Historical Fiction
* = book containing characters who really lived
Ancient History
The Courtesan’s Daughter - 1193-1184 B.C., Greece
Escape from Egypt - Hebrew Slavery
Goddess of Yesterday - Sparta
The Lantern Bearers - Roman Britain
Outcast - Roman Britain
Troy - Trojan War.
Ithaka is the sequel to Troy
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500 -1066 AD
The King’s Shadow - 1066, England
Raven of the Waves - Vikings
Sword Song - 700-900 AD, Scandinavia
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Anna of Byzantium - 1083, Byzantium
Blood Red Horse - The Crusades
*The Book of the Lion - 1100s, England
Catherine Called Birdy - Middle Ages, England
Crispin: The Cross of Lead - 1300s, England.
Crispin: At the Edge of the World continues the story
Daughter of Venice - 1500s, Italy
Doomed Queen Anne - early 1500s, England
The Dungeon - Feudal Scotland
Enter Three Witches - 11th Century, Scotland
Freedom Beyond the Sea - 1492, Spain
Henry V: the Graphic Novel - 1413-1422, England
Mary, Bloody Mary - 1500s, England
Midwife’s Apprentice - Middle Ages, England
Pagan’s Vows - 1100s Monastic Life
The Ramsay Scallop - 1300, England, Spain
The Samurai’s Tale - 1500s, Japan
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Colonial Times
A Break with Charity - 1692, Salem
Calico Bush - 1700s, Maine
Copper Sun - 1700s, South
Hang a Thousand Trees With Ribbons : the story of Phillis Wheatley - 1700s
Trouble’s Daughter - 1643, Delaware
Year of Wonders - Europe, Great Plague
Witch Child - 1659 Massachusetts
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Revolutionary Times
Early Thunder - Salem, MA
Fever, 1793 - Philadelphia
The Fifth of March - Boston Massacre
Fighting Ground - Young soldier’s story
*Finishing Becca - Am. Rev., Philadelphia
My Brother Sam Is Dead - American Revolution
Pox Party - African Americans
Sarah Bishop - 1776, America
*The Secret of Sarah Revere - Am. Rev., Massachusetts
A Tale of Two Cities - 1789-1799 France
Time Enough for Drums - 1776, Battle of Trenton NJ
The Winter People - 1755-1763, Quebec
Wolf by the Ears - late 1700s, Virginia
Year of the Hangman - 1777, various colonies
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Growth of a Nation
The Big Burn - 1910 wildfires
Blood Gold - 1849 California Gold Rush
The Blue Door - late 1800s, New England
Boston Jane - 1854, Washington Territory
Broken Days - 1811, Salem, MA
*The Coffin Quilt - 1880s, KY, WV
Fire in the Hills - 1918, Oklahoma
Fortune’s Journey - 1853, California
A Gathering of Days - 1830-1832, NH
Giants in the Earth - mid-1800s, Dakotas
*Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller - 1887, people with disabilities
Rockbuster - 1915, Utah
Rodzina - 1800s, Frontier
*Second Bend in the River - 1798, Ohio Territory
The Shakeress - 1820s, New England
A Stitch in Time - late 1700s, NW Territory
Streets of Gold - 1901, NY City
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Slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Race Relations
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - 1864-1960
Braving the Fire - Civil War
The Color of Fire - 1741 Great New York Conspiracy
Copper Sun - 1700s, South
Day of Tears - slavery and families
Evvy’s Civil War - 1860 Virginia
I Dred Scott - Slavery 1850’s
The Land - Reconstruction
Legend of Buddy Bush - 1947 North Carolina
Let the Circle Be Unbroken - 1930s, Miss
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy - 1911 Maine
Mississippi Trial, 1955 - Mississippi
Nightjohn - 1800s, South
North by Night - mid-1800s
Numbering All the Bones - 1864, Georgia
Pox Party - American Revolution
Red Badge of Courage - Civil War, VA
Ring of the Slave Prince - 1600s slave trade
The River Between Us - Civil War New Orleans
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - 1930s, South
Sing Down the Moon - 1864, SC
Sonny’s House of Spies - 1940s-1950s Alabama
Stealing Freedom - Underground Railroad
*Soldier’s Heart - 1860s, Minn
Trouble Don’t Last - Underground Railroad
Underground Man - 1850s, Kentucky
We Look Like Men of War - Civil War, South
Witness - 1920, Vermont Ku Klux Klan
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World War I
All Quiet on the Western Front - WWI, Germany
Countess Below Stairs - Russia, England
Kipling’s Choice - WWI, France
The Night of the Burning: Devorah’s Story - 1920 Poland, South Africa
Tree by Leaf - WWI, America
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Great Depression
Al Capone Does My Shirts - 1935 Alcatraz Prison
Dust - 1930s
The Grapes of Wrath - 1930s, OK, CA
Let the Circle Be Unbroken - 1930s, Mississippi
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - 1930s, South
*Someday - 1938, Massachusetts
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World War II
Aleutian Sparrow - American Internment Camp
The Bomb - 1945, Japan
Book Thief - WWII, Germany
The Boy who Dared - WWII, Germany
The Boys From St. Petri - WWII, Netherlands
Brothers in Valor - WWII, Germany
The Devil in Vienna - 1938, Vienna
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk - WWII, Germany
Flames of the Tiger - 1860 Virginia
For Freedom - 1940, France
Friedrich - WWII, Germany
The Kingdom by the Sea - WWII, England
Lisa’s War - WWII, Denmark
London Calling - 1940 London
Morning is a Long Time Coming (sequel) - WWII, Arkansas
Milkweed - WWII, Poland
Private Peaceful - British Army
Shadow of the Wall - WWII, Poland
Soldier Boys - WWII, Europe
Stones in Water - WWII, Europe
Summer of My German soldier - WWII, Arkansas
A Time Too Swift - WWII, San Diego
Yellow Star - Poland’s Lodz ghetto
When My Name Was Keoko - WWII, Korea
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Vietnam War
Come in from the Cold - 1960s, Minnesota
Little Cricket - Hmong refugees
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood - 1969 New Mexico
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Various Events in History
Ask Me No Questions - New York 9/11
Before We Were Free - 1960s, Dominican Republic
Climbing the Stairs - 1941, India
Distant Land of My Father - 1930s, China
The Forgotten Fire - 1923, Turkey
Hurricane Song: A Novel of New Orleans - Hurricane Katrina
Ivy: A Novel - mid 1800s, London
Killing Sea - 2004 Tsunami
Nory Ryan’s Song - 1845-1846, Ireland
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - 1940s, Soviet Union
Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom - 1850s, China
Smiling For Strangers - 1991, Yugoslavia
Sunrise over Fallujah - 2003, Iraq War
Tiger in the Well - 1881, London
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