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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 [[WP:Notability|notable]] 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]].
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==Afghanistan==
*''[[The Afghan Campaign]]'' by [[Steven Pressfield]] ([[Alexander the Great]]'s invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 BC)
*''[[Flashman (novel)|Flashman]]'' by [[George MacDonald Fraser]] (1840s, [[First Anglo-Afghan War]])
*''[[Caravans (novel)|Caravans]]'' by [[James Michener]] (post-World War II)

==Argentina==
*''[[On Heroes and Tombs]]'' by [[Ernesto Sabato]] (19th century, during the Civil War)
*''[[Facundo|Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism]]'' by [[Domingo F. Sarmiento]] (19th century)
*''[[Santa Evita]]'' by [[Tomás Eloy Martínez]] (20th century, [[Eva Perón]])

==Australia==
*''[[The Playmaker (novel)|The Playmaker]]'' and ''[[Bring Larks and Heroes]]'' by [[Thomas Keneally]] (18th century colonial Australia)
*''[[Morgan's Run]]'' by [[Colleen McCullough]] (end of the 18th century)
*''[[Destiny in Sydney (novel)|Destiny in Sydney]]'' by D. Manning Richards (1787–1902 Scots-Irish, Aboriginal, and Chinese family saga story)
*''[[The Lambing Flat]]'' by [[Nerida Newton]] (mid-19th century [[Australian gold rushes]])
*''[[The Secret River]]'' by [[Kate Grenville]] (19th century colonial Australia)
*''[[Jack Maggs]]'' by [[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]] (19th century colonial Australia)
*''[[The Thorn Birds]]'' by [[Colleen McCullough]] (end of the 19th century)
*''[[True History of the Kelly Gang]]'' by [[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]] ([[Kelly Gang]], 1878–1880)
*''[[An Angel in Australia]]'' by [[Thomas Keneally]] ([[Military history of Australia during World War II|World War II]])
*''[[Oscar and Lucinda]]'' by [[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]]
*''[[Jasper Jones]]'' by [[Craig Silvey]] (1960s [[Western Australia]])
*''[[Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray]]'' by [[Anita Heiss]] (19th century indigenous New South Wales)

== Austria ==
* ''[[The Man Without Qualities]]'' by [[Robert Musil]] ([[World War I]])

==Bangladesh==
*''[[The Black Coat]]'' by [[Neamat Imam]] ([[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]]'s rule in Bangladesh, 1972–75, including [[Bangladesh famine of 1974|famine of 1974]])

==Belgium==
*''[[The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak]]'' by [[Charles De Coster]] ([[Protestant Reformation]] in the Netherlands)
*''[[The Sorrow of Belgium]]'' (''Het verdriet van België'') by [[Hugo Claus]] (WW II and after)

==Bosnia and Herzegovina==
*''[[The Bridge on the Drina]]'' by [[Ivo Andrić]] (1500s–1900s)

==Brazil==
*''[[Alfarrábios]]'' by [[José de Alencar]] ([[Colonial Brazil]])
*''[[Iracema]]'' by [[José de Alencar]] (legend from [[Ceara]], 16th century)
*''[[The Guarani]]'' by [[José de Alencar]] (Brazil, 16th century)
*''[[Brazil Red]]'' by [[Jean-Christophe Rufin]] ([[France Antarctique]], 16th century)
*''[[As Minas de Prata]]'' (''The Silver Mines'') by [[José de Alencar]] ([[Minas Gerais]], 18th century)
*''[[O Tempo e o Vento|Time and the Wind]]'' (''O Tempo e o Vento'') by [[Érico Veríssimo]] (from the late 18th century to 1945)
*''[[Os Sertões|Rebellion in the Backlands]]'' (''Os Sertões'') by [[Euclides da Cunha]] ([[War of Canudos|Canudos Campaign]], 19th century)
*''[[The War of the End of the World]]'' (''La guerra del fin del mundo'') by [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] ([[War of Canudos|Canudos Campaign]], 19th century)

==Canada==
*''[[The Orenda]]'' by [[Joseph Boyden]] (17th-century [[Quebec]])
*''[[The Last Crossing]]'' by [[Guy Vanderhaeghe]] (19th century western Canada)
*''[[All That Matters (novel)|All That Matters]]'' by [[Wayson Choy]] (1920s–1940s [[Vancouver]])
*''[[Journey (novel)|Journey]]'' by [[James A. Michener]]
*''[[Alias Grace]]'' by [[Margaret Atwood]]
*''[[Three Day Road]]'' by [[Joseph Boyden]]
*''[[The Colony of Unrequited Dreams]]'' by [[Wayne Johnston (writer)|Wayne Johnston]]
*''[[The Book of Negroes (novel)|The Book of Negroes]]'' by [[Lawrence Hill]]
*''[[In the Skin of a Lion]]'' by [[Michael Ondaatje]]
*''[[Jalna (novel series)|Jalna]]'' by [[Mazo de la Roche]]
*''[[The Jade Peony]]'' by [[Wayson Choy]] (1930s–1940s [[Vancouver]])

==Caribbean (multiple countries)==
*''[[Unburnable]]'' by [[Marie-Elena John]] (the African origins of Caribbean culture and the original inhabitants of the Caribbean, the Kalinago (Carib Indians)).
*''[[Caribbean (novel)|Caribbean]]'' by [[James A. Michener]]

==Chile==
*''[[My Tender Matador]]'' by [[Pedro Lemebel]]

==China==
*''[[Empress (novel)|Empress]]'' by [[Shan Sa]] ([[Wu Zetian]], 1st century)
*[[Chia Black Dragon]] series by [[Stephen Marley (writer)|Stephen Marley]] (2nd century, 7th century)
*''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' by Luo Guanzhong (3rd century)
*''[[The Journeyer]]'' by [[Gary Jennings (author)|Gary Jennings]] ([[Kublai Khan]], 13th century)
*''[[The Deer and the Cauldron]]'' by [[Jin Yong]] - Early [[Qing dynasty]] during the rule of the [[Kangxi Emperor]]. (1654–89)
*''[[The Story of the Stone]]'' by [[Cao Xueqin]] (18th century)
*''[[Tai-Pan]]'' by [[James Clavell]] (Hong Kong, 1841)
*''[[Peony (novel)|Peony]]'' by [[Pearl Buck]] (19th century, Jewish family in China)
*''[[Imperial Woman]]'' by [[Pearl Buck]] (about [[Empress Dowager Cixi]])
*''[[Empress Orchid]]'' by [[Anchee Min]] (about Empress Dowager Cixi)
*''[[The Last Empress (novel)|The Last Empress]]'' by [[Anchee Min]] (about Empress Dowager Cixi)
*''[[Empire of the Sun (novel)|Empire of the Sun]]'' by [[J. G. Ballard]] (World War II)
*''[[Dragon Seed (novel)|Dragon Seed]]'' by [[Pearl Buck]] (Life of Chinese peasant family during [[Second Sino-Japanese War]])
*''[[Noble House (book)|Noble House]]'' by [[James Clavell]] (Hong Kong, 1963)

