Historical Fiction

Try:
Carmen Boullosa ~ Cleopatra Dismounts
Agatha Christie ~ Death Comes as the End
P.C. Doherty ~ Amerotke series
Karen Essex ~ Kleopatra / Pharaoh
Colin Falconer ~ When We Were Gods
Pauline Gedge ~ Lords of the Two Lands series
Margaret George ~ The Memoirs of Cleopatra
Lauren Haney ~ Lt. Bak series
Cecelia Holland ~ Valley of the Kings
Angela Elwell Hunt ~ Dreamers / The Shadow Women
Christian Jacq
Lynda S. Robinson ~ Lord Mere series
Wilbur Smith ~ River God / Seventh Scroll / Warlock
Duncan Sprott ~ The House of Eagles / The Ptolemies
Judith Tarr ~ Lord of the two Lands / Throne of Isis / Pillar of Fire / Kings & Goddesses
Carol Thurston ~ The Eye of Horus
Mika Waltari ~ The Egyptian
Paul West ~ Cheops

Links:
Ancient Egypt in Fiction

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Ancient Greece

Try:
Gillian Bradshaw ~ The Sand-Reckoner
Daniel Chavarria ~ The Eye of Cybele
Elizabeth Cook ~ Achilles
Michael B. Edwards ~ Murder at the Panionic Games
Michael Curtis Ford ~ The Ten Thousand
Ellen Frye ~ The Other Sappho
Priscilla Galloway ~ The Courtesan's Daughter
Tom Holt ~ Goatsong
Homer ~ The Odyssey
Erica Jong ~ Sappho's Leap
Valerio Massimo Manfredi ~ Spartan
Steven Pressfield ~ Gates of Fire / Tides of War / The Last of the Amazons
Mary Renault
H.N. Turteltaub ~ The Gryphon's Skull / Over the Wine-dark Sea / The Sacred Land
Barry Unsworth ~ The Song of the Kings

Links
Ancient Greece in Fiction

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Ancient Rome

See Also Mysteries set in Ancient Rome

Try:
Gillian Bradshaw
Wallace Breem ~ Eagle in the Snow
Amanda Cockrell ~ The Legions of the Mist
David Anthony Durham ~ Pride of Carthage
Michael Curtis Ford ~ Gods and Legions / The Last King
Hella S. Haasse ~ Threshold of Fire
Robert Harris ~ Pompeii
Conn Iggulden ~ Emperor series
Patrick Larkin ~ The Tribune
Allan Massie ~ Augustus / The Evening of the World
Colleen McCullough
Peter W. Mitsopoulos ~ Centurion
Albert Noyer ~ The Saint's Day Deaths
Rosemary Rowe
Simon Scarrow
David Wishart



Links:
Fictional Rome

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Arthurian Tales

Try:
Marion Zimmer Bradley ~ Mists of Avalon series
Vera Chapman
Molly Cochran
Bernard Cornwell ~ Arthur series
Quinn Taylor Evans ~ Merlin's Legacy series
Stephen Lawhead ~ The Pendragon series
Rosalind Miles
Fred Saberhagen ~ Merlin's Bones
Bertrice Small ~ The Dragon Lord's Daughters
T.H. White
Jack Whyte

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French Revolution
(1789-18)

See Also The Napoleonic War

Try:
Susanne Alleyn ~ A Far Better Rest
Michelle De Kretser ~ The Rose Grower
Charles Dickens ~ A Tale of Two Cities
Daphne Du Maurier ~ The Glass Blowers
Rikki Ducornet ~ The Fan-maker's Inquisition
Anatole France ~ The Gods are Athirst
Sara George ~ The Beekeeper's Pupil
Victor Hugo ~ Les Miserables / Ninety-Three
Barrington King ~ A New World Won
Rosalind Laker ~ The Sugar Pavilion
Tanith Lee ~ The Gods are Thirsty
Hilary Mantel ~ A Place of Greater Safety
Emmuska Orczy ~ The Scarlet Pimpernel
Marge Piercy ~ City of Darkness, City of Light
Rafael Sabatini ~ Scaramouche
Frances Sherwood ~ Vindication
Chantal Thomas ~ Farewell, My Queen


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Middle Ages
(400-1400)

See Also Medieval Mysteries
See Also Medieval Romances

Try:
David Ball ~ Iron Fire
Margaret Ball ~ The Duchess of Aquitaine
Maria R. Bordihn ~ The Falcon of Palermo
Ann Benson ~ The Plague Tales / The Burning Road
Gillian Bradshaw ~ The Wolf Hunt
Elizabeth Chadwick
Evan S. Connell ~ Deus Lo Volt!
Bernard Cornwell ~ Grail Quest Series
Charmaine Craig ~ The Good Men
Umberto Eco ~ Baudolino / The Name of the Rose
Michael Alexander Eisner ~ The Crusader
Ken Follett ~ The Pillars of the Earth
Hella S. Haasse ~ In a Dark Wood Wandering
Cecelia Holland
Pamela Kaufman ~ The Book of Eleanor
Zoe Oldenbourg ~ Seigneur of Montgeil Series
Edith Pargeter ~ Heaven Tree Trilogy
James Patterson ~ The Jester
Sharon Kay Penman
Stephen J. Rivele ~ A Booke of Days
Sir Walter Scott ~ Ivanhoe
Anya Seton ~ Green Darkness / Katherine
Elsa Watson ~ Maid Marian


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Prehistoric

 

Try:
Margaret Allan ~ Mammoth Stone series
Piers Anthony ~ Geodyssey series
Jean M. Auel
Joseph Bruchac
Amanda Cockrell
John R. Dann
Kathleen O'Neal & W. Michael Gear ~ First North American series
Sue Harrison
Cecelia Holland
Bjorn Kurten ~ Dance of the Tiger
Mary Mackey
Ardath Mayhar
William Sarabande ~ The First Americans series
Linda Lay Shuler
Judith Tarr
James Alexander Thom
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ~ Animal Wife / Reindeer Moon
Joan Wolf ~ Red Deer series

Links:
Prehistoric Fiction



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Slavery

General / United States

General

Try:
Madison Smartt Bell ~ All Souls Rising
Andre Philippus Brink ~ A Chain of Voices
Patrick Chamoiseau ~ Texaco
Buchi Emecheta ~ Slave Girl
John Hearne ~ The Sure Salvation
Charles Johnson ~ The Middle Passage
Caryl Phillips ~ Cambridge / Crossing the River / Higher Ground



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United States

Try:
Sara Smith Beattie ~ Grass in the Wind
Wesley Brown ~ Darktown Strutters
Octavia E. Butler ~ Kindred
J. California Cooper ~ Family / The Wake of the Wind
Fred D'Aguiar ~ The Longest Memory
Ernest J. Gaines ~ The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Edward P. Jones ~ The Known World
Julius Lester ~ Long Journey Home
Valerie Martin ~ Property
Louise Meriweather ~ Fragments of the Ark
Toni Morrison ~ Beloved
William A. Owens ~ Black Mutiny
Alexs D. Pate ~ Amistad
Ishmael Reed ~ Flight to Canada
Barry Unsworth ~ Sacred Hunger
Sherley A. Williams ~ Dessa Rose

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United States

See Also Wars

1920's / 1930's & The Depression / 1950's / 1960's / 1970's

California Gold Rush / Civil Rights Movement / September 11, 2001 / Witchcraft Trials

1920's

Try:
Vincent T. Bugliosi ~ Lullaby and Good Night
Steven Corbin ~ No Easy Place to Be
Ivan Doig ~ Prairie Nocturne
John Dos Passos ~ The Big Money / Manhattan Transfer
Amy Ephron ~ One Sunday Morning
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dorothy Garlock ~ Edge of Town / High on a Hill / A Place Called Rainwater
Rosa Guy ~ A Measure of Time
Craig Holden ~ The Jazz Bird
Lee Irby ~ 7,000 Clams
Thomas Mallon ~ Bandbox
Toni Morrison ~ Jazz
Dawn Clifton Tripp ~ The Season of Open Water
Gore Vidal ~ Hollywood
Nathaniel West ~ Miss Lonelyhearts
Edward Christopher Williams ~ When Washington was in Vogue
Penn Williamson ~ Daman Rourke Series


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1930's & The Depression

Try:
Keith Cook ~ Paradise on the Plains
Joseph G. Cowley ~ Landscape with Figures
John Fante ~ 1933 was a Bad Year
F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ The Last Tycoon
Dorothy Garlock ~ Hope's Highway / Mother Road / Song of the Road
Lisa Kay Hauser ~ Turn Back Time
Clayton L. Hogg ~ The Meridian One / The Meridian Two
Robert Kaplow ~ Me and Orson Welles
Bruce Murkoff ~ Waterborne
Cynthia Ozick ~ Heir to the Glimmering World
Ferrol Sams ~ Run with the Horsemen
John Steinbeck ~ In Dubious Battle
Ronald B. Taylor ~ Long Road Home
M. Dion Thompson ~ Walk Like a Natural Man


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1950's

Try:
Peter Dexter ~ Train
Nora Eisenberg ~ Just the Way you Want Me
Anne Estevis ~ Down Garrapata Road
Mary Hays ~ Learning to Drive
Tito Perdue ~ The Sweet Scented Manuscript
Philip Roth ~ I married a Communist / Letting Go
Adriana Trigiani ~ Lucia, Lucia
Sterling Watson ~ Sweet Dream Baby


