AbeBooks: 50 Essential Historical Fiction Books

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Alias Grace (1996) by Margaret Atwood
Cloudsplitter (1998) by Russell Banks
Arthur & George (2005) by Julian Barnes
Three Day Road (2005) by Joseph Boyden
March (2005) by Geraldine Brooks
The Painted Girls (2013) by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Oscar and Lucinda (1988) by Peter Carey
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
The Luminaries (2013) by Eleanor Catton
The Sisters Brothers (2011) by Patrick deWitt
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
The March (2005) by E. L. Doctorow
The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père
The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
Half Blood Blues (2011) by Esi Edugyan
Romola (1862) by George Eliot
Silence (1966) by Shūsaku Endō
The Garden of Evening Mists (2012) by Tan Twan Eng
Troubles (1970) by J. G. Farrell
Pillars of the Earth (1989) by Ken Follett
I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves
The Other Boleyn Girl (2001) by Philippa Gregory
The Book of Negroes (2007) by Lawrence Hill
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1910) by Victor Hugo
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (1998) by Wayne Johnston
The Far Pavilions (1978) by M. M. Kaye
Measuring the World (2005) by Daniel Kehlmann
The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver
The Historian (2005) by Elizabeth Kostova
The Long Song (2010) by Andrea Levy
Bring Up the Bodies (2012) by Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall (2009) by Hilary Mantel
The Thorn Birds (1977) by Colleen McCullough
Caravans (1963) by James A. Michener
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) by David Mitchell
Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
Waverley (1814) by Sir Walter Scott
Shanghai Girls (2009) by Lisa See
The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (2012) by Enid Shomer
Quo Vadis (1895) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
August 1914 (1971) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Twentieth Wife (2002) by Indu Sundaresan
War and Peace (1868) by Leo Tolstoy
The Leopard (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Kristin Lavransdatter (1920) by Sigrid Undset
The Last Crossing (2003) by Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Egyptian (1945) by Mika Waltari
The Night Watch (2006) by Sarah Waters
The Seventh Gate (2007) by Richard Zimler

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