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Recommended Historical Novels |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Auel, Jean | The Clan of the Cave Bear | 1980 | |
| Auel, Jean | The Valley of Horses | 1982 | |
| Auel, Jean | The Plains of Passage | 1991 | |
| Auel, Jean | The Mammoth Hunters | 1985 | |
| Gear, Michael and Gear, Kathleen O'Neal | The First North American Series | ||
| Golding, William | The Inheritors | 1955 | 823 G56i |
| Kurten, Bjorn | The Dance of the Tiger | 1980 | |
| Kurten, Bjorn | Singletusk | 1986 | |
| Wolf, Joan | Daughter of the Red Deer | 1991 | |
| Wolf, Joan | The Horsemasters | 1993 | |
| Wolf, Joan | The Reindeer Hunters | 1994 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Drury, Allen | A God Against the Gods | 1976 | |
| Drury, Allen | Return to Thebes | 1977 | |
| Gedge, Pauline | The Twelfth Transforming | 1984 | |
| Gedge, Pauline | Lady of the Reeds | 1995 | |
| Hawkes, Jacquetta | King of the Two Lands | 1966 | |
| Mailer, Norman | Ancient Evenings | 1983 | |
| McGraw, Eloise J. | Pharaoh | 1958 | |
| Smith, Wilbur | River God | 1993 | |
| Tarr, Judith | Pillar of Fire | 1995 | |
| Tarr, Judith | King and Goddess | 1996 | |
| Waltari, Mika | The Egyptian | 1994 | 894.5413 W17EEW |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Duggan, Alfred | Besiger of Cities | 1963 | 823 D87b |
| Mitchison, Naomi | The Corn King and the Spring Queen | 1931 | |
| Parotti, Phillip | The Greek Generals Talk | 1986 | |
| Parotti, Phillip | The Trojan Generals Talk | 1988 | |
| Paton Walsh, Jill | Farewell Great King | 1972 | |
| Renault, Mary | The Last of the Wine | 1956 | 823 R29L | Renault, Mary | The King Must Die | 1958 | 823 R29k |
| Renault, Mary | The Mask of Apollo | 1966 | 823 R29m |
| Renault, Mary | Fire From Heaven | 1969 | 823 R29f |
| Renault, Mary | Funeral Games | 1981 | |
| Renault, Mary | The Persian Boy | 1972 | 823 R29p |
| Renault, Mary | The Praise Singer | 1978 | 823 R29Pr |
| Rofheart, Martha | My Name is Sappho | 1974 | |
| Sutcliff, Rosemary | The Flowers of Adonis | 1970 | |
| Warner, Rex | Pericles the Athenian | 1963 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Mika | Roman Wall | 1954 | |
| Brusher | The Coin of Carthage | 1963 | |
| Duggan, Alfred | Winter Quarters | 1956 | |
| Duggan, Alfred | Three's Company | 1957 | |
| Duggan, Alfred | Children of the Wolf | 1959 | 823 D87c |
| Duggan, Alfred | Family Favorites | 1960 | |
| Feuchtwanger, Lion | Josephus | 1932 | 833.91 F43j |
| Feuchtwanger, Lion | The Jew of Rome | 1936 | 833 F43j |
| Feuchtwanger, Lion | Josephus and the Emperor | 1942 | |
| Gann, Peter | The Antagonists | 1970 | |
| Graves, Robert | I, Claudius | 1934 | 823 G78i 823 G78ic |
| Graves, Robert | Claudius the God | 1935 | 823 G78cl|
| Green, Peter | Sword of Pleasure | 1957 | |
| Hardy, William G. | City of Liberties | 1957 | 823 H221C |
| Leckie, Ross | Hannibal | 1996 | |
| Massie, Allan | Augustus | 1986 | |
| Massie, Allan | Tiberius | 1993 | |
| Massie, Allan | Caesar | 1994 | |
| Sienkiewicz, Henryk | Quo Vadis | 1897 | 891.85 Si1q |
| Vidal, Gore | Julian | 1964 | 813 V66j |
| Warner, Rex | The Young Caesar | 1958 | 823 W241y |
| Warner, Rex | Imperial Caesar | 1960 | 823 W421i |
| Warner, Rex | The Converts | 1967 | |
| Wilder, Thornton | Ides of March | 1948 | 813 W64i |
| Williams, John | Augustus | 1972 | |
| Yourcenar, Marguerite | Hadrian's Memoirs | 1954 | 843 Yo8mEm |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Asch, Shalom | The Nazarene | 1939 | 891.73 As2 NES |
| Asch, Shalom | Mary | 1949 | |
| Asch, Shalom | Moses | 1951 | 892.493 As2 MOES |