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1960's

See Also The Civil Rights Movement

Try:
Richard Bausch ~ Good Evening Mr & Mrs America
Jay Cantor ~ Great Neck
Sena Jeter Naslund ~ Four Spirits
Barry Levinson ~ Sixty-Six
Tim O'Brien ~ The Nuclear Age
Michael Pearson ~ Shohola Falls
Larah Peterson ~ Prescott Cove
Tom Piazza ~ My Cold War
Philip Roth ~ American Pastoral


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1970's

Try:
T.C. Boyle ~ Drop City
Susan Choi ~ American Women
Peter Jedick ~ Hippies
Rick Moody ~ The Ice Storm
Varley O'Connor ~ A Company of Three
Dan Pope ~ In the Cherry Tree



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The California Gold Rush

Try:
Isabel Allende ~ Daughter of Fortune
Tim Champlin ~ Wayfaring Strangers
Ralph Compton ~ The California Trail
Bret Harte ~ Luck of Roaring Camp / Three Partners
John Jakes ~ California Gold
JoAnn Levy ~ Daughter of Joy / For California's Gold
Earl Murray ~ Blood and Bitter Wind
Robert L. Taylor ~ The Travels of Jamie McPheeters
Irving Stone ~ Men to Match my Mountains
Mark Twain ~ Gold Miners and Guttersnipes
Richard S. Wheeler ~ Sierra



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Civil Rights Movement

Try:
William Cobb ~ Walk through Fire
Charles Johnson ~ Dreamer
Karl Luntta ~ Know it By Heart
Susan  Carol McCarthy ~ Lay that Trumpet in our Hands / True Fires
Rosalyn McMillan ~ This Side of Eternity
Sena Jeter Naslund ~ Four Spirits
Kris Nelscott ~ Smokey Dalton Series
Jack Riggs ~ When the Finch Rises
Elise Sanguinetti ~ The Last of the Whitfields
Anne Rivers Siddons ~ Heartbreak Hotel



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September 11, 2001

Fiction  ~  Non Fiction

Fiction

Try:
Pat Barker ~ Double Vision
Harold Thomas Beck ~ The First Terrorist Act
Ron Calugar ~ Sanctuary
Ward Carroll ~ Punk's Wing
Patty Dann ~ Sweet & Crazy
Rubram Fernandez ~ September 11 from the Inside
Karen Kingsbury ~ One Tuesday Morning / Return / Beyond Tuesday Morning
Bridge Marks ~ September
Joyce Maynard ~ The Usual Rules
Henry P. Mitchell ~ God Bless Fortress America
S.J.Rozan ~ Absent Friends
Paul West ~ The Immensity of Here and Now
Craig Winn ~ Tea With Terrorists


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Non Fiction

Try:
Above Hallowed Ground
The Age of Terror: America and the World after September 11
The American Spirit: Meeting the Challenge of September 11
Lisa Beamer ~ Let's Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage
Steven Brill ~ After
Lisa Chilson-Rose ~ As the Towers Fell
Noam Chomsky ~ 9/11
Jane Corbin ~ Al-Quaeda: In Search of the Terror Network that Shook the World
Covering Catastrophe: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11
Jim Cymbala ~ God's Grace from Ground Zero
Jim DeFede ~ The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Yursi Fawdah ~ Masterminds of Terror
Mitchell Fink ~ Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001
Thomas L. Friedman ~ Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11
Juan Gonzalez ~ Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse
Rudolph Giuliani ~ Leadership
Susan Hagen ~ Women at Ground Zero: Stories of Courage and Compassion
David Halberstam ~ Firehouse
Wilborn Hampton ~ September 11, 2001: Interviews & Accounts
Tony Hendra ~ Brotherhood
How did this Happen? Terrorism and the New War
Inside 9/11: What Really Happened
William Longewiesche ~ American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Jere Longman ~ Among the Heroes: United Flight 93
Greg Manning ~ Love, Greg & Lauren
John Miller ~ The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot
A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11
Anne Nelson ~ The Guys: A Play
New York September 11
Peggy Noonan ~ A Heart, a Cross, and a Flag
One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001
Richard Picciotto ~ Last Man Down: A Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape
Gerald L. Posner ~ Why America Slept
Portraits 9/11/01: The Collected Portraits of Grief from the New York Times
Francis J. Rella ~ Manhattan Medics
Dennis Smith ~ Report from Ground Zero
James B. Stewart ~ Heart of a Soldier
What we Saw

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Witchcraft Trials

Try:
Megan Chance ~ Susannah Morrow
Maryse Conde ~ I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Rose Earhart ~ The Diary of Dorcas Good, Child Witch of Salem
Edward E. Elliott ~ The Devil and the Mathers
Vaclav Kaplicky ~ Witch Hammer
Leena Lander ~ Cast a Long Shadow
S.D. Lucas ~ The Burden
Alex Marcoux ~ Back to Salem
Robert McCammon ~ Speaks the Nightbird series
Arthur Miller ~ The Crucible



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