Daniel S. Burt's Recommended Historical Novels

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What Historical Novel Do I Read Next? by Daniel S. Burt (1997), 353 Books

A list of recommended historical novels from Daniel S. Burt's book "What Historical Novel Do I Read Next?"

Daniel S. Burt is an American author and literary critic.

This list was originally published in 2003 and was added to this site about 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
14901 The World Is Not Enough Zoe Oldenbourg 1966 French French
15787 The Cornerstone Zoe Oldenbourg 1953 French French
17010 Destiny Of Fire Zoe Oldenbourg 1960 French English
17010 Cities Of The Flesh Zoe Oldenbourg 1961 French French
17010 The Heirs Of The Kingdom Zoe Oldenbourg 1970 French French
17010 White Boar Marian Palmer 1988 Unknown English
17010 The Sunne In Splendour Sharon Kay Penman 1982 American English
17010 Here Be Dragons Sharon Kay Penman 1985 American English
17010 Falls The Shadow Sharon Kay Penman 1988 American English
17010 The Reckoning Sharon Kay Penman 1991 American English
17010 When Christ And His Saints Slept Sharon Kay Penman 1995 American English
15787 The Unhurrying Chase Hilda Prescott 1949 British English
15787 Son Of Dust Hilda Prescott 1952 British English
16417 Spider King Lawrence Schoonover 1954 American English
1862 Katherine Anya Seton 1954 American English
17010 Golden Hand Edith Simon 1961 Unknown English
416 The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey 1951 British English
2272 The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner 1948 British English
17010 The Last Englishman Hebe Weenolson Unknown Unknown
15787 Not Built With Hands Helen C. White 1936 American English
17010 Michelangelo The Florentine Sidney Alexander 1957 Unknown English
17010 The Hand Of Michelangelo Sidney Alexander 1976 Unknown English
17010 Nicodemus Sidney Alexander 1965 Unknown English
4066 Private Renaissance Maria Bellonci 1985 Italian Italian
17010 Niccolò Rising Dorothy Dunnett 1986 British English
2322 Romola George Eliot 1863 British English
17010 Duchess Of Milan Michael Ennis 1992 American English
15787 The Scarlet City Hella S. Haases 1952 Dutch Dutch
17010 City Of God Cecelia Holland 1979 American English
2747 Young Henry Of Navarre Heinrich Mann 1935 German German
17010 Vittoria Robert Merle 1986 French French
17010 The Bride Of Sforza Miranda Seymour 1975 Unknown English
15787 The Florentine Carl Spinatelli 1953 Unknown English
17010 The Agony And The Ecstacy Irving Stone 1961 American English
17010 Stage Of Fools Charles Brady Unknown English
16653 Immortal Queen Elizabeth Byrd 1956 American English
17010 Feversham Diane Davidson 1969 Unknown Unknown
17010 Heart Of A Queen Josephine Delves-Broughton Unknown Unknown
17010 My Lord Essex Olive Eckerson Unknown Unknown
17010 The Firedrake's Eye Patricia Finney 1992 British English
15787 The Fifth Queen Ford Madox Ford 1908 British English
17010 Death Of The Fox George Garrett 1972 American English
17010 The Succession George Garrett 1983 American English
17010 Entered From The Sun George Garrett 1990 American English
17010 The Autobiography Of Henry Viii Margaret George 1986 American English
17010 Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles Margaret George 1992 American English
17010 Armada Charles Gidley 1987 Unknown English
17010 I, Elizabeth Rosalind Miles 1993 British English
16502 Flame Of Fire Jane Oliver 1955 Unknown English
15787 Man On A Donkey Hilda Prescott 1952 British English
17010 The Cat And The King Louis Auchincloss 1981 American English
17010 Campion Towers John Beatty, Patricia Beatty 1965 Unknown English
17010 Nicholas Cooke Stephanie Cowell 1993 Unknown English
17010 The Physician Of London Stephanie Cowell 1995 Unknown English
192 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1859 British English
119 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
