List of historical novels

Historical novels are listed by the country in which the majority of the novel takes place.

Afghanistan

• The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini (from Russian invasion to rise and fall of Taliban)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
• Caravans by James Michener (Perspective of a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in the 1940s)

Argentina

• On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato (19th century, during the Civil War)
• The Saga of the Marrano by Marcos Aguinis (17th century)
• Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo F. Sarmiento (19th century)
• La logia de Cádiz by Jorge Fernández Diaz (19th century, Life of San Martín)
• Me llaman Artemio Furia by Florencia Bonelli (19th century)
• Peron's novel by Tomás Eloy Martínez (20th century)
• Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez (20th century)
• El combate perpetuo by Marcos Aguinis (19th century, Almirante Brown)
• La fragata Proserpina and El queche Hiena by Luis Delgado Bañón (19th century)

Australia

• Botany Bay by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall (colonization of Australia, 18th century)
• Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (end of 19th century)
• Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough (end of 18th century)
• The Switherby Pilgrims by Eleanor Spence (settlers in 1820s New South Wales)
• The Playmaker and Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally (18th 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)
• Office of Innocence by Thomas Keneally (during World War II)
• Hannah by Raymond W Clarke (Australian colonial history early 19th century)

Belgium

• De Leeuw van Vlaanderen by Hendrik Conscience (Flemish freedom battle of 1302)
• The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak by Charles De Coster (adventures of a Flemish prankster during the Reformation wars in the Netherlands)
• Het verdriet van België by Hugo Claus (WW II and after)

Brazil

• Alfarrábios by José de Alencar (Colonial Brazil)
• Iracema by José de Alencar (legend from Ceara, 16th century)
• The Guarani by José de Alencar (Brazil, 16th century)
• Guerra dos Mascates by José de Alencar (Olinda x Recife, 1710–1712)
• As Minas de Prata by José de Alencar (Minas Gerais, 18th century)
• O Tempo e o Vento by Érico Veríssimo (from the late 18th century to 1945)
• Os Sertões by Euclides da Cunha (Canudos Campaign, 19th century)

Canada

• Let Loose the Dogs by Maureen Jennings (19th century Toronto)
• Journey by James A. Michener
• Vancouver by David Cruise and Alison Griffiths (Vancouver area)
• The Long Traverse by John Buchan
• Three to a Loaf by Michael Goodspeed (The Great War)
• The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe (19th century western Canada)

Caribbean (multiple countries)

• Unburnable by Marie-Elena John (the African origins of Caribbean culture and the original inhabitants of the Caribbean, the Kalinago (Carib Indians)).
• Caribbean by James A. Michener
• Walls of Phantoms by Courtney M Thomas (St Vincent and the Grenadines (Africans, Carib Indians), Trinidad & Tobago (Africans, East Indians))

China

• The Chinese Lake Murders and other Judge Dee mysteries 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)
• 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)
• "Dragon Seed" by Pearl Buck (Life of Chinese peasant family during Second Sino-Japanese War)
• 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)
• The Journeyer by Gary Jennings (Kubilai Khan)
• Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom by Li Bo (aka Steven Leibo) (19th century Sino-Western Relations and the Taiping Rebellion)
• Peking: A Novel of Chinas Revolution 1921-1978 by Anthony Grey (Long March & Cultural Revolution)
• The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin (18th century)
• La mujer en la muralla by Alberto Laiseca (Qin Shi Huang)

Colombia

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Czech Republic

• The Memoirs of a Prague Executioner by Josef Svátek (Religious conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in the 17th century Prague, Bohemia; medieval justice)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (The Prague Spring of 1968)

Denmark

• The Lost Ones by Norah Lofts (Queen Caroline Matilda, 18th century)

Dominica

• Unburnable by Marie-Elena John
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (19th century)

Dominican Republic

• In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (rebellion against Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, mid-20th century)
• The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (Assassination of Trujillo and its aftermath, early 1960s)

Egypt

• The Absurdity of Fates by Naguib Mahfouz 1939 عبث الأقدار
• Radopis by Naguib Mahfouz 1943 رادوبيس
• The Struggle of Thebes by Naguib Mahfouz 1944 كفاح طيبة
• The Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz 1985 العائش فى الحقيقة (the Pharaoh Akhenaten)
• Cheops by Paul West (26th century BC)
• 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)
• Nefertiti: A Novel by Michelle Moran (Queen Nefertiti)
• The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (reign of Cleopatra VII)
• River God by Wilbur Smith
• Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf (15th and 16th century)
• No digas que fue un sueño by Terenci Moix (reign of Cleopatra VII)
• El Ladrón de Tumbas by Antonio Cabanas
• Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge (reign of Hatshepsut)
• Scroll of Saqqara by Pauline Gedge
• La boca del Nilo by León Arsenal

