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In the "Preface" to his What Historical Novel Do I Read Next?
(1997),
Daniel S. Burt includes "Recommended Historical Novels." He writes: "Below
is a selection from a great number of excellent historical novels contained
in this book. Listed are those novels that in this author's opinion
bring together a vivid and authentic re-creation of the past with a rousing
fictional story and compelling characters and are particularly recommended."
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------PREHISTORY-----
| Jean Auel | The Clan of the Cave Bear. 1980 |
| Jean Auel | The Valley of Horses. 1982 |
| Jean Auel | The Plains of Passage. 1991 |
| Jean Auel | The Mammoth Hunters. 1985 |
| W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear | The First North American Series. |
| William Golding | The Inheritors. 1962 |
| Bjorn Kurten | Dance of the Tiger. 1980 |
| Bjorn Kurten | Singlestuck. 1986 |
| Joan Wolf | Daughter of the Red Dear. 1991 |
| Joan Wolf | The Horsemasters. 1993 |
| Joan Wolf | The Reindeer Hunters. 1994 |
-------THE ANCIENT WORLD------
Egypt
| Allen Drury | A God Against the Gods. 1976 |
| Allen Drury | Return to Thebes. 1977 |
| Pauline Gedge | The Twelfth Transforming. 1984 |
| Pauline Gedge | Lady of the Reeds. 1977 |
| Jacquetta Hawkes | King of the Two Lands. 1966 |
| Norman Mailer | Ancient Evenings. 1983 |
| Eloise J. McGraw | Pharaoh. 1958 |
| Wilbur Smith | River God. 1993 |
| Judith Tarr | Pillar of Fire. 1995 |
| Judith Tarr | King and Goddess. 1996 |
| Mika Waltari | The Egyptian. 1949 |
Greece
| Alfred Duggan | Besieger of Cities. 1963 |
| Naomi Mitchison | The Corn King and the Spring Queen. 1931 |
| Phillip Paroti | The Greek General's Talk. 1986 |
| Philip Paroti | The Trojan Generals Talk. 1988 |
| Jill Paton Walsh | Farewell Great King. 1972 |
| Mary Renault | The Last of the Wine. 1956 |
| Mary Renault | The King Must Die. 1958 |
| Mary Renault | The Mask of Apollo. 1966 |
| Mary Renault | Fire from Heaven. 1969 |
| Mary Renault | Funeral Games. 1981 |
| Mary Renault | The Persian Boy. 1972 |
| Mary Renault | The Praise Singer. 1978 |
| Martha Rofheart | My Name Is Sappho. 1974 |
| Rosemary Sutcliff | The Flowers of Adonis. 1970 |
| Rex Warner | Pericles the Athenian. 1963 |
Rome
| Bryher | Roman Wall. 1954 |
| Bryher | The Coin of Carthage. 1963 |
| Alfred Duggan | Winter Quarters. 1956 |
| Alfred Duggan | Three's Company. 1957 |
| Alfred Duggan | Children of the Wolf. 1959 |
| Alfred Duggan | Family Favorites. 1960 |
| Lion Feuchtwanger | Josephus. 1932 |
| Lion Feuchtwanger | The Jew of Rome. 1936 |
| Lion Feuchtwanger | Josephus and the Emperor. 1942 |
| Ernest K. Gahn | The Antagonists. 1970 |
| Robert Graves | I, Claudius. 1934 |
| Robert Graves | Claudius the God. 1935 |
| Peter Green | Sword of Pleasure. 1957 |
| William G. Hardy | City of Libertines. 1957 |
| Ross Leckie | Hannibal. 1996 |
| Allan Massie | Augustus. 1986 |
| Allan Massie | Tiberius. 1994 |
| Allan Massie | Caesar. 1994 |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz | Quo Vadis. 1897 |
| Gore Vidal | Julian. 1964 |
| Rex Warner | The Young Caesar, 1958 |
| Rex Warner | Imperial Caesar. 1960 |
| Rex Warner | The Converts. 1967 |
| Thornton Wolder | Ides of March. 1948 |
| John Williams | Augustus. 1972 |
| Marguerite Yourcenar | Hadrian's Memoirs. 1954 |
