Here are some suggestions for historical fiction books about certain time periods/eras. This list in NOT complete!
Ancient Times
FIC FRI Sphinx’s Princess (ancient Egypt)
Sphinx’s Queen (ancient Egypt)
FIC COO Goddess of Yesterday (ancient Greece)
FIC LAS Last Girls of Pompeii (ancient Rome)
FIC SPE Bronze Bow (ancient Rome - time of Jesus)
FIC BAN Tiger, Tiger (ancient Rome)
FIC NAP Bound (ancient China)
Middle Ages
FIC GRA Blood Red Horse (Crusades)
FIC WEI My Guardian Angel (Crusades)
FIC CRO Crossing to Paradise (Middle Ages, King Arthur)
FIC REE Here Lies Arthur (King Arthur)
Victorian England
FIC MAC Prisoners in the Palace
FIC YOL Queen’s Own Fool
Frontier/Pioneer Life
FIC HOL Boston Jane books
FIC AVI The Barn
FIC WIL Little House on the Prairie
FIC SPE Sign of the Beaver
FIC CAU Tree of Freedom
FIC HOL The Trouble With May Amelia
FIC CUS The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
FIC TIM One Came Home
FIC FLE The Borning Room
American Revolution/Colonial TImes
FIC CAR Blood on the River (Jamestown Settlement)
FIC PAU Woods Runner (Revolutionary War)
FIC AND Chains (Revolutionary War)
Forge (Revolutionary War)
FIC ODE Sarah Bishop (Revolutionary War)
FIC KLA Soldier’s Secret (Revolutionary War)
Slavery/Civil War
FIC AVI Iron Thunder
FIC CUR Elijah of Buxton
FIC DUR My Last Skirt: the story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier
FIC LES Day of Tears
FIC RIN Come Juneteenth
FIC PAT Jip: His Story
FIC COL Jump Ship to Freedom
FIC PAU Nightjohn
Early US/Industrialization
FIC HAL Dark Water Rising (Galvaston flood, 1900)
FIC TUB Selling Hope (Vaudeville, Halley’s Comet)
FIC PAT Bread and Roses, Too (Mill Workers’ Strike)
FIC WIN Counting on Grace (Vermont textile mill - 1910)
FIC AUC Ashes of Roses (Triangle Shirtwaist Fire)
FIC GRE Factory Girl
World War I/World War II
FIC BAR The Boy Who Dared (anti-Nazi Movement)
FIC BRU Code Talker (Navajo Code Talkers - WWII)
FIC KAH Weedflower (Japanese Internment - WWII)
FIC KLA The Green Glass Sea (Development of Atomic Bomb)
FIC LAS Ashes (WWII)
FIC MAR Take Me With You (biracial orphan following WWII)
FIC MOR The Elephant in the Garden (WWII)
FIC MOR Listen to the Moon (WWI)
FIC PAR When My Name was Keoko (Japanese invasion of Korea - WWII)
FIC ROD Jimmy’s Stars (WWII)
FIC ROS After the Dancing Days (WWI)
FIC SMI Flygirl (WWII)
FIC VEN Climbing the Stairs (WWII in India)
FIC WHE Burying the Sun (WWII)
Summer of the War (WWII)
FIC WOL Someone Named Eva (WWII)
FIC YOL The Devil’s Arithmetic (WWII)
US 1940s-1960s
FIC CUS The Loud Silence of Frannie Green
FIC CHO Al Capone Does My Shirts (Al Capone,
FIC WHI Little Audrey
FIC PEC A Year Down Yonder (Depression)
FIC RAY Ghost Girl
Civil Rights Era
FIC DRA Fire From the Rock
FIC LEV The Lions of Little Rock (school integration)
FIC SHA My Mother the Cheerleader (school integration)
FIC WOO Feathers (school integration)
FIC VAU Paperboy
FIC WIL One Crazy Summer
1960's
FIC PER Criss Cross
FIC WIL Countdown (Cuban Missile Crisis)
Revolution
FIC MAG The Rock and the River
FIC BUR A Thousand Never Evers