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Historical Fiction: 19th century (1800s)
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Historical Fiction: Civil War
Authors & Titles
- Ackroyd, Peter: The Lambs of London
- Ali, Tariq: The Stone Woman
- Ali, Thalassa: Marianna Givens series
- A Singular Hostage
- A Beggar At the Gate
- Allende, Isabel: del Valle Family series
- Daughter of Fortune
- Portrait in Sepia
- Allende, Isabel: Island Beneath the Sea
- Andersen, Kurt: Heyday
- Askew, Rilla: The Mercy Seat
- Atwood, Margaret: Alias Grace
- Ayers, Rose: Street Sparrows
- Baker, Kevin: Paradise Alley
(NOTE: This title is part of Baker's City of Fire series, listed under Epic Sagas)
- Balint, Christine: Ophelia's Fan
- Balint, Christine: The Salt Letters
- Ball, David: Empires of Sand
- Ball, Pamela: The Floating City
- Ballantine, David: Chalk's Woman
- Balzac, Honoré de: Cousin Bette
- Banks, Russell: Cloudsplitter
- Barlow, John: Intoxicated
- Barr, Nevada: Bittersweet
- Battle, Lois: Storyville
- Basu, Kunal: The Opium Clerk
- Bauman, Jon R.: Santa Fe Passage
- Begiebing, Robert F.: The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton
- Behrens, Peter: The Law of Dreams
- Bell, Madison Smartt: Devil's Dream
- Black, Michelle: An Uncommon Enemy
- Blake, James Carlos: Wildwood Boys
- Blake, Michael: Marching to Valhalla: a novel of Custer's last days
- Blake, Michael: Dances With Wolves series
- Dances With Wolves
- The Holy Road
- Blevins, Win: Stone Song
- Bollow, Ludmilla: Dr. Zastro's Sanitarium
- Bonner, Cindy: McDade series
- Lily
- Looking After Lily
- The Passion of Dellie O'Barr
- Right From Wrong
- Boorstin, Jon: The Newsboys' Lodging-House
- Boyne, Walter J.: Dawn Over Kitty Hawk
- Bram, Christopher: The Notorious Dr. August
- Brashear, Charles: Killing Cynthia Ann
- Brennert, Alan: Moloka'i
- Brown, Dee: Killdeer Mountain
- Brown, Dee: The Way to Bright Star
- Brown, John Gregory: Audubon's Watch
- Buck, Pearl S.: Peony
- Burke, James Lee: Two For Texas
- Burke, James Lee: White Doves at Morning
- Busch, Frederick: The Night Inspector
- Byrd, Max: Grant
- Byrd, Max: Jackson
- Byrd, Max: Shooting the Sun
- Cambor, Kathleen: In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
- Cannam, Helen: A High and Lonely Road
- Cannam, Helen: The Last Ballad
- Card, Orson Scott: Saints
- Carey, Peter: Jack Maggs
- Carey, Peter: Oscar and Lucinda
- Carey, Peter: Parrot & Olivier in America
- Carey, Peter: True History of the Kelly Gang
- Carhart, Thad: Across the Endless River
- Carr, Robyn: Woman's Own
- Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
- Cech, John: A Rush of Dreamers
- Ceely, Jonatha: Mina
- Chance, Megan: An Inconvenient Wife
- Charbonneau, Eileen: The Randolph Legacy
- Chase-Riboud, Barbara: Sally Hemings series
- Sally Hemings
- The President's Daughter
- Chevalier, Tracy: Remarkable Creatures
- Chiaventone, Frederick J.: Moon of Bitter Cold
- Christianse, Yvette: Unconfessed
- Christilian, J.D.: Scarlet Women
- Clavell, James: Tai-Pan
- Clavell, James: Gai-Jin
- Coldsmith, Don: South Wind
- Combs, Harry: Cat Brules series
- Brules
- The Scout
- Compton, Ralph: Clarion's Call
- Conley, Robert J.: Mountain Windsong
- Conley, Robert J.: Sequoyah
- Conroy, Sarah Booth: Refinements of Love
- Cookson, Catherine: Tilly Trotter series
- Tilly (aka Tilly Trotter)
- Tilly Wed (aka Tilly Trotter Wed)
- Tilly Alone (aka Tilly Trotter Widowed)
(omnibus volume) Tilly Trotter: An Omnibus (includes all three titles) )
- Cookson, Catherine: The Desert Crop
- Cookson, Catherine: The Parson's Daughter
- Cookson, Catherine: The Rag Nymph
- Cooper, J. California: The Wake of the Wind
