To Be Read - Historical Novels

To Be Read - Historical Novels

Peter Ackroyd – The Clerkenwell Tales

Peter Ackroyd – Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

Maragret Atwood – Alias Grace

Tracy Chevalier – The Girl with a Pearl Earring

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – White Company (re-read)

Michael Faber – The Crimson Petal and the White

Ken Follett – The Pillars of the Earth

Ford Maddox Ford – Ladies Whose Bright Eyes

Margaret George – Helen of Troy

Philippa Gregory – A Respectable Trade

Matthew Kneale – Sweet thames

Charles Palliser – The Unburied

Charles Palliser – The Quincunx

Iain Pears – An Instance of the Fingerpost

Sharon Kay Penman – Here be Dragons

Sharon Kay Penman – The Sunne in Splendour (re-read)

H F M Prescott – The Man on a Donkey

Steven Pressfield – Gates of Fire

Michele Roberts – Fair Exchange

Sir Walter Scott – Rob Roy

Anya Seton – Katharine

Belinda Starling – The Journal of Dora Damage

Rosemary Sutcliff – The Eagle of the North

William Makepeace Thackeray – Barry Lyndon

Rose Tremain – Restoration

Barry Unsworth – Morality Play

Sarah Waters – Fingersmith

Sarah Waters – Tipping the Velvet

(This list was compiled as a result of reading Nick Rennison's '100 Must Read Historical Novels')