Biblical and Christian Eras
| Shalom Asch | The Nazarene. 1939 |
| Shalom Asch | Mary. 1949 |
| Shalom Asch | Moses. 1951 |
| Shalom Asch | The Prophet. 1955 |
| Konrad Bercovici | The Exodus. 1947 |
| Julius Berstl | The Tentmaker. 1952 |
| Henrietta Buckmaster | And Walk in Love. 1956 |
| Frederick Buechner | The Son of Laughter. 1993 |
| Anthony Burgess | Man of Nazareth. 1979 |
| Thomas Mann | The Joseph Tetralogy |
| Malachi Martin | King of Kings. 1980 |
| Naomi Mitchison | Blood of the Martyrs. 1948 |
| Gladys Schmitt | David the King. 1946 |
------THE DARK AGES------
| Bryher | Ruan. 1960 |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Winter King. 1995 |
| Alfred Duggan | Conscience of the King. 1952 |
| Alfred Duggan | The Right of Cerdic. 1961 |
| Laverne Gay | The Unspeakables. 1945 |
| Mary Stewart | The Crystal Cave. 1970 |
| Mary Stewart | The Hollow Hills. 1973 |
| Mary Stewart | The Last Enchantment. 1979 |
| Mary Stewart | The Wicked Day. 1983 |
| Mary Stewart | The Prince and the Pilgrim. 1995 |
| Rosemary Sutcliff | The Sword of Sunset. 1963 |
| R.F. Tapsell | The Year of the Horsetails. 1967 |
| Henry Treece | Great Captains. 1955 |
| Henry Treece | Red Queen, White Queen. 1958 |
| T.H. White | The Once and Future King. 1958 |
| Jack Whyte | The Singing Sword. 1996 |
| Jack Whyte | The Skystone. 1996 |
| Joan Wolf | The Road to Avalon. 1988 |
| Joan Wolf | The Edge of Light. 1990 |
------THE MIDDLE AGES------
| Prudence Andrew | The Hooded Falcon. 1961 |
| Prudence Andrew | Ordeal by Silence. 1961 |
| Prudence Andrew | The Constant Star. 1964 |
| Bryher | Fourteenth of October. 1952 |
| Bryher | This January Tale. 1966 |
| Margaret Butler | The Lion of England. 1973 |
| Margaret Butler | The Lion of Justice. 1975 |
| Margaret Butler | The Lion of Christ. 1977 |
| Hannah Closs | High Are the Mountains. 1959 |
| Hannah Closs | Deep Are the Valleys. 1961 |
| Hannah Closs | The Silent Tarn. 1963 |
| Maurice Druon | The Poisoned Crown. 1957 |
| Maurice Druon | The Strangled Queen. 1957 |
| Maurice Druon | Royal Succession. 1958 |
| Maurice Druon | The She-Wolf of France. 1960 |
| Alfred Duggan | Cunning of the Dove. 1960 |
| Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose. 1983 |
| C.M. Edmondston and M.L.F. Hyde | King's Man. 1948 |
| Alice Walworth Graham | Vows of the Peacock. 1955 |
| Alice Walworth Graham | Shield of Honor. 1957 |
| Cecelia Holland | The Firedrake. 1966 |
| Cecelia Holland | Kings in Winter. 1968 |
| Cecelia Holland | Antichrist. 1970 |
| A. Maugham | Harry of Monmouth. 1956 |
| Hope Muntz | Golden Warrior. 1949 |
| Shelley Mydans | Thomas. 1965 |
| Zoe Oldenbourg | The World Is Not Enough. 1948 |
| Zoe Oldenbourg | The Cornerstone. 1955 |
| Zoe Oldenbourg | Destiny of Fire. 1961 |
| Zoe Oldenbourg | Cities of the Flesh. 1961 |
| Zoe Oldenbourg | The Heirs of the Kingdom. 1971 |
| Marian Palmer | White Boar. 1968 |
| Sharon Kay Penman | The Sunne in Splendour. 1982 |
| Sharon Kay Penman | Here Be Dragons. 1987 |
| Sharon Kay Penman | Falls the Shadow. 1988 |
| Sharon Kay Penman | The Reckoning. 1991 |
| Sharon Kay Penman | When Christ and His Saints Slept. 1995 |
| Hilda Prescott | The Unhurrying Chase. 1955 |
| Hilda Prescott | Son of Dust. 1956 |
| Lawrence Schoonover | Spider King. 1954 |
| Anya Seton | Katherine. 1953 |
