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A
Rafael Abalos
• Grimpow: The Invisible Road
Peter Ackroyd
• The Lambs of London
Anita Amirrezvani
• The Blood of Flowers
Dennis Lee Anderson
• Arthur, King
Malcolm Archibald
• Whales for the Wizard
Larita Arnold
• The Fastest Ship
Margaret Atwood
• Alias Grace
Bernardo Atxaga
• The Lone Man
Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
• Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Lynn Austin
• Candle in the Darkness
Avi
• The Man Who Was Poe
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Michael Aye
• The Reaper
• HMS SeaWolf
B
Kage Baker
• Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key
David Beasley
• Sarah's Journey
Vanora Bennett
• Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Linda Berdoll
• Mr Darcy Takes a Wife
Jen Black
• The Banners of Alba
Julia Blackburn
• The Leper's Companions
David Blixt
• Colossus: Stone & Steel
• Star-Cross'd #1: The Master of Verona
• Star-Cross'd #2: Voice of the Falconer
• Star-Cross'd #3: Fortune's Fool
Robert Bloch
• The Night of the Ripper
Joseph Boyden
• Three Day Road
Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Firebrand
• The Mists of Avalon
• Priestess of Avalon, with Diana Paxson
Gillian Bradshaw
• Hawk of May
• Kingdom of Summer
• In Winter's Shadow
• The Sand-Reckoner
• The Wolf Hunt
Sybil G. Brinton
• Old Friends & New Fancies: The Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen
David S. Brody
• Cabal of the Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower
Steven Brust & Emma Bull
• Freedom & Necessity
Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Spirit Ring
Emma Bull & Steven Brust
• Freedom & Necessity
Marguerite Butler
• Death by Scandal
• The Mad Hatterlys #1: Compromising Prudence
C
Michael Cadnum
• In a Dark Wood
Broos Campbell
• Matty Graves #1: No Quarter
• Matty Graves #2: The War of Knives
• Matty Graves #3: Peter Wicked
Jack Campbell
• The Last Full Measure
Mark C. Carnes, editor
• Novel History: Historians & Novelists Confront America's Past
Jack Cavanaugh
• While Mortals Sleep
David Chacko
• The Severan Prophecies
Tracy Chevalier
• The Lady & the Unicorn
Catherine Christian
• The Pendragon
Edward Chupack
• Silver
Stephen Clarkson
• Patriot's Reward
Jon Clinch
• Finn
Judd Cole
• Cheyenne #1: Arrow Keeper
Susan Cooper
• Dawn of Fear
• Victory
Bernard Cornwell
• Stonehenge: 2000 B.C.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
• Pope Joan
Kevin Crossley-Holland
• Arthur, Book I: The Seeing Stone
Elizabeth Cunningham
• Bright Dark Madonna
• Daughter of the Shining Isles
• Magdalen Rising
• The Passion of Mary Magdalen
Sheldon Currie
• The Glace Bay Miners' Museum
Leah R. Cutter
• Paper Mage
D
Lindsey Davis
• Two for the Lions
Maggie Davis
• Winter Serpent
Annabel Davis-Goff
• The Fox's Walk
Katherine Deauxville
• The Amethyst Crown
• Blood Red Roses
Debra Denson
• Magician's Spell
Tatiana de Rosnay
• Sarah's Key
Christie Dickason
• The Firemaster's Mistress
Florence Ditlow
• The Bakery Girls
Michael Dobbs
• Churchill's Triumph
David Donachie
• Nelson & Emma #1: On a Making Tide
• Nelson & Emma #2: Tested by Fate
• Nelson & Emma #3: Breaking the Line
Jennifer Donnelly
• The Tea Rose
• The Winter Rose
Emma Donoghue
• Life Mask
Dave Duncan
• The Alchemist's Apprentice
E
Randy Lee Eickhoff
• The Destruction of the Inn
• The Feast
• The Raid
• The Sorrows
Erica Eisdorfer
• The Wet Nurse's Tale
Jack Engelhard
• The Days of the Bitter End
Jennifer Cody Epstein
• The Painter from Shanghai
Alfredo Jose Estrada
• Welcome to Havana, Senor Hemingway
F
Eleanor Fairburn
• The White Seahorse
Anthony R. Fanning
• Natalie's Good Fortune
Sebastian Faulks
• Birdsong
Charles Foran
• Carolan's Farewell
C.S. Forester
• #1: Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
• #2: Lieutenant Hornblower
• #3: Hornblower & the Hotspur
• #4: Hornblower During the Crisis
• #5: Hornblower & the Atropos
• #6: Beat to Quarters
• #7: Ship of the Line
• #8: Flying Colours
• #9: Commodore Hornblower
• #10: Lord Hornblower
• #11: Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
Jodie Forrest
• The Rhymer & the Ravens
G
Diana Gabaldon
• Outlander
• Outlander #2: Dragonfly in Amber
George J. Galloway
• The Powder Monkey
Louis Garafalo
• The Sassamon Circle
Elizabeth Garrett
• The Sweet Trade
Ginger Garrett
• Chronicles of the Scribe #2: In the Arms of Immortals
Mary Gentle
• 1610: A Sundial in a Grave
Adele Geras
• Voyage
Amitav Ghosh
• The Glass Palace
Patricia Reilly Giff
• Maggie's Door
Parke Godwin
• Beloved Exile
• Firelord
• Robin & the King
• Sherwood
William Goldman
• The Silent Gondoliers
Winston Graham
• Bella Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1818-1820
Amanda Grange
• Mr. Darcy's Diary
H
Joe Haldeman
• Guardian
Barbara Hambly
• The Emancipator's Wife
Cora Harrison
• I was Jane Austen's Best Friend
Pauline Hayton
• A Corporal's War: World War II Adventures of a Royal Engineer
Georgette Heyer
• Behold, Here's Poison
• Black Sheep
• Devil's Cub
• False Colours
• Friday's Child
• The Grand Sophy
• An Infamous Army
• Lady of Quality
• Royal Escape
• The Spanish Bride
Nancy Holder
• Spirited
Cecelia Holland
• The Angel & the Sword
• The Kings in Winter
A.H. Holt
• Blood Redemption
• Kendrick
• Riding Fence
• Silver Creek
Mary Hooper
• Petals in the Ashes
Kate Horsley
• Confessions of a Pagan Nun
James D. Houston
• Snow Mountain Passage
Katherine Howe
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Seth Hunter
• The Time of Terror
J
Marie Jakober
• The Black Chalice
Cary James
• King & Raven
Kij Johnson
• The Fox Woman
Okeyo A. Jumal
• Spiritual Shackles
K
Jeanne Kalogridis
• The Devil's Queen
Mark Keating
• The Pirate Devlin
Alexander Kent
• Richard Bolitho, Midshipman
• Midshipman Bolitho & the Avenger
• Band of Brothers
• Stand into Danger
• In Gallant Company
• Sloop of War
• To Glory We Steer
• Command a King's Ship
• Passage to Mutiny
• With All Despatch
S.K. Keogh
• The Prodigal
Ellen Kushner
• Thomas the Rhymer
L
Mercedes Lackey
• The Fire Rose
Elizabeth Laird
• The Betrayal of Maggie Blair
Mary Lancaster
• The Endless Exile
Joe R. Lansdale
• Zeppelins West
Whitney LeBlanc
• Shadows of the Blues
Harper Lee
• To Kill a Mockingbird
J. Ardian Lee
• Outlaw Sword
• Sword of King James
Tanith Lee
• Piratica
Peter Lerangis
• Antarctica: Escape from Disaster
Tom Lewis
• Pea Island Gold #1: Sunday's Child
• Pea Island Gold #2: Hitler's Judas
John Richard Lindermuth
• Schlussel's Woman
• Watch the Hour
Morgan Llywelyn
• Bard
• Finn MacCool
• 1916
• 1921
• 1949: A Novel of the Irish Free State
• The Wind from Hastings
Reyna Thera Lorele
• The Archer King
Valya Dudycz Lupescu
• The Silence of Trees
Valerie Rolfe Lupini
• The Whistle
Annabel Lyon
• The Golden Mean
M
George MacDonald
• Malcolm
Steven E. Maffeo
• The Perfect Wreck
Kevin Major
• No Man's Land
David Malouf
• Ransom
Frederick Marryat
• Mr. Midshipman Easy
William Martin
• Harvard Yard
David Matheson
