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 7 China 8 Denmark 9 Dominica 10 Dominican Republic 11 Egypt 12 Finland 13 France 14 Germany 15 Greece 16 Hungary 17 India 18 Ireland 19 Israel 20 Italy 21 Japan 22 Mexico 23 Netherlands 24 New Zealand 25 Norway 26 Pakistan 27 Philippines 28 Pre-Colombian civilisations 28.1 Aztec Empire 28.2 Inca Empire 28.3 Mayan Empire 29 Poland 30 Panama 31 Roman Empire 32 Russia 33 South Africa 34 Spain 35 Sweden 36 Tibet 37 United Kingdom 37.1 Medieval 37.2 Early Modern 37.3 Victorian 37.4 Twentieth Century 38 United States 39 Vietnam 40 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

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

[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

• O Tempo e o Vento by Érico Veríssimo (Empire to the end of Eric Veríssimo)
• 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 (Canada)

[edit] Caribbean

• Unburnable by Marie-Elena John - Focus on the African origins of Caribbean culture and includes the original inhabitants of the Caribbean, the Kalinago (Carib Indians).
• Caribbean (novel) by James A. Michener (Caribbean)

[edit] China

• The Chinese Lake Murders 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)
• The 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)

[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

[edit] Dominican Republic

• The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (1960s)
• In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (1994)

[edit] Egypt

Historical works by Naguib Mahfouz

• The Absurdity of Fates1939 عبث الأقدار
• Radopis1943 رادوبيس
• The Struggle of Thebes1944 كفاح طيبة
• The Dweller in Truth" 1985 العائش فى الحقيقة about the pharao Akhenaten.
• Cheops, by Paul West (ancient times)
• 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)

[edit] Finland

• The Adventurer by Mika Waltari (16th century)

[edit] France

• The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen (exile of Napoléon)
• The Jester by James Patterson (11th century)
• The Accursed King-series (Les Rois Maudits) by Maurice Druon (13th century)
• The King's Cavalier by Samuel Shellabarger (16th century)
• The Angélique-series by Anne & Serge Golon (Mid-17th century France during Louis XIV)
• Desirée by Annemarie Selinko (about Desirée Clary, time of Napoleon and after)
• 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)
• Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas, père (16th century)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père (19th century)
• The d'Artagnan romances, including the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père (17th century)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (15th century)
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (19th Century)
• The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracey Chevalier (during the Renaissance)
• The Virgin Blue by Tracey Chevalier (during the relgious wars)

[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 (30-years War)
• The Jew Suess (Jud Süss) by Lion Feuchtwanger (18th century, Joseph Oppenheimer)
• Vor dem Sturm by Theodor Fontane (19th century)
• Perfume (Das Parfum) by Patrick Süskind (18th century)

[edit] Greece

• Hades’ Daughter by Sara Douglass (set in 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 (about the Battle of Thermopylae)
• The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield (about the life of Alexander the Great)
• The Lion Of Macedon by David Gemmell
• Dark Prince by David Gemmell
• Alexandros by Valerio M. Manfredi
• Middlesex (novel) 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)

[edit] Hungary

• Prague by Arthur Phillips (set in 1990s)
• Gárdonyi, Géza 1863-1922. Uniform Title [ Egri csillagok. English]

Title Eclipse of the crescent moon / Géza Gárdonyi ; [translated, and with an introduction by George F. Cushing].

[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 thiru nagar by Akilan (1960s)
• Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins
• A Spoke in the Wheel by Amita Kanekar

[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 by Edward Rutherfurd.
• A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle (Irish Revolution).

[edit] Israel

• Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel (1970s)
• Exodus, The Haj, Mitla Pass by Leon Uris
• The Source by James A. Michener (Israel)

[edit] Italy

• Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment (16th and 17th century)
• Lucrezia Borgia by John Faunce (biographical novel; Renaissance)
• Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger (Renaissance)
• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• 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)
• Taiko, Heike tale, Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
• Shogun, Gai-Jin & King Rat by James Clavell.
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

[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
• 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
• 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 & El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal (Spanish Era)

[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)
• 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.
• 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 Empire

• Young Caesar and Imperial Caesar by Rex Warner (Julius Caesar)
• Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• The Secret of the Kingdom and The Roman by Mika Waltari
• 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).
• A Song for Nero by Thomas Holt (1st century)
• I, Claudius and Claudius, the God by Robert Graves
• Count Belisarius, by Robert Graves (about the Byzantine general Belisarius)
• King Jesus, by Robert Graves
• The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
• Judas, My Brother: The Story of the Thirteenth Disciple by Frank Yerby
• Caesar, Anthony, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Nero's Heirs by Allan Massie
• The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough
• Julian by Gore Vidal (ISBN 0-375-72706-X)
• The Darkness And The Dawn by Thomas B. Costain (barbarian invasions)

[edit] Russia

• War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy.
• 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).
• Batu-Khan by V. H. Yanchevskyy, about the Mongol invasion of medieval Russia and Ukraine.
• Chas volka by Sergei Kalitin, about 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.

[edit] South Africa

• Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido (1950s)
• The Covenant by James A. Michener

[edit] Spain

• The Ferdinand and Isabella Trilogy by Jean Plaidy
• Iberia by James A. Michener
• National Episodes by Benito Pérez Galdós

[edit] Sweden

• The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson (Vikings, 10th century)

[edit] Tibet

• Blue Poppies by Jonathan Falla (during Chinese invasion)

[edit] United Kingdom

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

[edit] Medieval

• The Grail Prince, by Nancy McKenzie (Galahad)
• Hereward the Wake, by Charles Kingsley (Norman Conquest)
• The Conqueror (novel), by Georgette Heyer (William the Conqueror, 11th 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)
• Scottish author Nigel Tranter wrote over fifty novels based on events and people of the Middle Ages.

[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 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)
• The Voyage Destiny by Robert Nye (about Sir Walter Raleigh)
• As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann (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)
• The Serpent in the Garden by Janet Gleeson (18th century London)
• Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer (Cromwell and Charles II)
• 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)
• Regency romances by Georgette Heyer (mostly comic love stories loosely modeled on the works of Jane Austen)
• The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson (The English Civil War, the rule of Charles II, the early 18th Century)

[edit] Victorian

• The Fiend in Human by John MacLachlan Gray (1850s London)
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Set in 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] United States

• 1919 - Misfortune's End by Paula Phelan
• Alaska by James A. Michener (Alaska)
• Angels Watching Over Me by Michael Phillips (The South in the 1850s)
• Arundel followed by Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Roberts (American Revolution)
• The Battle of Milroy Station by Robert Fowler (Civil War)
• Blood and Bitter Wind by Earl Murray (California gold rush)
• 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)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (American soldiers in World War II)
• Daughter of the Loom by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller (19th century Lowell, Massachusetts)
• Death of a Circus by Chandra Prasad (New England, Traveling Circus, rustabouts, fire eater, wirewalker, intrigue and poverty of 1930s) - ISBN 1-59709-024-7
• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (1893 Chicago Columbian Worlds Fair and HH Holmes serial killer)
• To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis and Clark by Frances Hunter - ISBN 0-9777636-2-5
• 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)
• Freedom Land by Martin Marcus (Seminole War)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (American Civil War and aftermath)
• A Greater Glory by James Scott Bell (early 1900s in Los Angeles)
• Hawaii by James A. Michener (Hawaii)
• Home to Trinity by Delia Parr (1830s Pennsylvania)
• Hope by Mary Ryan (Colorado gold rush)
• The Hornet's Nest, by Jimmy Carter (American Revolution)
• I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall (Lewis and Clark Expedition)
• Into the Valley: The Settlers by Rosanne Bittner (Revolutionary War)
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (American Civil War)
• Burr (ISBN 0-375-70873-1), 1876 (ISBN 0-375-70872-3), and Lincoln (ISBN 0-375-70876-6) by Gore Vidal
• Lucy, by Ellen Feldman (1930s and 1940s)
• 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)
• A Place Called Rainwater, by Dorothy Garlock (Oklahoma in the late 1920s)
• 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 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)
• The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini (the Underground Railroad)
• Shadow Boxer by Eddie Muller (San Francisco late 1940s)
• 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.)
• Sweet Sunday by John Lawton (1960s New York)
• Texas by James A. Michener (Texas)
• Two Trains Running by Andrew Vachss (Politics and organized crime in the Midwest influence the 1960 presidential election.)
• 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)
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (Japanese-Americans during World War II)
• White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke (Civil War)
• The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani (Immigrants in 1950s Wilmington, DE)

[edit] Vietnam

• The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen

[edit] See also

• Historical novel
• Novel