| Edith Simon | Golden Hand. 1952 |
| Josephine Tey | The Daughter of Time. 1952 |
| Sylvia Warren | The Corner That Held Them. 1948 |
| Hebe Weenolson | The Last Englishman. 1951 |
| Helen C. White | Not Built with Hands. 1935 |
------THE RENAISSANCE------
Europe
| Sidney Alexander | Michelangelo the Florentine. 1957 |
| Sidney Alexander | The Hand of Michelangelo. 1965 |
| Sidney Alexander | Nicodemus. 1987 |
| Maria Bellonci | Private Renaissance. 1989 |
| Dorothy Dunnett | The House of Niccolo Series |
| George Eliot | Romola. 1863 |
| Michael Ennis | Duchess of Milan. 1992 |
| Hella S. Haases | The Scarlet City. 1990 |
| Cecelia Holland | City of God. 1979 |
| Heinrich Mann | Young Henry of Navarre. 1937 |
| Robert Merle | Vittoria. 1990 |
| Miranda Seymour | The Bride of Sforza. 1975 |
| Carl Spinatelli | The Florentine. 1953 |
| Irving Stone | The Agony and the Ecstacy. 1961 |
Tudor and Elizabethan England
| Charles Brady | Stage of Fools. 1952 |
| Elizabeth Byrd | Immortal Queen |
| Diane Davidson | Feversham. 1969 |
| Josephine Delves-Broughton | Heart of a Queen. 1950 |
| Olive Eckerson | My Lord Essex. 1955 |
| Patricia Finney | The Firedrake's Eye. 1992 |
| Ford Maddox Ford | The Fifth Queen. 1963 |
| George Garrett | Death of the Fox. 1971 |
| George Garrett | The Succession. 1983 |
| George Garrett | Entered from the Sun. 1990 |
| Margaret George | The Autobiography of Henry VIII |
| Margaret George | Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. 1992 |
| Charles Gidley | Armada. 1987 |
| Rosalind Miles | I, Elizabeth. 1994 |
| Jane Oliver | Flame of Fire. 1961 |
| Hilda Prescott | Man on a Donkey. 1952 |
------17TH and 18TH CENTURIES------
| Louis Auchincloss | The Cat and the King. 1981 |
| John Beatty and Patricia Beatty | Campion Towers. 1965 |
| Stephanie Cowell | Nicholas Cooke. 1993 |
| Stephanie Cowell | The Physician of London. 1995 |
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities. 1859 |
| Alexandre Dumas | The Three Muskateers. 1844 |
| Daphne Du Maurier | The Glass-Blowers. 1963 |
| Thomas Flanagan | The Year of the French. 1979 |
| Elizabeth Goudge | White Witch. 1957 |
| Edward Grierson | Dark Torrent of Glencoe. 1960 |
| Tabitha Lee | The Gods Are Thirsty. 1996 |
| Jeanne Mackin | The Frenchwoman. 1989 |
| Francisco Rebolledo | Rasero. 1995 |
| Virgil Scott | I, John Mordaunt. 1964 |
| Frances Sherwood | Vindication. 1993 |
| Rose Tremaine | Restoration. 1990 |
------NAPOLEONIC PERIOD------
| Ivo Andric | Bosnian Chronicle. 1963 |
| Louis Aragon | Holy Week. 1961 |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Richard Sharpe Series |
| C.S. Forester | The Horatio Hornblower Series |
| Claude Manceron | So Brief a Spring. 1957 |
| Patrick O'Brian | The Aubrey/Maturin Series |
| Susan Sontag | The Volcano Lover. 1992 |
| David Stacton | Sir William. 1963 |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace. 1872 |
| Frances Winwar | The Eagle and the Rock. 1952 |
------VICTORIAN PERIOD------
| Thomas Flannagan | The Tennants of Time. 1988 |
| George MacDonald Fraser | The Flashman Series |
| John Fowles | The French Lieutenant's Woman. 1969 |
------20TH CENTURY------
| Pat Barker | Regeneration. 1992 |
| Pat Barker | The Eye in the Door. 1994 |
| Pat Barker | The Ghost Road. 1996 |
| E.L. Doctorow | Ragtime. 1976 |
| Sebastian Faulks | Birdsong. 1996 |