- Cooper, James Fenimore: The Prairie
- Coplin, Keith: Crofton's Fire
- Costain, Thomas B.: The Tontine
- Courter, Gay: River of Dreams
- Craig, Gretchen: Always and Forever
- Crane, Teresa: The Hawthorne Heritage
- Crane, Teresa: Sweet Songbird
- Crichton, Michael: The Great Train Robbery
- Crimmins, Jerry: Fort Dearborn
- Croft, Barbara: Moon's Crossing
- Croutier, Alev Lytle: The Palace of Tears
- Crummey, Michael: River Thieves
- Cunningham, M. Allen: The Green Age of Asher Witherow
- Dallas, Sandra: The Chili Queen
- Darnton, John: The Darwin Conspiracy
- Davenport, Gwen: Time and Chance
- Davis, Patricia K.: A Midnight Carol
- DeBlasis, Celeste: Swan series
- Wild Swan
- Swan's Chance
- A Season of Swans
- de Hartog, Jan: Quaker series
- The Peaceable Kingdom
- The Lamb's War
- The Peculiar People
- Delbanco, Nicholas: The Count of Concord
- Delderfield, R.F.: Seven Men of Gascony
- Delors, Catherine: For the King
- Dempsey, Al: Path of the Sun
- Denker, Henry: The Healers
- Dew, Robb Forman: The Evidence Against Her
- Di Lampedusa, Giuseppe: The Leopard
- Diliberto, Gioia: I Am Madame X
- Dillard, Annie: The Living
- Doig, Ivan: Dancing at the Rascal Fair
- Donati, Sara: Lake in the Clouds
- Donati, Sara: Fire Along the Sky
(NOTE: These title are part of Donati's Bonner Family series. The entire series is listed under Family Sagas.)
- Donnelly, Jennifer: The Tea Rose
- Donnelly, Jennifer: The Winter Rose
- Drewe, Robert: The Drowner
- Druett, Joan: Abigail
- Drummond, Emma: Beyond All Frontiers
- Drummond, Emma: Forget the Glory
- Dudman, Clare: 98 Reasons for Being
- Dugan, Bill: Chief Joseph
- Dugan, Bill: Sitting Bull
- Dumas, Alexandre: D'Artagnan series aka Three Musketeers series
- The Three Musketeers
- Twenty Years After
- The Vicomte de Bragelonne
- Louise de la Valliere
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
- DuMaurier, Daphne: Mary Anne
- Durham, David Anthony: Gabriel's Story
- Durham, David Anthony: Walk Through Darkness
- Dykeman, Wilma: The Tall Woman
- Eden, Dorothy: The Salmanca Drum
- Edric, Robert: The Book of the Heathen
- Edric, Robert: The Broken Lands
- Edwards, Anne: Haunted Summer
- Edwards, Anne: The Hesitant Heart
- Edwards, Geoffrey S.: Fire Bell in the Night
- Edwards, Louis: Oscar Wilde Discovers America
- Ehrlich, Ev: Grant Speaks
- Eickhoff, Randy Lee: And Not to Yield
- Eickhoff, Randy Lee: Bowie
- Eickhoff, Randy Lee: The Fourth Horseman
- Elfman, Blossom: The Strawberry Fields of Heaven
- Elfman, Clare: The Case of the Pederast's Wife
- Ellis, Virginia: The Wedding Dress
- Elphinstone, Margaret: Light
- Elphinstone, Margaret: Voyageurs
- Elyot, Amanda: Too Great a Lady: The Notorious, Glorious Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton
- Engstrom, Elizabeth: Lizzie Borden
- Ephron, Amy: White Rose - Una Rosa Blanca
- Essex, Karen: Stealing Athena
- Estleman, Loren D.: Bloody Season
- Ewing, Barbara: The Trespass
- Faber, Michel: The Crimson Petal and the White
- Farley, Christopher John: Kingston by Starlight
- Fast, Howard: The American
- Faulks, Sebastian: Human Traces
- Flanagan, Richard: Gould's Book of Fish
- Flanagan, Richard: Wanting
- Flanagan, Thomas: The Tenants of Time
- Fleming, Thomas: A Passionate Girl
- Foden, Giles: Ladysmith
- Follett, Ken: A Dangerous Fortune
- Forbath, Peter: The Last Hero
- Forster, Margaret: Lady's Maid
- Fowler, Karen Joy: Sister Noon
- Franklin, Tom: Hell at the Breech
- Frazier, Charles: Cold Mountain
- Freeman, Judith: Red Water
- Freeman-Keel, Tom & Crofts, Andrew: The Disappearing Duke
- Fuller, Jamie: The Diary of Emily Dickinson
- Galloway, Janice: Clara
