historical fiction (1,785)
Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel · 2009
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The Last Days of Pompeii
Edward Bulwer-Lytton · 1834
Jules Verne
The Mutineers of the Bounty
Jules Verne · 1879
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Anandamath
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee · 1882
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1889
Eiji Yoshikawa

Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa · 1935
Marguerite Yourcenar

L'Oeuvre au noir
Marguerite Yourcenar · 1968
Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova · 2005
Alexandre Dumas

La Dame de Monsoreau
Alexandre Dumas · 1846
Jules Verne

Family Without a Name
Jules Verne · 1889
Rafael Sabatini

Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini · 1922
Diana Gabaldon

Outlander
Diana Gabaldon · 1991
Ildefonso Falcones

Cathedral of the Sea
Ildefonso Falcones · 2006
Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2011
Anatole France

Thaïs
Anatole France · 1890
Bolesław Prus

Pharaoh
Bolesław Prus · 1895
Michael Crichton

Eaters of the Dead
Michael Crichton · 1976
Philippa Gregory

The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory · 2001
Alan Hollinghurst

The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst · 2004
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2013
Feng Menglong
Romance of the States in Eastern Zhou Dynasty
Feng Menglong
Walter Scott

The Bride of Lammermoor
Walter Scott · 1819
Walter Scott
The Talisman
Walter Scott · 1825
James Fenimore Cooper

The Deerslayer
James Fenimore Cooper · 1841
Alexandre Dumas
The Queen's Necklace
Alexandre Dumas · 1849
Jules Verne

The Count of Chanteleine
Jules Verne · 1864
Charles De Coster
The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
Charles De Coster · 1867
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Fire in the Steppe
Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1888
John Steinbeck

Cannery Row
John Steinbeck · 1945
Ivo Andrić

Bosnian Chronicle
Ivo Andrić · 1945
Masuji Ibuse

Black Rain
Masuji Ibuse · 1965
Neal Stephenson

Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson · 1999
Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood · 2000
W. G. Sebald

Austerlitz
W. G. Sebald · 2001
Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015
Pierre Corneille

Cinna
Pierre Corneille · 1643
James Fenimore Cooper

The Pioneers
James Fenimore Cooper · 1823
Alexander Pushkin
Peter the Great's Negro
Alexander Pushkin · 1837
Alexandre Dumas

The Forty-five Guardsmen
Alexandre Dumas · 1847
Willa Cather

My Ántonia
Willa Cather · 1918
Erich Maria Remarque

Heaven Has No Favorites
Erich Maria Remarque · 1961
Mario Vargas Llosa

The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa · 1982
Brian Selznick

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick · 2007
Olga Tokarczuk

The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk · 2014
Anatole France

The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France
Johnston McCulley

The Curse of Capistrano
Johnston McCulley · 1919
Hans Fallada

Every Man Dies Alone
Hans Fallada · 1947
Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton · 1948