List of historical novels

Aztec Empire

• Aztec by Gary Jennings (before Spanish invasion)
• Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings (one generation after Spanish invasion)
• Tlaloc Weeps For Mexico by László Passuth (Hernán Cortés, Conquest of Mexico)
• El Corazón de Piedra Verde (The Green-Stone Heart) by Salvador de Madariaga (encounter between Aztecs and Spanish)
• The Rise of the Aztecs Series by Zoe Saadia (from Texcoco-Tepanec War (1415) to the rise of the Triple Alliance)

Mayan Empire

• Caminarás con el Sol by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta (Gonzalo Guerrero)
• Gonzalo Guerrero by Eugenio Aguirre

Inca Empire

• El inca by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

Bengali

• Durgeshnôndini, Rajshingho, Anondomôţh by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Ghôre Baire by Rabindranath Tagore

English

• A Spoke in the Wheel by Amita Kanekar (Gautama Buddha/Ashoka)
• Chanakya's Chant by Ashwin Sanghi (4th century BC)
• Empire of the Moghul series by Alex Rutherford (Moghul Empire, Babur to Aurangzeb)
• The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye (British India in the 19th century)
• The Ibis trilogy by Amitav Ghosh (before and during the First Opium War)
• The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell (Indian Rebellion of 1857)
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Partition of India)

Hindi

• Volga Se Ganga by Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan

Malayalam

• Marthandavarma (1891), Dharmaraja (1913), Ramarajabahadur (1918–1919) by C V Raman Pillai

Tamil

• Parthiban Kanavu and Sivagamiyin Sabadham by Kalki Krishnamurthy (Pallava dynasty)
• Ponniyin Selvan by Kalki Krishnamurthy (Chola dynasty)
• Vengaiyin Mayinthan by Akilan (Rajendra Chola I, 11th century)

Telugu

• Veyipadagalu (1934) by Viswanatha Satyanarayana

Urdu

• Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire) by Qurratulain Hyder.

Multiple time frames

• Un soldado español de veinte siglos by José Gómez de Arteche

Early history

• Viriato by João Aguiar (1st century BC, Viriathus)
• Rey Lobo by Juan Eslava Galán
• Nublares series by Antonio Pérez Henares (Paleolithic)
• El Último Soldurio by Javier Lorenzo (1st century BC)
• Numancia by José Luis Corral (1st century BC, Numantia)
• El hombre de la plata by León Arsenal (Tartessos)
• Celtiberia series by Ángel L. Gallero (Celtiberians)

1. En los reinos de Lug
2. Arde Iberia

Roman Spain

• A Dying Light in Corduba by Lindsey Davis
• Sertorio by João Aguiar (Quintus Sertorius)
• Hay luz en casa de Publio Fama by Juan Miñana
• Los arcos del agua by Montse Barderi
• Interregno by José Vicente Pascual

Visigothic Kingdom

• Última Roma by León Arsenal (6th century)
• Sombras de mariposa by Guillermo Galván (Liuvigild, Visigothic Kingdom)
• Astur by Isabel San Sebastián (8th century Spain)
• La última visigoda by Isabel San Sebastián (8th century Spain)