| Asch, Shalom | The Prophet | 1955 | 892.493 As2 PES |
| Bercovici, Konrad | The Exodus | 1947 | |
| Berstl, Julius | The Tentmaker | 1952 | |
| Buckmaster, Henrietta | And Walk in Love | 1956 | |
| Buechner, Frederick | The Son of Laughter | 1974 | |
| Burgess, Anthony | Man of Nazareth | 1970 | |
| Douglas, Lloyd C. | The Robe | 1942 | 813 D74r |
| Mann, Thomas | The Joseph Tetralogy | ||
| Martin, Malachi | King of Kings | 1980 | |
| Mitchison, Naomi | Blood of the Martyrs | 1948 | |
| Schmitt, Gladys | David the King | 1946 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Bryher | Ruan | 1960 | |
| Cornwall, Bernard | The Winter King | 1995 | |
| Duggan, Alfred | Conscience of the King | 1952 | |
| Duggan, Alfred | The Right Line of Cerdic | 1961 | |
| Gay, Laverne | The Unspeakables | 1945 | |
| Stewart, Mary | The Crystal Cave | 1970 | |
| Stewart, Mary | The Hollow Hills | 1973 | |
| Stewart, Mary | The Last Enchantment | 1979 | |
| Stewart, Mary | The Wicked Day | 1983 | |
| Stewart, Mary | The Prince and the Pilgrim | 1995 | |
| Sutcliff, Rosemary | The Sword at Sunset | 1963 | |
| Tapsell, R. F. | The Year of the Horsetails | 1967 | |
| Treece, Henry | Great Captains | 1955 | |
| Treece, Henry | Red Queen, White Queen | 1958 | |
| White, T.H. | The Once and Future King | 1958 | |
| Whyte, Jack | The Singing Sword | 1996 | |
| Whyte, Jack | The Skystone | 1996 | |
| Wolf, Joan | The Road to Avalon | 1988 | |
| Wolf, Joan | The Edge of Light | 1990 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Andrew, Prudence | The Hooded Falcon | 1961 | |
| Andrew, Prudence | Ordeal by Silence | 1961 | |
| Andrew, Prudence | The Constant Star | 1964 | |
| Bryher | Fourteenth of October | 1952 | |
| Bryher | This January Tale | 1966 | |
| Butler, Margaret | The Lion of England | 1973 | |
| Butler, Margaret | The Lion of Justice | 1958 | |
| Butler, Margaret | The Lion of Christ | 1977 | |
| Closs, Hannah | High Are the Mountains | 1959 | |
| Closs, Hannah | Deep are the Valleys | 1961 | |
| Closs, Hannah | The Silent Tarn | 1963 | |
| Druon, Maurice | The Poisoned Crown | 1957 | |
| Druon, Maurice | The Strangled Queen | 1957 | |
| Druon, Maurice | Royal Succession | 1958 | |
| Druon, Maurice | The She-Wolf of France | 1960 | |
| Duggan, Alfred | Cunning of the Dove | 1960 | |
| Eco, Umberto | The Name of the Rose | 1983 | |
| Edmondston, C.M., and Hyde, M.L.F. | King's Man | 1948 | |
| Graham, Alice Walworth | Vows of the Peacock | 1955 | |
| Graham, Alice Walworth | Shield of Honor | 1957 | |
| Holland, Cecelia | The Firedrake | 1966 | |
| Holland, Cecelia | Kings in Winter | 1968 | |
| Holland, Cecelia | Antichrist | 1970 | |
| Maughan, A. | Harry of Monmouth | 1956 | |
| Muntz, Hope | Golden Warrior | 1949 | |
| Mydans, Shelley | Thomas | 1965 | |
| Oldenbourg, Zoe | The World Is Not Enough | 1948 | |
| Oldenbourg, Zoe | The Cornerstone | 1955 | |
| Oldenbourg, Zoe | Destiny of Fire | 1961 | |
| Oldenbourg, Zoe | Cities of the Flesh | 1961 | |
| Oldenbourg, Zoe | The Heirs of the Kingdom | 1971 | |
| Palmer, Marian | White Boar | 1968 | |
| Penman, Sharon Kay | The Sunne in Splendour | 1982 | |
| Penman, Sharon Kay | Here Be Dragons | 1987 | |
| Penman, Sharon Kay | Falls the Shadow | 1988 | |
| Penman, Sharon Kay | The Reckoning | 1991 | |
| Penman, Sharon Kay | When Christ and His Saints Slept | 1995 | |
| Prescott, Hilda | The Unhurrying Chase | 1955 | |
| Prescott, Hilda | Son of Dust | 1956 | |
| Schoonover, Lawrence | Spider King | 1954 | |
| Seton, Anya | Katherine | 1953 | |
| Simon, Edith | Golden Hand | 1952 | |
| Tey, Josephine | The Daughter of Time | 1952||