• Red Thunder
Robin Maxwell
• The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn
Anne McCaffrey
• Black Horses for the King
Mardi McConnochie
• Coldwater
Ian McDowell
• Mordred's Curse
Alice McGill
• Molly Bannaky, illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet
Nancy McKenzie
• The Child Queen
• The High Queen
Robin McKinley
• The Outlaws of Sherwood
Janet McNaughton
• An Earthly Knight
L.A. Meyer
• Jacky Faber #1: Bloody Jack
• Jacky Faber #2: Curse of the Blue Tattoo
• Jacky Faber #3: Under the Jolly Roger
• Jacky Faber #4: In the Belly of the Bloodhound
• Jacky Faber #5: Mississippi Jack
• Jacky Faber #6: My Bonny Light Horseman
• Jacky Faber #7: Rapture of the Deep
• Jacky Faber #8: The Wake of the Lorelei Lee
• Jacky Faber #9: The Mark of the Golden Dragon
Jonna L. Miller
• Haunting for Time
Stuart W. Mirsky
• The King of Vinland's Saga
Alexandra Monir
• Timeless
Christopher Moore
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Kate Mosse
• Labyrinth
Abdelrahman Munif
• Cities of Salt
N
Donna Jo Napoli
• Hush
• Song of the Magdalene
James L. Nelson
• Brethren of the Coast #1: The Guardship
• Brethren of the Coast #2: The Blackbirder
• Brethren of the Coast #3: The Pirate Round
• The Confederate Navy #1: Glory in the Name
• The Confederate Navy #2: Thieves of Mercy
• The Only Life That Mattered
• Revolution at Sea #1: By Force of Arms
• Revolution at Sea #2: The Maddest Idea
• Revolution at Sea #3: The Continental Risque
• Revolution at Sea #4: Lords of the Ocean
• Revolution at Sea #5: All the Brave Fellows
David Nevin
• 1812
Troy Nilsson
• Shadow Stones of Hiroshima
O
Patrick O'Brian
• #1: Master & Commander
• #2: Post Captain
• #3: H.M.S. Surprise
• #4: The Mauritius Command
• #5: Desolation Island
• #6: The Fortune of War
• #7: The Surgeon's Mate
• #8: The Ionian Mission
• #10: The Far Side of the World
• #11: The Reverse of the Medal
• #12: The Letter of Marque
• #16: The Wine-Dark Sea
• The Golden Ocean
Anne O'Brien
• The Virgin Widow
Joseph O'Connor
• Star of the Sea
Maggie O'Farrell
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Lauri Olsen
• Pacific Bound: The Adventures of Lewis & Clark
Mark Andrew Olsen
• The Assignment
James R. Olson
• An Eagle Unchained
Caroline Coleman O'Neill
• Loving Soren
Juilene Osborne-McKnight
• Daughter of Ireland
• I Am of Irelaunde: A Novel of Patrick & Osian
P
Janet Paisley
• White Rose Rebel
Gary E. Parker
• Highland Hopes
Janice Ward Parrish
• The Sweet Smell of a Chinaberry Tree
Diana Patterson & Rita Turner
• The Longest Journey
Bill & Cindy Paul
• Shadow of an Indian Star
Matthew Pearl
• The Dante Club
Sharon Kay Penman
• Dragon's Lair, A Medieval Mystery
• Time & Chance
• When Christ & His Saints Slept
Arturo Perez-Reverte
• Captain Alatriste
David Pilling
• John Swale Chronicles #1: Folville's Law
• John Swale Chronicles #2: The King Stag
• John Swale Chronicles #3: Exiles
• John Swale Chronicles #4: Royal Favour
• John Swale Chronicles #5: The Black Lion of Forbes
• John Swale Chronicles #6: A Company of Thieves
Dudley Pope
• Ramage
• Ramage & the Drumbeat
• Ramage & the Freebooters
Steven Pressfield
• Killing Rommel
Howard Pyle
• The Book of Pirates
R
Irene Radford
• Merlin's Descendants #3: Guardian of the Vision
• Merlin's Descendants #4: Guardian of the Promise
• Merlin's Descendants #5: Guardian of the Freedom
Brant Randall
• Blood Harvest
Brant Randall & Bruce Cook
• Tommy Gun Tango
Margaret Redfern
• Flint
Celia Rees
• Pirates!
