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This is a selection of historical fiction and fictionalized biography set in time from prehistory to the 11th century. Choose from the time periods below:



Prehistory


Jean Auel FIC AUE
Earth’s Children series

The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980)

The Valley of Horses (1982)

The Mammoths Hunters (1985)

The Plains of Passage (1990)

Shelters of Stone (2002)

Bernard Cornwell FIC COR
Stonehenge: 2000 B.C. (2000)

Kathleen O’Neal Gear and Michael Gear FIC GEA
First North Americans series

People of the Lakes (1994)

People of the Lightning (1995)

People of the Silence (1996)

People of the Mist (1997)

People of the Masks (1998)

People of the Owl (2003)

Sue Harrison FIC HAR
Set in prehistoric Alaska

Mother Earth, Father Sky (1990)

My Sister the Moon (1992)

Brother Wind: A Novel (1994)

Storyteller trilogy

Song of the River (1997)

Cry of the Wind (1998)

Call Down the Stars (2001)

Judith Tarr FIC TAR
Set in prehistoric Europe

White Mare's Daughter (1998)

Lady of Horses (2000)

Daughter of Lir (2001)

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Ancient Egypt

Gillian Bradshaw FIC BRA
Cleopatra’s Heir (2002)

Karen Essex FIC ESS
Kleopatra (2001)

Pharaoh (2002)

Pauline Gedge FIC GED
Lords of the Two Lands trilogy

The Hippopotamus Marsh (1998)

The Oasis (1999)

The Horus Road (2000)

Margaret George FIC GEO
The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997)

Cecelia Holland FIC HOL
Valley of the Kings (1997)

Norman Mailer FIC MAI
Ancient Evenings (1983)

Wilbur Smith FIC WIL
River God (1993)

Warlock (2001)

Judith Tarr FIC TAR
Lord of the Two Lands (1993)

Pillar of Fire (1995)

King and Goddess (1996)

The Shepherd Kings (1999)

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Ancient Middle East

Sholem Asch FIC ASC
The Nazarene (1967)

Orson Scott Card FIC CAR
Women of Genesis series

Sarah (2000)

Rebekah (2001)

Paulo Coelho FIC COE
The Fifth Mountain (1998)

Elizabeth Cunningham FIC CUN
Daughter of the Shining Isles (2000)

Anita Diamant FIC DIA
The Red Tent (1997)

India Edghill FIC EDG
Queenmaker: A Novel of King David's Queen (1999)

Margaret George FIC GEO
Mary, Called Magdalene (2002)

Angela Elwell Hunt FIC HUN
Shadow Women (2002)

Larry Huntsperger FIC HUN
The Fisherman (2003)

Zora Neale Hurston FIC HUR
Moses: Man of the Mountain (1991)

Thom Lemmons FIC LEM
Jabez: A Novel (2001)

Mother of Faith (2001)

D. S. Lliteras FIC LLI
Jerusalem’s Rain: a Novel (2003)

Mailer, Norman FIC MAI
The Gospel According to the Son (1997)

James R. Mills FIC MIL
Memoirs of Pontius Pilate: a Novel (2000)

Francine Rivers FIC RIV
Lineage of Grace series

Unashamed (2000)

Unveiled (2000)

Unafraid (2001)

Unshaken (2001)

Unspoken (2001)

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Ancient Greece

Gillian Bradshaw FIC BRA
The Sand-Reckoner (2000)

Michael Curtis Ford FIC FOR
The Ten Thousand (2001)

William Golding FIC GOL
The Double Tongue (1995)

Steven Pressfield FIC PRE
Gates of Fire (1998)

Tides of War (2000)

Last of the Amazons (2002)

Jane Rawlings FIC RAW
The Penelopeia (2003)

Mary Renault FIC REN
The Last of the Wine (1956)

The King Must Die (1958)

Bull from the Sea (1962)

The Mask of Apollo (1966)

Fire from Heaven (1969)

The Persian Boy (1972)

The Praise Singer (1978)

Funeral Games (1981)

Barry Unsworth FIC UNS
The Songs of the Kings (2003)

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Ancient Rome

Jane Alison FIC ALI
The Love-Artist (2001)

Gillian Bradshaw FIC BRA
The Beacon at Alexandria (1986)

Render Unto Caesar (2003)

Michael Curtis Ford FIC FOR
Gods and Legions (2002)

Robert Graves FIC GRA
I, Claudius (1934)

Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (1935)

Conn Iggulden FIC IGG
Emperor: the Gates of Rome (2003)

Patrick Larkin FIC LAR
The Tribune: a Novel of Ancient Rome (2003)

Ross Leckie FIC LEC
Hannibal (1996)

Scipio Africanus (1998)

Carthage (2000)

Edward Lytton FIC LYT
The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)

Colleen McCullough FIC MCC
Masters of Rome series

The First Man in Rome (1990)

The Grass Crown (1991)

Fortune’s Favorites (1993)

Caesar’s Women (1996)

Caesar: Let the Dice Fly (1997)

The October Horse (2002)

Vincent Panella FIC PAN
Cutter’s Island: Caesar in Captivity (2000)

Lewis Wallace FIC WAL
Ben-Hur (1880)

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Ancient Europe

Marion Zimmer Bradley FIC BRA

Set in Roman Britain

The Mists of Avalon (1982)

The Forest House (1993)

Lady of Avalon (1997)

Priestess of Avalon (2000)

Bernard Cornwell FIC COR
Warlord Chronicles series

The Winter King (1995)

Enemy of God (1996)

Excalibur (1997)

Robert Holdstock FIC HOL
Celtika (2003)

J. Robert King FIC KIN
Mad Merlin (2000)

Morgan Llywelyn FIC LLY
Set in ancient Ireland

Lion of Ireland (1979)

Druids (1991)

Finn Mac Cool (1994)

Pride of Lions (1996)

Manda Scott FIC SCO
Dreaming the Eagle (2003)

Mary Stewart FIC STE
The Arthurian Saga series

The Crystal Cave (1970)

The Hollow Hills (1973)

The Last Enchantment (1979)

The Wicked Day (1983)

Terence H. White FIC WHI
Classic retelling of the Arthur stories

The Sword in the Stone (1939)

The Once and Future King (1958)

The Book of Merlyn (1977)

Jack Whyte FIC WHY
The Camulod Chronicles of Roman Britain

The Skystone (1996)

The Singing Sword (1996)

The Eagles’ Brood (1997)

The Saxon Shore (1998)

The Fort at River’s Bend (1999)

The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis (1999)

Uther (2001)

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Ancient Asia

Eleanor Cooney FIC COO
The Court of the Lion: A Novel of the T’ang Dynasty (1989)

Kij Johnson FIC JOH
The Fox Woman (2000)

Jeanne Larsen FIC LAR
Silk Road: A Novel of Eighth-Century China (1989)

Shikibu Murasaki FIC MUR
The Tale of Genji (11th century)

 

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