| Warner, Sylvia | The Corner That Held Them | 1948 | |
| Weenolson, Hebe | The Last Englishman | 1951 | |
| White, Helen C. | Not Built With Hands | 1935 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Alexander, Sidney | Michelangelo the Florentine | 1957 | |
| Alexander, Sidney | The Hand of Michelangelo | 1965 | |
| Alexander, Sidney | Nicodemus | 1987 | |
| Bellonci, Maria | Private Renaissance | 1989 | |
| Dunnett, Dorothy | The House of Niccolo Series | ||
| Eliot, George | Romola | 1863 | |
| Ennis, Michael | Duchess of Milan | 1992 | |
| Haase, Hella S. | The Scarlet City | 1990 | |
| Holland, Cecelia | City of God | 1979 | |
| Mann, Heinrich | Young Henry of Navarre | 1937 | |
| Merle, Robert | Vittoria | 1990 | |
| Seymour, Miranda | The Bride of Sforza | 1975 | |
| Spinatelli, Carl | The Florentine | 1953 | |
| Stone, Irving | The Agony and the Ecstasy | 1961 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Brady, Charles | Stage of Fools | 1952 | |
| Byrd, Elizabeth | Immortal Queen | 1956 | |
| Davidson, Diane | Feversham | 1969 | |
| Delves-Broughton, Josephine | Heart of a Queen | 1950 | |
| Eckerson, Olive | My Lord Essex | 1955 | 823 D87c |
| Finney, Patricia | The Firedrake's Eye | 1992 | |
| Ford, Ford Maddox | The Fifth Queen | 1963 | |
| Garrett, George | Death of the Fox | 1971 | |
| Garrett, George | The Succession | 1983 | |
| Garrett, George | Entered from the Sun | 1990 | |
| George, Margaret | The Autobiography of Henry VIII | 1986 | |
| George, Margaret | Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles | 1935 | |
| Gidley, Charles | Armada | 1994 | |
| Miles, Rosalind | I, Elizabeth | 1994 | |
| Oliver, Jane | Flame of Fire | 1961 | |
| Prescott, Hilda | Man on a Donkey | 1952 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Auchincloss, Louis | The Cat and the King | 1981 | |
| Beatty, John and Patricia | Campion Towers | 1965 | |
| Cowell, Stephanie | Nicholas Cooke | 1993 | |
| Cowell, Stephanie | The Physician of London | 1995 | |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities | 1859 | |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Three Musketeers | 1844 | |
| Du Maurier, Daphne | The Glass-Blowers | 1963 | |
| Flanagan, Thomas | The Year of the French | 1979 | |
| Goudge, Elizabeth | White Witch | 1957 | |
| Grierson, Edward | Dark Torrent of Glencoe | 1960 | |
| Lee, Tabitha | The Gods are Thirsty | 1996 | |
| Mackin, Jeanne | The Frenchwoman | 1989 | |
| Rebolledo, Francisco | Rasero | 1995 | |
| Scott, Virgil | I, John Mordaunt | 1993 | |
| Sherwood, Frances | Vindication | 1993 | |
| Tremain, Rose | Restoration | 1990 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Andric, Ivo | Bosnian Chronicle | 1963 | |
| Aragon, Louis | Holy Week | 1961 | |
| Cornwell, Bernard | The Richard Sharpe Series | ||
| Forester, C.S. | The Horatio Hornblower Series | ||
| Manceron, Claude | So Brief a Spring | 1957 | |
| O'Brian, Patrick | The Aubrey/Maturin Series | ||
| Sontag, Susan | The Volcano Lover | 1992 | |
| Stacton, David | Sir William | 1963 | |
| Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace | 1872 | |
| Winwar, Frances | The Eagle and the Rock | 1952 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Flannagan, Thomas | The Tennants of Time | 1988 | |
| Fraser, George MacDonald | The Flashman Series | ||
| Fowles, John | The French Lieutenant's Woman | 1969 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Barker, Pat | Regeneration | 1992 | |
| Barker, Pat | The Eye in the Door | 1994 | |
| Barker, Pat | The Ghost Road | 1996 | |
| Doctorow, E. L. | Ragtime | 1976 | |
| Faulks, Sebastian | Birdsong | 1996 | |