Finland

• The Adventurer by Mika Waltari (16th century)
• Purge by Sofi Oksanen (20th century)

France

• The Jester by James Patterson (11th century)
• The Accursed King series (Les Rois Maudits) by Maurice Druon (13th-14th century)
• Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott (Louis XI - 15th century)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (15th century)
• The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracey Chevalier (during the Renaissance)
• The King's Cavalier by Samuel Shellabarger (16th century)
• Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas, père (16th century)
• The Virgin Blue by Tracey Chevalier (during the religious wars)
• The Angélique series by Anne & Serge Golon (Mid-17th century France during Louis XIV)
• The d'Artagnan romances, including the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père (17th century)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (French Revolution)
• Desirée by Annemarie Selinko (about Désirée Clary, time of Napoleon and after)
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (19th century)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père (19th century)
• The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen (exile of Napoléon)
• La Plevitskaya by Ally Hauptmann-Gurski (about Nadezhda Plevitskaya, – A Gypsy Singer in Tsarist Russia and in Exile (Paris 1920s, 30s) )
• The Book of Kings by James Thackara (World War II)

Germany

• Lichtenstein by Wilhelm Hauff (16th century)
• Ekkehard by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (10th century)
• The Warwolf (Der Wehrwolf) by Hermann Löns (Thirty Years' War)
• The Jew Suess (Jud Süss) by Lion Feuchtwanger (18th century, Joseph Oppenheimer)
• Vor dem Sturm by Theodor Fontane (19th century)
• Medea (Medea: Stimmen) by Christa Wolf
• Life on Both Sides of the Wall by Gunther F. Skaletz
• Perfume (Das Parfum) by Patrick Süskind (18th century)
• The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler (set in Berlin in the 1930s and involving the Nazi war on disabled persons)
• Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist by Russell McCormmach (German physicist during the early 20th century)
• Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (19th century)
• El taller de los libros prohibidos by Eduardo Roca (Printing press origins)

Greece

• Hades' Daughter by Sara Douglass (classical antiquity)
• Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War by Steven Pressfield
• Pericles the Athenian by Rex Warner
• The Palaeologian Dynasty. The Rise and Fall of Byzantium by George Leonardos
• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (the Battle of Thermopylae)
• Middlesex 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)
• The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault (Athens in the time of Socrates)
• The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault (Greek theatre, 4th century BC)
• The Athenian Murders (La caverna de las ideas) by Jose Carlos Somoza (classical antiquity)
• Alexandros by Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Alexander the Great)

1. Child of a Dream
2. The Sands of Ammon
3. The Ends of the Earth

• The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield (the life of Alexander the Great)
• Lion Of Macedon by David Gemmell(Alexander's general Parmenion)
• Dark Prince by David Gemmell (sequel to Lion of Macedon)
• Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy by Mary Renault (Alexander the Great)
• Funeral Games by Mary Renault (the successors of Alexander)
• Voice of the Goddess by Judith Hand (set in Crete in the Bronze Age)
• Elephants and Castles by Alfred Duggan,1963 (Demetrius I of Macedon)
• Goat Song by Frank Yerby, 1967 (set during the Peloponnesian War)
• Salamina by Javier Negrete, (Second Persian invasion of Greece, Themistocles)
• La joven de Esparta by Cristina Rodriguez
• El agua y la tierra by Julio Murillo

Greenland

• The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley

Hungary

• Prague by Arthur Phillips (set in 1990s)
• Egri csillagok (Eclipse of the Crescent Moon) by Géza Gárdonyi, translated, and with an introduction by George F. Cushing (Siege of Eger by the Ottomans, 1552)

India

• Ghare Baire (The Home and the World) by Rabindranath Tagore
• Volga se Ganga by Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan
• Shahzada Dara Shikoh: A Bi-Volume Novel by Shyamal Gangopadhyaya based on the facts about Mughal ruler Shah Jahan and his sons.
• Kaaler Mondira, Goud Mallar, Tumi Shondhyar Megh, KumarShambhawber Kobi, Tungobhadrar Teeray by Sharodindu Bandopadhyay
• Rajshingho, Anondo Mawth (Anandamath) 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 Thirunagar by Akilan (1960s)
• Garam Hawa by Ismat Chughtai
• A Spoke in the Wheel by Amita Kanekar
• Aag ka Darya or River of Fire an Urdu novel by Qurratulain Hyder.
• Kai Chand thay Sar-e-Aasman or Many a moon were there in the Sky an Urdu novel by Shams-ur-Rehman Faruqi
• Marthandavarma (1891), Dharma Raja (1911), Rama Raja Bahadur by C V Raman Pillai
• Recalcitrance by Anurag Kumar
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• Guardian of the Dawn by Richard Zimler (set in 17th-century Goa)
• The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple (historian)
• White Mughals by William Dalrymple (historian)