==Colombia==
*''[[The General in his Labyrinth]]'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]]

==Czech Republic==
*''[[Witiko (novel)|Witiko]]'' by [[Adalbert Stifter]] ([[Witiko of Prčice]], 12th century Bohemia)

==Denmark==
*''[[Number the Stars]]'' by [[Lois Lowry]] (20th century)

==Dominican Republic==
*''[[In the Time of the Butterflies]]'' by [[Julia Alvarez]] (rebellion against [[Rafael Leónidas Trujillo]], mid-20th century)
*''[[The Feast of the Goat]]'' (''La Fiesta del Chivo'') by [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] (Assassination of Trujillo and its aftermath, early 1960s)

==Egypt==
*''[[Khufu|Cheops]]'' by Paul West (26th century BC)
*''[[Pharaoh (Prus novel)|Pharaoh]]'' by [[Bolesław Prus]] (fall of Egypt's [[Twentieth Dynasty]] and [[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingdom]])
*''[[Hypatia (novel)|Hypatia]]'' by [[Charles Kingsley]] (late [[Roman Egypt]])
*''[[The Egyptian]]'' by [[Mika Waltari]] (reign of Pharaoh [[Akhenaten]])
*''[[The Memoirs of Cleopatra]]'' by [[Margaret George]] (reign of [[Cleopatra VII]])
*''[[River God]]'' by [[Wilbur Smith]]
*''[[Leo Africanus]]'' by [[Amin Maalouf]] (15th and 16th century)

==Estonia==
*''[[Purge (novel)|Purge]]'' by [[Sofi Oksanen]] (20th century)

==Finland==
*''[[The Adventurer (novel)|The Adventurer]]'' by [[Mika Waltari]] (16th century)

==France==
*''[[The Jester (novel)|The Jester]]'' by [[James Patterson]] (11th century)
*''[[The Badger of Ghissi]]'' by {{ill|Wolf von Niebelschütz|de}} (12th century)
*''[[The Accursed Kings]]'' (''Les Rois maudits'') series by [[Maurice Druon]] (14th century)
*''[[Quentin Durward]]'' by Sir [[Walter Scott]] ([[Louis XI]] – 15th century)
*''[[The Hunchback of Notre-Dame]]'' by [[Victor Hugo]] (15th century)
*''[[La Reine Margot (novel)|Queen Margot]]'' by [[Alexandre Dumas, père]] (16th century)
*The [[Angelique (French series)|Angélique]] series by [[Anne & Serge Golon]] (mid-17th century in the reign of [[Louis XIV]])
*The [[d'Artagnan romances]] (''[[The Three Musketeers]]'', ''[[Twenty Years After]]'', and ''[[The Vicomte de Bragelonne]]'') by Alexandre Dumas, père (17th century)
*''[[A Place of Greater Safety]]'' by [[Hilary Mantel]] (French Revolution)
*''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]] (French Revolution)
*''[[Scaramouche (novel)|Scaramouche]]'' by [[Rafael Sabatini]] (French Revolution)
*''[[Ninety-Three]]'' by [[Victor Hugo]] (1793, French Revolution)
*''[[The Rover (novel)|The Rover]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]] (Revolutionary and [[Napoleonic era|Napoleonic]] periods)
*''[[Les Misérables]]'' by Victor Hugo (19th century)
*''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' by Alexandre Dumas, père (19th century)
*''[[Cézanne’s Quarry]]'' by [[Barbara Corrado Pope]], (''[[Belle Époque]]'')
*''[[The Blood of Lorraine]]'' by [[Barbara Corrado Pope]], (''Belle Époque'')
*''[[The Missing Italian Girl]]'' by [[Barbara Corrado Pope]], (''Belle Époque'')
*''[[An Officer and a Spy]]'' by [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]] (the [[Dreyfus affair]])
*''[[The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Spanish novel)|The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]'' by [[Vicente Blasco Ibáñez]] (World War I)

==Germany==
*''[[Eagle in the Snow]]'' by [[Wallace Breem]] ([[Germania]], 4th century, [[Magnus Maximus]]) 
*''[[Q (novel)|Q]]'' (1999) by [[Luther Blissett]] (15th-century Europe during the [[Protestant reformation]] and [[German Peasants' War]])
*''[[Measuring the World]]'' by [[Daniel Kehlmann]] (19th century)
*''[[Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist]]'' by Russell McCormmach (development of physics in the early 20th century)
*''[[Richard Zimler#Novels|The Seventh Gate]]'' by [[Richard Zimler]] (1930s Berlin)
*''[[The Book Thief]]'' by [[Markus Zusak]] (World War II)

==Greece==
*''[[Hades' Daughter]]'' by [[Sara Douglass]] ([[classical antiquity]])
*''[[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]] (the [[Battle of Thermopylae]])
*''[[Middlesex (novel)|Middlesex]]'' by [[Jeffrey Eugenides]] (World War I and [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)|Greco-Turkish War]])
*''[[The Last of the Wine]]'' by [[Mary Renault]] ([[History of Athens|Athens]] in the time of [[Socrates]])
*''[[The Mask of Apollo]]'' by Mary Renault ([[Greek theatre]], 4th century BC)
*''[[The Athenian Murders]]'' (''La caverna de las ideas'') by [[Jose Carlos Somoza]] ([[classical antiquity]])
*''[[Lion of Macedon]]'' by [[David Gemmell]] (Alexander's general [[Parmenion]])
*''[[Fire from Heaven]]'' and ''[[The Persian Boy]]'' by Mary Renault ([[Alexander the Great]])
*''[[Funeral Games (novel)|Funeral Games]]'' by Mary Renault (the successors of Alexander)
*''[[Goat Song]]'' by [[Frank Yerby]] ([[Peloponnesian War]])

==Greenland==
*''[[The Greenlanders]]'' by [[Jane Smiley]]

== Haiti ==
*''[[Lydia Bailey (novel)|Lydia Bailey]]'' by [[Kenneth Roberts (author)|Kenneth Roberts]] (1800s [[Haitian Revolution]])
*''[[The Kingdom of This World]]'' by [[Alejo Carpentier]] (Haitian Revolution)
*''[[Island Beneath the Sea]]'' by [[Isabel Allende]] (late 18th century)
*''[[Babouk]]'' by [[Guy Endore]] (Haitian Revolution)