• Sorceress
• Sovay
• Witch Child
Mary Renault
• The Charioteer
• The Last of the Wine
Mike Resnick
• The Other Teddy Roosevelts
Judith Merkle Riley
• In Pursuit of the Green Lion
• The Master of All Desires
• The Serpent Garden
• A Vision of Light
Sandra Riley
• Sisters of the Sea
Ann Rinaldi
• A Break with Charity
• Come Juneteenth
John Maddox Roberts
• Hannibal's Children
• The Seven Hills
Kenneth Roberts
• The Battle of Cowpens
Madeleine E. Robins
• Point of Honour
Michaela Roessner
• The Stars Dispose
David Rose
• The Viking Sagas: Godiva
Salman Rushdie
• The Moor's Last Sigh
S. Thomas Russell
• A Battle Won
• Under Enemy Colors
W. Clark Russell
• The Wreck of the Grosvenor
Edward Rutherfurd
• New York
• The Rebels of Ireland
S
Jon Saboe
• The Days of Peleg
C.J. Sansom
• Dark Fire
Anita Shreve
• Sea Glass
Jacqueline Church Simonds
• Captain Mary, Buccaneer
Traci L. Slatton
• Immortal
Joan Smith
• Escapade
Lauraine Snelling
• A Dream to Follow
Elizabeth George Speare
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Nancy Springer
• I am Mordred
Norman Spinrad
• The Druid King
Nancy Springer
• Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest
Susan Squires
• Danelaw
Andrew Steinmetz
• Eva's Threepenny Theatre
Neal Stephenson
• The Baroque Cycle #2: The Confusion
• Cryptonomicon
Robert Louis Stevenson
• Treasure Island
Mary Stewart
• The Crystal Cave
• The Wicked Day
David Stinebeck & Scannell Gill
• A Civil General
Kathryn Stockett
• The Help
Julian Stockwin
• Kydd #1: Kydd
• Kydd #2: Artemis
• Kydd #3: Seaflower
• Kydd #4: Mutiny
• Kydd #5: Quarterdeck
• Kydd #6: Tenacious
• Kydd #7: Command
• Kydd #8: The Admiral's Daughter
• Kydd #9: The Privateer's Revenge
• Kydd #10: Invasion
• Kydd #11: Victory
Kay Marshall Strom
• Once Blind: The Life of John Newton
V.A. Stuart
• Phillip Hazard #1: The Valiant Sailors
• Phillip Hazard #2: The Brave Captains
• Phillip Hazard #3: Hazard's Command
Laura L. Sullivan
• Ladies in Waiting
Mitzi Szereto
• Pride & Prejudice: Hidden Lusts
T
Judith Tarr
• Rite of Conquest
Debra Tash
• Challenge the Wind
• Masters of the Air
Ann Tatlock
• All the Way Home
• I'll Watch the Moon
Theodore Taylor
• The Bomb
Tommy Tenney
• Hadassah: One Night with the King
Bodie & Brock Thoene
• The Galway Chronicles #1: Only the River Runs Free
• The Galway Chronicles #2: Of Men & of Angels
James Alexander Thom
• Panther in the Sky
Thomas Thorpe
• Darmon Mysteries #3: The Patriote Proposition
• Darmon Mysteries #4: Night Wind to Bahia
Hannah Tinti
• The Good Thief
Nigel Tranter
• The Bruce Trilogy
• Kenneth
• MacBeth the King
• The Stone
Jeanne Treat
• Dark Birthright
Peter Tremayne
• Our Lady of Darkness
Peter Troy
• May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
Ann Turner
• Father of Lies
Ginger Turner & Shekhar Shimpi
• Gold Mine! The California Gold Rush Story
Harry Turtledove
• Ruled Britannia
Mark Twain
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
U
V.E. Ulett
• Captain Blackwell's Prize
V
Jeanette Vaughan
• Flying Solo: An Unconventional Aviatrix Navigates Turbulence in Life
W
Jill Paton Walsh
• A Parcel of Patterns
C.D. White
• The Broken Sword
• Standards Left Ragged
William H. White
• The Greater the Honor
• In Pursuit of Glory
• The War of 1812 #1: A Press of Canvas
• The War of 1812 #2: A Fine Tops'l Breeze
• The War of 1812 #3: The Evening Gun
J. Robert Whittle
• Lizzie: Lethal Innocence
Jack Whyte
• The Saxon Shore
Jeanne Williams
• The Island Harp
Connie Willis
• Winds of Marble Arch & Other Stories
Gene Wolfe
• Pirate Freedom
Richard Woodman
• Nathaniel Drinkwater #1: An Eye of the Fleet
Elvira Woodruff
• Small Beauties
Persia Woolley
• Child of the Northern Spring
• Queen of the Summer Stars
Gerald Allen Wunsch
• Curiosity
Y
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• Borne in Blood
• A Dangerous Climate
• A Mortal Glamour
• Roman Dusk
Jane Yolen
• The Ballad of the Pirate Queens, illustrated by David Shannon
• Merlin & the Dragons, illustrated by Li Ming
• Sherwood
• Sword of the Rightful King
• Tam Lin, illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak
• Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots, with Robert J. Harris
Z
Gordon Zuckerman
• The Sentinels: Fortunes of War
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