17010 The Glass Blowers Daphne du Maurier 1963 British English
14165 The Year of the French Thomas Flanagan 1979 American English
17010 White Witch Elizabeth Goudge 1958 British English
17010 Dark Torrent Of Glencoe Edward Grierson 1960 British English
17010 The Gods Are Thirsty Tabitha Lee Unknown Unknown
17010 The Frenchwoman Jeanne Mackin 1989 Unknown English
17010 Rasero Francisco Rebolledo 1995 Mexican Spanish
15787 I, John Mordaunt Virgil Scott 1952 Unknown English
17010 Vindication Frances Sherwood 1993 Unknown English
2119 Restoration Rose Tremain 1989 British English
2544 Bosnian Chronicle Ivo Andrić 1945 Bosnian Serbo-croatian
3274 Holy Week Louis Aragon 1958 French French
4406 Sharpe's Eagle Bernard Cornwell 1981 British English
708 Captain Hornblower R.N. C. S. Forester 1937 British English
17010 So Brief A Spring Claude Manceron 1971 French French
920 Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian 1969 British English
14901 The Volcano Lover Susan Sontag 1992 American English
17010 Sir William David Stacton 1965 American English
13 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
15787 The Eagle And The Rock Frances Winwar 1944 Unknown English
17010 The Tennants Of Time Thomas Flannagan 1988 Unknown English
2231 Flashman George MacDonald Fraser 1969 British English
568 The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles 1969 British English
848 Regeneration Pat Barker 1991 British English
14165 The Eye in the Door Pat Barker 1993 British English
5726 The Ghost Road Pat Barker 1995 British English
417 Ragtime E. L. Doctorow 1975 American English
1083 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 1993 British English
17010 The End Of The Hunt Thomas Flanagan 1994 American English
112 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak 1957 Russian Russian
15787 The Forest And The Fort Hervey Allen 1943 American English
15787 Bedford Village Hervey Allen 1944 American English
17010 Toward The Morning Hervey Allen 1978 American English
1421 The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth 1960 American English
17010 A Durable Fire Virginia Bernhard 1990 Unknown English
15787 In The Hands Of The Senecas Walter D. Edmonds 1950 American English
15787 Roanoke Hundred Inglis Fletcher 1948 American English
15787 Plymouth Adventure Ernest Gebler 1952 Irish English
17010 Pilgrims Gerard Mac Unknown English
15787 Northwest Passage Kenneth Roberts 1937 American English
17010 The Winthrop Woman Anya Seton 1958 American English
17010 O Beulah Land Mary Lee Settle 1981 American English
17010 The Cold Journey Grace Stone Unknown Unknown
17010 The First Rebel Neil Swanson 2009 American English
14901 Follow the River James Alexander Thom 1981 American English
17010 Long March Jane Barry Unknown Unknown
17010 The Carolinians Jane Barry 1959 Unknown English
15787 Drums James Boyd 1928 American English
15787 Richard Caqrvel Winston Churchill 1899 American English
15787 The Crossing Winston Churchill 1904 American English
15787 Drums Along The Mohawk Walter D. Edmonds 1936 American English
17010 Bounty Lands William Ellis 1981 Unknown English
15787 Conceived In Liberty Howard Fast 1945 American English
15787 Citizen Tom Paine Howard Fast 1943 American English
8860 April Morning Howard Fast 1961 American English
17010 Liberty Tavern Thomas Fleming 1976 American English
17010 Monmouth Charles Flood 1977 Unknown English
15787 Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1899 American English
16653 Hannah Fowler Janice Giles 1956 American English
15787 Proceed, Sergeant Lamb Robert Graves 1940 British English
17010 Guns Of Burgoyne Bruce Lancaster 1975 American English
15787 Trumpet To Arms Bruce Lancaster 1944 Unknown English
15787 Blind Journey Bruce Lancaster 1953 American English
15787 Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker S. Weir Mitchell 1896 American English