- Garcia y Robertson, Rodrigo: American Woman
- Gébler, Carlo: How to Murder a Man
- Gear, W. Michael: Heals Like a Willow series
- The Morning River
- Coyote Summer
- Gerard, Philip: Cape Fear Rising
- Ghosh, Amitav: The Glass Palace
- Ghosh, Amitav: Sea of Poppies
- Gilchrist, Micaela: The Fiercer Heart
- Gilchrist, Micaela: The Good Journey
- Gilling, Tom: The Sooterkin
- Glancy, Diane: Pushing the Bear
- Glancy, Diane: Stone Heart
- Godshalk, C.S.: Kalimantaan
- Goldman, Francisco: The Divine Husband
- Goldreich, Gloria: West to Eden
- Goldstone, Lawrence: The Anatomy of Deception
- Gordon, Noah: Shaman
- Graham, Heather: Runaway
- Graham, Winston: Poldark series
- Ross Poldark
- Demelza
- Jeremy Poldark
- Warleggan
- The Black Moon
- The Four Swans
- The Angry Tide
- The Stranger From the Sea
- The Miller's Dance
- The Loving Cup
- The Twisted Sword
- Grant, Tracy: Charles and Melanie Fraser series
- Daughter of the Game
- Beneath a Silent Moon
- Grenville, Kate: The Secret River
- Griesemer, John: Signal & Noise
- Gulland, Sandra: Josephine Bonaparte series
- The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
- Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
- The Last Great Dance on Earth
- Hackman, Gene & Lenihan, Daniel: Wake of the Perdido Star
- Haeger, Diane: The Secret Wife of King George IV
- Hague, Nora: Letters From an Age of Reason
- Hall, Brian: I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company
- Hambly, Barbara: Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers
- Hansen, Brooks: The Monsters of St. Helena
- Hansen, Ron: Exiles
- Harper, Karen: Circle of Gold
- Harper, Karen: The Wings of Morning
- Harrigan, Stephen: The Gates of the Alamo
- Hassinger, Amy: The Priest's Madonna
- Henry, Will: The Last Warpath
- Hershon, Joanna: The German Bride
- Heti, Sheila: Ticknor
- Heyer, Georgette: The Spanish Bride
- Hicks, Robert: A Separate Country
- Hicks, Robert: The Widow of the South
- Hobbs, Peter: The Short Day Dying
- Holeman, Linda: The Moonlit Cage
- Holland, Cecelia: An Ordinary Woman
- Holman, Sheri: The Dress Lodger
- Horsley, Kate: Black Elk in Paris
- Houston, James D.: Snow Mountain Passage
- Hower, Edward: Shadows and Elephants
- Huebner, Andrew: American By Blood
- Hughes, Glyn: Brontë
- Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
- Hummel, Maria: Wilderness Run
- Humphreys, Helen: Afterimage
- Hunt, Caroline Rose: Primrose Past
- Hunter, Evan: Lizzie
- Iagnemma, Karl: The Expeditions
- Jakes, John: California Gold
- Jakes, John: Charleston
- Jakes, John: Homeland
- Japin, Arthur: The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi
- Jiles, Paulette: The Color of Lightning
- Johnson, Charles: Middle Passage (National Book Award winner 1990)
- Johnston, Terry C.: Plainsmen series
- Sioux Dawn
- Red Cloud's Revenge
- The Stalkers
- Black Sun
- Devil's Backbone
- Shadow Riders
- Dying Thunder
- Blood Song
- Reap the Whirlwind
- Trumpet on the Land
- A Cold Day in Hell
- Wolf Mountain Moon
- Ashes of Heaven
- Cries From the Earth
- Lay the Mountains Low
- Jones, Ben: The Rope Eater
- Jones, Edward P.: The Known World
- Kazan, Frances: Halide's Gift
- Kaye, M.M.: Shadow of the Moon
- Kennedy, William: Albany Cycle
(in order of publication)
- Legs (1930s)
- Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1930s)
- Ironweed (1930s)
- Quinn's Book (1800s)
- Very Old Bones (1950s)
- The Flaming Corsage (1890s-1900s)
- Roscoe (1940s)
- Kleeberg, Michael: The King of Cosica
- Kneale, Matthew: English Passengers
- Koning, Hans: Zeeland, or Elective Concurrences
- Langley, Lee: Distant Music
- Lassiter, Karl: First Cherokee Rifles