==Hungary==
*''[[A fekete város|A Town in Black]]'' (1910) by [[Kálmán Mikszáth]] (set in the 18th c.)
*''[[Fatelessness]] (Sorstalanság)'' (2001) by Imre Kertész (Nobel Prize winner, set in World War II)
*''[[Prague (novel)|Prague]]'' (2002) by [[Arthur Phillips]] (set in the 1990s)

==Iceland==
*''[[Eric Brighteyes]]'' by [[H. Rider Haggard]] (10th century, [[Viking Age]])
*''[[The Fated Sky]]''  by [[Henrietta Branford]] ([[Viking Age]])
*''[[Burial Rites]]'' by [[Hannah Kent]] (1820s, [[Agnes Magnúsdóttir]])

==India==
{{See also|List of historical novels in Indian languages}}

===Bengali===
*''[[Durgeshnandini|Durgeshnôndini]]'' and ''[[Anandamath|Anondomôţh]]'' by [[Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay]]
*''[[The Home and the World]]'' (''Ghôre Baire'') by [[Rabindranath Tagore]]

===English===
*''[[A Spoke in the Wheel]]'' by [[Amita Kanekar]] ([[Gautama Buddha]]/[[Ashoka]])
*''[[Chanakya's Chant]]'' by [[Ashwin Sanghi]] (4th century BC)
*''[[Empire of the Moghul]]'' series by [[Alex Rutherford]] ([[Moghul Empire]], [[Babur]] to [[Aurangzeb]])
*''[[Richard Zimler#Novels|Guardian of the Dawn]]'' by [[Richard Zimler]] (17th century Goa)
*''[[The Far Pavilions]]'' by [[M. M. Kaye]] (British India in the 19th century)
*[[Ibis trilogy|The ''Ibis'' trilogy]] by [[Amitav Ghosh]] (before and during the [[First Opium War]])
*''[[The Siege of Krishnapur]]'' by [[J. G. Farrell]] ([[Indian Rebellion of 1857]])
*''[[Midnight's Children]]'' by [[Salman Rushdie]] ([[Partition of India]])

===Hindi===
*''[[Volga Se Ganga|From Volga to Ganga]]'' by [[Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan]]

===Malayalam===
*''[[Marthandavarma (novel)|Marthandavarma]]''{{small| (1891)}}, ''[[Dharmaraja (novel)|Dharmaraja]]''{{small| (1913)}}, ''[[Ramarajabahadur (novel)|Ramarajabahadur]]''{{small| (1918{{ndash}}1919)}} by [[C V Raman Pillai]]

===Tamil===
*''[[Parthiban Kanavu]]'' and ''[[Sivagamiyin Sabadham]]'' by [[Kalki Krishnamurthy]] ([[Pallava dynasty]])
*''[[Ponniyin Selvan]]'' by [[Kalki Krishnamurthy]] ([[Chola dynasty]])
*''[[Akilan#Historical novels|Vengaiyin Mayinthan]]'' by [[Akilan]] ([[Rajendra Chola I]], 11th century)

===Telugu===
*''[[Veyipadagalu]]''{{small| (1934)}} by [[Viswanatha Satyanarayana]]

===Urdu===
*''[[Aag Ka Darya]]'' (''River of Fire'') by [[Qurratulain Hyder]]
*''[[Aangan (novel)|Aangan]]'' (''Courtyard'')  by [[Khadija Mastoor]]
*''[[Bano (novel)|Bano]]'' by [[Razia Butt]]

===Gujarati===
*''[[Karan Ghelo]]'' by [[Nandshankar Mehta]]

== Indonesia ==
*''[[This Earth of Mankind]]'' (''Bumi Manusia''), ''[[Child of All Nations]]'' (''Anak Semua Bangsa''), ''[[Footsteps (novel)|Footsteps]]'' (''Jejak Langkah'') and ''[[House of Glass (Toer novel)|House of Glass]]'' (''Rumah Kaca'') by [[Pramoedya Ananta Toer]] ([[Dutch colonialism in Southeast Asia|Dutch colonialism]], late 19th early 20th century)
*''[[Max Havelaar]]'' by [[Multatuli]] ([[Dutch colonialism in Southeast Asia|Dutch colonialism]], 19th century)

==Iran==
*''[[Cry of the Peacock (novel)|Cry of the Peacock]]'' by [[Gina B. Nahai]] ([[Jews in Iran]], 18th–20th centuries)
*''[[Whirlwind (novel)|Whirlwind]]'' by [[James Clavell]] ([[Iranian Revolution]], 1979)

==Ireland==
*''[[Dublin: Foundation|The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga]]'' and ''[[Ireland: Awakening|The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga]]'' by [[Edward Rutherfurd]] (Dublin, 430 to the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]])
*''[[Sister Fidelma]] series'' by [[Peter Tremayne]] (7th century)
*''[[Lion of Ireland]]'' by [[Morgan Llywelyn]] (High King [[Brian Boru]], 10th century)
*''[[The Good People]]'' by [[Hannah Kent]] (1825, [[County Kerry]])
*''[[The Silent People]]'' by [[Walter Macken]] (The Great Famine, 19th century)
*''[[Trinity (novel)|Trinity]]'' and ''[[Redemption (Uris novel)|Redemption]]'' by [[Leon Uris]] (19th–early 20th century)
*''[[A Star Called Henry]]'' by [[Roddy Doyle]] ([[Irish revolutionary period|Irish Revolution]])
*''[[Troubles (novel)|Troubles]]'' by [[J. G. Farrell]] (Irish War of Independence)

==Israel==
*''[[The Source (novel)|The Source]]'' by [[James A. Michener]] (earliest days to 1964)
*''[[Moshe Shamir#Works in English translation|The King of Flesh and Blood]]'' by [[Moshe Shamir]] (2nd century BCE)
*''[[King Jesus (novel)|King Jesus]]'' by [[Robert Graves]] (1st century) 
*''[[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ]]'' by [[Lew Wallace]] (1st century) 
*''[[The Antagonists (Gann novel)|The Antagonists: A Novel of Masada]]'' by [[Ernest K. Gann]] (1st century)
*''[[Richard Zimler#Novels|The Gospel According to Lazarus]]'' by [[Richard Zimler]] (1st century)
*''[[Holy Warrior]]'' by [[Angus Donald]], second novel in the ''Outlaw Chronicles'' (12th century)
*''[[Cecelia Holland#Novels|Jerusalem]]'' by [[Cecelia Holland]] (12th century)
*''[[The Talisman (Scott novel)|The Talisman]]'' by Sir [[Walter Scott]] (12th century, [[Third Crusade]])
*''[[Knight Crusader]]'' by [[Ronald Welch]] (12th century: [[Battle of Hattin]], [[Third Crusade]])
*''[[Exodus (Uris novel)|Exodus]]'' by [[Leon Uris]] (''[[SS Exodus]]'' and the founding of Israel)
*''[[The Haj (novel)|The Haj]]'' by [[Leon Uris]] (1920s–1950s)
*''[[The Hope (novel)|The Hope]]'' by [[Herman Wouk]] ([[Israeli Declaration of Independence|Creation of Israel]] to the [[Six-Day War]], 1948–1967)
*''[[The Glory]]'' by [[Herman Wouk]] (Six-Day War to [[Anwar Sadat#Peace with Israel|Peace with Egypt]], 1967–1978)
*''[[Inside, Outside]]'' by [[Herman Wouk]] (Four generations of a Russian Jewish family in the 20th century)
*''[[Vengeance (Jonas book)|Vengeance]]'' by [[George Jonas]] (Following [[Operation Wrath of God]] - the Israeli hunt for the 1972 [[Munich massacre|Munich Olympics massacre]] planners).

==Italy==
===Ancient Rome===
{{Main|Fiction set in ancient Rome}}
*''[[Santiago Posteguillo#Scipio Africanus trilogy|Scipio trilogy]]'' by [[Santiago Posteguillo]] (the [[Punic Wars]] general [[Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul 218 BC)|Publius Cornelius Scipio]])
*The ''[[Masters of Rome]]'' series by [[Colleen McCullough]] (1st century BC)
*''[[The Gods of War]]'' (Life of Julius Caesar)
*''[[Ides of March (novel)|The Ides of March]]'' by [[Thornton Wilder]] (Last days of Julius Caesar)
*''[[I Am a Barbarian]]'' by [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] (The life of [[Caligula]] as seen through the eyes of his slave)
*''[[I, Claudius]]'' and ''[[I, Claudius#Claudius the God|Claudius the God]]'' by [[Robert Graves]] (Roman emperors, 1st century)
*''[[Quo Vadis (novel)|Quo Vadis]]'' by [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] ([[Persecution of early Christians by the Romans|Christians]] under [[Nero]])
*''[[The Roman Mysteries]]'', a series of children's books by [[Caroline Lawrence]] (late 1st century)
*''[[Santiago Posteguillo#Trajan trilogy|Trajan trilogy]]'' by [[Santiago Posteguillo]] ([[Trajan]] life)	
*''[[Memoirs of Hadrian]]'' by [[Marguerite Yourcenar]] (life and death of Roman Emperor [[Hadrian]])
*''[[Julian (historical novel)|Julian]]'' by [[Gore Vidal]] ([[Julian the Apostate]], 4th century)
*''[[Count Belisarius]]'' by Robert Graves (the [[Byzantine]] general [[Belisarius]], 6th century)
*''[[Raptor (novel)|Raptor]]'' by [[Gary Jennings (author)|Gary Jennings]] (5th–6th centuries)
*''[[A Struggle for Rome]]'' (''Ein Kampf um Rom'') by [[Felix Dahn]] ([[Gothic War (535-554)|Gothic War]])

===Medieval and modern Italy===
*''[[Baudolino]]'' by [[Umberto Eco]] (12th century)
*''[[Valperga (novel)|Valperga]]'' by [[Mary Shelley]] (14th century; [[Guelphs and Ghibellines]])
*''[[The Name of the Rose]]'' by [[Umberto Eco]] (14th century)
*''[[The Birth of Venus (novel)|The Birth of Venus]]'' by [[Sarah Dunant]] (Florence, [[Girolamo Savonarola|Savonarola]] period)
*''[[Prince of Foxes]]'' by [[Samuel Shellabarger]] ([[The Renaissance|Renaissance]])
*''[[Romola]]'' by [[George Eliot]] ([[The Renaissance|Renaissance]])
*''[[The Family (Mario Puzo novel)|The Family]]'' by [[Mario Puzo]] (Renaissance)
*''[[The Betrothed]]'' by [[Alessandro Manzoni]] (17th century)
*''[[Silk (novel)|Silk]]'' by [[Alessandro Baricco]] (1860s)
*''[[The Prague Cemetery]]'' by [[Umberto Eco]] (19th century)

==Japan==
*''[[Musashi (novel)|Musashi]]'' by [[Eiji Yoshikawa]] ([[Miyamoto Musashi]], 17th century)
*''[[Shōgun (novel)|Shōgun]]'', ''[[Gai-Jin (novel)|Gai-Jin]]'' & ''[[King Rat (1962 novel)|King Rat]]'' by [[James Clavell]]
*''[[Silence (Endō novel)|Silence]]'' by [[Shusaku Endo]] (Jesuit missionary in the 17th century)
*''[[The Samurai (novel)|The Samurai]]'' by [[Shusaku Endo]] (The journey of four samurai to Spain in the 17th century)
*''[[The Tale of Genji]]'' by [[Murasaki Shikibu]], 11th century
*''[[The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet]]'' by [[David Mitchell (author)|David Mitchell]] (Dutch trading concession with Japan in the late 18th century)
*''[[The Tale of the Heike]]'' (''Heike Monogatari'') by [[Yoshida Kenkō]], ([[Genpei War]])

==Korea==
*''[[A Single Shard]]'' by [[Linda Sue Park]]

==Malta==
*''[[The Siege of Malta (novel)|The Siege of Malta]]'' by [[Walter Scott]]

==Mexico==
*''[[Mexico (novel)|Mexico]]'' by [[James A. Michener]]
*''[[Aztec (book)|Aztec]]'' by [[Gary Jennings (author)|Gary Jennings]] ([[Aztec Empire]] before Spanish invasion)
*''[[Aztec Autumn]]'' by Gary Jennings (Aztec Empire, one generation after Spanish invasion)
*''[[Captain from Castile (novel)|Captain from Castile]]'' by [[Samuel Shellabarger]] (16th century)
*''[[Hunger's Brides]]'' by Paul Anderson (17th century, [[Sor Juana]])
*''[[Caballero: A Historical Novel|Caballero]]'' by [[Jovita González]] and Eve Raleigh (1840s)
*''[[Cartucho]]'' by [[Nellie Campobello]] ([[Mexican Revolution]])
*''[[The Power and the Glory]]'' by [[Graham Greene]] (1930s)
*''[[Aztec (novel)|Aztec]]'' and ''[[Aztec Autumn]]'' by [[Gary Jennings (author)|Gary Jennings]] (16th century)

==Netherlands==
*''[[Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel)|Girl with a Pearl Earring]]'' by [[Tracy Chevalier]] ([[Johannes Vermeer]], 17th century)
*''[[The Black Tulip]]'' by [[Alexandre Dumas, père]] (17th century)
*''[[The Cloister and the Hearth]]'' by [[Charles Reade]] (15th century)
*''[[The Coffee Trader]]'' by [[David Liss]] (17th century)
*''[[The Miniaturist]]'' by [[Jessie Burton]] (17th century [[Amsterdam]])

==New Zealand==
*''[[The Luminaries]]'' by [[Eleanor Catton]] (1860s New Zealand gold rush)
*''[[Season of the Jew]]'' by [[Maurice Shadbolt]] (mid-nineteenth century New Zealand)

==Norway==
*''[[Kristin Lavransdatter]]'' by [[Sigrid Undset]] (14th century)
*''[[The Master of Hestviken]]'' by [[Sigrid Undset]] (14th century)

==Pakistan==
*''[[Khaak aur Khoon]]'' by [[Naseem Hijazi]]
*''[[Shaheen (novel)|Shaheen]]'' by [[Naseem Hijazi]]
*''[[Shahab Nama]]'' by [[Qudratullah Shahab]]

==Peru==
*''[[The Virgin of the Sun]]'' by [[H. Rider Haggard]] ([[Inca Empire]])

==Philippines==
*''[[Noli Me Tángere (novel)|Noli Me Tángere]]'' by [[José Rizal]] (early 1880s Philippines, under Spanish colonial rule)
*''[[El filibusterismo]]'' by [[José Rizal]] (set 13 years after the events of ''Noli Me Tángere'')
*''[[The Woman Who had Two Navels]]'' by [[Nick Joaquin]]
*''[[Po-on (novel)|Po-on]]'' by [[F. Sionil José]] (Set in the late 19th century.)

==Poland==
*''[[Poland (novel)|Poland]]'' by [[James A. Michener]] (13th century onward)
*''[[The Knights of the Cross]]'' (''Krzyzacy'') by [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] ([[Teutonic Knights]], 14th century)
*''[[The Trilogy]]'' by [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] (17th century, including the [[Khmelnytsky Uprising]] and [[The Deluge (Polish history)|The Deluge]])
*''[[Thaddeus of Warsaw]]'' by [[Jane Porter]] ([[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]])
*''[[The Books of Jacob]]'' (''Księgi Jakubowe)'' by [[Olga Tokarczuk]] ([[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|First Polish Republic]], 18th century)
*''[[Push Not the River]]'' by [[James Conroyd Martin]] ([[Partitions of Poland#Second Partition|1792 Partition of Poland]])
*''[[The Faithful River]]'' (''Wierna rzeka'') by [[Stefan Żeromski]] ([[January Uprising]], 1863–1865)
*''[[The Warsaw Anagrams]]'' by [[Richard Zimler]] ([[Warsaw Ghetto]], 1940–1943)
*''[[Stones for the Rampart]]'' (''Kamienie na szaniec'') by [[Aleksander Kamiński]] (Polish [[Scouting]] or [[Gray Ranks]] during World War II)

==Portugal==
*''[[The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon]]'' by [[Richard Zimler]] (early 16th-century Lisbon, [[Lisbon Massacre]] of 1506)
*''[[Baltasar and Blimunda]]'' by [[José Saramago]] (18th-century construction of the [[Convent of Mafra]])
*''[[Richard Zimler#Novels|Hunting Midnight]]'' by [[Richard Zimler]] (19th century [[Porto]])

==Russia==
*''[[War and Peace]]'' by [[Leo Tolstoy]] ([[Napoleonic era]])
*''[[The Life of Klim Samgin]]'' by [[Maxim Gorky]] ([[World War I]] and [[Russian Revolution|Russian 1917 Revolution]])
*''[[Blood Red, Snow White]]'' by [[Marcus Sedgwick]] ([[Russian Revolution|Russian 1917 Revolution]])
*''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' by [[Boris Pasternak]] ([[Russian Revolution|Russian 1917 Revolution]] and [[Russian Civil War]])
*''[[And Quiet Flows the Don]]'' by [[Mikhail Sholokhov]] ([[Russian Revolution|Russian 1917 Revolution]] and [[Russian Civil War]])
*''[[The White Guard]]'' by [[Mikhail Bulgakov]] ([[Russian Civil War]])
*''[[Life and Fate]]'' by [[Vasily Grossman]] ([[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]])
*''[[The Red Wheel]]'' by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] ([[World War I]] and [[Russian Revolution|Russian 1917 Revolution]])
*''[[Russka (novel)|Russka]]'' by [[Edward Rutherfurd]] (1800 years of Russian history from pre-Russia to the beginning of the [[Russian Revolution]])

==Sicily==
*''[[The Lady of the Wheel]]'' by Angelo F. Coniglio (19th century foundlings and sulfur mine workers)
*''[[The Leopard]] or [[Il Gattopardo]]'' by [[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa]] (19th century [[Risorgimento]], [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]])
*''[[The Sicilian]]'' by [[Mario Puzo]] (Fictionalized biography of Sicilian popular hero [[Salvatore Giuliano]].)

==South Africa==
*''[[The Covenant (novel)|The Covenant]]'' by [[James A. Michener]] (from prehistory onwards)
*''[[King Solomon's Mines]]'' by [[H. Rider Haggard]] (19th century) <!--- but is it South Africa?--->

==Spain==
*''[[A Dying Light in Corduba]]'' by [[Lindsey Davis]] (Roman Spain)
*''[[Tales of Count Lucanor]]'' by [[Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena|Don Juan Manuel, príncipe de Villena]] (14th century)
*''[[Tales of the Alhambra]]'' by [[Washington Irving]] ([[Emirate of Granada|Emirato de Granada]])
*''[[Don Quixote]]'' (''El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha'') by [[Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]] (16th century)
*''[[Captain Alatriste|Adventures of Captain Alatriste]] series'' by [[Arturo Pérez-Reverte]]
*''[[The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition]]'' by [[Miguel Delibes]] (16th century in [[Valladolid]]) 
* ''[[The King Amaz'd]]'' (''Crónica del rey pasmado'') by [[Gonzalo Torrente Ballester]] (Court of [[Philip IV of Spain|Felipe IV]])
*''[[Estebanillo González|Life and facts of Estebanillo González, man of good humour]]'' by Anonymous ([[Thirty Years' War]])
*''[[Lazarillo de Tormes|The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities]]'' (''La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades'') by Anonymous 
*''[[La Celestina|The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea]]'' (''La Celestina'') by [[Fernando de Rojas]]  
*''[[El Buscón|Paul the Sharper or The Scavenger]]'' (''El Buscón'') by [[Francisco de Quevedo]]
*''[[The Heart of Jade]]'' (''El Corazón de piedra verde'') by [[Salvador de Madariaga]]
*''[[The Islands of Unwisdom]]'' by [[Robert Graves]] ([[Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira|Álvaro de Mendaña]])
*''[[Captain from Castile (novel)|Captain From Castile]]'' by [[Samuel Shellabarger]] ([[Hernán Cortés]]' [[Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire|Conquest of Mexico]])
*''[[Episodios Nacionales|National Episodes]]'' by [[Benito Pérez Galdós]] (19th century)
*''[[La regenta]]'' by [[Leopoldo Alas|Leopoldo Alas "Clarín"]] (19th century)
*''[[Fortunata y Jacinta]]'' by [[Benito Pérez Galdós]] (19th century)
*''[[El húsar]]'' by [[Arturo Pérez-Reverte]] (Napoleonic age)	
*''[[The Fencing Master]]'' by [[Arturo Pérez-Reverte]] ([[Isabella II of Spain|Isabella II]] age)
*''[[Winter in Madrid]]'' by [[C. J. Sansom]]
*''[[Línea de fuego]]'' by [[Arturo Pérez-Reverte]]

