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Historical Fiction: Colonial to 1860
| AUTHOR | TITLE | |
| ALCALA, Kathleen | Treasures in Heaven (19th Century Mexico) | |
| ALCOTT, Louisa May | Little Women | |
| Inheritence | ||
| ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey | Story of a Bad Boy | |
| ALLENDE, Isabel | Daughter of Fortune | |
| ANDERSON, Laurie Halse | Fever 1793 | |
| AVI | True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | |
| AYRES, Katherine | North by Night | |
| BRONTE, Emily | Pride and Prejudice | |
| Wuthering Heights | ||
| BRONTE, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | |
| BROWN, Dee | Creek Mary's Blood | |
| BRUHAC, Joseph | Sacajawea | |
| BUTLER, Beverly | Song of the Voyageur | |
| CLAVELL, James | Tai-Pan | |
| COOPER, James Fennimore | Prairie | |
| Pioneers | ||
| DICKENS, Charles | Bleak House | |
| David Copperfield | ||
| Martin Chuzzlewit | ||
| Barnaby Rudge | ||
| DILLARD, Annie | The Living | |
| DONALDSON, Joan | Pebble and a Pen (14-year-old girl 1853) | |
| DONATI, Sara | Into the Wilderness | |
| DU BOIS, Theodora | Tiger Burning Bright | |
| DUMAS, Alexander | Count of Monte Cristo | |
| EDMUNDS,, Walter D | Drums Along the Mohawk | |
| ELIOT, George | Adam Bede | |
| Chad Hanna | ||
| Middle-March | ||
| Silas Marner | ||
| FAULKNER, William | Absalom, Absalom | |
| FINNEY, Jack | From Time to Time | |
| Time and Again | ||
| FITZGERALD, F. Scott | Beautiful and the Damned | |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary | |
| FOX, Paula | Slave Dancer | |
| GARCIA MARQUEZ,, Gabriel | One Hundred Years of Solitude | |
| GARLAND, Sherry | Dear America: Valley of the Moon (California, 1846) | |
| In the Shadow of the Alamo | ||
| GERSON, Noel | Sam Houston | |
| GREGORY, Kristiana | Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild (California Territory, 1849) | |
| HALE, Edward Everett | Man Without a Country | |
| HARDY, Thomas | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | |
| HARRIGAN, Stephen | Gates of the Alamo | |
| HARRIS, Joel Chandler | Uncle Remus Tales | |
| HARRIS, MacDonald | Pandora's Gallery | |
| HAUSMAN, Gerald | Tom Cringle, Battle on the High Seas (War of 1812) | |
| HEIDISH, Marcy | Woman Called Moses | |
| HEISEL, Sharon | Precious Gold, Precious Jade (End of the Gold Rush) | |
| HODGE, Joan Aiken | Red Sky at Night | |
| HOPE, Anthony | Prisoner of Zenda | |
| HOUSTON, James D. | Snow Mountain Passage (1846-50 Donner Party) | |
| HUGO, Victor | Les Miserables | |
| HURST, Carol Otis | Through the Lock (1840 New England) | |
| IRVING, Washington | Legend of Sleepy Hollow | |
| Rip Van Winkle | ||
| JAMES, Henry | Turn of the Screw | |
| KARWOSKI, Gail Langer | Seaman | |
| KARR, Kathleen | Skullduggery (medical practice 1839 New York) | |
| KELLEY, Nancy | Whispering Rod: A Tale of Old Massachusetts | |
| KIMBALL, K.M. | Star Spangled Banner (War of 1812) | |
| KROLL, Steven | Dear Mr. President: John Quincy Adam, Letters from a Southern Planter's Son | |
| LASKY, Kathryn | Journal of Augustus Pelletier (Lewis and Clark expedition, 1804) | |
| LAVENDER, William | Just Jane: A Daughter of England Caught in the Struggle of the American Revolution | |
| LUNN, Janet | Hollow Tree (Revolutionary New Hampshire) | |
| LYTLE, Robert A. | Three Rivers Crossing (frontier) | |
| MACDONALD, Malcolm | World from Rough Stones | |
| MCCLUNG, Robert M. | Hugh Glass, Mountain Man | |
| MCNEER, May | Stranger in the Pines | |
| MELVILLE, Herman | Billy Budd, Sailor | |
| Moby Dick | ||
| Typee | ||
| NORDHOFF, Charles and James Norman Hall | Mutiny on the Bounty | |
| PATERSON, Katherine | Lyddie | |
| POMERANCE, Charlotte Perkins | Elephant Man | |
| PRICE, Nancy | Natural Death | |
| REES, Celia | Witch Child (Puritans 1659) | |
| RHODES, Richard | Ungodly | |
| RINALDI, Ann | Break with Charity (Salem Witch Trials) | |
| Broken Days | ||
| Cast Two Shadows (Revolution in the South) | ||
| Ride Into Morning | ||
| Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons (Phillis Wheatley) | ||
| Staircase | ||
| Time Enough for Drums (Revolution and romance) | ||
| Wolf by the Ears (Jefferson/Hemings) | ||
| RUBY, Lois | Soon Be Free (1857 fugitive slave mystery) | |
| SABATINI, Rafael | Scaramouche | |
| SAWYER, Kem Knapp | Freedom Calls: Journey of a Slave Girl (1848) | |
| SHELLEY, Mary | Frankenstein | |
| SLOTKIN, Richard | Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln | |
| SPOONER, Michael | Daniel's Walk (Oregon Trail, 1844) | |
| STOWE, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| STYRON, William | True Confessions of Nat Turner | |
| SUTHERLAND, Robert | River Apart (War of 1812) | |
| SWARTHOUT, Glendon | Homesman | |
| TAYLOR, Robert Lewis | Travels of Jaime McPheeters | |
| THOM, James Alexander | Sign-talker (Lewis and Clark) | |
| TWAIN, Mark | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
| VAIL, Philip | Sea Panther | |
| VERNE, Julius | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
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