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Medieval and Renaissance historical fiction
1.
The Name of the Rose
by:
Umberto Eco
4.14 avg rating β 387,245 ratings
2.
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by:
Ken Follett
4.35 avg rating β 809,402 ratings
3.
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by:
Hilary Mantel
3.91 avg rating β 227,500 ratings
4.
The Sunne in Splendour
by:
Sharon Kay Penman
4.41 avg rating β 22,483 ratings
5.
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by:
Bernard Cornwell
4.27 avg rating β 109,087 ratings
6.
When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
by:
Sharon Kay Penman
4.26 avg rating β 17,209 ratings
7.
Katherine
by:
Anya Seton
4.21 avg rating β 35,119 ratings
8.
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
by:
Hilary Mantel
4.30 avg rating β 102,595 ratings
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The Birth of Venus
by:
Sarah Dunant
3.81 avg rating β 99,470 ratings
10.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
by:
Tracy Chevalier
3.93 avg rating β 768,657 ratings
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Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
by:
Sharon Kay Penman
4.29 avg rating β 24,736 ratings
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A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by:
Ellis Peters
3.96 avg rating β 43,628 ratings
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
by:
C.J. Sansom
4.06 avg rating β 60,124 ratings
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Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
by:
Ariana Franklin
3.93 avg rating β 40,599 ratings
15.
Cathedral of the Sea
by:
Ildefonso Falcones
4.17 avg rating β 61,944 ratings
16.
Pope Joan
by:
Donna Woolfolk Cross
4.10 avg rating β 73,849 ratings
17.
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Tudor Court, #2)
by:
Philippa Gregory
4.09 avg rating β 508,924 ratings
18.
Lionheart (Plantagenets #4; Richard the Lionheart #1)
by:
Sharon Kay Penman
4.11 avg rating β 7,729 ratings
19.
One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.07 avg rating β 17,571 ratings
20.
The Game of Kings (The Lymond Chronicles, #1)
by:
Dorothy Dunnett
4.15 avg rating β 9,983 ratings
21.
Devil's Brood (Plantagenets #3; Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine, #3)
by:
Sharon Kay Penman
4.38 avg rating β 8,085 ratings
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Agincourt
by:
Bernard Cornwell
4.16 avg rating β 31,307 ratings
23.
The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)
by:
Maurice Druon
4.08 avg rating β 22,378 ratings
24.
The Agony and the Ecstasy
by:
Irving Stone
4.09 avg rating β 93,727 ratings
25.
The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)
by:
Philippa Gregory
3.91 avg rating β 94,354 ratings
26.
An Instance of the Fingerpost
by:
Iain Pears
3.94 avg rating β 26,659 ratings
27.
The Queen's Man (Justin de Quincy, #1)
by:
Sharon Kay Penman
3.87 avg rating β 7,982 ratings
28.
Tyrker's Tale
by:
Robin Ingle
4.18 avg rating β 50 ratings
29.
The Physician
by:
Noah Gordon
4.41 avg rating β 58,576 ratings
30.
Company of Liars
by:
Karen Maitland
3.86 avg rating β 16,322 ratings
31.
Longsword: Edward and the Assassin (Return of the son Book 1)
by:
Dimitar Gyopsaliev
4.11 avg rating β 207 ratings
32.
The Greatest Knight (William Marshal, #2)
by:
Elizabeth Chadwick
4.14 avg rating β 9,706 ratings
33.
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by:
Ken Follett
4.32 avg rating β 268,976 ratings
34.
Time and Chance (Plantagenets #2; Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine #2)
by:
Sharon Kay Penman
4.30 avg rating β 9,291 ratings
35.
A Place Beyond Courage (William Marshal, #1)
by:
Elizabeth Chadwick
4.17 avg rating β 4,589 ratings
36.
In the Company of the Courtesan
by:
Sarah Dunant
3.79 avg rating β 25,809 ratings
37.
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by:
Sarah Dunant
3.70 avg rating β 11,524 ratings
38.
Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)
by:
C.J. Sansom
4.30 avg rating β 31,749 ratings
39.
Oathbreaker (Return of the son Book 2)
by:
Dimitar Gyopsaliev
4.43 avg rating β 42 ratings
40.
The Summer Queen (Eleanor of Aquitane, #1)
by:
Elizabeth Chadwick
4.12 avg rating β 11,310 ratings
41.
The Confession of Brother Haluin (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #15)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.13 avg rating β 5,978 ratings
42.
The Monk
by:
Matthew Gregory Lewis
3.85 avg rating β 31,706 ratings
43.
St. Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.11 avg rating β 11,410 ratings
44.
Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.08 avg rating β 12,948 ratings
45.
A King's Ransom (Plantagenets #5; Richard the Lionheart #2)
by:
Sharon Kay Penman
4.37 avg rating β 3,818 ratings
46.
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
by:
T.H. White
4.07 avg rating β 116,431 ratings
47.
Revelation (Matthew Shardlake #4)
by:
C.J. Sansom
4.37 avg rating β 26,665 ratings
48.