==Sweden==
*''[[The Long Ships]]'' by [[Frans G. Bengtsson]] (Vikings, 10th century)
*[[The Emigrants (novels)|''The Emigrants'']] by [[Vilhelm Moberg]] (middle of the 19th century)

==Switzerland==
*''[[Anne of Geierstein]]'' by Sir [[Walter Scott]] (15th century)

==Syria==
*''[[The End of a Brave Man]]'' by [[Hanna Mina]] (20th century)

==Turkey==
*''[[A Mind at Peace]] (Huzur)'' by [[Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar]] (20th century, 1930s Istanbul) 

==United Kingdom==

===Earliest history===
*''[[Bernard Cornwell#Novels|Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC]]'' by [[Bernard Cornwell]] (Stonehenge)
*''[[Cecelia Holland#Novels|Pillar of the Sky]]'' by [[Cecelia Holland]] (Stonehenge)
*''[[The Stronghold (novel)|The Stronghold]]'' by [[Mollie Hunter]] (Orkney in the 1st century BC)

===Roman Britain===
*''[[Under the Eagle]]'' and others in the Cato series by [[Simon Scarrow]] (Roman invasion, AD 42)
*''[[The Silver Pigs]]'', ''[[A Body in the Bath House]]'' and ''[[The Jupiter Myth]]'' by [[Lindsey Davis]] (crime in the reign of [[Vespasian]], 1st century AD)
*''[[The Eagle of the Ninth]]'' by [[Rosemary Sutcliff]] (2nd century AD)
*''[[The Silver Branch (Sutcliff novel)|The Silver Branch]]'' by [[Rosemary Sutcliff]] (3rd century AD)
*''[[The Forest House]]'', and others in the series by [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]

===Medieval===
*''[[Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages|Porius]]'' by [[John Cowper Powys]] (Arthurian, 5th century)
*''[[Sword at Sunset]]'' by [[Rosemary Sutcliff]] (Arthurian)
*''[[The Saxon Shore]]'' by [[Jack Whyte]] (Arthurian)
*''[[Grail Prince]]'' by [[Nancy McKenzie]] ([[Galahad]])
*''[[Hild (novel)|Hild]]'' by [[Nicola Griffith]] (7th century)
*''[[The Saxon Stories]]'' by [[Bernard Cornwell]] ([[Alfred the Great]], (9th century)
*''[[Avalon (novel)|Avalon]]'' by [[Anya Seton]] (10th century)
*''[[The Conqueror (Heyer novel)|The Conqueror]]'' by [[Georgette Heyer]] ([[William the Conqueror]], 11th century)
*''[[Hereward the Wake (novel)|Hereward the Wake]]'' by [[Charles Kingsley]] ([[Hereward the Wake]], 11th century)
*''[[The Wake (novel)|The Wake]]'' by [[Paul Kingsnorth]] (11th century)
*''[[Outlaw (novel)|Outlaw]]'' by [[Angus Donald]], the first novel in the ''Outlaw Chronicles'' (12th century)
*''[[King's Man]]'' by [[Angus Donald]], the third in the above series (12th century)
*''[[The Pillars of the Earth]]'' by [[Ken Follett]] (12th-century)
*''[[Ivanhoe]]'' by Sir [[Walter Scott]] (12th century)
*''[[Kay the Left-Handed]]'' by [[Leslie Barringer]] (12th century)
*''[[The Pillars of the Earth]]'' by [[Ken Follett]] (12th century)
*''[[Lady of the Forest]]'' by [[Jennifer Roberson]] (12th century)
*''[[Time and Chance (Penman novel)|Time and Chance]]'' by [[Sharon Kay Penman]] (12th century)
*''[[The Devil's Brood]]'' by [[Sharon Kay Penman]] (12th century)
*''[[Here Be Dragons]]'' by [[Sharon Kay Penman]] (Wales, 13th century)
*''[[The Reckoning (1991 novel)|The Reckoning]]'' by [[Sharon Kay Penman]] (13th century Wales)
*''[[Edith Pargeter#The Heaven Tree Trilogy|The Heaven Tree Trilogy]]'' by [[Edith Pargeter]] (13th century Wales)
*''[[Edith Pargeter#The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet|The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet]]'' by [[Edith Pargeter]] (13th century Wales)
*''[[The Fair Maid of Perth]]'' by Sir [[Walter Scott]] (14th-century Scotland)
*''[[The Grail Quest]]'' by [[Bernard Cornwell]] (14th century)
*''[[Katherine (Seton novel)|Katherine]]'' by [[Anya Seton]] (14th century)
*''[[Company of Liars]]'' by [[Karen Maitland]] (14th century)
*''[[World Without End (Follett novel)|World Without End]]'' by [[Ken Follett]] (14th century)
*''[[Owen Glendower (novel)|Owen Glendower]]'' by [[John Cowper Powys]] (15th century Wales)
*''[[Know Ye Not Agincourt?]]'' by [[Leslie Barringer]] (15th century)
*''[[The Sunne in Splendour]]'' by [[Sharon Kay Penman]] (15th century)
*''[[The Load of Unicorn]]'' by [[Cynthia Harnett]] ([[William Caxton|Caxton]], 15th century London)

