(Even though our broad theme is American Cultural Journey, we didn’t want to limit our historical fiction suggestions or your reading choices! Therefore our list reflects various time periods and settings, but we’ve put an (*) next to titles set in America)
Suggested Historical Fiction
The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd
Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander
*The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Bernard Cornwell*
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
*The Emancipator’s Wife by Barbara Hambly*
Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
The Late Mr. Shakespeare by Robert Nye
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
*The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl*
*Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez*
*Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara*
*The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara*
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
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