Ireland

• Bending The Boyne by J.S. Dunn (Eire at 2200 BCE)
• 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: The Dublin Saga and The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Sagaby Edward Rutherfurd
• Troubles by James Gordon Farrell (Irish War of Independence)
• A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle (Irish Revolution)
• The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan (1798)
• Sister Fidelma series by Peter Tremayne (7th century)
• Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llewellyn (High King Brian Boru, 10th century)

Israel

• David: The Warrior King by David J. Ferreira (A novel of King David)
• Day of War by Cliff Graham (A 5-book Series of King David)
• Michal by Jill Eileen Smith (A 3-book Series of King David)
• Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel (1970s)
• Exodus by Leon Uris
• The Haj by Leon Uris

• The Settlers by Meyer Levin

• The Source by James A. Michener
• Abraham and Sarah by Roberta Dorr
• Barabbas: Felon/Friend by Marvin Harris
• Bathsheba: The Love Story that Changed History by Roberta Dorr
• Beloved Rabbi by Michele Torrey
• Beyond the Road to Damascus by Ferrel Glade Roundy
• Joseph by James R. Shott
• Leah by James R. Shott
• Mary, Handmaiden of the Lord by Virginia N. Wilson
• Solomon's Song by Roberta Dorr
• Son of Laughter by Frederick Buechner
• Stone Tables by Orson Scott Card
• The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho
• The Holy Embrace by Mario Brelich
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Silas Diary by Gene Edwards
• The Timothy Diary by Gene Edwards
• The Titus Diary by Gene Edwards
• The Weeping Chamber by Sigmund Brouwer
• Unashamed by Francine Rivers
• Unshaken by Francine Rivers
• Unveiled by Francine Rivers
• The Shepherd of Bethlehem by A.L.O.E.
• Journey (Legacies of the Ancient River) by Angela Elwell Hunt
• Jerusalem the City of God by Ellen Gunderson Traylor
• Melchizedek by Ellen Gunderson Traylor
• Ruth by Ellen Gunderson Traylor
• Pontius Pilate: A Novel by Paul L. Maier
• The Olive Tree by Cheryl Thomas
• Pearl in the Sand by Tessa Afshar
• Michal by Jill Eileen Smith
• Abigail by Jill Eileen Smith
• The Prince: Jonathan by Francine Rivers
• The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
• Prophet of Israel by Timothy S. Wilkinson
• Judge of Israel by Timothy S. Wilkinson
• Holy Warrior by Angus Donald, the second novel in the Outlaw Chronicles (12th century)

Italy

• A Struggle for Rome (Ein Kampf um Rom) by Felix Dahn (Gothic War (535-554))
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (14th century)
• Lucrezia Borgia by John Faunce (biographical novel, Renaissance)
• The Family by Mario Puzo (Renaissance)
• Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger (Renaissance)
• Romola by George Eliot (Renaissance)
• Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment (16th and 17th century)
• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (17th century)
• The Castrato by Louis Goldman (18th century)
• A Kiss from Maddalena by Christopher Castellani (World War II)
• A Tabernacle for the Sun by Linda Proud (Florence, 1470s)
• Pallas and the Centaur by Linda Proud (Florence, 1480s)
• The Rebirth of Venus by Linda Proud (Florence, 1490s)
• Silk by Alessandro Baricco (1860s)
• Raptor by Gary Jennings
• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (Florence, Savonarola period)
• Soportal de los malos pensamientos by Juan Antonio de Blas (Spanish conspiration against Venice known in Italy as 'Congiura di Bedmar' and in Spain as 'La conjuración de Venecia')

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)
• The Tale of the Heike (12th century)
• Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa (Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 16th century)
• Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa (Miyamoto Musashi, 17th century)
• Shōgun, Gai-Jin & King Rat by James Clavell
• Silence by Shusaku Endo
• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 11th century

Korea

• Eternal Empire and Scent of the Plain by Ihn Wha Lee

Mexico

• Mexico by James A. Michener
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• El navío Asia by Luis Delgado Bañón (19th century)

Netherlands

• The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade (15th century)
• 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)
• Love and Hate by J. B. Williams (20th century - aftermath of WWII)
• The Dykebreak by J. B. Williams (20th century - WWII and 1953 Floods)

New Zealand

• Season of the Jew by Maurice Shadbolt

Norway

• Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (14th century)
• The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset (14th century)