===Tudor and Stuart===
*''[[The House of Niccolò]]'' and ''[[Lymond Chronicles]]'' by [[Dorothy Dunnett]] (Scotland and beyond, 15th and 16th centuries)
*''[[The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck]]'' by [[Mary Shelley]] ([[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] and [[Perkin Warbeck]])
*''[[Wolf Hall]]'' by [[Hilary Mantel]] ([[Thomas Cromwell]]'s rise to power)
*''[[Bring up the Bodies]]'' by Hilary Mantel (Thomas Cromwell and [[Anne Boleyn]])
*''[[The Other Boleyn Girl]]'' by [[Philippa Gregory]] ([[Mary Boleyn]])
*''[[The Fifth Queen]]'' by [[Ford Madox Ford]] ([[Katharine Howard]])
*''[[Margaret Irwin (novelist)|Young Bess]]'', ''[[Margaret Irwin (novelist)|Elizabeth, Captive Princess]]'' and ''[[Margaret Irwin (novelist)|Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain]]'' by [[Margaret Irwin (novelist)|Margaret Irwin]]
*''[[Kenilworth (novel)|Kenilworth]]'' by Sir [[Walter Scott]] (Elizabeth I and [[Amy Robsart]])
*''[[Cue for Treason]]'' by [[Geoffrey Trease]] ([[English Renaissance theatre]]/Elizabethan Cumberland and London)
*''[[Come Rack! Come Rope!]]'' by [[Robert Hugh Benson]] (Elizabethan persecution of Catholics)
*''[[Woodstock (novel)|Woodstock]]'' by Sir [[Walter Scott]] (English Civil War)
*''[[Peveril of the Peak]]'' by Sir Walter Scott (English Civil War)
*''[[John Inglesant]]'' by [[Joseph Henry Shorthouse]] ([[Charles I of England|Charles I]], English Civil War, Catholic [[proselytism]])
*''[[Lady of the Glen]]'' by [[Jennifer Roberson]] ([[Massacre of Glencoe]])
*''[[A Tale of Old Mortality]]'' by Sir Walter Scott (17th-century Scottish rebellion)
*''[[A Journal of the Plague Year]]'' by [[Daniel Defoe]] (account of [[Great Plague of London]], 1666)
*''[[Year of Wonders]]'' by [[Geraldine Brooks (writer)|Geraldine Brooks]] (Great Plague, 1666)
*''[[Forever Amber (novel)|Forever Amber]]'' by [[Kathleen Winsor]] (17th century, [[Restoration (England)|Restoration period]])
*''[[Royal Escape]]'' by [[Georgette Heyer]] ([[Oliver Cromwell|Cromwell]] and [[Charles II of England|Charles II]])
*''[[Micah Clarke]]'' by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] (17th century, [[Monmouth Rebellion]])
*''[[Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood]]'' by [[Rafael Sabatini]] (17th century, Monmouth Rebellion and aftermath)
*''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'' by Neal Stephenson (English Civil War, rule of Charles II, [[Glorious Revolution]], early 18th century)
*''[[Hawksmoor (novel)|Hawksmoor]]'' by Peter Akroyd ([[Christopher Wren]], [[Nicholas Hawksmoor]] and parallel modern story)
*''[[The History of Henry Esmond]]'' by [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] (reign of Queen Anne)
*''[[An Instance of the Fingerpost]]'' by Iain Pears (Restoration period)

===Hanoverian===
*''[[Rob Roy (novel)|Rob Roy]]'' by Sir [[Walter Scott]] ([[1715 Jacobite rising]])
*''[[The Heart of Mid-Lothian]]'' by Sir [[Walter Scott]] (1730s Scotland and England)
*''[[Waverley (novel)|Waverley]]'' by Sir [[Walter Scott]] ([[1745 Jacobite rising]])
*''[[The Luck of Barry Lyndon]]'' by [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] (18th-century England, [[Seven Years' War]])
*''[[Redgauntlet]]'' by Sir [[Walter Scott]] ([[Jacobitism|Jacobites]] in Dumfries, 1760s)
*''[[Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]] ([[Gordon riots]], 1780)
*''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]] (London and Paris during the [[French Revolution]])
*[[Richard Sharpe (fictional character)|Richard Sharpe]] series by [[Bernard Cornwell]] (British Army in the [[Napoleonic Wars]])
*[[Horatio Hornblower]] series by [[C. S. Forester]] (British navy in the [[Napoleonic Wars]])
*[[Aubrey–Maturin series]] by [[Patrick O'Brian]] (British Navy in the [[Napoleonic Wars]])
*''[[Ramage (novel)|Ramage]]'' series by [[Dudley Pope]] (British Navy in the [[Napoleonic Wars]])
*[[Bolitho Novels]] by [[Douglas Reeman|Alexander Kent]] (British Navy in the [[Napoleonic Wars]])
*''[[Wellington and Napoleon Quartet]]'' by [[Simon Scarrow]] ([[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Wellington]] and [[Napoleon]])
*''[[Judith (novel)|Judith]]'' by [[Brian Cleeve]] (the start of the 19th century)
*''[[Kydd (novel)|Kydd]]'' by [[Julian Stockwin]] (French and Napoleonic Wars)
*''[[Sacred Hunger]]'' by [[Barry Unsworth]] (18th century [[Atlantic slave trade|transatlantic slave trade]])

===Victorian===
*''[[Fingersmith (novel)|Fingersmith]]'' by [[Sarah Waters]] (1860s London and elsewhere)
*''[[The Flashman Papers]]'' by [[George MacDonald Fraser]] (Victorian era)
*''[[Laura Blundy]]'' by [[Julie Myerson]] ([[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Victorian London]])
*''[[Jamrach's Menagerie]]'' by [[Carol Birch]] (Victorian London and seafaring)

===20th century===
*''[[The Wishing Game]]'' by [[Patrick Redmond]] (life in a strict and uncanny [[boarding school]] in rural [[Norfolk, England|Norfolk]] in the 1950s)
*''[[The Rotters' Club (novel)|The Rotters' Club]]'' by [[Jonathan Coe]] (1970s)
*''[[Diary of an Ordinary Woman]]'' by [[Margaret Forster]] (a fictional diary of the period)

===Multiple time frames===
*''[[Sarum (novel)|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 (book series)|''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]] ([[Salem witch trials]])
*''[[Logan, a Family History]]'' by [[John Neal]] (Aftermath of [[Lord Dunmore's War]])
*''[[Seventy-Six (novel)|Seventy-Six]]'' by [[John Neal]] (American Revolution)
*''[[Brother Jonathan (novel)|Brother Jonathan]]'' by [[John Neal]] (American Revolution)
*[[Sergeant Lamb novels|''Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth'' and ''Proceed, Sergeant Lamb'']] by [[Robert Graves]] (American Revolution)
*''[[The Fort (novel)|The Fort]]'' by [[Bernard Cornwell]] (the [[Penobscot Expedition]] of the American Revolution)
*''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' by [[James Fenimore Cooper]] ([[French and Indian War]])
*''[[Richard Carvel]]'' by [[Winston Churchill (novelist)|Winston Churchill]] ([[Province of Maryland|Maryland]] and the [[American Revolution]])
*''[[Shadow Patriots]], a Novel of the Revolution'' by [[Lucia St. Clair Robson]] ([[George Washington]]'s [[Culper Ring|Culper Spy Ring]])
*''[[Johnny Tremain]]'' by [[Esther Forbes]] (Boston in the 1770s)
*''[[Mason & Dixon]]'' by [[Thomas Pynchon]] (18th century/American Revolution)
*''[[War Comes to Willy Freeman]]'' by [[James Lincoln Collier]] (American Revolution)

