1. Novels
    Set in Prehistory (c. 30,000 BC – 3000 BC)  Set in Classical Greece, Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, etc. (c. 2000 BC – 500 AD)  Set in the Middle Ages (c. 500 AD – 1500)  Set in the Early Modern Period (c. 1500 – 1760)  Set during the Industrial Revolution and Napoleonic Era (c. 1760 – 1840)  Set during recent history (c. 1850 – 1950) 

2. Theatre
    Set 2000 BC – 600 AD  Set 600 AD – 1550  Set after 1550 

3. Opera
    Set 3000 BC – 600 AD  Set 600 AD – 1800 

4. Films and television

5. Poetry

6. Comics
    Prehistoric  Ancient  Wuxia manhua  Samurai manga 

7. See also

8. External links

This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable historical works divided by time period.

For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; also see the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well as the more general Category:Historical novels and Category:Historical fiction.

Novels

Set in Prehistory (c. 30,000 BC – 3000 BC)

• Earth's Children by Jean Auel
• Ember of a New World by Tom Watson
• Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
• Pillar of the Sky by Cecelia Holland
• Mammoth Trilogy by Stephen Baxter
• The Gathering Night by Margaret Elphinstone
• Song of the Axe and Song of the Earth by John R. Dann
• Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver
• First North Americans by W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear
• The Temporary Zare (На заре времен) series by Semyon Karatov et al.
• The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
• The Inheritors by William Golding
• The Quest for Fire by J.-H. Rosny

Set in Classical Greece, Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, etc. (c. 2000 BC – 500 AD)

• I, Claudius, King Jesus, Homer's Daughter and Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
• Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games by Mary Renault
• Emperor series by Conn Iggulden
• A Struggle for Rome by Felix Dahn
• Men of Bronze and Memnon by Scott Oden
• The Scourge of God by William Dietrich
• Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus
• Julian and Creation by Gore Vidal
• The Sword of Attila (Мечът на Атила) by Petar Bobev
• The Death of Attila by Cecelia Holland
• Uard, Homo Sum, Die Schwester, Der Kaiser by Georg Ebers
• Carthage Trilogy by Ross Leckie
• Kleopatra Pharaoh by Karen Essex
• Gaius Valerius Verrens series by Douglas Jackson
• The Ramses Series and The Queen of Freedom Trilogy by Christian Jacq
• The Empress of Silk (L'impératrice de la soie) and The Jade Disc (Le disque de jade) by José Frèches
• The War at Troy and The Return from Troy by Lindsay Clarke
• Marcus Corvinus series by David Wishart
• Roma Sub Rosa by Steven Saylor
• The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
• Hannibal Chronicles, Spartacus Chronicles and Forgotten Legion Chronicles by Ben Kane
• Vespasian series by Robert Fabbri
• Cicero Trilogy (Imperium/Lustrum/Dictator) and Pompeii by Robert Harris
• The Egyptian and The Secret of the Kingdom by Mika Waltari
• The Alexander Trilogy (Trilogia di Aléxandros) by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
• Eagle Series and Gladiator Series by Simon Scarrow
• Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Lion of Sparta (Леонид. Спартанский лев) and Darius (Дарий) by Viktor Porotnikov
• Troy Series by David Gemmel
• The Walled Orchard, Olympiad, Song for Nero, Meadowland and Alexander: At World's End by Tom Holt
• Judge Dee by Robert Van Gulik
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong and retold by Eiji Yoshikawa
• Gates of Fire, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign and Tides of War by Stephen Pressfield
• Hay luz en casa de Publio Fama by Juan Miñana
• Scipio trilogy and Trajan trilogy by Santiago Posteguillo
• El lazo de púrpura by Alejandro Núñez Alonso
• The Unconquered Sun by Ralph Dulin
• Helena by Evelyn Waugh
• Out of Egypt and The Road to Cana by Anne Rice
• A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
• The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
• The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
• The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer
• The Source by James A. Michener
• Raptor by Gary Jennings
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough
• The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
• Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
• Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert

Set in the Middle Ages (c. 500 AD – 1500)

• Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings) by Maurice Druon
• The Saxon Stories and The Grail Quest by Bernard Cornwell
• The Conquest Trilogy and Passing Under Heaven by Justin Hill
• Conqueror series by Conn Iggulden
• Oathsworn Series by Robert Low
• Matthew Bartholomew series by Susanna Gregory
• Brethren Trilogy and The Insurrection Trilogy by Robyn Young
• Camulod Chronicles by Jack Whyte
• Kings of Albion and The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
• Minstrel Dick. A Tale of the XIVth Century by Christabel R. Coleridge (set in the court of Edward, the Black Prince)
• King Raven Trilogy by Stephen Lawhead
• The Knights of the Cross by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• New Tale of the Heike by Eiji Yoshikawa
• The Viking Series and Saxon by Tim Severin
• Nama miko monogatari (A Tale of False Fortunes) by Fumiko Enchi
• The Plantagenet Series, The Welsh Princes Series, The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
• The Cadfael Chronicles and A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter
• The Corban Loosestrife series and Great Maria by Cecelia Holland
• El Doncel de don Enrique el Doliente by Mariano José de Larra
• Sancho Saldaña o el castellano de Cuellar by José de Espronceda
• Svetoslav Terter, Two against hell and Black Rider by Tsoncho Rodev
• Il cavaliere invisibile by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
• Telling of Khan Asparoukh, knyaz Slav and votari Terez, Telling of the time of Samuil, Odd knight of Holy book by Anton Donchev
• Los bandos de Castilla by Ramón López Soler
• Los malos años and Corazón oscuro by León Arsenal
• El camino mozarabe by Jesús Sánchez Adalid
• Pre-Aztec Series, The Rise of the Aztecs Series, The Peacemaker Series, The People of the Longhouse Series by Zoe Saadia
• The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett
• Poland by James A. Michener
• The Journeyer by Gary Jennings
• The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson

Set in the Early Modern Period (c. 1500 – 1760)

• Sano Ichiro by Laura Joh Rowland
• Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolò by Dorothy Dunnett
• The Secrets of the Tudor Court and Face Down Mysteries by Kate Emerson
• Captain Alatriste by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• Peter I by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
• The White Devil (Белият Дявол) by Hristo Kalchev
• The Waverley Novels by Walter Scott
• The Cem Case (Случаят Джем) by Vera Mutafchieva
• My Name is Red and The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
• Mathias Tannhauser trilogy by Tim Willocks
• d'Artagnan Romances and Valois Romances by Alexandre Dumas
• Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex
• Miyamoto Musashi and Taiko ki by Eiji Yoshikawa
• Imprimatur Secretum Veritas Mysterium... by Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti
• Leo Africanus, Samarkand, Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
• Shōgun by James Clavell
• Adventures of Captain Alatriste series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition by Miguel Delibes
• Ladrones de tinta by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta
• El reino de los hombres sin amor by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta
• The Heart of Jade (El Corazón de piedra verde) by Salvador de Madariaga
• La aventura equinocial de Lope de Aguirre by Ramón José Sender Garcés
• Tlaloc Weeps for Mexico (Esőisten siratja Mexikót) by László Passuth
• Centauros by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa (Alonso de Ojeda)
• The Last Crusader by Louis de Wohl
• Aztec by Gary Jennings
• Romola by George Eliot
• Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• Seek the Fair Land by Walter Macken
• The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Silence by Shūsaku Endō
• Hawaii, Chesapeake and Caribbean by James A. Michener
• The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
• The Accursed Kings series by Maurice Druon
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton

Set during the Industrial Revolution and Napoleonic Era (c. 1760 – 1840)

• Money Power Love by Joss Sheldon
• Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell
• The Competition by Caroline Miley
• Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
• Hornblower series by C.S. Forester
• Lord Ramage by Dudley Pope
• Saint Hermine Series by Alexandre Dumas
• The Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Ethan Cage by William Dietrich
• The Mutiny by Julian Rathbone
• Stealing Athena by Karen Essex
• The Revolution Quartet by Simon Scarrow
• Beltrán Ochoa, capitán de Dragones series by Octavio Sánchez-Machuca (Carlos III reign)
• 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
• National Episodes by Benito Pérez Galdós)
• La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas (Clarín)
• Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós
• Un día de cólera, El húsar, The Siege (El asedio) and La sombra del águila by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• Una saga marinera española by Luis Delgado Bañón
• Historical romances by Eleanor Hibbert
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry
• The Kent Family Chronicles by John Jakes
• Narratives of America series by Allan W. Eckert
• The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
• The Revenant by Michael Punke
• The Awakening Land trilogy by Conrad Richter
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• Burr by Gore Vidal
• Poldark series by Winston Graham
• A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett
• Alaska by James A. Michener
• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
• Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds
• The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
• April Morning by Howard Fast
• The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
• The Sergeant Lamb novels by Robert Graves
• The Revolution at Sea saga by James L. Nelson
• Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
• The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally
• The Bolitho novels by Alexander Kent

Set during recent history (c. 1850 – 1950)

