Mayan Empire 32 Poland 33 Panama 34 Roman Republic & Empire 35 Russia 36 South Africa 37 Spain 38 Sweden 39 Switzerland 40 Tibet 41 Ukraine 42 United Kingdom 42.1 Roman Britain 42.2 Medieval 42.3 Early Modern 42.4 Hanoverian 42.5 Victorian 42.6 Twentieth Century 42.7 Multiple time frames 43 United States (including areas that become part of the US) 43.1 Colonial 43.2 Nineteenth Century 43.3 Twentieth Century 44 Vietnam 45 See also

[edit] Argentina

• On Heroes and Tumbs by Ernesto Sabato (19th century, during the Civil War)
• The Saga of the Marrano by Marcos Aguinis (17th century)

[edit] Australia

• Botany Bay by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall (colonization of Australia, 18th century)
• Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (end of 18th 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 and Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally (19th Century Colonial Australia)
• The Lambing Flat by Nerida Newton (19th century, Colonial Australia)
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville (19th Colonial Australia)
• Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang and Jack Maggs by Peter Carey (19th Century Colonial Australia)
• Office of Innocence by Thomas Keneally (during World War II)

[edit] Belgium

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

[edit] Brazil

• Alfarrábios by José de Alencar (Colonial Brazil)
• Iracema by José de Alencar (legend from Ceara, 16th century)
• The Guarani by José de Alencar (Brazil, 16th century)
• Guerra dos Mascates by José de Alencar (Olinda x Recife, 1710-1712)
• As Minas de Prata by José de Alencar (Minas Gerais, 18th century)
• O Tempo e o Vento by Érico Veríssimo (from the late 18th century to 1945)
• Os Sertões by Euclides da Cunha (Canudos Campaign, 19th century)

[edit] Canada

• Let Loose the Dogs by Maureen Jennings (19th century Toronto)
• Journey by James A. Michener
• Vancouver by David Cruise and Alison Griffiths (Vancouver area)
• The Long Traverse by John Buchan
• The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe (19th century western Canada)

[edit] Caribbean (multiple countries)

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

[edit] China

• 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 Minghuang and 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 Orchid by Anchee Min (about Empress Dowager Cixi)
• Shadow Sisters (1993) Chia Black Dragon series by Stephen Marley (7th century)
• Tai-Pan & Noble House by James Clavell
• Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard (WWII)
• The Journeyer by Gary Jennings (Kubilai Khan)

[edit] Colombia

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

[edit] Denmark

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

[edit] Dominica

• Unburnable by Marie-Elena John
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (19th century)

[edit] Dominican Republic

• The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (1960s)
• In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (rebellion against Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, mid-20th century)

[edit] Egypt

• The Absurdity of Fates by Naguib Mahfouz 1939 عبث الأقدار
• Radopis by Naguib Mahfouz 1943 رادوبيس
• The Struggle of Thebes by Naguib Mahfouz 1944 كفاح طيبة
• The Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz 1985 العائش فى الحقيقة (the Pharaoh Akhenaten)
• Cheops by Paul West (26th century B.C.)
• Pharaoh by Bolesław 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 Mailer
• The Egyptian by Mika Waltari (reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten)
• Nefertiti: A Novel by Michelle Moran (Queen Nefertiti)
• The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (reign of Cleopatra VII)

[edit] Finland

• The Adventurer by Mika Waltari (16th century)

[edit] France

• The Jester by James Patterson (11th century)
• The Accursed King series (Les Rois Maudits) by Maurice Druon (13th-14th century)
• Quentin Durward by 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 Margot by Alexandre Dumas, père (16th century)
• The Virgin Blue by Tracey Chevalier (during the religious wars)
• The Angélique 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, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père (17th century)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (French Revolution)
• Desirée by Annemarie Selinko (about Desirée Clary, time of Napoleon and after)
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (19th Century)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père (19th century)
• The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen (exile of Napoléon)
• Silk by Alessandro Baricco (1860s)
• La Plevitskaya by Ally Hauptmann-Gurski (about a Russian Gypsy singer, Nadezhda Plevitskaya, with a large chapter in Paris, 1920s and 1930s)

[edit] Germany

• Lichtenstein by Wilhelm Hauff (16th century)
• Ekkehard by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (10th century)
• A Fight for Rome (Ein Kampf um Rom) by Felix Dahn (Late antiquity)
• The Warwolf (Der Wehrwolf) by Hermann Löns (Thirty Years' War)
• The Jew Suess (Jud Süss) by Lion Feuchtwanger (18th century, Joseph Oppenheimer)
• Vor dem Sturm by Theodor Fontane (19th century)
• Medea (Medea: Stimmen) by Christa Wolf
• Perfume (Das Parfum) by Patrick Süskind (18th century)
• Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) by Erich Maria Remarque (20th century)