===19th century===
*''[[Burr (novel)|Burr]]'' by [[Gore Vidal]] ([[Aaron Burr]])
*''[[My Theodosia]]'' by [[Anya Seton]] (The life of [[Theodosia Burr Alston]], her father [[Aaron Burr]]'s Vice Presidency and subsequent years)
*''[[The Confessions of Nat Turner]]'' by [[William Styron]] (1831 slave revolt)
*''[[Roots: The Saga of an American Family]]'' by [[Alex Haley]] (18th–19th century slavery)
*''[[Death Comes for the Archbishop]]'' by [[Willa Cather]] (mid-19th century [[New Mexico Territory]]
*''[[Cloudsplitter]]'' by [[Russell Banks]] (abolitionist [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]], pre-Civil War)
*[[The Emigrants (novels)|''The Emigrants'' series]] by [[Vilhelm Moberg]] (Swedish emigrants in Minnesota, 1850s)
*''[[The Known World]]'' by [[Edward P. Jones]] ([[Antebellum era|antebellum]] Virginia)
*''[[The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters]]'' by [[Robert Lewis Taylor]] (mid-19th century Western wagon train)
*''[[Lincoln (novel)|Lincoln]]'' by [[Gore Vidal]]
*''[[Across Five Aprils]]'' by [[Irene Hunt]] ([[American Civil War]])
*''[[Andersonville (novel)|Andersonville]]'' by [[MacKinlay Kantor]] (American Civil War)
*''[[Cold Mountain (novel)|Cold Mountain]]'' by [[Charles Frazier]] (American Civil War)
*''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone with the Wind]]'' by [[Margaret Mitchell]] (American Civil War)
*''[[The Killer Angels]]'' by [[Michael Shaara]] (American Civil War)
*''[[The Red Badge of Courage]]'' by [[Stephen Crane]] (American Civil War)
*''[[Traveller (novel)|Traveller]]'' by [[Richard Adams]] (American Civil War, told by [[Robert E. Lee]]'s horse)
*''[[Andersonville (novel)|Andersonville]]'' by [[MacKinlay Kantor]] ([[Andersonville National Historic Site|Andersonville prison camp]])
*''[[Shiloh (Foote novel)|Shiloh]]'' by [[Shelby Foote]]
*''[[The March (novel)|The March]]'' by [[E. L. Doctorow]] ([[Sherman's March to the Sea]])
*''[[True Women]]'' by [[Janice Woods Windle]] ([[Texas Revolution]], American Civil War, early 20th Century)
*''[[Lee and Grant at Appomattox]]'' by [[MacKinlay Kantor]] (American Civil War)
*''[[Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All]]'' by [[Allan Gurganus]] (American Civil War and late 19th century)
*''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' by [[Toni Morrison]] (post-Civil War)
*''[[Ride the Wind]]'' by [[Lucia St. Clair Robson]] (Cynthia Ann Parker's life with the Comanches)
*''[[The Turquoise (novel)|The Turquoise]]'' by [[Anya Seton]] (The Santa Fe Trail and New York society)
*''[[Out of This Furnace]]'' by [[Thomas Bell (novelist)|Thomas Bell]] (Immigrants and the steel mills of [[Pittsburgh]], from 1880)
*''[[Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer]]'' by [[Steven Millhauser]] (late 19th century New York City)
*''[[Shadow Country]]'' by [[Peter Matthiessen]] ([[Edgar Watson|Edgar "Bloody" Watson]], late 19th century Florida)
*''[[The City Beautiful (novel)|The City Beautiful]]'' by [[Aden Polydoros]] (Chicago 1893, [[World's Columbian Exposition]])

===20th century===
*''[[Ragtime (novel)|Ragtime]]'' by [[E. L. Doctorow]] (beginning of the 20th century)
*''[[The Road to Wellville]]'' by [[T. C. Boyle]] (the story of Dr. [[John Harvey Kellogg]] in 1907)
*''[[Lanny Budd]]'' series by [[Upton Sinclair]] (1913–1949)
*''[[Cryptonomicon]]'' by [[Neal Stephenson]] (American soldiers in World War II)

===Multiple time frames===

====Novels by James A. Michener====
*''[[Alaska (novel)|Alaska]]'' ([[Alaska]])
*''[[Centennial (novel)|Centennial]]'' ([[Colorado]])
*''[[Chesapeake (novel)|Chesapeake]]'' ([[Chesapeake Bay]]/[[Delmarva Peninsula]])
*''[[Hawaii (novel)|Hawaii]]'' ([[Hawaii|Hawai{{okina}}i]])
*''[[Texas (novel)|Texas]]'' ([[Texas]])

====Novels by other authors====
*''[[New York (novel)|New York]]'' by [[Edward Rutherfurd]] (New York City)
* ''[[A Council of Dolls]]'' by [[Mona Susan Power]] ([[Standing Rock Indian Reservation]], South Dakota; [[Carlisle Indian Industrial School]], Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois)

==Vietnam==
*''[[The Sorrow of War]]'' by [[Bao Ninh]] (Vietnam War)
*''[[The Lotus Eaters (novel)|The Lotus Eaters]]'' by [[Tatjana Soli]] (Vietnam War)

==See also==
*[[Historical fiction]]
*[[Historical novel]]
*[[Novel]]
*[[List of historical fiction by time period]]
*[[List of historical video games]]
*[[List of fiction set in ancient Rome]]
*[[List of fiction set in ancient Greece]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.uibk.ac.at/germanistik/histrom/register.html Database of German historical novels]
*[http://historicalnovels.info/ Historical Fiction database], divided by time period.
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1359 A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield (1902)]. Project Gutenberg etext (accessed 05-2014)
*[http://www.culturahistorica.es/historical_novels.html A selection of historical novels set by epoch and author.] (accessed 08-2010)
*[http://www.muni.org/Departments/library/kids/Pages/HistoricalFiction.aspx/ Annotated list of historical novels for children and teens] Anchorage Public Library
*[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Historia-Promoting-Histroical-Novels-Historical-8291626/ History networking] Authors, Publishers, Editors, Researchers. Suggest tools and sources, help with reading list, discussions challenges. Network, promote books or find work.

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