List of historical novels

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

• Cheops by Paul West (ancient times)

France

• The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen (exile of Napolean)
• The Jester by James Patterson (11th century)
• Silk by Alessandro Baricco (1860s)

Great 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)

Greece

• Hades’ Daughter by Sara Douglass (ancient times)

India

• The Sabre’s Edge by Allan Mallinson (1820s)

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)

Italy

• Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment (16th and 17th century)
• Lucrezia Borgia by John Faunce (biographical novel; Renaissance)

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)

Netherlands

• The Coffee Trader by David Liss (17th century)

Poland

• The Stars Can Wait by Jay Basu (World War II)

Roman Empire

• Emperor: The Gates of Rome 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 (Napolean's invasion)

South Africa

• Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido (1950s)

Tibet

• Blue Poppies by Jonathan Falla (during Chinese invasion)

United States

• 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)
• 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)

Vietnam

• The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen