Historical Fiction Literature

Literature in the Historical Fiction genre. See also Alternate History Literature.

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Works

• The Accursed Kings series
• The Aether Cycle
• Affinity
• Africanus Trilogy
• The Age of Innocence
• Airman
• Alamut
• Alatriste series
• The Alchemy War series
  • The Mechanical
• Alexander Trilogy
• The Alice Network
• The Alienist
• All-of-a-Kind Family series
• All The Light We Cannot See
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
• Amelia Peabody series
• American Girls Collection
• Andersonville
• The Angélique series
• The Angel's Game
• Apollo's Grove
• April Lady
• Asian Saga
• Arcadia Snips and the Steamwork Consortium
• Ariadne
• Arn: The Knight Templar
• As Meat Loves Salt
• Aubrey-Maturin series
• August 1914
• Azincourt
• Aztec
• Barnaby Grimes series
• The Baroque Cycle
• Bath Tangle
• The Bearkeepers Daughter
• Before We Disappear
• Beloved
• Ben and Me
• Benjamin January series
• The Bernie Gunther series
  • March Violets
  • The Pale Criminal
  • A German Requiem
  • Field Grey
  • Prague Fatale
  • A Man Without Breath
  • The Lady From Zagreb
  • The Other Side of Silence
  • Prussian Blue
• Die Bertinis
• Between Shades of Grey
• Between Two Fires
• Beyond the Western Sea
• The Black Arrow
• Black Cross
• The Black Moth
• Black Sheep (1966)
• The Blind Assassin
• Blood and Sand
• Blood's a Rover
• Blood Feud
• Blood Meridian
• Bloody Jack series
• The Boleyn Inheritance
• The Bone Rattler series
• Bonnie Dundee
• The Book of Lies (1986)
• The Book of Negroes
• Boone's Lick
• The Book Thief
• The Bounty Trilogy
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• La Brčche
• The Bridge on the Drina
• Brother Cadfael series
• Buddenbrooks
• Bud, Not Buddy
• Buru Quartet
• Caging Skies
• Casca: The Eternal Mercenary
• The Caine Mutiny
• The Candlemass Road
• Capital
• Captain Blood: His Odyssey
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin
• The Captain's Daughter
• The Captain's Wife
• Castle Rackrent
• Cat Royal series
• Catherine, Called Birdy
• The Century Trilogy
• The Corsican Brothers
• The Chosen
• The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
• The Chronicles Of Glenscar
  • A Widow In Waiting
  • Playing With Fire
• Cigarette Girl
• Circe
• City of Thieves (2008)
• A Civil Contract
• Cloud of Sparrows
• Code Name Verity
• Cold Mountain
• The Cold Six Thousand
• The Colonial Boy
• The Comfortable Courtesan
• A Company of Liars
• The Confessions of Nat Turner
• The Conformist
• The Conquest Series
• A Conspiracy of Paper
• Conqueror series
• The Convenient Marriage
• Most of the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, the most well-known being the five known as The Leatherstocking Tales
• The Corinthian
• Cotillion
• Count and Countess
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Cousins' War series
• Creation (1981)
• Crusade in Jeans
• Daisy Jones & The Six
• La Dame de Monsoreau
• A Deadly Secret
• Dear America series
• Dear Canada series
• The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar
• Death to the French
• The Deer and the Cauldron
• The Defence of Duffer's Drift
• Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils
• Detectives in Togas
• The Devil's Arithmetic
• Devil's Cub
• Ding Hai Fu Sheng Lu
• The Discovery of Slowness
• The Diviners (2012)
• Doctor Syn ("The Scarecrow")
• The Dogs of War
• The Dolphin Ring series
  • The Eagle of the Ninth
  • The Silver Branch
  • Frontier Wolf
  • Sword at Sunset
• Dove Keeper
• The Dreamer
• A Dream Of Eagles series
• Drood
• A Drowned Maiden's Hair
• The Dumbfounded King
• Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson
• The Dwarf
• Earth's Children series
• Ecce Romani
• The Egyptian
• The Etruscan
• Elemental Masters series
• The Emigrants series
• The Empress Of Rome series
• The Enchantress of Florence
• Erast Fandorin series
  • The Winter Queen
  • The Turkish Gambit
  • Murder on the Leviathan
  • The Death of Achilles
  • Special Assignments
  • The State Counsellor
  • The Coronation
  • She Lover of Death
  • He Lover of Death
  • The Diamond Chariot
  • All the World's a Stage
• The Essex Serpent
• Esperanza Rising
• Eurico the Presbyter
• Familia Romana
• The Far Pavilions
