List of historical novels

From Academic Kids

Contents

1 Australia 2 Canada 3 Dominican Republic 4 Egypt 5 France 6 Britain 7 Greece 8 India 9 Ireland 10 Israel 11 Italy 12 Japan 13 Netherlands 14 Poland 15 Roman Empire 16 Russia 17 South Africa 18 Tibet 19 United States 20 Vietnam 21 See also

Australia

• Office of Innocence by Thomas Keneally (during World War II)

Canada

• Let Loose the Dogs by Maureen Jennings (19th century Toronto)

Dominican Republic

• The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (1960s)

Egypt

• Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus (fall of Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty and New Kingdom).
• Cheops by Paul West (ancient times)
• The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (early 20th century)
• Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer

France

• The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen (exile of Napoléon)
• The Jester by James Patterson (11th century)
• Silk by Alessandro Baricco (1860s)
• La Plevitskaya by Ally Hauptmann-Gurski is about a Russian Gypsy singer, but has a large chapter in Paris (1920s and 1930s)

Britain

• As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann (English Civil War)
• The Grail Prince, by Nancy McKenzie (Galahad)
• The Wishing Game by Patrick Redmond (life in a strict and uncanny boarding school in rural Norfolk in the 1950s)
• Laura Blundy by Julie Myerson (Victorian London)
• The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe (1970s)
• The Green and the Gold by Christopher Peachment (17th century)
• The Voyage Destiny by Robert Nye (about Sir Walter Releigh)
• The Serpent in the Garden by Janet Gleeson (18th century London)
• The Fiend in Human by John MacLachlan Gray (1850s London)
• Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell (British Army in the Napoleonic War)
• Horatio Hornblower Series by C.S. Forester (British navy in the Napoleonic War)
• Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian (British Navy in the Napoleonic War)
• Lymond Chronicles and House of Niccolo by Dorothy Dunnett (Scotland and beyond in the 16th and 15th centuries respectively)
• Regency romances by Georgette Heyer (mostly comic love stories loosely modeled on the works of Jane Austen)

Greece

• Hades’ Daughter by Sara Douglass (set in classical antiquity)
• Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War by Steven Pressfield
• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (about the Battle of Thermopylae)
• The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield (about the life of Alexander the Great)

David Gemmell- The Lion Of Macedon & Dark Prince

India

• Parthiban Kanavu, Sivagamiyin sabadham, Ponniyin selvan by Kalki Krishnamurthy (1940s)

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)

Israel

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

Italy

• Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment (16th and 17th century)
• Lucrezia Borgia by John Faunce (biographical novel; Renaissance)
• Leon Uris

Japan

• Cloud of Sparrows 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)
• Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa
• Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa

Netherlands

• The Coffee Trader by David Liss (17th century)

Poland

• The Stars Can Wait by Jay Basu (World War II)

Roman Empire

• Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz.
• Emperor: The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden
• Emperor: The Death of Kings by Conn Iggulden
• Emperor: The Field of Swords by Conn Iggulden
• A Song for Nero by Thomas Holt (1st century)

Russia

• The White Russian by Tom Bradby (1917 St. Petersburg)
• The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander (Bolshevik revolution, seen through the eyes of the Tsar’s kitchen boy)
• The Retreat by Patrick Rambaud (Napoléon's invasion)
• La Plevitskaya by Ally Hauptmann-Gurski, telling the story of Nadezhda Plevitskaya who was a Gypsy singer in Tsarist Russia and in exile (Paris).

South Africa

• Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido (1950s)

Tibet

• Blue Poppies by Jonathan Falla (during Chinese invasion)

United States

• The Hornet's Nest, by Jimmy Carter (American Revolution)
• Lucy, by Ellen Feldman (1930s and 1940s)
• A Place Called Rainwater, by Dorothy Garlock (Oklahoma in the late 1920s)
• I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall (Lewis and Clark Expedition)
• Freedom Land by Martin Marcus (Seminole War)
• Alaska by James A. Michener (Alaska)
• Shadow Boxer by Eddie Muller (San Francisco late 1940s)
• Angels Watching Over Me by Michael Phillips (The South in the 1850s)
• Waltz into Darkness by William Irish (New Orleans in 1880)
• 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)
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (Japanese-Americans during World War II)
• A Greater Glory by James Scott Bell (early 1900s in Los Angeles)
• Oscar Wilde Discovers America by Louis Edwards (Oscar Wilde tours the United States)
• The Battle of Milroy Station by Robert Fowler (Civil War)
• Property by Valerie Martin (slave rebellion)
• Daughter of the Loom by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller (19th century Lowell, Massachusetts)
• Into the Valley: The Settlers by Rosanne Bittner (Revolutionary War)
• More than a Dream by Lauraine Snelling (Scandinavian immigrants in 1897 Minnesota)
• Fanny and Sue by Karen Stolz (St. Louis during the Great Depression)
• White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke (Civil War)
• The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini (the Underground Railroad)
• The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough (female animal trainer in Barnum & Bailey circus during 1930s)
• Unholy Fire by Robert Mrazek (Civil War)
• Blood and Bitter Wind by Earl Murray (California gold rush)
• Home to Trinity by Delia Parr (1830s Pennsylvania)
• Hope by Mary Ryan (Colorado gold rush)
• Sweet Sunday by John Lawton (1960s New York)
• Julian (ISBN 037572706X), Burr (ISBN 0375708731), 1876 (ISBN 0375708723), and Lincoln (ISBN 0375708766) by Gore Vidal
• Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks (Abolitionist John Brown - Pre Civil War America).

Vietnam

• The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen

See also

• Historical novels