[edit] Greece

• Hades’ Daughter by Sara Douglass (classical antiquity)
• Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War by Steven Pressfield
• Pericles the Athenian by Rex Warner
• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (the Battle of Thermopylae)
• Dark Prince by David Gemmell
• 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 B.C.)
• Funeral Games by Mary Renault (the successors of Alexander)
• The Athenian Murders (La caverna de las ideas) by Jose Carlos Somoza (classical antiquity)

[edit] Greenland

• The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley

[edit] Hungary

• Prague by Arthur Phillips (set in 1990s)
• Egri csillagok (Eclipse of the Crescent Moon) by Géza Gárdonyi, translated, and with an introduction by George F. Cushing (Siege of Eger by the Ottomans, 1552)

[edit] India

• Kaaler Mondira, Goud Mallar, Tumi Shondhyar Megh, KumarShambhawber Kobi, Tungobhadrar Teeray by Sharodindu Bandopadhyay
• Rajshingho, Anondo Mawth by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Shei Shomoy by Sunil Gangopadhyay
• The 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)
• Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins
• A Spoke in the Wheel by Amita Kanekar

• Marthanda Varma (1891) , Dharma Raja (1911) ,Rama Raja Bahadur by C V Raman Pillai
• Recalcitrance by Anurag Kumar
• ShauryaPratapi Chandravansh, Rudhir Nu Rajtilak, RajSatta Na Rang, Lakho Fulani, RanMedan, Ek Bhalo Saput, Tati Talvar, Navanagar Na Narbanka, Managal Fera, Rajsatta Na Rang, Nayan Ughadyu Ne Phool Kharyu, KachchhBhoomi Na Kesri, Padata Gadh Na Padchhaya (Part 1 and 2), Otrada Vayara Utho Utho, Sonavarani (The history of Modh Brahmins), Kalank Ane Kirtirekha, Vijay Vardaan, Bhagya devata, Roshani, Aparajita, ShauryaPratapi Maharana Pratap, DeshGaurav Bhamashah, Jay Chittod, Chittod Ni Rangarjana : RoopRani Padmini, Mevad Ni Tejchhaya, Mevad Na Maharathi : NariRatna PannaDai, Mevad No Kesri by Harilal Upadhyay

[edit] Ireland

• The Big Snow by David Park (1960s)
• Another Kind of Life by Catherine Dunne (19th century)
• The Fall of Light by Niall Williams (19th century)
• The Hunger by David Rees (19th century, the Famine)
• Trinity and Redemption by Leon Uris
• The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga by Edward Rutherfurd
• A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle (Irish Revolution)

[edit] Israel

• Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel (1970s)
• Exodus, The Haj and Mitla Pass by Leon Uris
• The Source by James A. Michener
• The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott (12th century, Third Crusade)

[edit] Italy

• Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment (16th and 17th 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)
• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (17th century)
• The Castrato by Louis Goldman (18th century)
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (14th century)
• A Kiss from Maddalena by Christopher Castellani (World War II)

[edit] Japan

• Cloud of Sparrows and Autumn Bridge by Takashi Matsuoka (19th century)
• One Man’s Justice by Akira Yoshimura (1940s U.S. occupation)
• The Dragon King’s Palace by Laura Joh Rowland (17th century)
• Heike Tale by Eiji Yoshikawa (12th century)
• Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa (Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 16th century)
• Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa (Miyamoto Musashi, 17th century)
• Shōgun, Gai-Jin & King Rat by James Clavell
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (mid 20th century)

[edit] Macedonia

• Alexandros by Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Alexander the Great)
• The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield (the life of Alexander the Great)
• The Lion Of Macedon by David Gemmell
• Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy by Mary Renault (Alexander the Great)

[edit] Mexico

• Mexico by James A. Michener

[edit] Netherlands

• 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, père (17th century)

[edit] New Zealand

• Season of the Jew by Maurice Shadbolt

[edit] Norway

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

[edit] Pakistan

• Khaak Aur Khoon by Naseem Hijazi
• Shaheen by Naseem Hijazi
• Akhri Chatan by Naseem Hijazi (about Sultan Jalal Al-Din and Genghis Khan)
• Yousuf bin Tashfin by Naseem Hijazi
• Aakhari Marka by Naseem Hijazi
• Andheri Raat Ke Musafir by Naseem Hijazi
• Aur Talwar Toot Gai by Naseem Hijazi
• Daastaan-e-Mujahid by Naseem Hijazi
• Gumshuda Qaafley by Naseem Hijazi
• Muazzam Ali by Naseem Hijazi
• Muhammad Bin Qasim by Naseem Hijazi (about Muhammad bin Qasim)
• Qafla-e-Hijaz by Naseem Hijazi
• Qaisar-o-Kisra by Naseem Hijazi
• Chah-e-Babal by Qamar Ajnalvi
• Sultan by Qamar Ajnalvi
• Mere Kahani by Ali Saeed

[edit] Philippines

• Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal (Spanish Era)
• El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal (Spanish Era)
• The Woman Who had Two Navels by Nick Joaquin

[edit] Pre-Colombian civilisations

[edit] Aztec Empire

• Aztec by Gary Jennings (before Spanish invasion)
• Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings (one generation after Spanish invasion)
• Aztec Blood by Gary Jennings (the indigenous holocaust)
• Aztec rage .by Gary Jennings,Robert Gleason, and Junius Podrug.
• The Luck of Huemac by Daniel Peters
• Tlaloc Weeps For Mexico by László Passuth (translated from the Hungarian)

[edit] Inca Empire

• Inca Series: The Sun Princess, The Gold of Cuzco and The Light of Machu Picchu by Antoine B. Daniel
• The Incas by Daniel Peters

[edit] Mayan Empire

• Tikal by Daniel Peters

[edit] Poland

• An Ancient Tale (Stara Baśń) by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
• Love Never Dies by Geoffrey Zimmerman
• The Deluge by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Pan Wołodyjowski by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• The Stars Can Wait by Jay Basu (World War II)
• Poland by James A. Michener

[edit] Panama

• Con Ardientes Fulgores de Gloria by Jorge Thomas
• Desertores by Ramon H. Jurado

[edit] Roman Republic & Empire

• The Secret of the Kingdom and The Roman by Mika Waltari
• The Sword of Pleasure by Peter Green (Sulla, 1st century B.C.)
• The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough (1st century B.C.)
• Young Caesar and Imperial Caesar by Rex Warner (Julius Caesar, 1st century B.C.)
• The Emperor Series by Conn Iggulden: The Gates of Rome, The Death of Kings, The Field of Swords and The Gods of War (Life of Julius Caesar)
• The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder (Last days of Julius Caesar)
• Caesar, Anthony, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Nero's Heirs by Allan Massie
• King Jesus by Robert Graves
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
• The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
• 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 God by Robert Graves (Roman emperors, 1st century)
• Julian by Gore Vidal (Julian the Apostate, 4th century)
• Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem (Magnus Maximus, 4th century)
• The Darkness And The Dawn by Thomas B. Costain (barbarian invasions)
• Count Belisarius by Robert Graves (the Byzantine general Belisarius, 6th century)

[edit] 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 Sergei Kalitin (the early years of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania under Mindaugas and the wars of the Danes and Teutonic Knights against the Pskov and Novgorod Republics)
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Napoleonic era)
• The Retreat by Patrick Rambaud (Napoléon's invasion)
• La Plevitskaya by Ally Hauptmann-Gurski (the story of Nadezhda Plevitskaya who was a Gypsy 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 the Tsar’s kitchen boy)

[edit] South Africa

• Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido (1950s)
• The Covenant by James A. Michener
• King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

[edit] Spain

• The Ferdinand and Isabella Trilogy by Jean Plaidy (15th century)
• National Episodes by Benito Pérez Galdós (19th century)
• La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas "Clarín" (19th century)
• El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (16th century)
• Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós (19th century)
• La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas

+ Iberia by James A Michener (20th century)

[edit] Sweden

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

[edit] Switzerland

• Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott (15th century)
• Die Schwarzen Brüder by Kurt Held

[edit] Tibet

• Blue Poppies by Jonathan Falla (during Chinese invasion)

[edit] Ukraine

• Wounder, Roksolana by Pawlo Zagrebelny(Ukraine, IXth century; Ukraine-Osman empire)
• Black council by Panteleimon Kulish
• The crush by Mychailo Starytskiy
• The funeral of Gods by I. Bilyk

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] Roman Britain

• Island of Ghosts by Gillian Bradshaw (2nd century A.D.)
• The Silver Pigs, A Body in the Bath House and The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis (crime in the reign of Vespasian, 1st century A.D.)
• The Germanicus Mosaic and other Libertus mysteries by Rosemary Rowe (2nd century A.D.)
• Under the Eagle and others in the Cato series by Simon Scarrow (Roman invasion, A.D. 42)
• Boudica series by Manda Scott (Boudica, 1st century A.D.)
• The Mistletoe and the Sword by Anya Seton (1st century A.D.)
• Imperial Governor by George Shipway (Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and Boudica, 1st century A.D.)
• The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (2nd century A.D.)
• The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff (3rd century A.D.)
• The Horse Coin by David Wishart (Boudica, 1st century A.D.)
• The Forest House, and others in the series by Marion Zimmer Bradley

[edit] Medieval

• The Grail Prince by Nancy McKenzie (Galahad)
• The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell (Alfred the Great, 9th century)
• Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley (Norman Conquest)
• The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer (William the Conqueror, 11th century)
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (12th century)
• Vanity of Vanities by Martin Bertram
• One Corpse too Many by Ellis Peters (First in the Brother Cadfael series set in the reign of King Stephen)
• Queen in Waiting by Norah Lofts (Eleanor of Aquitaine)
• Katherine by Anya Seton (Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, 14th century)
• The Grail Quest by Bernard Cornwell (Hundred Year's War, 14th century)
• The Wallace, one of over fifty novels based on events and people of the Middle Ages by Scottish author Nigel Tranter
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (12th century)
• The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott (14th century Scotland)
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Arthurian)
• King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett (11th century Scotland)
• The Third Witch by Rebecca Reisert (11th century Scotland)

[edit] Early Modern

• Lymond Chronicles and House of Niccolo by Dorothy Dunnett (Scotland and beyond in the 16th and 15th centuries respectively)
• 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 Girl by 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 (16th century)
• The Voyage Destiny by Robert Nye (about Sir Walter Raleigh)
• As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann (English Civil War)
• Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott (English Civil War)
• Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott (English Civil War)
• The Green and the Gold by Christopher Peachment (17th century)
• Captain Blood by 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 early 18th Century)

[edit] 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)
• Redgauntlet by 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)
• 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)
• Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian (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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Twentieth Century

• The Wishing Game by Patrick Redmond (life in a strict and uncanny boarding school in rural Norfolk in the 1950s)
• The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe (1970s)

[edit] Multiple time frames

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

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

• Alaska by James A. Michener (Alaska)
• Centennial by James A. Michener (Colorado)
• Chesapeake by James A. Michener (Chesapeake Bay/Delmarva Peninsula)
• Hawaii by James A. Michener (Hawaiʻi)
• Texas by James A. Michener (Texas)

[edit] Colonial

• Great Smith by Edison Marshall (Captain John Smith and the colonization of America)
• Arundel followed by Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Roberts (American Revolution)
• The Hornet's Nest by 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 George Washington's Culper Spy Ring and a woman spy known only as 355.)

[edit] Nineteenth Century

• Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia by Jessica James (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 Wind by Earl Murray (California gold rush)
• Bucking the Tiger; Raising Holy Hell by Bruce Olds (Western Frontier/Doc Holliday; American Civil War/John Brown)
• Centennial (novel) by James A. Michener
• Cloudsplitter 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)
• To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis and Clark by Frances Hunter
• Freedom Land by Martin Marcus (Seminole War)
• Gone with the Wind by 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)
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (American Civil War)
• Burr, 1876 and Lincoln by Gore Vidal
• More than a Dream by Lauraine Snelling (Scandinavian immigrants in 1897 Minnesota)
• 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 Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson (The story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her life with the Comanches.)
• The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini (the Underground Railroad)
• 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)

[edit] Twentieth Century

• 1919 - Misfortune's End by Paula Phelan
• Cryptonomicon 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 Holmes serial killer)
• Fanny and Sue by Karen Stolz (St. Louis during the Great Depression)
• The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by 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 Budd series by Upton Sinclair (1913-1949)
• The Moments Lost by Bruce Olds (1900-15 Chicago/Unionism/Michigan Upper Peninsula Copper 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 the cornflake, 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 influence the 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)
• Walls of Phantoms by Courtney Thomas (Boston, 1989)
• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (Centers on three families: Immigrant, African-American, and Anglo-Saxon at the turn of the century)

[edit] Vietnam

• The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen
• The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

[edit] See also

• Historical fiction
• Historical novel
• Novel
• Fiction set in ancient Rome
• Fiction set in ancient Greece