Pakistan

• Peer e Kamil by Umera Ahmed
• Khaak aur Khoon by Naseem Hijazi
• Shaheen by Naseem Hijazi
• Akhri Chatan by Naseem Hijazi (about Sultan Jalal Al-Din and Genghis Khan)
• 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 (about Muhammad bin Qasim)
• Qafla-e-Hijaz by Naseem Hijazi
• Qaisar-o-Kisra by Naseem Hijazi
• Revenge of Cain (The Hidden Face of Bible) by A.Z Malik
• Aurat ka Muqadma (Islam ki Adaalat main) by A.Z Malik
• Punjab ke Jaaton ki Tareekh by A.Z Malik
• Punjab ke Mughal Qabael (Tareekh ke Ainay main) by A.Z Malik
• Bhatti aur Butt by A.Z Malik
• Chah-e-Babal by Qamar Ajnalvi
• Sultan by Qamar Ajnalvi
• Mere Kahani by Ali Saeed
• Shahab Nama by Qudratullah Shahab
• Ghulam bagh by Mirza Ather Baig
• Udaas Naslen by Abdullah Husain
• Nasl-e-Sokhta by K Ashraf

Palestine

• The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott (12th century, Third Crusade)
• El asombroso viaje de Pomponio Flato by Eduardo Mendoza

Panama

• Con Ardientes Fulgores de Gloria by Jorge Thomas
• Desertores by Ramon H. Jurado

Philippines

• Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal (early 1880s Philippines, under Spanish colonial rule)
• El filibusterismo by Jose Rizal (set 13 years after the events of Noli Me Tangere)
• The Woman Who had Two Navels by Nick Joaquin
• Po-on by F. Sionil José (Set in the late 19th century.)

Portugal

• The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler (a mystical mystery set in early 16th-century Lisbon, with the Lisbon Massacre of 1506 in the background)
• Hunting Midnight by Richard Zimler (set in 19th-century Porto and Charleston, South Carolina)

Pre-Columbian Civilizations

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)
• Aztec Rage by Gary Jennings, Robert Gleason, and Junius Podrug
• The Luck of Huemac by Daniel Peters
• Tlaloc Weeps For Mexico by László Passuth (translated from Hungarian)
• Dobyvatel (The Conqueror) by Ivan Olbracht (Cortez´s campaign)

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

Mayan Empire

• Tikal by Daniel Peters
• Caminarás con el Sol by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta (Gonzalo Guerrero)

Poland

• An Ancient Tale (Stara Baśń) by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
• Love Never Dies by Geoffrey Zimmerman
• The Deluge by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Pan Wołodyjowski by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Krzyzacy (The Teutonic Knights) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• The Stars Can Wait by Jay Basu (World War II)
• Poland by James A. Michener
• The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler (set in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940-41)

Roman Republic & Empire

Main article: Fiction set in ancient Rome

• The Secret of the Kingdom and The Roman by Mika Waltari
• The Sword of Pleasure by Peter Green (Sulla, 1st century BC)
• The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough (1st century BC)
• Young Caesar and Imperial Caesar by Rex Warner (Julius Caesar, 1st century BC)
• 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)
• Marius' Mules series by S.J.A.Turney (Julius Caesar's invasion of Gaul)
• Legionary series by Gordon Doherty set in the Late Roman Empire: Legionary, Legionary: Viper of the North
• Strategos series by Gordon Doherty set in the Manzikert-era Byzantium
• The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder (Last days of Julius Caesar)
• Caesar, Anthony, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Nero's Heirs by Allan Massie
• King Jesus by Robert Graves
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
• The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
• Judas, My Brother: The Story of the Thirteenth Disciple by Frank Yerby
• A Song for Nero by Thomas Holt (1st century)
• Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Christians under Nero)
• El lazo de púrpura by Alejandro Núñez Alonso (Tiberius period)
• The Roman Mysteries, a series of children's books by Caroline Lawrence(1st century)
• I, Claudius and Claudius, the God by Robert Graves (Roman emperors, 1st century)
• Julian by Gore Vidal (Julian the Apostate, 4th century)
• Founding Fathers by Alfred Duggan (Romulus and the founding of Rome)
• Winter Quarters by Alfred Duggan (Crassus' Parthian expedition)
• Three's Company by Alfred Duggan (The Triumvir Lepidus)
• Family Favourites by Alfred Duggan (Emperor Elagabalus, 3rd century)
• The Little Emperors by Alfred Duggan (Late-Roman Britain)
• I am a Barbarian by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Describes the life of Caligula as seen through the eyes of his slave.)
• Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem (Magnus Maximus, 4th century)
• The Legate's Daughter by Wallace Breem, 1975 (North Africa, Early Empire)
• The Darkness And The Dawn by Thomas B. Costain (barbarian invasions)
• Count Belisarius by Robert Graves (the Byzantine general Belisarius, 6th century)
• Africanus, el hijo del cónsul, Las legiones malditas, La traición de Roma by Santiago Posteguillo (the Punic Wars general Publius Cornelius Scipio)
• Los asesinos del emperador by Santiago Posteguillo (Trajan life, Domitian death)
• Roma sub rosa series by Steven Saylor (fictitious detective interacting with Cicero and other historical characters, 1st century BC)
• Last of the Ninth by Stephen Lorne Bennett (Decimus Malorix seeks the survivors of a haunted legion during the Parthian War of Marcus Aurelius, 160s AD)link
• The Female by Paul I. Wellman (Life of Justinian's wife, the sixth century Byzantine Empress Theodora, concluding with the Nika riots)
• Las Puertas de Seda by Olalla García (east empire at Valens death time, Persian Sassanid Empire under Shapur II)

