Ancient Civilizations

The Beacon at Alexandria by Gillian Bradshaw

Pharaoh by Karen Essex

When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer

The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George

I Claudius by Robert Graves

The River God by Wilbur Smith

Biblical Fiction

A Time for Judas by Morley Callaghan

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Queenmaker by India Edghill

Sarah, Woman of Genesis by Orson Scott Card

Middle Ages Fiction

The Plague Tales by Ann Benson

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Medieval Fiction

Down the Common by Ann Baer

The Wolf Hunt by Gillian Bradshaw

The Crusader by Michael Alexander Eisner

Knights by Linda Lael Miller

The Cornerstone by Zoe Oldenbourg

Squire by Tamora Pierce

Death and the Chapman by Kate Sedley

The Prince and the Pilgrim by Mary Stewart

The French Revolution

Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Age of Exploration

The Indian Chronicles by Jose Barreiro

Runestone by Dan Coldsmith

The Children of the Sun by Oakley Hall

Asia

Peony by Pearl Buck

Shogun by James Clavell

The Court of the Lion by Eleanor Cooney

Manchu Palaces by Jeanne Larsen

Australia

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough