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Historical Fiction: International


Europe | Africa | Latin American | Middle East | Australia | Asia

Europe

  Author Title
  AIKEN, Joan Lady Catherine's Necklace
  ALLENDE, Isabel Daugther of Fortune
  AUSTEN, Jane Pride and Prejudice
    Northanger Abbey
    Sense and Sensibility
    Pride and Prejudice
  BARRETT, Andrea Voyage of the Narwhal (19th Century Arctic explorers)
  BUCHHEIM, Lothar-Gunther The Boat
  BRONTE, Charlotte Jane Eyre
  BRONTE, Emily Wuthering Heights
  BUNFORD, Sheila Bel Ria
  BURNETT, Frances Hodgson The Lost Prince
    The Secret Garden
  CADNUM, Michael Book of the Lion (12th century England)
  CASANOVA, Mary Curse of a Winter Moon (16th century France)
  CHAMBERLIN, Ann Merlin of Oak Wood (Joan of Arc)
  CHEANEY, J. B. Playmaker (16th century London)
  CORNWELL, Bernard Vagabond (100 Years War)
  CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Kevin  At the Crossing Places (Crusades, Camelot, medieval Britain)
The Seeing Stone (Arthurian)
  DICKENS, Charles Tale of Two Cities
    Bleack House
    Barnaby Rudge
    Martin Chuzzlewit
  CORMIER, Robert Heroes: a Novel
  CUSHMAN, Karen Matilda Bone (medieval medicine, England)
  DUMAS, Alexander Count of Monte Cristo
    The Three Musketeers
    Twenty Years After   
  DE BERNIERES, Louis Corelli's Mandolin
  EISNER, Michael Alexander Crusader (Spain, post-Crusades)
  ELIOT, George Adam Bede
    Middle March
    Silas Marner
  FITZGERALD, F. Scott Tender is the Night
  FLAUBERT, Gustave Madame Bovary
  FODEN, Giles Ladysmith
  GALLICO, Paul The Snow Goose
  GARDEN, Nancy Love and the Sword (Joan of Arc)
  GARFIELD, Leon Black Jack (18th Century England)
    Smith (18th Century England)
  GAVIN, Jamila Coram Boy (18th Century Great Britain)
  GERAS, Adele Troy (Trojan War)
  GREGORY, Kristiana Cleopatra VII (Royal Diaries series)
  HAAHR, Berit Minstrel's Tale (14th Century England)
  HARRISON, William Ainsworth
  HENEGHAN, James The Grave (Irish potato famine)
  HESSE, Karen Stowaway (with Captain Cook)
  HARDY, Thomas Tess of D'Urbevilles and others
  HODGE, Jane Aiken The Adventureres
  HICYILMAZ, Gaye Smiling for Strangers (War in Yugoslavia 1991-95)
  HOROWITZ, Anthony Devil and his Boy (London 1593)
  HORSLEY, Kate Confessions of a Pagan Nun (Ireland, 6th Century)
  HUGO, Victor Les Miserables
  ISAACS, Anne Torn Threads (Poland 1941-45)
  JACKSON, Mick Five Boys (WWII England)
  KALOGRIDIS, Jeanne The Burning Times (medieval France)
  KENEALLY, Thomas Schindler’s List
  LLYWELYN, Morgan Etruscans (Ancient Roman mythology)
  LYONS, Mary E. Knockabeg: A Famine Tale (Ireland 1845-52)
  McALLISTER, Margaret Hold My Hand and Run (17th Century England)
  MEAD, Alice Girl of Kosovo (Serbia, 1998)
  MELNIKOFF, Pamela Prisoner in Time: A Child of the Holocaust
  MEYER, Carolyn Anastasia, the Last Grand Duchess (Russia, 1914)

Beware Princess Elizabeth

Mary, Bloody, Mary (Tudor Period)

  MIKLOWITZ, Gloria D.  Secrets in the House of Delgado (Spain 1479-1516)
  MILES, Rosalind Knight of the Sacred Lake (Arthurian)
Child of the Holy Grail (Arthurian)
  NORDHOFF, Charles Mutiny on the Bounty
  ORCZY, Emmuska The Scarlet Pimpernel
  PRESSLER, Mirjam Shylock's Daughter (Venice 1568)
  RABB, Jonathan Book of Q (Bosnia 1991--1995)
  REMARQUE, Eric Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
  RICHARDSON, Bill After Hamlin (After the Pied Piper)
  SABERHAGEN, Fred Ariadne's Web (Greek mythology)
  SAYLOR, Steven Last Seen in Massilia (Ancient Rome)
  SCOTT, Sir Walter Quentin Duward
  SEIFFERT, Rachel The Dark Room (Germany 1930s)
  SIMOEN, Jan What About Anna? (Yugoslavia 1991-95)
  STURTEVANT,Katherine At the Sign of the Star (Restoration London)
  THACKERY, William Vanity Fair
  TOBIN, Betsy Bone House (17th Century England--gothic novel)
  TOLSTOY, Leo War and Peace
    Anna Karenina
  TOWN, Florida Ann With a Silent Companion (Young woman in medical school, 19th century Ireland)
  URIS, Leon QB VII
    Mila 18
  WALLACE, Barbara Brooks Ghosts in the Gallery (Victorian mystery)
  WAUGH, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited
  WELCH, Ronald Tank Commander
  WESTHEIMER, David Van Ryan's Express
  WEISEL, Elie Dawn
    Fifth Son
    Night
  WILLIAMS, Laura E. Executioner's Daughter (Medieval England)
  WILSON, John Lost in Spain (Spanish Civl War 1936)
  WOLF, Joan Poisoned Serpent (Medieval mystery)
  YARBRO, Chelsea Quinn Come Twilight (500 years of a vampire's life in Spain)
     
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Middle East

  Author Title
  CARD, Scott Oson Sarah: Woman of Genesis
  ELMER, Robert Brother Enemy (Promise of Zion)
  LESTER, Julius Pharaoh's Daughter (Ancient Egypt)
  MOSHIRI, Farnoosh Bathhouse (Iran)
  STAPLES, Suzanne Fisher Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
     Haveli

Latin American

  Author Title
  ALLENDE, ISABEL Daughter of Fortune (Chile 1849)
       
       
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Africa

  Author Title
    PATON, Alan   Cry the Beloved Country

Australia

  CAREY, Peter True History of the Kelly Gang (Irish fugitive in Australia 1855-80)
  MCCULLOUGH, Colleen Morgan's Run
     Thorn Birds
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Asia

  Author Title
  COONTS, Stephen Hong Kong
  GILMORE, Rachna A Group of One (India,1942)
  HOOBLER, Dorothy and Thomas Demon in the Teahouse (Geisha mystery, 18th Century Japan
  LOBB, Frances The Day of the Bomb
  STAPLES, Suzanne Fisher Shiva's Fire (India)
       

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