Medieval

• Tales of Count Lucanor by Don Juan Manuel, príncipe de Villena (14th century)
• El mercenario de Granada by Juan Eslava Galán
• Reinos de Sangre by Óscar Eimil ( Fernando I)
• El Doncel de don Enrique el Doliente by Mariano José de Larra (Enrique III de Castilla)
• Sancho Saldaña o el castellano de Cuellar by José de Espronceda
• Il cavaliere invisibile by Valerio Massimo Manfredi (14th century)
• Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving (Emirato de Granada)
• Los bandos de Castilla by Ramón López Soler (15th century)
• Los malos años by León Arsenal (14th century, Pedro I de Castilla and Blanca de Borbón)
• 1369 by Juan Rey (14th century, Pedro I de Castilla)
• Corazón oscuro by León Arsenal (Battle of Teba, Alfonso XI of Castile, James Douglas death, Robert the Bruce heart in Spain.)
• Tiempo de bastardos by Paula Cifuentes (14th century, Beatriz de Portugal)
• La tierra de Alvar Fañez by Antonio Pérez Henares (11th century, Álvar Fáñez)
• El Rey Pequeño by Antonio Pérez Henares (11th century, Alfonso VIII)
• El olor de las especias by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta
• El reino de la espada by Álvaro Moreno Ancillo (13th century)
• El peón del Rey by Pedro Jesús Fernández (Camino de Santiago, Alfonso X court)
• Die Rose von Asturien by Iny Lorentz
• Catalina de Lancaster by María Teresa Álvarez (14th century, Catalina de Lancaster)
• El Alma de la Ciudad by Jesús Sánchez Adalid
• El camino mozarabe by Jesús Sánchez Adalid (Embassies between Ramiro II of León and Abderramán III after Battle of Simancas)
• Enrique de Castilla by Margarita Torres (13th century, Henry of Castile)
• El señor de Bembibre by Enrique Gil y Carrasco (14th century)
• Doña Blanca de Navarra by Francisco Navarro Villoslada (15th century, Blanca de Navarra)
• Las Compañías Blancas (Los Malandrines) by Tomás Salvador (14th century, Bertrand du Guesclin)
• Alcazaba by Jesús Sánchez Adalid (Mérida uprising against Abderramán II)
• Esperando al Rey by José María Pérez González (12th century, Alfonso VII of León and Castile and his children Sancho III of Castile and Ferdinand II of León)
• Salvatierra by Miguel Martínez (13th century, Order of Calatrava, Salvatierra Castle)
• El ejército de Dios by Sebastián Roa (Almohad Caliphate in Spain)
• El Reino del norte by Jose Javier Esparza (9th century. Early Reconquista )
• Señor de Madrid by Ramón Muñoz (14th century.)
• Recuerde el alma dormida by Rafael Álvarez Avello (Jorge Manrique)

Spanish Golden Age

• El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (16th century)
• The Ferdinand and Isabella Trilogy by Jean Plaidy (15th century)
• Adventures of Captain Alatriste series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• The heretic. A Novel of the Inquisition by Miguel Delibes (16th century in Valladolid)
• Martín Ojo de Plata series by Matilde Asensi (17th century)
• That Lady by Kate O'Brien (Ana de Mendoza, Princesa of Éboli)
• Jeromín by Luis Coloma (life of Juan de Austria)
• Capa y espada by Fernando Fernán Gómez (court of Philip IV of Spain, murder of Count of Villamediana)
• El comedido hidalgo by Juan Eslava Galán
• El prisionero de Argel by Antonio Cavanillas de Blas (life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
• La sombra de otro by Luis García Jambrina (life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
• Misterioso asesinato en casa de Cervantes by Juan Eslava Galán (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in Valladolid, Ezpeleta process)
• By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan (15th century)
• Sobra un rey by José García Abad (15th century)
• La reina comunera by José García Abad (Juana I de Castilla, Revolt of the Comuneros)
• El castellano de Flandes by Enrique Martínez Ruiz (16th century)
• Hoy no se pondrá el sol by Rafael Rico Cabeza (Spanish Road, Duke of Alba)
• Isidoro de Montemayor series by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta (17th century)

1. Ladrones de tinta
2. El gabinete de las maravillas
3. El reino de los hombres sin amor

• Rojo amanecer en Lepanto by Luis Zueco (life of Alejandro Farnesio y Habsburgo and Juan de Austria, Battle of Lepanto)
• The last crusader by Louis de Wohl (Juan de Austria)
• Leonor de Habsburgo by Yolanda Scheuber (Leonor de Habsburgo)
• Decidnos ¿Quién mató al conde? by Néstor Luján (court of Philip IV of Spain, murder of Count of Villamediana)
• La cruz en la espada by Néstor Luján (court of Philip IV of Spain, last years of Francisco de Quevedo)
• El caballero de Alcántara by Jesús Sánchez Adalid
• Y de repente, Teresa by Jesús Sánchez Adalid (Teresa of Ávila)
• The Queen's Vow: A Novel Of Isabella Of Castile by C. W. Gortner (Isabel de Castilla)
• El abogado de Indias by Amós Milton (A lawyer in Sevilla at 16th century)
• El comendador de Alcántara or El gobernador de Indias by José Miguel Carrillo de Albornoz (Nicolás de Ovando)
• Ronin by Francisco Narla (Samurai in Spain, 17th century)
• Capitán Alonso Cobos series by Juan Tazón (Espionage in the time of Felipe II)

1. Los caballeros de las sombras
2. Sabed que mi nombre se perdió

• Crónica del rey pasmado by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (Court of Felipe IV)
• El náufrago de la Gran Armada by Fernando Martínez Laínez (La Grande y Felicísima Armada)
• Lope: la furia del Fénix by Blas Malo (Life of Lope de Vega)
• El Gran Capitán by José Calvo Poyato (Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba)
• La hora de Quevedo by Baltasar Magro (Francisco de Quevedo)

18th century

• El día que España derrotó a Inglaterra. De cómo Blas de Lezo, tuerto, manco y cojo, venció en Cartagena de Indias a la otra "Armada Invencible" by Pablo Victoria (Blas de Lezo, Battle of Cartagena de Indias)
• Mediohombre by Alber Vázquez (Blas de Lezo, Battle of Cartagena de Indias)
• El héroe del Caribe: La última batalla de Blas de Lezo by J. Pérez-Foncea (Blas de Lezo)
• El paisano de Jamaica by Francisco Javier Romero Valentín (Blas de Lezo, Battle of Cartagena de Indias)
• Beltrán Ochoa, capitán de Dragones series by Octavio Sánchez-Machuca (Carlos III reign)

1. El asedio del Diablo
2. El alma en la batalla
3. Emboscada en Nápoles

• La traición del rey by José Luis Gil Soto (Manuel de Godoy)
• Conjura en Madrid by José Calvo Poyato (War of the Spanish Succession, Conspiration against Philip V)
• Hombres buenos by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

19th century

• National Episodes by Benito Pérez Galdós (19th century)
• La regenta by Leopoldo Alas "Clarín" (19th century)
• Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós (19th century)
• Vientos de intriga by José Calvo Poyato (Mutiny of Aranjuez, Dos de Mayo Uprising)
• Sangre en la calle del Turco by José Calvo Poyato (Prim murder)
• Un día de cólera by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Dos de Mayo Uprising)
• El húsar by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Napoleonic age)
• The siege (El asedio) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1811, Siege of Cádiz)
• The Fencing Master by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Isabella II age)
• El navío Príncipe de Asturias, Trafalgar by Luis Delgado Bañon (19th century) is the 9th book of Una saga marinera española
• La artillera by Ángeles de Irisarri (Siege of Saragossa)
• El león de ojos árabes by Antonio Cavanillas de Blas (Isabella II age)
• El secreto del rey cautivo by Antonio Gómez Rufo (Peninsular War)
• Bandera negra by León Arsenal (Carlist_Wars)

20th century

• Iberia by James A Michener (20th century)
• Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom
• Episodios nacionales contemporáneos series by Ricardo Fernández de la Reguera and Susana March
• And in the distance a light...? also published as Beasts and Martyrs of Spain (A sangre y fuego. Heroes, bestias y mártires de España) by Manuel Chaves Nogales
• Riña de gatos. Madrid 1936 by Eduardo Mendoza
• El valle de las sombras by Jerónimo Tristante (Construction of the Valle de los Caídos)
• The Communist's Daughter by Dennis Bock
• The Forging of a Rebel trilogy by Arturo Barea
• La sonata del silencio by Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
• El arte de matar dragones by Ignacio del Valle