Russia

• Batu-Khan by V. H. Yanchevskyy (the Mongol invasion of medieval Russia and Ukraine)
• The Sons of the Steppe by Hans Baumann (Genghis Khan)
• Chas volka by Sergey Kalitin (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)
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Napoleonic era)
• The Retreat by Patrick Rambaud (Napoléon's invasion)
• Twelve by Jasper Kent (historical fantasy during the French invasion)
• Thirteen Years Later by Jasper Kent (historical fantasy concerning the Decembrist Uprising of 1825)
• La Plevitskaya by Ally Hauptmann-Gurski (the story of Nadezhda Plevitskaya who was a Gypsy singer in Tsarist Russia and in exile in Paris)
• The White Nights of St. Petersburg by Geoffrey Trease (Russian Revolution)
• The White Russian by Tom Bradby (1917 St. Petersburg)
• Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick (Russian Revolution)
• The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander (Bolshevik revolution, seen through the eyes of the Tsar’s kitchen boy)
• The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov (Russian Civil War)

Serbia

• The Golden Fleece by Borislav Pekic (His 7 volume masterpiece, "The Golden Fleece"; a family saga through which European History is uniquely examined from its birth in Homeric Greece right up to Hitler's Third Reich.)
• Time of Miracles by Borislav Pekic (The story of Jesus is rewritten from the perspective of Judas - who is obsessed with the idea prophecy must be fulfilled - and from that of the individuals upon whom miracles were performed.)
• How to Quite a Vampire by Borislav Pekic (The novel follows Konrad Rutkowski-professor of medieval history and former Gestapo officer-as he returns to the scene of his war crimes determined to renounce, or perhaps justify, his Nazi past. In a series of letters to a brother-in-law, Rutkowski lays out his ambivalent reactions to war and unthinkable violence, connecting his own swirling ideas to those of some of the major figures of European thought: Plato, St. Augustine, Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, and others.)

South Africa

• The Covenant by James A. Michener (from prehistory onwards)
• King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard (19th century)
• The Turning Wheels by Stuart Cloete (Great Trek)
• Rags of Glory by Stuart Cloete (Boer War)
• Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido (1950s)
• Playing the enemy by John Carlin

Spain

Early history

• Nublares, El hijo de la garza and El último cazador by Antonio Pérez Henares (Paleolithic)
• El Último Soldurio by Javier Lorenzo (1st century BC)
• Viriato by João Aguiar (1st century BC, Viriathus)
• Numancia by José Luis Corral (1st century BC, Numantia)
• El hombre de la plata by León Arsenal (Tartessos)
• Rey Lobo by Juan Eslava Galán

Roman Spain

• Hay luz en casa de Publio Fama by Juan Miñana
• A Dying Light in Corduba by Lindsey Davis
• Sertorio by João Aguiar (Quintus Sertorius)

Visigothic Kingdom

• Sombras de mariposa by Guillermo Galván (Liuvigild, Visigothic Kingdom)

Medieval

• Tales of Count Lucanor by don Juan Manuel, príncipe de Villena (14th century)
• El olor de las especias by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta
• El mercenario de Granada by Juan Eslava Galán
• Los malos años by León Arsenal (14th century, Pedro I de Castilla and Blanca de Borbón)
• Tiempo de bastardos by Paula Cifuentes (14th century, Beatriz de Portugal)
• Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving (Emirato de Granada)
• Los cipreses de Córdoba by Yael Guiladi (Califato de Córdoba)
• Catalina de Lancaster by María Teresa Álvarez (14th century, Catalina de Lancaster)
• Le Testament de l'Omeyyade (El arquitecto de los cielos) by Jacques Cardona (Dinastía Omeya)
• El Doncel de don Enrique el Doliente by Mariano José de Larra (Enrique III de Castilla)

Spanish Golden Age

• El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (16th century)
• El prisionero de Argel by Antonio Cavanillas de Blas (life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
• La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
• Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous
• Life and facts of Estebanillo González, man of good humour Anonymous (17th century)
• El Buscón by Francisco de Quevedo
• By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan (15th century)
• The Ferdinand and Isabella Trilogy by Jean Plaidy (15th century)
• Adventures of Captain Alatriste series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

1. Captain Alatriste (El capitán Alatriste)
2. Purity of Blood (Limpieza de sangre)
3. The Sun over Breda (El sol de Breda)
4. The King's Gold (El oro del Rey)
5. The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet (El caballero del jubón amarillo)
6. Pirates of the Levant (Corsarios de Levante)
7. El puente de los asesinos

• Sobra un rey by José García Abad (15th century)
• El castellano de Flandes by Enrique Martínez Ruiz (16th century)
• The heretic. A Novel of the Inquisition by Miguel Delibes (16th century in Valladolid)
• Ladrones de tinta by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta (16th century)
• Martín Ojo de Plata series by Matilde Asensi (17th century)

1. Tierra firme
2. Venganza en Sevilla

• That Lady by Kate O'Brien (Ana de Mendoza, Princesa of Éboli)
• Rojo amanecer en Lepanto by Luis Zueco (life of Alejandro Farnesio y Habsburgo and Juan de Austria, Battle of Lepanto)
• Leonor de Habsburgo by Yolanda Scheuber (Leonor de Habsburgo)
• Decidnos ¿Quién mató al conde? by Néstor Luján (court of Philip IV of Spain, murder of Count of Villamediana)
• Capa y espada by Fernando Fernán Gómez (court of Philip IV of Spain, murder of Count of Villamediana)
• El caballero de Alcántara by Jesús Sánchez Adalid
• El comedido hidalgo by Juan Eslava Galán

Exploration and conquest

• The Heart of Jade (El Corazón de piedra verde) by Salvador de Madariaga
• Los navegantes by Edward Rosset (Fernando de Magallanes, Juan Sebastián Elcano, Andrés de Urdaneta, Miguel López de Legazpi)
• La aventura equinocial de Lope de Aguirre by Ramón José Sender Garcés (16th century, conqueror Lope de Aguirre)
• The Islands of Unwisdom by Robert Graves (Álvaro de Mendaña)
• La ruta de las tormentas by Paula Cifuentes (Fourth voyage of Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Columbus)
• Tlaloc Weeps for Mexico (Esőisten siratja Mexikót) by László Passuth (Hernán Cortés Conquest of Mexico)
• Malinche by Laura Esquivel(La Malinche)

18th Century

• El día que España derrotó a Inglaterra. De cómo Blas de Lezo, tuerto, manco y cojo, venció en Cartagena de Indias a la otra «Armada Invencible» by Pablo Victoria (Blas de Lezo, Battle of Cartagena de Indias)
• Mediohombre by Alber Vázquez (Blas de Lezo, Battle of Cartagena de Indias)

19th Century

• National Episodes by Benito Pérez Galdós (19th century)
• La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas "Clarín" (19th century)
• Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós (19th century)
• El navío Príncipe de Asturias, Trafalgar by Luis Delgado Bañon (19th century) is the 9th book of Una saga marinera española
• La artillera by Ángeles de Irisarri (Siege of Saragossa (1808))
• Un día de cólera by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Dos de Mayo Uprising)
• El húsar by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Napoleonic age)
• La sombra del águila by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Napoleonic age)

Twentieth Century

• Iberia by James A Michener (20th century)
• Inés y la alegría by Almudena Grandes
• Riña de gatos. Madrid 1936 by Eduardo Mendoza
• Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom

Sweden

• The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson (Vikings, 10th century)
• The Emigrants (novel) by Vilhelm Moberg (middle of 19th century)

Switzerland

• Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott (15th century)
• Die Schwarzen Brüder by Kurt Held

Tibet

• Blue Poppies by Jonathan Falla (during Chinese invasion)
• Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet" by Alai (Life of Tibetan warlord during Chinese Invasion)

Turkey

• The Amazon and the Warrior by Judith Hand (Bronze Age, Trojan War)

Ukraine

• Wounder, Roksolana by Pawlo Zagrebelny(Ukraine, IXth century; Ukraine-Osman empire)
• Black council by Panteleimon Kulish
• The crush by Mychailo Starytskiy
• The funeral of Gods by I. Bilyk
• Russka by Edward Rutherfurd

United Kingdom

Earliest history

• The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter (Orkney in the 1st century BC)