• The Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
• Enigma by Robert Harris
• Cézanne’s Quarry by Barbara Corrado Pope
• The Blood of Lorraine by Barbara Corrado Pope
• The Missing Italian Girl by Barbara Corrado Pope
• Lonesome Dove series by Larry McMurtry
• The Sackett series by Louis L'Amour
• North and South trilogy by John Jakes
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
• Shiloh by Shelby Foote
• Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Winds of War and War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
• Narratives of Empire series by Gore Vidal
• The novels of E. L. Doctorow
• Fall of Giants, Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett
• Centennial, The Covenant, Texas, and Journey by James A. Michener
• Tai-Pan and Gai-Jin by James Clavell
• The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
• The Kreizler series by Caleb Carr
• The L.A. Quartet and the Underworld USA Trilogy by James Ellroy
• The James Reasoner Civil War Series by James Reasoner
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Emigrants series by Vilhelm Moberg
• The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle
• Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Exodus by Leon Uris
• The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
• Drood by Dan Simmons
• The Flashman Papers series by George MacDonald Fraser

Theatre

Set 2000 BC – 600 AD

• Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
• Britannicus by Jean Racine
• Caligula by Albert Camus
• The Death of Pompey by Pierre Corneille
• Socrates on Trial by Andrew David Irvine
• Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
• The Siege of Numantia by Miguel de Cervantes
• Salome by Oscar Wilde

Set 600 AD – 1550

• St Joan by George Bernard Shaw
• William Shakespeare's English history plays
• Edward II, Tamburlaine, and The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe
• Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello
• In Extremis: The Story of Abelard & Heloise and Anne Boleyn by Howard Brenton
• The Jester's Supper by Sem Benelli
• Marie Tudor by Victor Hugo
• Götz von Berlichingen by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot

Set after 1550

• Egmont and Torquato Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Mary Stuart and Demetrius by Friedrich Schiller
• Cross and Sword by Paul Green

Opera

Set 3000 BC – 600 AD

• Aida and Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi
• Akhnaten by Philip Glass
• Cléopâtre and Hérodiade by Jules Massenet
• Mosè in Egitto by Gioachino Rossini
• Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel
• Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz
• Sapho by Charles Gounod
• L'Olimpiade by Metastasio
• Germanicus by Georg Philipp Telemann

Set 600 AD – 1800

• Gustave III by Daniel Auber
• Henry VIII by Camille Saint-Saëns
• William Tell by Gioachino Rossini
• Les Huguenots and Le prophète by Giacomo Meyerbeer
• Fosca and Salvator Rosa by Antônio Carlos Gomes
• Fernand Cortez by Gaspare Spontini
• Thérèse by Jules Massenet
• Le roi l'a dit by Léo Delibes
• Tamerlano and Rodelinda by George Frideric Handel
• Les Abencérages by Luigi Cherubini
• Montezuma by Roger Sessions
• Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi

Films and television

Poetry

• The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold: life of Gautama Buddha, 6th or 5th century BC
• The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: reign of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus in Rome, 6th century BC
• Horatius by Thomas Babington Macaulay: Horatius Cocles vs Lars Porsena, Rome, 6th century BC
• Roderick the Last of the Goths by Robert Southey: reign of Roderic, 8th century Hispania
• King Alfred by John Fitchett: reign of Alfred the Great, 9th century England
• The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton: reign of Alfred the Great, 9th century England
• The Saga of King Olaf by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: reign of Olaf Tryggvason, 10th century Norway
• Madoc by Robert Southey: legend of Madoc, 12th century Wales
• Isabella, or the Pot of Basil and The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats: European Middle Ages
• Marmion by Sir Walter Scott: reign of Henry VIII of England & the Battle of Flodden, 1513
• The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Battle of Flores, 1591
• Bonnie Dundee by Sir Walter Scott: Viscount Dundee and the Jacobite rising of 1689
• Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: the Expulsion of the Acadians (1755–1764)
• Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: American Revolutionary War (1775)

Comics

Prehistoric

• Rahan by Roger Lecureux and Jean-François Lecureux
• Akim by Roberto Renzi

Ancient

• 300 by Frank Miller
• Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower

Wuxia manhua

• Three Kingdoms by Yū Terashima
• Fung Wan by Ma Wing-shing
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Andy Seto
• The Ravages of Time by Chan Mou
• Threads of Time by Noh Mi-young
• Ying Xiong Wu Lei by Ma Wing Shing

Samurai manga

• Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki
• Azumi by Yū Koyama
• Path of the Assassin by Kazuo Koike

See also

• List of historical novels
• List of historical novelists
• Fiction set in ancient Greece
• Fiction set in ancient Rome

External links

• Database of German historical novels
• Historical Fiction database, divided by time period.
• A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield (1902). Project Gutenberg etext (accessed 05-2014)
• A selection of historical novels set by epoch and author. (accessed 08-2010)

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