List of historical novels
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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
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