List of historical novels

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

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
• True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
• An Angel in Australia by Thomas Keneally
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
• Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
• Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss

Austria

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
• Time and the Wind by Érico Veríssimo
• Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha
• The War of the End of the World 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

Chile

• My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel

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 Deer and the Cauldron by Jin Yong - Early Qing dynasty during the rule of the Kangxi Emperor.
• 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

Colombia

• The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez

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

Estonia

• Purge by Sofi Oksanen

Finland

• The Adventurer by Mika Waltari

France

• The Jester by James Patterson
• The Badger of Ghissi by
• The Accursed Kings 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
• A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
• Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo
• The Rover by Joseph Conrad
• 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

• Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem
• 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

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

Greenland

• The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley

Haiti

• Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Roberts
• The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
• Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
• Babouk by Guy Endore

Hungary

• A Town in Black by Kálmán Mikszáth
• Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
• Prague by Arthur Phillips

Iceland

• Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider Haggard
• The Fated Sky by Henrietta Branford
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

India

Bengali

• Durgeshnôndini and Anondomôţh by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
• The Home and the World 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

Hindi

• From Volga to 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
• Aangan by Khadija Mastoor
• Bano by Razia Butt

Gujarati

• Karan Ghelo by Nandshankar Mehta

Indonesia

• This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps and House of Glass by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• Max Havelaar by Multatuli

Iran

• Cry of the Peacock by Gina B. Nahai
• Whirlwind by James Clavell

Ireland

• The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga and The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga by Edward Rutherfurd
• Sister Fidelma series by Peter Tremayne
• Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn
• The Good People by Hannah Kent
• The Silent People by Walter Macken
• Trinity and Redemption by Leon Uris
• A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
• Troubles by J. G. Farrell

Israel

• The Source by James A. Michener
• The King of Flesh and Blood by Moshe Shamir
• King Jesus by Robert Graves
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
• 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
• The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
• Knight Crusader by Ronald Welch
• 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

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
• I Am a Barbarian by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves
• Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• 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
• Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
• Raptor by Gary Jennings
• A Struggle for Rome by Felix Dahn

Medieval and modern Italy

• Baudolino by Umberto Eco
• Valperga by Mary Shelley
• 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

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
• The Tale of the Heike by Yoshida Kenkō,

Korea

• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Malta

• The Siege of Malta by Walter Scott

Mexico

• Mexico by James A. Michener
• Aztec by Gary Jennings
• Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings
• Captain from Castile by Samuel Shellabarger
• Hunger's Brides by Paul Anderson
• Caballero by Jovita González and Eve Raleigh
• Cartucho by Nellie Campobello
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• Aztec and Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings

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

Peru

• The Virgin of the Sun by H. Rider Haggard

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
• The Knights of the Cross by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• The Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
• The Books of Jacob '' by Olga Tokarczuk
• Push Not the River by James Conroyd Martin
• The Faithful River by Stefan Żeromski
• The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler
• Stones for the Rampart by Aleksander Kamiński

Portugal

• The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler
• Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago
• Hunting Midnight by Richard Zimler

Russia

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The Life of Klim Samgin by Maxim Gorky
• Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
• The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
• The Red Wheel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Russka by Edward Rutherfurd

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

• A Dying Light in Corduba by Lindsey Davis
• Tales of Count Lucanor by Don Juan Manuel, príncipe de Villena
• Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Adventures of Captain Alatriste series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition by Miguel Delibes The King Amaz'd by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
• Life and facts of Estebanillo González, man of good humour by Anonymous
• The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities by Anonymous
• The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea by Fernando de Rojas
• Paul the Sharper or The Scavenger by Francisco de Quevedo
• The Heart of Jade by Salvador de Madariaga
• The Islands of Unwisdom by Robert Graves
• Captain From Castile by Samuel Shellabarger
• National Episodes by Benito Pérez Galdós
• La regenta by Leopoldo Alas "Clarín"
• Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós
• El húsar by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• The Fencing Master by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom
• Línea de fuego by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Sweden

• The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
• The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg

Switzerland

• Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott

Syria

• The End of a Brave Man by Hanna Mina

Turkey

• A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

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

Medieval

• Porius 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
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• 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
• The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck by Mary Shelley
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• 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
• 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
• Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty by Charles Dickens
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• 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
• Wellington and Napoleon Quartet by Simon Scarrow
• Judith by Brian Cleeve
• Kydd by Julian Stockwin
• 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

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

• Rachel Dyer: a North American Story by John Neal
• Logan, a Family History by John Neal
• Seventy-Six by John Neal
• Brother Jonathan by John Neal
• 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
• War Comes to Willy Freeman by James Lincoln Collier

19th century

• Burr by Gore Vidal
• My Theodosia by Anya Seton
• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
• Roots: The Saga of an American Family 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
• Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
• Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
• The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

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

Multiple time frames

Novels by James A. Michener

• Alaska
• Centennial
• Chesapeake
• Hawaii
• ''Texas''

Novels by other authors

• New York by Edward Rutherfurd A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power

Vietnam

• The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
• The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli