List of historical novels
This list outlines notable historical novels by the current geo-political boundaries of countries for the historical location in which most of the novel takes place. This list includes only the most novels within the genre, which have been included in Wikipedia. For a more comprehensive automatically generated list of articles on Wikipedia about historical novels, see :Category:Historical novels. For a comprehensive list by time period on historical fiction in general see list of historical fiction by time period.
Afghanistan
- The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield
- Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
- Caravans by James Michener
Argentina
- On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato
- Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo F. Sarmiento
- Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez
- La logia de Cádiz by Jorge Fernández Diaz
- El combate perpetuo by Marcos Aguinis
- La fragata Proserpina by Luis Delgado Bañón
- El queche Hiena by Luis Delgado Bañón
Australia
- The Playmaker and Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally
- Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough
- Destiny in Sydney by D. Manning Richards
- The Lambing Flat by Nerida Newton
- The Secret River by Kate Grenville
- Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
- An Angel in Australia by Thomas Keneally
- Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Bangladesh
- The Black Coat by Neamat Imam
Belgium
- The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak by Charles De Coster
- The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
Brazil
- Alfarrábios by José de Alencar
- Iracema by José de Alencar
- The Guarani by José de Alencar
- Brazil Red by Jean-Christophe Rufin
- As Minas de Prata by José de Alencar
- O Tempo e o Vento by Érico Veríssimo
- Os Sertões by Euclides da Cunha
- La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa
Canada
- The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
- The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- All That Matters by Wayson Choy
- Journey by James A. Michener
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
- The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
- Jalna by Mazo de la Roche
- The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
Caribbean (multiple countries)
- Unburnable by Marie-Elena John.
- Caribbean by James A. Michener
China
- Empress by Shan Sa
- Chia Black Dragon series by Stephen Marley
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
- The Journeyer by Gary Jennings
- The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
- Tai-Pan by James Clavell
- Peony by Pearl Buck
- Imperial Woman by Pearl Buck
- Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
- The Last Empress by Anchee Min
- Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
- Dragon Seed by Pearl Buck
- Noble House by James Clavell
- La mujer en la muralla by Alberto Laiseca
Colombia
- The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
Pre-Columbian civilizations
Aztec Empire
- Aztec by Gary Jennings
- Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings
- Tlaloc Weeps For Mexico by László Passuth
- El Corazón de Piedra Verde by Salvador de Madariaga
- The Rise of the Aztecs series by Zoe Saadia
- The Aztec Chronicles series by Zoe Saadia
- Five Dances with Death - Dance One by Austin Briggs
- The Serpent and the Eagle by Edward Rickford
Mayan Empire
- Caminarás con el Sol by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta
- Gonzalo Guerrero by Eugenio Aguirre
Inca Empire
- El inca by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Mississippian culture
- The Mound Builders series by Zoe Saadia
Czech Republic
- Witiko by Adalbert Stifter
Denmark
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Dominican Republic
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
Egypt
- Cheops by Paul West
- Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus
- Hypatia by Charles Kingsley
- The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
- River God by Wilbur Smith
- Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
- El arpista ciego by Terenci Moix
- La boca del Nilo by León Arsenal
- El secreto del Nilo by Antonio Cabanas
- No digas que fue un sueño by Terenci Moix
- Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge
- Scroll of Saqqara by Pauline Gedge
- La conjura del faraón by Antonio Cabanas
- El Ladrón de Tumbas by Antonio Cabanas
- El Camino de los dioses by Antonio Cabanas
Estonia
- Purge by Sofi Oksanen
Finland
- The Adventurer by Mika Waltari
France
- The Jester by James Patterson
- Les Rois maudits series by Maurice Druon
- Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas, père
- The Angélique series by Anne & Serge Golon
- The d'Artagnan romances by Alexandre Dumas, père
- Agraria and Urbania by Gerrard Lilburne
- A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père
- Cézanne’s Quarry by Barbara Corrado Pope,
- The Blood of Lorraine by Barbara Corrado Pope,
- The Missing Italian Girl by Barbara Corrado Pope,
- An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Germany
- Q by Luther Blissett
- Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
- Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist by Russell McCormmach
- The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Los demonios de Berlín by Ignacio del Valle
Greece