| Flannagan, Thomas | The End of the Hunt | 1994 | |
| Pasternak, Boris | Doctor Zhivago | 1958 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Allen, Hervey | The Forest and the Fort | 1943 | |
| Allen, Hervey | Bedford Village | 1944 | |
| Allen, Hervey | Toward the Morning | 1948 | |
| Barth, John | The Sot-Weed Factor | 1960 | |
| Bernhard, Virginia | A Durable Fire | 1990 | |
| Edmonds, Walter D. | In the Hands of the Senecas | 1947 | |
| Fletcher, Inglis | Roanoke Hundred | 1948 | |
| Gebler, Ernest | Plymouth Adventure | 1950 | |
| Mac, Gerard | Pilgrims | 1994 | |
| Roberts, Kenneth | Northwest Passage | 1937 | |
| Seton, Anya | The Winthrop Woman | 1958 | |
| Settle, Mary Lee | O Beulah Land | 1956 | |
| Stone, Grace | The Cold Journey | 1934 | 823 D87c |
| Swanson, Neil | The First Rebel | 1937 | |
| Thom, James Alexander | Follow the River | 1981 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Giles, Janice | Hannah Fowler | 1956 | |
| Berry, Jane | Long March | 1955 | |
| Berry, Jane | The Carolinians | 1959 | |
| Boyd, James | Drums | 1925 | |
| Churchill, Winston | Richard Carvel | 1899 | |
| Churchill, Winston | The Crossing | 1904 | |
| Edmonds, Walter D. | Drums Along the Mohawk | 1936 | |
| Ellis, William | Bounty Lands | 1952 | |
| Fast, Howard | Conceived in Liberty | 1939 | |
| Fast, Howard | Citizen Tom Paine | 1943 | |
| Fast, Howard | April Morning | 1961 | |
| Flemming, Thomas | Liberty Tavern | 1976 | |
| Flood, Charles | Monmouth | 1961 | |
| Ford, Paul Leicester | Janice Meredith | 1899 | |
| Graves, Robert | Sergeant Lamb's America | 1940 | |
| Graves, Robert | Proceed, Sergeant Lamb | 1941 | |
| Lancaster, Bruce | Guns of Burgoyne | 1939 | |
| Lancaster, Bruce | Trumpet to Arms | 1944 | |
| Lancaster, Bruce | Blind Journey | 1953 | |
| Mitchell, S. Weir | Hugh Wayne, Free Quaker | 1897 | |
| Page, Elizabeth | Tree of Liberty | 1939 | |
| Roberts, Kenneth | Arundel | 1930 | |
| Roberts, Kenneth | Rabble in Arms | 1933 | |
| Roberts, Kenneth | Oliver Wiswell | 1940 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Davis, Harold | Beulah Land | 1949 | |
| Ehrlich, Leonard | God's Angry Man | 1932 | |
| Nelson, Truman | Surveyor | 1960 | |
| Roberts, Kenneth | Lively Lady | 1931 | |
| Roberts, Kenneth | Captain Caution | 1934 | |
| Roberts, Kenneth | Lydia Bailey | 1946 | |
| Settle, Mary Lee | Know Nothing | 1960 | |
| Styron, William | The Confessions of Nat Turner | 1967 | |
| Walker, Margaret | Jubilee | 1966 | |
| Wallace, Willard M. | Jonathan Dearborn | 1967 | |
| Williams, Ben Ames | The Unconquered | 1952 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Becker, Stephen | When the War is Over | 1969 | |
| Boyd, James | Marching On | 1927 | |
| Churchill, Winston | The Crisis | 1901 | |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage | 1895 | |
| Dowdey, Clifford | The Bugles Blow No More | 1937 | |
| Foote, Shelby | Shiloh | 1952 | |
| Jones, Douglas C. | Elkhorn Tavern | 1980 | |
| Jones, Douglas C. | The Barefoot Brigade | 1985 | |
| Kantor, MacKinlay | Long Remember | 1934 | |
| Kantor, MacKinlay | Andersonville | 1955 | |
| Keneally, Thomas | Confederates | 1981 | |
| Lancaster, Bruce | Roll, Shenandoah | 1956 | |
| Lentz, Perry | The Falling Hills | 1967 | |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With the Wind | 1936 | |
| Robertson, Don | The Three Days | 1959 | |
| Robertson, Don | By Antietam Creek | 1960 | |
| Shaara, Michael | The Killer Angels | 1975 | |
| Slotkin, Richard | The Crater | 1980 | |
| Warren, Robert Penn | Wilderness | 1961 | |
| Wicker, Tom | Unto This Hour | 1984 | |
| Williams, Ben Ames | House Divided | 1947 | |