| Thomas Flanagan | The End of the Hunt. 1994 |
| Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago. 1958 |
------UNITED STATES------
Colonial Period
| Hervey Allen | The Forest and the Fort. 1943 |
| Hervey Allen | Bedford Village. 1944 |
| Hervey Allen | Toward the Morning. 1948 |
| John Barth | The Sot-Weed Factor. 1960 |
| Virginia Bernhard | A Durable Fire. 1990 |
| Walter D. Edmonds | In the Hands of the Senecas. 1947 |
| Inglis Fletcher | Roanoke Hundred. 1948 |
| Ernest Gebler | Plymouth Adventure. 1950 |
| Gerard Mac | Pilgrims. 1994 |
| Kenneth Roberts | Northwest Passage. 1937 |
| Anya Seton | The Winthrop Woman. 1958 |
| Mary Lee Settle | O Beulah Land. 1956 |
| Grace Stone | The Cold Journey. 1934 |
| Neil Swanson | The First Rebel. 1937 |
| James Alexander Thom | Follow the River. 1981 |
The American Revolution
| Jane Barry | Long March. 1955 |
| Jane Barry | The Carolinians. 1959 |
| James Boyd | Drums. 1925 |
| Winston Churchill | Richard Caqrvel. 1899 |
| Winston Churchill | The Crossing. 1904 |
| Walter D. Edmonds | Drums Along the Mohawk. 1936 |
| William Ellis | Bounty Lands. 1952 |
| Howard Fast | Conceived in Liberty. 1939 |
| Howard Fast | Citizen Tom Paine. 1943 |
| Howard Fast | April Morning. 1961 |
| Thomas Fleming | Liberty Tavern. 1976 |
| Charles Flood | Monmouth. 1961 |
| Paul Leicester Ford | Janice Meridith. 1899 |
| Janice Giles | Hannah Fowler. 1956 |
| Robert Graves | Sergeant Lamb's America. 1940 |
| Robert Graves | Proceed, Sergeant Lamb. 1941 |
| Bruce Lancaster | Guns of Burgoyne. 1939 |
| Bruce Lancaster | Trumpet to Arms. 1944 |
| Bruce Lancaster | Blind Journey. 1953 |
| S. Weir Mitchell | Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker. 1897 |
| Elizabeth Page | Tree of Liberty. 1939 |
| Kenneth Roberts | Arundel. 1930 |
| Kenneth Roberts | Rabble in Arms. 1933 |
| Kenneth Roberts | Oliver Wiswell. 1940 |
19th Century
| Harold Davis | Beulah Land. 1949 |
| Leonard Ehrlich | God's Angry Man. 1932 |
| Turman Nelson | Surveyor. 1960 |
| Kenneth Roberts | Lively Lady. 1931 |
| Kenneth Roberts | Captain Caution. 1934 |
| Kenneth Roberts | Lydia Bailey. 1946 |
| Mary Lee Settle | Know Nothing. 1960 |
| William Styron. | The Confessions of Nat Turner. 1967 |
| Margaret Walker | Jubilee. 1966 |
| Willard M. Wallace | Jonathan Dearborn. 1967 |
| Ben Ames Williams | The Unconquered. 1952 |
The Civil War
| Stephen Becker | When the War Is Over. 1969 |
| James Boyd | Marching On. 1927 |
| Winston Churchill | The Crisis. 1901 |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage. 1895 |
| Clifford Dowdey | The Bugles Blow No More. 1937 |
| Shelby Foote | Shiloh. 1952 |
| Douglas C. Jones | Elkhorn Tavern. 1980 |
| Douglas C. Jones | The Barefoot Brigade. 1985 |
| MacKinlay Kantor | Long Remember. 1934 |
| MacKinlay Kantor | Andersonville. 1955 |
| Thomas Keneally | Confederates. 1981 |
| Bruce Lancaster | Roll, Shenandoah. 1956 |
| Perry Lentz | The Falling Hills. 1967 |
| Margaret Mitchell | Gone With the Wind. 1936 |
| Don Robertson | The Three Days. 1959 |
| Don Robertson | By Antietam Creek. 1960 |
| Michael Shaara | The Killer Angels. 1975 |
| Richard Slotkin | The Crater. 1980 |
| Robert Penn Warren | Wilderness. 1961 |
| Tom Wicker | Unto This Hour. 1984 |
| Ben Ames Williams | House Divided. 1947 |
| Stark Young | So Red the Rose. 1934 |
The West
| Elliott Arnold | Time of the Gringo. 1952 |