- Hades' Daughter by Sara Douglass
- Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War by Steven Pressfield
- The Palaeologian Dynasty. The Rise and Fall of Byzantium by George Leonardos
- Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
- The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault
- The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
- Lion of Macedon by David Gemmell
- Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
- Funeral Games by Mary Renault
- Goat Song by Frank Yerby
- Salamina by Javier Negrete,
- El espartano by Javier Negrete,
- La joven de Esparta by Cristina Rodríguez
- El agua y la tierra by Julio Murillo
- Los milagros del vino by Jesús Sánchez Adalid
- Enemigos de Esparta by Sebastián Roa
- The Song Of Troy'' by Colleen McCullough
Greenland
- The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
Haiti
- Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Roberts
- Haitian Revolution trilogy by Madison Smartt Bell
- The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
- Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
- Babouk by Guy Endore
Hungary
- Prague by Arthur Phillips
India
Bengali
- Durgeshnôndini, Rajshingho, Anondomôţh by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Ghôre Baire by Rabindranath Tagore
English
- A Spoke in the Wheel by Amita Kanekar
- Chanakya's Chant by Ashwin Sanghi
- Empire of the Moghul series by Alex Rutherford
- Guardian of the Dawn by Richard Zimler
- The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
- The Ibis trilogy by Amitav Ghosh
- The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- Rebel To the light by Alpaslan Arslan
Hindi
- Volga Se Ganga by Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan
Malayalam
- Marthandavarma, Dharmaraja, Ramarajabahadur by C V Raman Pillai
Tamil
- Parthiban Kanavu and Sivagamiyin Sabadham by Kalki Krishnamurthy
- Ponniyin Selvan by Kalki Krishnamurthy
- Vengaiyin Mayinthan by Akilan
Telugu
- Veyipadagalu by Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Urdu
- Aag Ka Darya by Qurratulain Hyder.
Gujarati
- Karan Ghelo by Nandshankar Mehta
Indonesia
- Bumi Manusia , Anak Semua Bangsa , Jejak Langkah and Rumah Kaca by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- Max Havelaar by Multatuli
- Gajah Mada pentalogy by Langit Kresna Hariadi
Iran
- Cry of the Peacock by Gina B. Nahai
- Whirlwind by James Clavell
Ireland
- Trinity and Redemption by Leon Uris
- ' and ' by Edward Rutherfurd
- Troubles by J. G. Farrell
- A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
- Sister Fidelma series by Peter Tremayne
- Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llewellyn
Israel
- The Source by James A. Michener
- The King of Flesh and Blood by Moshe Shamir
- The Antagonists: A Novel of Masada by Ernest K. Gann
- The Gospel According to Lazarus by Richard Zimler
- Holy Warrior by Angus Donald, second novel in the Outlaw Chronicles
- Jerusalem by Cecelia Holland
- Exodus by Leon Uris
- The Haj by Leon Uris
- The Hope by Herman Wouk
- The Glory by Herman Wouk
- Inside, Outside by Herman Wouk
- Vengeance by George Jonas.
Italy
- Raptor by Gary Jennings
- A Struggle for Rome by Felix Dahn
- Tiara i korona by Teodor Jeske-Choiński
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
- Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger
- Romola by George Eliot
- The Family by Mario Puzo
- The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
- Silk by Alessandro Baricco
- The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
- La Cruz y el Lirio Dorado by Fernando Fernán-Gómez
- La confesión del embajador by Juan Martín Salamanca
- Soportal de los malos pensamientos by Juan Antonio de Blas
- Golpe a Venecia by Manuel Ayllón
Japan
- Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
- Shōgun, Gai-Jin & King Rat by James Clavell
- Silence by Shusaku Endo
- The Samurai by Shusaku Endo
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 11th century
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
- Heike Monogatari by Yoshida Kenkō,
- Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa
- Las piedras de Chihaya trilogy by Sergio Vega
- El guerrero a la sombra del cerezo by David B. Gil
- Ocho millones de dioses by David B. Gil
- The Samurai by Shūsaku Endō
Korea
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Malta
- The Siege of Malta by Walter Scott
Mexico
- Mexico by James A. Michener
- Captain from Castile by Samuel Shellabarger
- Hunger's Brides by Paul Anderson
- by Jovita González and Eve Raleigh
- Cartucho by Nellie Campobello
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- Aztec by Gary Jennings
- El navío Asia by Luis Delgado Bañón
Netherlands
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, père
- The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
- The Coffee Trader by David Liss
- The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
New Zealand
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- Season of the Jew by Maurice Shadbolt
Norway
- Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
- The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset
Pakistan
- Khaak aur Khoon by Naseem Hijazi
- Shaheen by Naseem Hijazi
- Shahab Nama by Qudratullah Shahab
Palestine
- The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
- El asombroso viaje de Pomponio Flato by Eduardo Mendoza
Philippines
- Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal
- El filibusterismo by José Rizal
