Historical Fiction of Different Cultures
Historical Fiction Depicting Cultures other than 19th Century England.
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September 2002
Compiled by Andrew Smith ,
of Williamsburg Regional Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
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Thomas Berger Little Big Man
T. Coraghessan Boyle Road to Wellville
Gillian Bradshaw Island of Ghosts
Pearl Buck The Good Earth
James Branch Cabell Jurgen
Taylor Caldwell The Glory and The Lightning Dear and Glorious Physician
Willa Cather O Pioneers!
Michael Crichton The Great Train Robbery
Donna Woolfolk Cross Pope Joan
John H. Culp Born of the Sun The Restless Land
Liza Dalby Tale of Murasaki
Allen Drury A God Against the Gods Return to Thebes
Louise Erdrich The Birchbark House
Colin Falconer Feathered Serpent
Ken Follett Pillars of the Earth
Dale Furutani Death at the Crossroads Jade Palace Vendetta Kill the Shogun
Pauline Gedge Child of the Morning
Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
Knut Hamsun Growth of the Soil
Clair Huffaker The Cowboy and the Cossack
George Keithley The Donner Party (epic poem)
Russell Martin Beethoven's Hair
William Martin Annapolis
Greg Matthews The Further Adventures of Huck Finn
Colleen McCullough The First Man In Rome
James Michener Poland Hawaii
Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind
Farley Mowat The Farfarers
Sterling North The Wolfling So Dear to My Heart
David Poyer Thunder on the Mountain
Mary Renault The Praise Singer The Mask Of Apollo Fire From Heaven
Kim Stanley Robinson The Years of Rice and Salt
Lucia Robson The Tokaido Road Mary's Land Fearless
Laura Joh Rowland Bundori
Edward Rutherfurd London Sarum Russka The Forest
Paul Scott The Raj Quartet
Jane Smiley The All-True Travels & Adventures of Lidie Newton
Wilbur Smith The Sunbird
Oliver Statler Japanese Inn
Rosemary Sutcliffe Sword at Sunset YA novels
Robert Lewis Taylor The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters A Roaring in the Wind
Robert Traver Laughing Whitefish
Gale Tsukiyama Women of the Silk The Language of Threads
Nancy E. Turner These Is My Words
Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter
Mildred Walker Fireweed
Margaret Walker Jubilee
Jack Whyte Camulod Chronicles
HISTORICAL FICTION IN SERIES
Lindsey Davis Marcus Didius Falco series
R.H. van Gulik Judge Dee series
Ellis Peters Brother Cadfael series
Christian Jacq Ramses series
Mary Reed John the Eunuch series
AUTHORS AND THEIR SPECIALTIES
Patricia Finney/P.F. Chisholm -- Elizabethan England
George Garrett -- Elizabethan England
Margaret George -- Tudor England/Alexandrian Egypt
Alfred Duggan -- Dark Age England & Crusader Near East
Valerie Anand -- Saxon England
AUTHORS OF HISTORICAL FICTION
Thomas B. Costain
E. L. Doctorow
P.C. Doherty
Alexandre Dumas
Loula Grace Erdman
Noel B. Gerson
Lauren Haney
Gary Jennings
F. Van Wyck Mason
Larry McMurtry
Lynda Robinson
Judith Tarr
James Alexander Thom
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