| Young, Stark | So Red the Rose | 1934 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Arnold, Elliott | Time of the Gringo | 1952 | |
| Barton, Del | A Good Day to Die | 1980 | Bean, Amelia | Fancher Train | 1958 |
| Bean, Amelia | The Feud | 1960 | |
| Bean, Amelia | Time for Outrage | 1967 | |
| Berger, Thomas | Little Big Man | 1964 | |
| Blacker, Irwin | Taos | 1959 | |
| Cather, Willa | Death Comes to the Archbishop | 1927 | |
| Chiaventone, Frederick J. | A Road We Do Not Know | 1996 | |
| Clark, Walter | The Ox-bow Incident | 1940 | Davis, H.L. | Honey in the Horn | 1935 |
| Dexter, Pete | Deadwood | 1986 | |
| Wiswell, Edna | Cimarron | 1930 | |
| Fisher, Vardis | Children of God | 1939 | |
| Fisher, Vardis | Tale of Valor | 1958 | |
| Guthrie, A.B. Jr. | The Big Sky | 1947 | |
| Guthrie, A.B. Jr. | The Way West | 1949 | |
| Hall, Oakley | Warlock | 1958 | |
| Hansen, Ron | Desperadoes | 1980 | |
| Horgan, Paul | A Distant Trumpet | 1960 | |
| LeMay, ALan | The Searchers | 1954 | |
| Manfred, Frederick | Lord Grizzly | 1954 | |
| McMurtry, Larry | Lonesome Dove | 1985 | |
| Portis, Charles | True Grit | 1968 | |
| Rolvaag, O.E. | Giants in the Earth | 1927 | |
| Straight, Michael | Carrington | 1959 | |
| Straight, Michael | A Very Small Remnant | 1963 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | 1959 | |
| Cloete, Stuart | The Turning Wheel | 1937 | Forbath, Peter | Lord of the Kongo | 1996 |
| Hagerfors, Lennart | The Whales of Lake Tanganyika | 1989 | |
| Halkin, John | Kenya | 1986 | |
| Harrison, William | Burton and Speke | 1982 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Buck, Pearl S. | The Good Earth | 1931 | |
| Buck, Pearl S. | Imperial Woman | 1955 | |
| Clavell, James | 1966 | ||
| Cooney, Eleanor and Altieri, Daniel | The Court of the Lion | 1989 | |
| Elegant, Robert S. | Dynasty | 1977 | |
| Elegant, Robert S. | Manchu | 1980 | |
| Elegant, Robert S. | Mandarin | 1983 | |
| Grey, Anthony | Peking | 1988 | |
| Levi, Jean | The Chinese Emperor | 1987 | |
| Levi, Jean | The Dream of Confucius | 1992 | |
| Lord, Bette Bao | Spring Moon | 1981 | |
| Oxnam, Robert B. | Ming | 1995 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| ALter, Stephen | Silk and Steel | 1980 | |
| Fast, Jonathan | Golden Fire | 1986 | |
| Hoover, Thomas | The Monghul | 1954 | |
| Kaye, M.M. | Shadow of the Moon | 1957 | |
| Kaye, M.M. | The Far Pavilions | 1978 | |
| Masters, John | Nightrunners of Bengal | 1950 | |
| Masters, John | Carrington | 1952 | |
| Mehta, Gita | Raj | 1989 | |
| Scott, Paul | The Raj Quartet |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Clavell, James | Shogun | 1975 | |
| Carrington, James | Gai-Jin | 1993 | |
| Guest, Lynn | Yedo | 1985 | |
| Robson, Lucia St. Clair | Tokaido Road | 1991 | |
| Stacton, David | Segaki | 1959 | Tolosko, Edward | Sakuran | 1978 |
| Tsuji, Kunio | The Signore | 1987 | |
| Yoshikawa, Eija | The Heike Story | 1992 | |
| Yoshikawa, Eija | Musashi | 1981 | |
| Yoshikawa, Eija | Taiko | 1995 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Bushnell, O.A. | Molokai | 1965 | |
| Taiko, Charles & Hall, James | The Bounty Trilogy | ||
| Wood, Barbara | The Dreaming | 1991 |
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| Author | Title of Book | Year of Publication | SE Library Call Number |
| Bell, Madison Smartt | All Souls Rising | 1995 | |
| Green, Gerald | The Sword and the Sun | 1953 | |
| Jeffries, Bruce | Drums of Destiny | 1947 | |
| Peters, Daniel | The Luck of Huemac | 1981 | |
| Peters, Daniel | Tikal | 1983 | |
| Peters, Daniel | The Incas | 1991 | |
| Stacton, David | A signal Victory | 1960 |