- The Woman Who had Two Navels by Nick Joaquin
- Po-on by F. Sionil José
Poland
- Poland by James A. Michener
- Krzyzacy by Henryk Sienkiewicz
- The Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Push Not the River by James Conroyd Martin
- The Faithful River by Stefan Żeromski
- The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler
- Kamienie na szaniec by Aleksander Kamiński
Portugal
- The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler
- Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago
- Hunting Midnight by Richard Zimler
Ancient Rome
- Scipio trilogy by Santiago Posteguillo
- The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough
- The Gods of War
- The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
- La leyenda del falso traidor by Antonio Gómez Rufo
- El lazo de púrpura by Alejandro Núñez Alonso
- King Jesus by Robert Graves
- by Lew Wallace
- I Am a Barbarian by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- I, Claudius and Claudius, the God by Robert Graves
- Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Martyrium by Santiago Castellanos
- The Roman Mysteries, a series of children's books by Caroline Lawrence
- Trajan trilogy by Santiago Posteguillo
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Julian by Gore Vidal
- Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem
- The Last Romans by Teodor Jeske-Choiński
- Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
- Pax romana by Yeyo Balbás
- Memorias de Escipión Emiliano by José Enrique López Jiménez
- Al servicio del imperio by Pedro Santamaría
Russia
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- La sombra del águila by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
- The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
- August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- November 1916 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Russka by Edward Rutherfurd
- El tiempo de los emperadores extraños by Ignacio del Valle
Sicily
- The Lady of the Wheel by Angelo F. Coniglio
- The Leopard or Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- The Sicilian by Mario Puzo
South Africa
- The Covenant by James A. Michener
- King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Spain
Multiple time frames
- Un soldado español de veinte siglos by José Gómez de Arteche
Early history
- Viriato by João Aguiar
- Rey Lobo by Juan Eslava Galán
- Nublares series by Antonio Pérez Henares
- El Último Soldurio by Javier Lorenzo
- Numancia by José Luis Corral
- El hombre de la plata by León Arsenal
- Celtiberia series by Ángel L. Gallero
Roman Spain
- A Dying Light in Corduba by Lindsey Davis
- Sertorio by João Aguiar
- Hay luz en casa de Publio Fama by Juan Miñana
- Los arcos del agua by Montse Barderi
- Interregno by José Vicente Pascual
Visigothic Kingdom
- Última Roma by León Arsenal
- Sombras de mariposa by Guillermo Galván
- Astur by Isabel San Sebastián
- La última visigoda by Isabel San Sebastián
Medieval
- Tales of Count Lucanor by Don Juan Manuel, príncipe de Villena
- El mercenario de Granada by Juan Eslava Galán
- Reinos de Sangre by Óscar Eimil
- El Doncel de don Enrique el Doliente by Mariano José de Larra
- Sancho Saldaña o el castellano de Cuellar by José de Espronceda
- Il cavaliere invisibile by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
- Los bandos de Castilla by Ramón López Soler
- Los malos años by León Arsenal
- 1369 by Juan Rey
- Corazón oscuro by León Arsenal
- Tiempo de bastardos by Paula Cifuentes
- La tierra de Alvar Fañez by Antonio Pérez Henares
- El Rey Pequeño by Antonio Pérez Henares
- El olor de las especias by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta
- El reino de la espada by Álvaro Moreno Ancillo
- El peón del Rey by Pedro Jesús Fernández
- Die Rose von Asturien by Iny Lorentz
- Catalina de Lancaster by María Teresa Álvarez
- El Alma de la Ciudad by Jesús Sánchez Adalid
- El camino mozarabe by Jesús Sánchez Adalid
- Enrique de Castilla by Margarita Torres
- El señor de Bembibre by Enrique Gil y Carrasco
- Doña Blanca de Navarra by Francisco Navarro Villoslada
- Las Compañías Blancas by Tomás Salvador
- Alcazaba by Jesús Sánchez Adalid
- Esperando al Rey by José María Pérez González
- La maldición de la reina Leonor by José María Pérez González
- La reina sin reino by José María Pérez González
- Salvatierra by Miguel Martínez
- El ejército de Dios by Sebastián Roa
- El Reino del norte by Jose Javier Esparza
- Señor de Madrid by Ramón Muñoz
- Recuerde el alma dormida by Rafael Álvarez Avello
- María de Molina by Almudena de Arteaga
Spanish Golden Age
- El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- The Ferdinand and Isabella Trilogy by Jean Plaidy
- Adventures of Captain Alatriste series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- The heretic. A Novel of the Inquisition by Miguel Delibes
- Martín Ojo de Plata series by Matilde Asensi
- That Lady by Kate O'Brien
- Jeromín by Luis Coloma
- Capa y espada by Fernando Fernán Gómez
- El comedido hidalgo by Juan Eslava Galán
- El prisionero de Argel by Antonio Cavanillas de Blas
- La sombra de otro by Luis García Jambrina
- Misterioso asesinato en casa de Cervantes by Juan Eslava Galán
- By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan
- Sobra un rey by José García Abad
- La reina comunera by José García Abad
- El castellano de Flandes by Enrique Martínez Ruiz
- Hoy no se pondrá el sol by Rafael Rico Cabeza