Earliest history

• Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC by Bernard Cornwell (Stonehenge)
• Pillar of the Sky by Cecelia Holland (Stonehenge)
• The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter (Orkney in the 1st century BC)

Roman Britain

• Under the Eagle and others in the Cato series by Simon Scarrow (Roman invasion, AD 42)
• The Silver Pigs, A Body in the Bath House and The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis (crime in the reign of Vespasian, 1st century AD)
• The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (2nd century AD)
• The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff (3rd century AD)
• The Forest House, and others in the series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Eagle and the Raven, by Pauline Gedge (Caradoc, 1st century AD)

Medieval

• Porius by John Cowper Powys (Arthurian, 5th century)
• Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff (Arthurian)
• The Saxon Shore by Jack Whyte (Arthurian)
• Grail Prince by Nancy McKenzie (Galahad)
• Hild by Nicola Griffith (7th century)
• The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell (Alfred the Great, (9th century)
• Avalon by Anya Seton (10th century)
• The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer (William the Conqueror, 11th century)
• Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley (Norman Conquest)
• The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (11th century)
• Outlaw by Angus Donald, the first novel in the Outlaw Chronicles (12th century)
• King's Man by Angus Donald, the third in the above series (12th century)
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (12th century)
• Kay the Left-Handed by Leslie Barringer (12th century)
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (12th century)
• Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson (12th century)
• Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman (12th century)
• The Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman (12th century)
• Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman (Wales, 13th century)
• The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman (13th century Wales)
• The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter (13th century Wales)
• The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet by Edith Pargeter (13th century Wales)
• The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott (14th-century Scotland)
• The Grail Quest by Bernard Cornwell (14th century)
• Katherine by Anya Seton (14th century)
• Company of Liars by Karen Maitland (14th century)
• World Without End by Ken Follett (14th century)
• Owen Glendower by John Cowper Powys (15th century Wales)
• Know Ye Not Agincourt? by Leslie Barringer (15th century)
• The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman (15th century)
• The Load of Unicorn by Cynthia Harnett (Caxton, 15th century London)

Tudor and Stuart

• The House of Niccolò and Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett (Scotland and beyond, 15th and 16th centuries)
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Thomas Cromwell's rise to power)
• Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn)
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Mary Boleyn)
• The Fifth Queen by Ford Madox Ford (Katharine Howard)
• Young Bess, Elizabeth, Captive Princess and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain by Margaret Irwin
• Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott (Elizabeth I and Amy Robsart)
• Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease (English Renaissance theatre/Elizabethan Cumberland and London)
• Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson (Elizabethan persecution of Catholics)
• Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott (English Civil War)
• Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott (English Civil War)
• John Inglesant by Joseph Henry Shorthouse (Charles I, English Civil War, Catholic proselytism)
• Lady of the Glen by Jennifer Roberson (Massacre of Glencoe)
• A Tale of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott (17th-century Scottish rebellion)
• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (account of Great Plague of London, 1666)
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (Great Plague, 1666)
• Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor (17th century, Restoration period)
• Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer (Cromwell and Charles II)
• Micah Clarke by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (17th century, Monmouth Rebellion)
• Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (17th century, Monmouth Rebellion and aftermath)
• The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (English Civil War, rule of Charles II, Glorious Revolution, early 18th century)
• Hawksmoor by Peter Akroyd (Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor and parallel modern story)
• The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray (reign of Queen Anne)
• An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears (Restoration period)