• The Family Corleone
• The Feast of the Goat
• Female General and Eldest Princess
• The Fey and the Fallen
• Fevre Dream
• Fingersmith
• The Flames Of Rome
• Flashman series
• Flight
• Flight of the Intruder
• Fools' Guild series
• Forever Amber
• The Forgotten Legion series
• The Forsyte Saga
• The Fort
• Freedom and Necessity
• Friday's Child
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
• The Full Matilda
• Funeral Games
• Funny Boy
• The Gadfly
• The Gardella Vampire Chronicles
• The Gargoyle
• Gates of Fire
• Gemma Doyle series
• Gentleman Ranker
• The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
• The Gilded Chamber
• Girl Waits With Gun
• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• The Girl Who Played Go
• The Given Day
• The Go-Between
• Goddess
• Gods Of Jade And Shadow
• Gods and Generals
• Gods and Warriors
• Gold (2017)
• The Good Lord Bird
• Gone with the Wind
• The Golem and the Jinni
• Götz and Meyer
• The Grand Sophy
• Grimpow: The Invisible Road
• The Guns of Navarone
  • Force 10 from Navarone
• Guy Mannering
• Half Of A Yellow Sun
• Literature/Harlequin
• Hawksmaid
• Sven Hassel's novels
• Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre
• Hetty Feather series
• Heimskringla
• The Help
• Henderson's Boys series
• The Hereward Trilogy
• Hild
• The Historian
• Home
• Hope Leslie
• Horatio Hornblower series
• The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
• The Icelandic Sagas
• I, Claudius
• The Iliad
• Imperium
• Inspector Pekkala series
• An Instinct for War
• An Instance of the Fingerpost
• In the Time of the Butterflies
• Island Beneath The Sea
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Ivanhoe
• Jackdaws
• Johnny Tremain
• Joker Game
• A Journal of the Plague Year
• Judge Dee series
• Julian
• Julian Kestrel
• Katherine
• Kenilworth
• The Killer Angels
• The King Must Die
• The Kingdom and the Crown
• The Kingdom of Little Wounds
• Knight's Fee
• The Knights of the Cross
• The Known World
• The Kommandant's Mistress
• Kristin Lavransdatter
• Kydd
• Labyrinth
• The Labyrinth of Spirits
• The Lady Grace Mysteries
• Lady-In-Waiting
• The Lady Voltigeur
• Lamb in His Bosom
• Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
• Land of Wooden Gods
• The Langya List
• The Last Full Measure
• The Last Legion
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club
• The Last of the Mohicans
• La Vendée
• A Legacy of Light
• The Legend of the Condor Heroes
• Leonardo's Swans
• The Leopard
• Leyla: The Black Tulip
• Limes
• Lincoln in the Bardo
• The Lion Hunters series
• The Lion of Carthage
• The Lion Of Flanders Or The Battle Of The Golden Spurs
• The Apprentice Rogue
• A Long Petal of the Sea
• The Long Ships
• Long War
• A Long Way from Chicago
• The Lord of Bembibre
• Lowlands of Scotland Series
• The Luxe series
• Lymond Chronicles
• Mademoiselle Boleyn
• Maiden Crown
• Mara, Daughter of the Nile
• Marcus Didius Falco series
• The Mark of the Horse Lord
• The Mark of the Lion series
• Masters of Rome series
• Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles
• Matrix
• Matthew Hawkwood series
• McAuslan series
• Mexican Gothic
• Michael Kohlhaas
• Michael of Rhodes
• Mick Oberon
• The Midnight Guardians
• The Milkweed Triptych
  • Bitter Seeds
  • The Coldest War
• The Miniaturist
  • The House of Fortune
• Mirror, Mirror
• The Last Runaway
• Les Misérables
• The Monk
• Montmaray Trilogy
• Montmorency series
• The Moon and the Sun
• Moses, Man of the Mountain
• Mr. Revere and I
• Murder at Colefax Manor
• The Murder Most Unladylike series
• Musashi
• Music & Silence
• My Cousin Rachel
• My Name Is Red
• The Name of the Rose
• Nansō Satomi Hakkenden
• Nightjohn
• The Nightingale
• Ninety-Three
• North and South trilogy
• Nory Ryans Song
• Number the Stars
• The Oathsworn
• Obsidian & Blood
• Odinochka
• An Officer and a Spy
• Old Mortality
• Onihei Hankachou
• The Onyx Court series
• The Orphan Train Adventures
• The Other Boleyn Girl
• Our Australian Girl
• Out of the Dust
• Out of the Easy
• Outcast
• The Outcasts Of Time
• Outlander series
• The Outlaw Chronicles
• The Outlaws of Sherwood
• Överenskommelser
• Over the Wine-Dark Sea
• A Place Of Greater Safety
• Parade's End
• Passage to November
• The Passion
• Patience and Sarah
• A Pearl for My Mistress