- Isidoro de Montemayor series by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta
- Ladrones de tinta
- El gabinete de las maravillas
- El reino de los hombres sin amor
- Rojo amanecer en Lepanto by Luis Zueco
- The last crusader by Louis de Wohl
- Leonor de Habsburgo by Yolanda Scheuber
- Decidnos ¿Quién mató al conde? by Néstor Luján
- La cruz en la espada by Néstor Luján
- El caballero de Alcántara by Jesús Sánchez Adalid
- Y de repente, Teresa by Jesús Sánchez Adalid
- The Queen's Vow: A Novel Of Isabella Of Castile by C. W. Gortner
- El abogado de Indias by Amós Milton
- El comendador de Alcántara or El gobernador de Indias by José Miguel Carrillo de Albornoz
- Ronin by Francisco Narla
- Capitán Alonso Cobos series by Juan Tazón
- Los caballeros de las sombras
- Sabed que mi nombre se perdió
- Crónica del rey pasmado by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
- El náufrago de la Gran Armada by Fernando Martínez Laínez
- Lope: la furia del Fénix by Blas Malo
- El Gran Capitán by José Calvo Poyato
- La hora de Quevedo by Baltasar Magro
- San Quintín. Memorias del maestre de campo de los tercios Julián Romero by José Javier Esparza
Picaresque novel
- Life and facts of Estebanillo González, man of good humour Anonymous
- Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous
- La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
- El Buscón by Francisco de Quevedo
Exploration and conquest
- The Heart of Jade by Salvador de Madariaga
- The Islands of Unwisdom by Robert Graves
- Captain From Castile by Samuel Shellabarger
- Cristóbal Colón: Rumbo a Cipango by Edward Rosset
- La aventura equinocial de Lope de Aguirre by Ramón José Sender Garcés
- Tlaloc Weeps for Mexico by László Passuth
- Malinche by Laura Esquivel
- Centauros by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
- Los navegantes by Edward Rosset
- Cristóbal Colón: Rumbo a Cipango by Edward Rosset
- La ruta de las tormentas by Paula Cifuentes
- Las huellas del conquistador by José Luis Pérez Regueira
- Hombres valientes, dioses crueles by Eugenio Chouciño
- Conquistadores de lo imposible by José Ángel Mañas
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
- Mediohombre by Alber Vázquez
- El héroe del Caribe: La última batalla de Blas de Lezo by J. Pérez-Foncea
- El paisano de Jamaica by Francisco Javier Romero Valentín
- Das Ohr das Kapitäns by Gisbert Haefs
- Beltrán Ochoa, capitán de Dragones series by Octavio Sánchez-Machuca
- La traición del rey by José Luis Gil Soto
- Conjura en Madrid by José Calvo Poyato
- Hombres buenos by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
19th century
- National Episodes by Benito Pérez Galdós
- La regenta by Leopoldo Alas "Clarín"
- Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós
- Vientos de intriga by José Calvo Poyato
- Sangre en la calle del Turco by José Calvo Poyato
- Un día de cólera by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- El húsar by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- The siege by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- The Fencing Master by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- El navío Príncipe de Asturias, Trafalgar by Luis Delgado Bañon is the 9th book of Una saga marinera española
- La artillera by Ángeles de Irisarri
- El león de ojos árabes by Antonio Cavanillas de Blas
- El secreto del rey cautivo by Antonio Gómez Rufo
- Bandera negra by León Arsenal
20th century
- Iberia by James A Michener
- Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom
- Episodios nacionales contemporáneos series by Ricardo Fernández de la Reguera and Susana March
- And in the distance a light...? also published as Beasts and Martyrs of Spain by Manuel Chaves Nogales
- Riña de gatos. Madrid 1936 by Eduardo Mendoza
- El valle de las sombras by Jerónimo Tristante
- The Communist's Daughter by Dennis Bock
- The Forging of a Rebel trilogy by Arturo Barea
- La sonata del silencio by Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
- El arte de matar dragones by Ignacio del Valle
Sweden
- The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
- The Emigrants tetralogy by Vilhelm Moberg
Switzerland
- Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott
United Kingdom
Earliest history
- Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC by Bernard Cornwell
- Pillar of the Sky by Cecelia Holland
- The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter
Roman Britain
- Under the Eagle and others in the Cato series by Simon Scarrow
- The Silver Pigs, A Body in the Bath House and The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis
- The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
- The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff
- The Forest House, and others in the series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Eagle and the Raven, by Pauline Gedge
Medieval
- by John Cowper Powys
- Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
- The Saxon Shore by Jack Whyte
- Grail Prince by Nancy McKenzie
- Hild by Nicola Griffith
- The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell
- Avalon by Anya Seton
- The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer
- Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley
- The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
- Outlaw by Angus Donald, the first novel in the Outlaw Chronicles
- King's Man by Angus Donald, the third in the above series