Hanoverian

• Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott (1715 Jacobite rising)
• La última batalla by Javier La Orden Trimollet (Jacobites)
• The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott (1730s Scotland and England)
• Waverley by Sir Walter Scott (1745 Jacobite rising)
• The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray (18th-century England, Seven Years' War)
• Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott (Jacobites in Dumfries, 1760s)
• Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty by Charles Dickens (Gordon riots)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Set during the Terror in Paris)
• Agraria and Urbania by Gerrard Lilburne (Set during the European Seven Years' War, 1756-63)
• Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell (British Army in the Napoleonic Wars)
• Horatio Hornblower series by C. S. Forester (British navy in the Napoleonic Wars)
• Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian (British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars)
• Ramage series by Dudley Pope (British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars)
• Bolitho Novels by Alexander Kent (British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars)
• Revolution series by Simon Scarrow (Wellington and Napoleon)
• Judith by Brian Cleeve (Set around the start of the 19th century)
• Thomas Kydd Series by Julian Stockwin, set during the French and Napoleonic Wars
• Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (18th century transatlantic slave trade)

Victorian

• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (1860s London and elsewhere)
• The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser (Victorian era)
• Laura Blundy by Julie Myerson (Victorian London)
• Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch (Victorian London and seafaring)

20th century

• The Wishing Game by Patrick Redmond (life in a strict and uncanny boarding school in rural Norfolk in the 1950s)
• The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe (1970s)

Multiple time frames

• Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd – Tells the story of England through the eyes of six families in the Salisbury area, stretching from Prehistoric Britain through the 1980s
• The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon

Colonial

• Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth and Proceed, Sergeant Lamb by Robert Graves (American Revolution)
• The Fort by Bernard Cornwell (the Penobscot Expedition of the American Revolution)
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (French and Indian War)
• Richard Carvel by Winston Churchill (Maryland and the American Revolution)
• Shadow Patriots, a Novel of the Revolution by Lucia St. Clair Robson (George Washington's Culper Spy Ring)
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Boston in the 1770s)
• Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (18th century/American Revolution)
• Las huellas del conquistador by José Luis Pérez Regueira (Hernando de Soto exploration of North America)
• La fragata Princesa by Luis Delgado Bañón (Alta California, Discovering of Nootka Island)
• Las batallas hispano-apaches en el salvaje norte de América series by Alber Vázquez (Spanish wars against Apaches)

1. Resiste Tucson
2. Largo camino hacia Zuni Pueblo
3. Guerras mescalero en Río Grande

• Los acasos by Javier Pascual (Spanish wars against Apaches)
• España contraataca: Relato sobre la derrota del imperio inglés en Norteamérica by Pablo Victoria (Bernardo de Gálvez)

19th century

• Burr by Gore Vidal (Aaron Burr)
• My Theodosia by Anya Seton (The life of Theodosia Burr Alston, her father Aaron Burr's Vice Presidency and subsequent years)
• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1831 slave revolt)
• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (18th–19th century slavery)
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (mid-19th century New Mexico Territory
• Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks (abolitionist John Brown, pre-Civil War)
• The Emigrants series by Vilhelm Moberg (Swedish emigrants in Minnesota, 1850s)
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones (antebellum Virginia)
• The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (mid-19th century Western wagon train)
• Lincoln by Gore Vidal
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (American Civil War)
• Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (American Civil War)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (American Civil War)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (American Civil War)
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (American Civil War)
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (American Civil War)
• Traveller by Richard Adams (American Civil War, told by Robert E. Lee's horse)
• Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (Andersonville prison camp)
• Shiloh by Shelby Foote
• The March by E. L. Doctorow (Sherman's March to the Sea)
• True Women by Janice Woods Windle (Texas Revolution, American Civil War, early 20th Century)
• Lee and Grant at Appomattox by MacKinlay Kantor (American Civil War)
• Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus (American Civil War and late 19th century)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (post-Civil War)
• Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson (Cynthia Ann Parker's life with the Comanches)
• The Turquoise by Anya Seton (The Santa Fe Trail and New York society)
• Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell (Immigrants and the steel mills of Pittsburgh, from 1880)
• Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (late 19th century New York City)
• Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen (Edgar "Bloody" Watson, late 19th century Florida)

20th century

• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (beginning of the 20th century)
• The Road to Wellville by T. C. Boyle (the story of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in 1907)
• Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair (1913–1949)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (American soldiers in World War II)
• Two Trains Running by Andrew Vachss (1960 presidential election)

Multiple time frames