Roman Britain

• Under the Eagle and others in the Cato series by Simon Scarrow (Roman invasion, AD 42)
• The Silver Pigs, A Body in the Bath House and The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis (crime in the reign of Vespasian, 1st century AD)
• Boudica series by Manda Scott (Boudica, 1st century AD)
• The Horse Coin by David Wishart (Boudica, 1st century AD)
• Beric the Briton, A Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. Henty (Boudica, 1st century AD)
• The Mistletoe and the Sword by Anya Seton (1st century AD)
• Imperial Governor by George Shipway (Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and Boudica, 1st century AD)
• The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (2nd century AD)
• The Germanicus Mosaic and other Libertus mysteries by Rosemary Rowe (2nd century AD)
• Island of Ghosts by Gillian Bradshaw (2nd century AD)
• The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff (3rd century AD)
• The Forest House, and others in the series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Medicus, and others in the series by Ruth Downie
• The Eagle and the Raven, by Pauline Gedge

Medieval

• The Saxon Shore by Jack Whyte (Arthurian, set in the 6th or 7th century)
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Arthurian)
• Grail Prince by Nancy McKenzie (Galahad)
• The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell (Alfred the Great, 9th century)
• The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer (William the Conqueror, 11th century)
• Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley (Norman Conquest)
• King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett (11th century Scotland)
• The Third Witch by Rebecca Reisert (11th century Scotland)
• The Gift & the Promise by Sarah Pernell (11th centuary)
• A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters (First in the Brother Cadfael series set in the reign of King Stephen)
• Outlaw by Angus Donald, the first novel in the Outlaw Chronicles (12th century)
• King's Man by Angus Donald, the third in the above series (12th century)
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (12th century)
• Kay the Left-Handed by Leslie Barringer (12th century))
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (12th century)
• The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott (14th century Scotland)
• The Grail Quest by Bernard Cornwell (Hundred Year's War, 14th century)
• Katherine by Anya Seton (Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, 14th century)
• Queen in Waiting by Norah Lofts (Eleanor of Aquitaine)
• The Wallace, one of over fifty novels based on events and people of the Middle Ages by Scottish author Nigel Tranter
• World Without End by Ken Follett (14th century)
• Know Ye Not Agincourt? by Leslie Barringer (15th century)

Early Modern

• The House of Niccolò and Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett (Scotland and beyond in the 15th and 16th centuries respectively)
• The Load of Unicorn by Cynthia Harnett (Caxton, 15th century London)
• A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith (Wars of the Roses)
• The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman (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)
• Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott (Queen Elizabeth I and Amy Robsart)
• Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease (English Renaissance theatre/Elizabethan Cumberland and London)
• Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson (Elizabethan persecution of Catholics)
• The Voyage Destiny by Robert Nye (about Sir Walter Raleigh)
• Conceit by Mary Novik (about John Donne, 17th century)
• As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann (English Civil War)
• Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott (English Civil War)
• Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott (English Civil War)
• The Green and the Gold by Christopher Peachment (17th century)
• A Tale of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott (17th Century Scottish Rebellion)
• 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)
• Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer (Cromwell and Charles II)
• The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (The English Civil War, the rule of Charles II, the early 18th century)

Hanoverian

• The Serpent in the Garden by Janet Gleeson (18th century London)
• Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott (1715 Jacobite Rising)
• Waverley by Sir Walter Scott (1745 Jacobite Rising)
• Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott (Jacobites in Dumfries, 1760s)
• Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty by Charles Dickens (Gordon Riots)
• 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)
• Ramage series by Dudley Pope (British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars)
• Bolitho Novels by Alexander Kent (British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars)
• Revolution series by Simon Scarrow (Wellington and Napoleon)
• Judith by Brian Cleeve (Set at the turn of the 19th century)
• Regency romances by Georgette Heyer (mostly comic love stories loosely modeled on the works of Jane Austen)
• Thomas Kydd Series by Julian Stockwin, set during the French and Napoleonic Wars
• The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig (set during Napoleonic rule of France, partially historical novel about English spies and romance)

Victorian

• The Fiend in Human by John MacLachlan Gray (1850s London)
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (1860s London and elsewhere)
• The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser (Victorian era)
• Laura Blundy by Julie Myerson (Victorian London)

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)

Multiple time frames

• Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd — Tells the story of England through the eyes of six families in the Salisbury area, stretching from Prehistoric Britain through the 1980s

United States (including areas that become part of the US)

• Alaska by James A. Michener (Alaska)
• Centennial by James A. Michener (Colorado)
• Chesapeake by James A. Michener (Chesapeake Bay/Delmarva Peninsula)
• Hawaii by James A. Michener (Hawaiʻi)
• Texas by James A. Michener (Texas)