- Lawrence, Margaret: The Iceweaver
- Lent, Jeffrey: In the Fall
- Levy, JoAnn: Daughter of Joy
- Lewerth, Margaret: Stuyvesant Square
- Lewis, J.P. Sinclair: Nate Gordon series
- Buffalo Gordon
- Lofts, Norah: Copsi Castle
- Lofts, Norah: The Fall of Midas
- Lofts, Norah: A Rose for Virtue
- Lofts, Norah: Winter Harvest (aka Road to Revelation)
- Mallon, Thomas: Henry and Clara
- Mallon, Thomas: Two Moons
- Maltman, Thomas: The Night Birds
- Manrique, Jaime: Our Lives Are the Rivers
- Marcus, Martin L.: Freedom Land
- Markovits, Benjamin: Imposture
- Martin, Valerie: Property
- Matsuoka, Takashi: Autumn Bridge
- May, John: Poe & Fanny
- Mayo, C.M.: The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
- McCabe, Eugene: Death and Nightingales
- McCaig, Donald: Canaan
- McCaig, Donald: Rhett Butler's People
- McCunn, Ruthanne Lum: Wooden Fish Songs
- McDonald, Roger: Mr. Darwin's Shooter
- McGiffen, Steve: Tennant's Rock
- McKinney, Meagan: The Fortune Hunter
- McKinney, Meagan: The Merry Widow
- McLeay, Alison: The Dream Maker
- McMurtry, Larry: Berrybender Narratives series
- Sin Killer
- The Wandering Hill
- By Sorrow's River
- Folly and Glory
- McMurtry, Larry: Anything for Billy
- McMurtry, Larry: Buffalo Girls
- Mead, Robert Douglas: Heartland
- Michael, Prince of Greece: Sultana
- Michael, Prince of Greece: The White Night of St. Petersburg
- Michener, James A.: The Eagle and the Raven
- Michener, James A.: Journey
- Middleton, Haydn: Grimm's Last Fairytale
- Miller, Evie Yoder: Eyes at the Window
- Millhauser, Steven: Martin Dressler
- Min, Anchee: Orchid series
- Empress Orchid
- The Last Empress
- Moore, Ann: Gracelin O'Malley series
- Gracelin O'Malley
- Leaving Ireland
- Moore, Susanna: One Last Look
- Morgan, Robert: Julie Harmon series
- The Truest Pleasure
- Gap Creek
- Morris, R.N.: Porfiry Petrovich series
- The Gentle Axe
- A Vengeful Longing
- Munn, Vella: Seminole Song
- Munn, Vella: Spirit of the Eagle
- Murphy, Garth: The Indian Lover
- Murray, Earl: Gabriella
- Murray, Stuart: White Fire
- Naslund, Sena Jeter: Ahab's Wife
- Nattel, Lilian: The Singing Fire
- Nevin, David: 1812
- Nevin, David: Dream West
- Nevin, David: Eagle's Cry
- Nevin, David: Meriwether
- Nevin, David: Treason
- O'Brien, Dan: Valentine McGillycuddy series
- The Contract Surgeon
- The Indian Agent
- O'Brien, Patricia: Harriet and Isabella
- O'Connor, Joseph: Redemption Falls
- O'Connor, Joseph: Star of the Sea
- O'Faolain, Nuala: My Dream of You
- Perks, Micah: We Are Gathered Here
- Pesci, David: Amistad
- Phillips, Scott: Cottonwood
- Picezenik, Steve & Rovner-Picezenik, Roberta: My Beloved Talleyrand
- Piercy, Marge: Sex Wars
- Plaidy, Jean: Lilith
- Porter, Donald: Jubilee Jim and the Wizard of Wall Street
- Poster, Jem: Courting Shadows
- Price, Eugenia: The Waiting Time
- Rathbone, Julian: A Very English Agent
- Rayner, Claire: London Lodgings
- Reese, James: The Book of Shadows
- Reid, Van: Moosepath League series
- Cordelia Underwood
- Mollie Peer
- Daniel Plainway
- Mrs. Roberto
- Fiddler's Green
- Reid, Van: Peter Loon
- Reynolds, Clay: The Tentmaker
- Rhodes, Jewell Parker: Douglass' Women
- Richler, Nancy: Your Mouth is Lovely
- Richter, Conrad: Sea of Grass
- Roberts, Ann Victoria: Moon Rising
- Robinson, Derek: Kentucky Blues
- Robson, Lucia St. Clair: Fearless
- Robson, Lucia St. Clair: Light a Distant Fire
- Robson, Lucia St. Clair: Walk in My Soul
- Roiphe, Anne: An Imperfect Lens
- Roiphe, Kate: Still She Haunts Me
- Ross, Ann B.: The Pilgrimage
- Rufin, Jean-Christopher: The Abyssinian
- Safire, William: Scandalmonger
- Schuyler, Nina: The Painting
- Scott, Joanna Catherine: Cassandra, Lost
- Shaara, Jeff: Gone For Soldiers
- Sheehan, Jacqueline: Truth
- Sickels, Noëlle: The Shopkeeper's Wife
- Sickels, Noëlle: Walking West
- Siegel, Robert Anthony: All Will Be Revealed
- Skimin, Robert: Apache Autumn
- Skimin, Robert: The River and the Horsemen
- Skimin, Robert: Ulysses
- Skinner, Richard: The Red Dancer
- Slotkin, Richard: Abe
- Slouka, Mark: God's Fool
- Smiley, Jane: Private Life
- Smith, Diane: Letters From Yellowstone
- Smith, Diane: Pictures From an Expedition
- Smith, Dominic: The Mercury Visions of Louis Daugerre
- Smith, Kay Nolte: A Tale of the Wind
- Smith, Lee: On Agate Hill
- Smith, Martin Cruz: Rose
- Smith, Noble: Stolen From Gypsies
- Sontag, Susan: In America
- St. Aubin de Teran, Lisa: The Palace
- Starling, Belinda: The Journal of Dora Damage
- Steen, Thorvald: Don Carlos
- Stendahl: The Charterhouse of Parma
- Stirling, Jessica: Nicholson series
- The Good Provider
- The Asking Price
- Stone, Irving: Depths of Glory
- Stone, Irving: Immortal Wife
- Stone, Irving: The Origin
- Stott, Rebecca: The Coral Thief
- Straight, Susan: A Million Nightingales
- Strauss, Darin: Chang and Eng
- Styron, William: The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Swerling, Beverly: City of Glory
(NOTE: This title is part of the New York series, listed under Epic Sagas)
- Swerling, Beverly: City of God
(NOTE: This title is part of the New York series, listed under Epic Sagas)
- Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
- Thom, James Alexander: Panther in the Sky
- Thom, James Alexander: Saint Patrick's Battalion
- Thom, James Alexander: Sign-Talker
- Thompson, Harry: To the Edge of the World
- Thompson, Pamela: Every Past Thing
- Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
- Tremain, Rose: The Colour
- Trollope, Joanna: Eliza Stanhope
- Tryon, Thomas: Kingdom Come series
- The Wings of the Morning
- In the Fire of Spring
- Tsernianski, Milos: Migrations
- Tuck, Lily: The News From Paraguay
- Turner, Nancy E.: Sarah Prine series
- These is My Words
- Sarah's Quilt
- The Star Garden
- Uris, Leon: Irish series
- Trinity
- Redemption
- Vallgren, Carl-Johan: The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot
- Vanderhaeghe, Guy: The Last Crossing
- Vaughan, Robert: In Honored Glory
- Vernon, John: The Last Canyon
- Vernon, John: Lucky Billy
- Vida, Nina: The Texicans
- Vidal, Gore: 1876
(This title is part of Vidal's American Empire series, listed under Great American Novels)
- Vidal, Gore: Burr
(This title is part of Vidal's American Empire series, listed under Great American Novels)
- Vidal, Gore: Empire
(This title is part of Vidal's American Empire series, listed under Great American Novels)
- Vidal, Gore: Lincoln
(This title is part of Vidal's American Empire series, listed under Great American Novels)
- Wallach, Janet: Seraglio
- Warren, Spring: Turpentine
- Waters, Sarah: Affinity
- Waters, Sarah: Fingersmith
- Weisgall, Deborah: The World Before Her
- Wheeler, Richard S.: Eclipse
- Welch, James: The Heartsong of Charging Elk
- Wheeler, Richard S.: The Exile
- Wheeler, Richard S.: An Obituary for Major Reno
- Wheeler, Richard S.: Sun Mountain: A Comstock Memoir
- White, Edmund: Fanny
- White, Michael C.: The Garden of Martyrs
- White, Michael: Soul Catcher
- Wier, Allen: Tehano
- Wiley, Richard: Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show
- Wilkinson, David Marion: Oblivion's Altar
- Wilson, John: North with Franklin
- Woodhouse, Sarah: The Native Air
- Wright, Patricia: Furnace Green series
- I Am England
- That Near and Distant Place
- Zimler, Richard: Hunting Midnight
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