| Del Barton | A Good Way to Die. 1980 |
| Amelia Bean | Fancher Train. 1958 |
| Amelia Bean | The Feud. 1960 |
| Amelia Bean | Time For Outrage. 1967 |
| Thomas Berger | Little Big Man. 1964 |
| Irwin Blacker | Taos. 1959 |
| Willa Cather | Death Comes for the Archbishop. 1927 |
| Frederick J. Chiaventone | A Road We Do Not Know. 1996 |
| Walter Clark | The Ox-Bow Incident. 1940 |
| H.L. Davis | Honey in the Horn. 1935 |
| Pete Dexter | Deadwood. 1986 |
| Edna Ferber | Cimarron. 1930 |
| Vardis Fisher | Children of God. 1939 |
| Vardis Fisher | Tale of Valor. 1958 |
| A.B. Guthrie, Jr. | The Big Sky. 1947 |
| A.B. Guthrie, Jr. | The Way West. 1949 |
| Oakley Hall | Warlock. 1958 |
| Ron Hansen | Desperadoes. 1980 |
| Paul Horgan | A Distanr Trumpet. 1960 |
| Alan LeMay | The Searchers 1954 |
| Frederick Manfred | Lord Grizzly. 1954 |
| Larry McMurty | Lonesome Dove. 1985 |
| Charles Portis | True Grit. 1968 |
| O.E. Rolvaag | Gianes in the Earth. 1927 |
| Michael Straight | Carrington. 1959 |
| Michael Straight | A Very Small Remnant. 1963 |
------AFRICA------
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart. 1959 |
| Stuart Cloete | The Turning Wheel. 1937 |
| Peter Forbath | Lord of the Kongo. 1996 |
| Lennart Hagerfors | The Whales of Lake Tanganyika. 1989 |
| John Halkin | Kenya. 1986 |
| William Harrison | Burton and Speke. 1982 |
------ASIA------
China
| Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth. 1931 |
| Pearl S. Buck | Imperial Woman. 1955 |
| James Clavell | Tai-Pan. 1966 |
| Eleanor Cooney and Daniel Altieri | The Court of the Lion. 1989 |
| Eleanor Cooney and Daniel Altieri | Deception. 1992 |
| Robert S. Elegant | Dynasty. 1977 |
| Robert S. Elegant | Manchu. 1980 |
| Robert S. Elegant | Mandarin. 1983 |
| Robert S. Elegant | From a Far Land. 1987 |
| Anthony Grey | Peking. 1988 |
| Jean Levi | The Chinese Emperor. 1987 |
| Jean Levi | The Dream of Confucius. 1992 |
| Bette Bao Lord | Spring Moon. 1981 |
| Robert B. Oxnam | Ming. 1995 |
India
| Stephen Alter | Silk and Steel. 1980 |
| Jonathan Fast | Golden Fire. 1986 |
| Thomas Hoover | The Moghul. 1983 |
| M.M. Kaye | Shadow of the Moon. 1957 |
| M.M. Kaye | The Far Pavilions. 1978 |
| John Masters | Nightrunners of Bengal. 1950 |
| John Masters | The Deceivers. 1952 |
| Gita Mehta | Raj. 1952 |
| Paul Scott | The Raj Quartet |
Japan
| James Clavell | Shogun. 1975 |
| James Clavell | Gai-Jin. 1993 |
| Lynn Guest | Yedo. 1985 |
| Lucia St. Clair Robson | Tokaido Road. 1991 |
| David Stacton | Segaki. 1959 |
| Edward Tolosko | Sakuran. 1978 |
| Kunio Tsuji | The Signore. 1990 |
| Eija Yoshikawa | The Heike Story. 1956 |
| Eija Yoshikawa | Musashi. 1981 |
| Eija Yoshikawa | Taiko. 1992 |
------AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC------
| O.A. Bushnell | Molokai. 1965 |
| Charles Nordhoff and James Hall | The Bounty Trilogy |
| Barbara Wood | The Dreaming. 1991 |
------SOUTH AMERICA, LATIN AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN------
| Madison Smartt Bell | All Soul's Rising. 1995 |
| Gerald Green | The Sword and the Sun. 1953 |
| Bruce Jeffries | Drums of Destiny. 1947 |
| Daniel Peters | The Luck of Huemac. 1981 |
| Daniel Peters | Tikal. 1983 |
| Daniel Peters | The Incas. 1991 |
| David Stacton | A Signal Victory. 1960 |
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