• Peony in Love
• Perfidia
• The Perilous Gard
• Perilous Passage
• The Phantom of Manhattan
• The Pillars of the Earth
  • World Without End
• Pink And Say
• Pink Carnation series
• Ponniyin Selvan
• Portlandtown
• Possession
• Powder and Patch
• The Prestige
• The Princess Wei Yang
• The Prisoner of Heaven
• The Private Life Of Genghis Khan
• The Productions of Time
• Prokleta Avlija
• The Promise
• Prosper's Demon
• Pure
• Qiang Jin Jiu
• Qian Qiu
• The Quiet Gentleman
• The Queen's Fool
• Quest for Fire
• Quo Vadis
• Ragtime
• The Realm of Albion
• The Red Badge of Courage
• The Red Lion
• The Red Necklace
• The Red Tent
• Redeeming Love
• The Regeneration Trilogy
• La Reine Margot
• The Reluctant Widow
• Replay (written in 1987, repeatedly covers 1963-1988)
• The Return of the Condor Heroes
• Richard III in the 21st Century
• Ride This Night
• The Rider of the White Horse
• Riding Freedom
• The Rise of the Saxons
• The River Between
• Most books by Derek Robinson
• Rob Roy
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• The Roman Mysteries
• The Roman Mystery Scrolls
• Roma Sub Rosa series
• Romola
• Ronin (2013)
• Rose Under Fire
• The Royal Diaries
• The Saga of Grettir the Strong
• The Saga of the Jomsvikings
• The Sage Adair Historical Mysteries
• Salammbō
• Sally Lockhart series
• Samurai Shortstop
• The Sand-Reckoner
• The Savant
• The Saxon Stories
• Scaramouche
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Scarlett
• Scatterheart
• The Sea Hawk
• Sea of Poppies
• The Sea of Trolls
• The Secret River
• Search the Seven Hills
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
• Seven Men of Gascony
• Sexing the Cherry
• The Shadow of the Wind
• The Shakespeare Stealer trilogy
• Shanghai Girls
• The Shape of Mercy
• The Shardlake series
• Sharpe series
• The Sherlockian
• Sherlock in Love
• The Shining Company
• Shirley by Charlotte Brontė
• The Shadow of the Vulture
• The Sicilian
• Sienkiewicz Trilogy
• The Silence of Bones
• Simon
• All three novels so far by Simona Ahrnstedt
• Simply Weird: The (fake) History of Weird Comics Incorporated, A (fake) Comic Book Company
• Sister Fidelma
• Sister Pelagia
• Small Island
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
• Soldier Dogs series
• Song at Dawn
• Song for a Dark Queen
• The Song of Achilles
• The Song Of Alexander
• Sophie's Choice
• Spartan
• Sprig Muslin
• Star of the Sea
• The Story of Wenamun, originally thought to be a real account of the voyage of the titular Ancient Egyptian priest, has been confirmed by literary analysts to be an early example of this trope.
• The Strangely Beautiful Series
• Subversive Activity
• The Summer Before the War
• Summer of My German Soldier
• The Sunne in Splendour
• Sylvester
• Taiko
• The Tale of Einar Sokkason
• The Tale of Styrbjorn
• A Tale of Two Cities
• The Terror
• Thais of Athens
• These Savage Bones
• Things Fall Apart
• The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
• These Old Shades
• The Third Millenium
• The Thieftaker Chronicles
• A Thread of Grace
• The Three Musketeers
• This Storm
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
• The Tiger's Wife
• Tian Bao Fu Yao Lu
• Tipping the Velvet
• To Live
• To the Ends of the Earth
• The Tournament
• The Traitor's Emblem
• The Troy Saga
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
• The Twelfth Enchantment
• Uarda
• The Ugly Empress
• Under A Painted Sky
• The Unknown Ajax
• Unruly Phoenix Xiaoyao
• The Vanishing Half
• Venetia
• The Viking
• The Virgin Widow
• A Voz dos Deuses
• The Wake
• War and Peace
• The Warlord Chronicles
• The War of the End of the World
• Warrior Scarlet
• Water for Elephants
• Water Margin
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
• Waverley
• The Way to the Lantern
• The Weight of Ink
• The Western Mysteries
• When Heaven Spits You Out
• Where Eagles Dare
• The White Company
• Widespread Panic
• The Wild Hunt Trilogy
• The Winds of War/War and Remembrance
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Will of Heaven
• Wings of Dawn
• A Witch's Burden
• Wolf Hall and sequels
• The Wolf Sisters
• Wu Chang Jie
• Young Royals series
  • Mary Bloody Mary
  • Beware Princess Elizabeth
• The Zone of Interest

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