Colonial

• Great Smith by Edison Marshall (Captain John Smith and the colonization of America)
• The Reenactment by Marc McKeel. (James River massacres, Virginia, 1622)
• City in the Dawn by Hervey Allen. Four works in a series about a frontiersman in 1750s
• Next to Valour by John Edward Jennings (French and Indian War)
• Richard Carvel by Winston Churchill (Maryland and the American Revolution)
• Arundel followed by Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Roberts (American Revolution)
• The Hornet's Nest by Jimmy Carter (American Revolution)
• Into the Valley: The Settlers by Rosanne Bittner (Revolutionary War)
• 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)
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Boston in the 1770s)
• The Way It Was by Gerard Mac (American War of Independence)
• Resiste Tucson by Alber Vázquez (Spanish wars against Apaches)
• Los acasos by Javier Pascual (Spanish wars against Apaches)
• La fragata Princesa by Luis Delgado Bañón (Discovering of Nootka Island)

Nineteenth Century

• Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia by Jessica James (American Civil War)
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (American Civil War)
• Angels Watching Over Me by Michael Phillips (The South in the 1850s)
• The Battle of Milroy Station by Robert Fowler (Civil War)
• Blood and Bitter Wind by Earl Murray (California gold rush)
• Bucking the Tiger; Raising Holy Hell by Bruce Olds (Western Frontier/Doc Holliday; American Civil War/John Brown)
• Centennial by James A. Michener
• Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks (Abolitionist John Brown - Pre Civil War America).
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (American Civil War)
• Action at Aquila by Hervey Allen (American Civil War)
• Traveller by Richard Adams (American Civil War, told by Robert E. Lee's horse)
• Daughter of the Loom by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller (19th century Lowell, Massachusetts)
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• Dragonwyck by Anya Seton (The Patroon system, Anti-Rent Wars and the Astor Place Riots)
• Freedom Land by Martin Marcus (Seminole War)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (American Civil War and aftermath)
• Home to Trinity by Delia Parr (1830s Pennsylvania)
• Hope by Mary Ryan (Colorado gold rush)
• I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall (Lewis and Clark Expedition)
• In the Company of Angels by David Farland (Willie Handcart Company of 1856)
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (American Civil War)
• Burr, 1876 and Lincoln by Gore Vidal
• Lee and Grant at Appomattox by MacKinlay Kantor
• More than a Dream by Lauraine Snelling (Scandinavian immigrants in 1897 Minnesota)
• Mrs Keckly Sends Her Regards by Tim Jorgenson (American Civil War; Abraham Lincoln; Mary Todd Lincoln; Elizabeth Keckly)
• My Theodosia by Anya Seton (The life of Theodosia Burr Alston, her father Aaron Burr's Vice Presidency and his subsequent years)
• Oscar Wilde Discovers America by Louis Edwards (Oscar Wilde tours the United States)
• 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 Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini (the Underground Railroad)
• The Shield that Fell from Heaven by William S. Kerr (American Civil War)
• The Turquoise by Anya Seton (The Santa Fe Trail and New York society)
• 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)
• White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke (Civil War)
• Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell (Immigrants and the steel mills of Pittsburgh, from 1880)

Twentieth Century

• "The Hindenburg Letter" by Roger L. Conlee (a Hearst reporter infiltrates Nazi Germany)
• 1919 - Misfortune's End by Paula Phelan
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (American soldiers in World War II)
• Death of a Circus by Chandra Prasad (New England, Traveling Circus, roustabouts, fire eater, wirewalker, intrigue and poverty of 1930s)
• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (1893 Chicago Columbian World's Fair and HH Holmes serial killer)
• Drop City (novel) (60s counterculture: hippie commune moves from California to Alaska)
• 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)
• A Greater Glory by James Scott Bell (early 1900s in Los Angeles)
• Lucy by Ellen Feldman (1930s and 1940s)
• Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair (1913–1949)
• The Moments Lost by Bruce Olds (1900-15 Chicago/Unionism/Michigan Upper Peninsula Copper Mine Strike of 1913)
• Nevada by Clint McCullough (1920s to 1980s)
• A Place Called Rainwater by Dorothy Garlock (Oklahoma in the late 1920s)
• 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)
• Shadow Boxer by Eddie Muller (San Francisco late 1940s)
• Sweet Sunday by John Lawton (1960s New York)
• Two Trains Running by Andrew Vachss (Politics and organized crime in the Midwest influence the 1960 presidential election)
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (Japanese-Americans during World War II)
• The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani (Immigrants in 1950s Wilmington, DE)
• Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin (1984) (Canadians on road trip across America in the tracks of French exploration)
• Walls of Phantoms by Courtney Thomas (Boston, 1989)
• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (Centers on three families: Immigrant, African-American, and Anglo-Saxon at the turn of the century)

Vietnam

• The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen
• The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

Yemen

• The Hostage by Zaid M. Dammaj
• The Tragedy of Waq Al-Waq by Muhammad M. Al-Zubairi
• Wa Islamah by Ali Ahmed BaKatheer

See also

• Historical fiction
• Historical novel
• Novel
• Fiction set in ancient Rome
• Fiction set in ancient Greece