Adult Historical Novels by Time Period

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This article in Category:Adult Fiction and Category:Historical

1 Medieval History
2 Nineteenth Century
- 2.1 Turn of the Nineteenth Century/Late Victorian
3 World War II
4 20th Century

Medieval History

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks

Nineteenth Century

Ahab's Wife; or, The star-gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lydie Newton by Jane Smiley
The Living by Annie Dillard
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Turn of the Nineteenth Century/Late Victorian

City of Light by Lauren Belfer
My Antonia by Willa Cather

World War II

City of Thieves by David Benioff
The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Henry Lee, a Chinese boy from a first generation immigrant family living in Seattle at the outbreak of WWII, falls in love with Keiko Okabe, a Japanese American girl, against the opposition of his father who has been fighting the war against the Japanese invaders of China all of his life in his head, but Keiko and the rest of the Japanese community are sent to the internment camps for the duration of the war.