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Category:  Historical Fiction (Sorted by Author's last name)


The Waste Land: An Entertainment (2010) - Simon Acland (-)    (Grade:A)

Empires of Sand (1999) - David Ball (-)    (Grade:A)

All Soul's Rising (1995) - Madison Smartt Bell (-)    (Grade:F)

The Long Ships (1941/45) - Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (10/04/1894-12/19/1954)    (Grade:A+)

A Man for All Seasons (1960) - Robert Bolt (8/15/1924 -2/21/1995)    (Grade:A+)

Eagle In The Snow : A Novel of General Maximus and Rome's Last Stand (1970) - Wallace Breem (05/13/1926-1990)    (Grade:B+)

Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (1853) - William Wells Brown (1814-1884)    (Grade:B)

The Winter King: Warlord Chronicles, vol. 1 (1996) - Bernard Cornwell (1944-)    (Grade:B)

A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice (1996) - James Cowan (-)    (Grade:A+)

Eaters of the Dead (1976) - Michael Crichton (10/23/1942 -11/04/2008)    (Grade:B)

Hadrian's Wall (2004) - William Dietrich (09/29/1951-)    (Grade:C)

Never Surrender: A Novel of Winston Churchill (2003) - Michael Dobbs (11/14/1948-)    (Grade:C)

Murder in the Cathedral (1935) - T. S. Eliot (9/26/1888 -1/04/1965)    (Grade:A-)

Spartacus (1951) - Howard Fast (11/11/1914-03/12/2003)    (Grade:C+)

The Last King of Scotland (1998) - Giles Foden (1967-)    (Grade:B)

The Spire (1964) - William Golding (9/19/1911 -6/19/1993)    (Grade:C+)

I, Claudius (1934) - Robert Graves (7/24/1895 -12/07/1985)    (Grade:A+)

An Infamous Army (1937) - Georgette Heyer (08/16/1902 -07/04/1974)    (Grade:A)

At Drake's Command: The adventures of Peregrine James during the second circumnavigation of the world (Volume 1) (2012) - David Wesley Hill (1956-)    (Grade:A)

Jerusalem (1996) - Cecelia Holland (1943-)    (Grade:C)

Emperor: The Gates of Rome (2003) - Conn Iggulden (1971-)    (Grade:A+)

Godiva and the Golden Dragon (2001) - Steven James (-)    (Grade:A-)

Dreamer: A Novel (1998) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-)    (Grade:C)

House (1985) - Tracy Kidder (1945-)    (Grade:B)

Seven Days to the Sea: an Epic Novel of The Exodus (2006) - Rebecca Kohn (October 1958-)    (Grade:A-)

The Lords of Navarre : A Basque Family Saga (2004) - José Maria Lacambra-Loizu (-)    (Grade:B)

Barabbas (1951) - Par Lagerkvist (1891-1974)    (Grade:A+)

The Death of Napoleon [La Mort de Napoleon] (1986) - Simon Leys (1935-)    (Grade:A-)

A Close Run Thing : A Novel of Wellington's Army of 1815 (1999) - Allan Mallinson (-)    (Grade:A)

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (1985) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933 -06/13/2023)    (Grade:B)

The Brethren (The Fortunes of France, Volume 1) (1977) - Robert Merle (8/28/1908-3/27/2004)    (Grade:A+)

Becoming Madame Mao (2000) - Anchee Min (01/14/1957-)    (Grade:C+)

Black Robe (1985) - Brian Moore (8/25/1921 -1/11/1999)    (Grade:B+)

The Golden Warrior: the Story of Harold and William (1949) - Hope Muntz (08/08/1907 -1981)    (Grade:A+)

1812: A Novel (1997) - David Nevin (-)    (Grade:B+)

Post Captain (1972) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)    (Grade:A+)

H.M.S. Surprise (1973) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)    (Grade:A+)

Treason's Harbour (1983) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)    (Grade:A-)

Loving Soren (2005) - Caroline Coleman O'Neill (-)    (Grade:A+)

The Queen's Man (1996) - Sharon Kay Penman (08/13/1945 -1/22/2021)    (Grade:B-)

Falls the Shadow (1988) - Sharon Kay Penman (08/13/1945 -1/22/2021)    (Grade:A+)

The Afghan Campaign: A Novel (2006) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)    (Grade:A-)

Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War (2000) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)    (Grade:B+)

The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great (2004) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)    (Grade:A-)

Killing Rommel: A Novel (2008) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)    (Grade:A+)

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae (1998) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)    (Grade:A+)

The Killer Angels (1974) - Michael Shaara (6/23/1928 -5/05/1988)    (Grade:A+)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (1599) - William Shakespeare (4/26/1564 (date of baptism) -4/23/1616)    (Grade:A+)

The Tragedy of Richard III (1593) - William Shakespeare (4/26/1564 (date of baptism) -4/23/1616)    (Grade:A-)

With Fire and Sword (1883) - Henryk Sienkiewicz (05/05/1846 -11/15/1916)    (Grade:A+)

Red Plenty (2010) - Francis Spufford (1963 -)    (Grade:A+)

The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H.: A Novel (1981) - George Steiner (04/23/1929 -02/03/2020)    (Grade:C+)

The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) - William Styron (6/11/1925 -11/01/2006)    (Grade:C+)

The Tatra Eagle (2012) - J. Victor Tomaszek (-)    (Grade:A)

Gunnar's Daughter [Fortællingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis] (1909) - Sigrid Undset (05/20/1882 -06/10/1949)    (Grade:A)

The Order of the Day (2017) - Eric Vuillard (05/04/1968-)    (Grade:B)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) - Lew Wallace (1827-1905)    (Grade:A+)

The Eagle's Brood: The Camlud Chronicles, vol.. 3 (1997) - Jack Whyte (-)    (Grade:B-)

Augustus (1973) - John Edward Williams (08/29/1922 -03/03/1994)    (Grade:A)

Beau Geste (1924) - Percival Christopher Wren (1885-1941)    (Grade:A-)

Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) - Marguerite Yourcenar (6/08/1903 -12/17/1987)    (Grade:C+)