Reading Lists: The Idiot's Guide to Ultimate Reading - Historical Fiction • BookLikes

1.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

by Irving Stone

Note:

2.

The Far Pavilions

by M.M. Kaye

Note:

3.

Forever Amber Volume I - Kathleen Winsor

Forever Amber Volume I

by Kathleen Winsor

Note:

4.

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Note:

5.

Hawaii

by James A. Michener

Note:

6.

I, Claudius

by Robert Graves

Note:

7.

Katherine (Rediscovered Classics)

by Anya Seton, Philippa Gregory

Note: Read

8.

The King Must Die

by Mary Renault

Note:

9.

The Lady in the Tower

by Jean Plaidy

Note: Read

10.

Shogun: A Novel of Japan

by James Clavell

Note:

11.

The Assyrian

by Nicholas Guild

Note:

12.

The Beacon at Alexandria

by Gillian Bradshaw

Note:

13.

The Clan of the Cave Bear

by Jean M. Auel

Note:

14.

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Ther... - Steven Pressfield

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

by Steven Pressfield

Note:

15.

The Hippopotamus Marsh

by Pauline Gedge

Note:

16.

King and Goddess

by Judith Tarr

Note: Read

17.

Pompeii

by Robert Harris

Note:

18.

The Red Tent

by Anita Diamant

Note:

19.

Sarum

by Edward Rutherfurd

Note:

20.

The Innocent

by Posie Graeme-Evans

Note: Read

21.

Jerusalem

by Cecelia Holland

Note:

22.

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

Note:

23.

The Sunne in Splendour

by Sharon Kay Penman

Note:

24.

A Vision of Light

by Judith Merkle Riley

Note: Read 2/2020

25.

The Winter Mantle

by Elizabeth Chadwick

Note: Read

26.

Year of Wonders

by Geraldine Brooks

Note:

27.

The Alchemist's Daughter

by Katharine McMahon

Note:

28.

The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers

by Margaret George

Note: Read

29.

The Birth of Venus

by Sarah Dunant

Note:

30.

Circle Of Pearls

by Rosalind Laker

Note:

31.

The Crimson Petal and the White

by Michel Faber

Note:

32.

Fingersmith

by Sarah Waters

Note:

33.

The Game of Kings

by Dorothy Dunnett

Note:

34.

Girl With a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

Note: Read

35.

Lady's Maid

by Margaret Forster

Note:

36.

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.

by Sandra Gulland

Note:

37.

Master and Commander

by Patrick O'Brian

Note:

38.

The Other Boleyn Girl

by Philippa Gregory

Note: Read

39.

Penmarric

by Susan Howatch

Note:

40.

The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

by Robin Maxwell

Note: Read

41.

Sharpe's Tiger

by Bernard Cornwell

Note:

42.

Through a Glass Darkly

by Karleen Koen

Note:

43.

Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

by Sena Jeter Naslund

Note:

44.

The Alienist

by Caleb Carr

Note:

45.

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

Note:

46.

Brookland

by Emily Barton

Note:

47.

City of Light

by Lauren Belfer

Note:

48.

Cold Mountain

by Charles Frazier

Note:

49.

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

Note:

50.

Creek Mary's Blood

by Dee Brown

Note:

51.

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

Note:

52.

Enemy Women

by Paulette Jiles

Note:

53.

Into the Wilderness

by Sara Donati

Note:

54.

The Killer Angels

by Michael Shaara

Note:

55.

The Known World

by Edward P. Jones

Note:

56.

Lincoln

by Gore Vidal

Note:

57.

North and South

by John Jakes

Note:

58.

People of the Wolf

by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Note:

59.

Ragtime: A Novel

by E.L. Doctorow

Note:

60.

Sacajawea (Lewis & Clark Expedition)

by Anna Lee Waldo

Note:

61.

These Is My Words

by Nancy E. Turner

Note:

62.

Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Note:

63.

Empress Orchid

by Anchee Min

Note:

64.

The Impressionist

by Hari Kunzru

Note:

65.

Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel

by Arthur Golden

Note: Read

66.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

by Lisa See

Note:

67.

Spring Moon: A Novel of China

by Bette Bao Lord

Note:

68.

Exodus

by Leon Uris

Note:

Share The Idiot's Guide to Ultimate Reading - Historical Fiction

Reading list: The Idiot's Guide to Ultimate Reading - Historical Fiction

Created by: Sorry kids, no feet.

Books: 68

Comments

Reading this list (1)