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- Kay the Left-Handed by Leslie Barringer
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson
- Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman
- The Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman
- Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
- The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman
- The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter
- The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet by Edith Pargeter
- The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott
- The Grail Quest by Bernard Cornwell
- Katherine by Anya Seton
- Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
- World Without End by Ken Follett
- Owen Glendower by John Cowper Powys
- Know Ye Not Agincourt? by Leslie Barringer
- The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
- The Load of Unicorn by Cynthia Harnett
Tudor and Stuart
- The House of Niccolò and Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
- Amenable Women by Mavis Cheek
- The Fifth Queen by Ford Madox Ford
- Young Bess, Elizabeth, Captive Princess and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain by Margaret Irwin
- Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
- Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease
- Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
- Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott
- Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott
- John Inglesant by Joseph Henry Shorthouse
- Lady of the Glen by Jennifer Roberson
- A Tale of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott
- A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
- Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer
- Micah Clarke by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
- The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
- Hawksmoor by Peter Akroyd
- The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray
- An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Hanoverian
- Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
- La última batalla by Javier La Orden Trimollet
- The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott
- Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
- The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
- by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Agraria and Urbania by Gerrard Lilburne
- Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell
- Horatio Hornblower series by C. S. Forester
- Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
- Ramage series by Dudley Pope
- Bolitho Novels by Alexander Kent
- Revolution series by Simon Scarrow
- Judith by Brian Cleeve
- Thomas Kydd Series by Julian Stockwin, set during the French and Napoleonic Wars
- Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Victorian
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser
- Laura Blundy by Julie Myerson
- Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
- ''Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster
20th century
- The Wishing Game by Patrick Redmond
- The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
- Diary of an Ordinary Woman by ''Margaret Forster
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
- The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
United States (including areas that become part of the US)
Colonial
- Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth and Proceed, Sergeant Lamb by Robert Graves
- The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- Richard Carvel by Winston Churchill
- Shadow Patriots, a Novel of the Revolution by Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
- Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
- Las huellas del conquistador by José Luis Pérez Regueira
- La fragata Princesa by Luis Delgado Bañón
- Las batallas hispano-apaches en el salvaje norte de América series by Alber Vázquez
- Los acasos by Javier Pascual
- Comanche by Jesús Maeso de la Torre
- España contraataca: Relato sobre la derrota del imperio inglés en Norteamérica by Pablo Victoria
19th century
- Burr by Gore Vidal
- My Theodosia by Anya Seton
- The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
- ' by Alex Haley
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- The Emigrants series by Vilhelm Moberg
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
- Lincoln by Gore Vidal
- Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
- Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- Traveller by Richard Adams
- Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
- Shiloh by Shelby Foote
- The March by E. L. Doctorow
- True Women by Janice Woods Windle
- Lee and Grant at Appomattox by MacKinlay Kantor
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson
- The Turquoise by Anya Seton
- Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell
- ' by Steven Millhauser
- Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
- The English Wife'' by Lauren Willig
20th century
- Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
- The Road to Wellville by T. C. Boyle
- Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Two Trains Running by Andrew Vachss
Multiple time frames
Novels by James A. Michener
- Alaska
- Centennial
- Chesapeake
- Hawaii
- Texas
Novels by other authors
- New York by Edward Rutherfurd
Vietnam
- The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
- The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli