The Alienist
War:
Caleb Carr
Captain Alatriste
The Angel of Darkness
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Caleb Carr
Gone With the Wind
1900s and 2000s:
Teito Monogatari
Takeshi Haba
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Snow Falling On Cedars
David Guterson
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Water For Elephants
Sara Gruen
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
Margaret Mitchell
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
Kurt Vonnegut
Sharpe
Bernard Cornwell
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
The Corps
WEB Griffin
Horatio Hornblower
C.S. Forester
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
Tales of the Otori
Lian Hearn
King Rat
China Mieville
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Historical Fiction 7/11 JE
100
All-Time Best
Historical Fiction
Books
Ancient & Prehistoric:
Medieval & Middle Ages:
The Penelopaid
The Deryni Novels
Margaret Atwood
Katherine Kurtz
Death Comes as the End
The Mists of Avalon
Agatha Christie
Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Clan of the Cave Bear:
Jean Auel
1000s to 1400s:
Centennial
The Physician
James Michener
Noah Gordon
The Secret Magdalene
Ivanhoe
Ki Longfellow
Sir Walter Scott
The Red Tent
Pope Joan
Anita Diamant
Donna Cross
Earth’s Children
The Pillars of the Earth
Jean Auel
Ken Follet
London
The Journeyer
Edward Rutherfurd
Gary Jennings
Sarum: The Novel of England
Edward Rutherfurd
The Name of the Rose
The Bull from the Sea
Mary Renault
Pharaoh
Valerio Manifredi
The Egyptian
Mika Wiltari
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
The First Man in Rome
Colleen McCullough
Masters of Rome
Colleen McCullough
Umberto Eco
Katherine
Anya Seton
The Sunne in Splendor
Sharon Kay Penman
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Irving Stone
Tudor:
1700s and 1800s:
The Constant Princess
Philippa Gregory
The Queen’s Fool
Philippa Gregory
The Boleyn Inheritance
Philippa Gregory
The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory
Rob Roy
Sir Walter Scott
Roots
Alex Haley
Outlander
Diana Galbadon
The Talisman Ring
Georgette Heyer
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other
Stories
Susanna Clark
Arthur and George
Julian Barnes
Henry Paget Flashman
George McDonald Fraser
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Susanna Clark
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronté
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
The Last Empress
Anchee Min
City of Glory
Beverly Swerling
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
One Thousand White Women
Jim Fergus
1500s and 1600s:
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier
The Last Light of the Sun
Gay Gavriel Kay
The Drawing of the Dark
Tim Powers
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Forever Amber
Kathleen Windsor
Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks
Shadows on the Rock
Willa Cather
City of Dreams
Beverly Swerling
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
Princess Monoke
Hayao Miyazaki
American Frontier:
The Historian
Mr. Tucket
Gary Paulsen
My Antonia
Willa Cather
Conceit
Mary Novik
Elizabeth Kostova