Falls the Shadow (Welsh Princes, #2)
by:
Sharon Kay Penman
4.40 avg rating β 10,556 ratings
49.
The Stolen Crown: The Secret Marriage that Forever Changed the Fate of England
by:
Susan Higginbotham
3.81 avg rating β 4,779 ratings
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Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.32 avg rating β 6,084 ratings
51.
The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #6)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.17 avg rating β 10,523 ratings
52.
Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
by:
C.J. Sansom
4.26 avg rating β 32,090 ratings
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The Scarlet Lion (William Marshal, #3)
by:
Elizabeth Chadwick
4.33 avg rating β 6,442 ratings
54.
Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5)
by:
C.J. Sansom
4.36 avg rating β 22,226 ratings
55.
Year of Wonders
by:
Geraldine Brooks
4.01 avg rating β 171,865 ratings
56.
NiccolΓ² Rising (The House of NiccolΓ², #1)
by:
Dorothy Dunnett
4.28 avg rating β 4,602 ratings
57.
The Queen of Last Hopes: The Story of Margaret of Anjou
by:
Susan Higginbotham
3.91 avg rating β 2,109 ratings
58.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #14)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.11 avg rating β 6,221 ratings
59.
King Hereafter
by:
Dorothy Dunnett
4.25 avg rating β 2,237 ratings
60.
The Hangman's Daughter (The Hangman's Daughter, #1)
by:
Oliver PΓΆtzsch
3.75 avg rating β 78,686 ratings
61.
The Sanctuary Sparrow (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #7)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.08 avg rating β 8,292 ratings
62.
Lady of the English
by:
Elizabeth Chadwick
4.05 avg rating β 6,535 ratings
63.
The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.09 avg rating β 6,760 ratings
64.
I Am the Chosen King (Saxon #1)
by:
Helen Hollick
4.12 avg rating β 2,330 ratings
65.
Portrait of a Conspiracy (Da Vinci's Disciples #1)
by:
Donna Russo Morin
3.80 avg rating β 280 ratings
66.
Q
by:
Luther Blissett
4.22 avg rating β 9,294 ratings
67.
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
by:
C.W. Gortner
3.99 avg rating β 10,731 ratings
68.
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
by:
E.L. Konigsburg
3.87 avg rating β 3,616 ratings
69.
My Enemy the Queen
by:
Victoria Holt
3.90 avg rating β 3,093 ratings
70.
Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1)
by:
Nicola Griffith
3.85 avg rating β 12,542 ratings
71.
The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.17 avg rating β 7,128 ratings
72.
The Heaven Tree Trilogy: The Heaven Tree / The Green Branch / The Scarlet Seed
by:
Edith Pargeter
4.31 avg rating β 1,117 ratings
73.
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
by:
Margaret George
4.26 avg rating β 28,697 ratings
74.
The Passion of Artemisia
by:
Susan Vreeland
3.91 avg rating β 19,782 ratings
75.
We Speak No Treason
by:
Rosemary Hawley Jarman
4.09 avg rating β 273 ratings
76.
Shadow on the Crown (The Emma of Normandy Trilogy #1)
by:
Patricia Bracewell
3.91 avg rating β 6,119 ratings
77.
Het woud der verwachting
by:
Hella S. Haasse
4.09 avg rating β 2,595 ratings
78.
Kristin Lavransdatter
by:
Sigrid Undset
4.31 avg rating β 13,878 ratings
79.
The Birth of Venus
by:
Sarah Dunant
3.81 avg rating β 99,470 ratings
80.
The Poisoned Crown (The Accursed Kings, #3)
by:
Maurice Druon
4.21 avg rating β 10,161 ratings
80.
The White Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #5)
by:
Philippa Gregory
3.94 avg rating β 48,028 ratings
82.
The She-Wolf (The Accursed Kings, #5)
by:
Maurice Druon
4.18 avg rating β 7,846 ratings
83.
The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)
by:
Philippa Gregory
3.82 avg rating β 76,900 ratings
84.
The Owl Killers
by:
Karen Maitland
3.82 avg rating β 4,342 ratings
85.
The Pilgrim of Hate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #10)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.10 avg rating β 6,536 ratings
86.
The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
by:
Philippa Gregory
3.96 avg rating β 180,694 ratings
87.
The King's Agent
by:
Donna Russo Morin
3.99 avg rating β 16,831 ratings
87.
The Borgia Confessions
by:
Alyssa Palombo
3.82 avg rating β 914 ratings
89.
The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
by:
C.W. Gortner
3.91 avg rating β 5,362 ratings
90.
A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew, #1)
by:
Susanna Gregory
3.83 avg rating β 4,837 ratings
91.
Sisters of Treason
by:
Elizabeth Fremantle
3.85 avg rating β 2,753 ratings
92.
Lucretia
by:
David Krae
3.93 avg rating β 59 ratings
93.
Apricots and Wolfsbane
by:
K.M. Pohlkamp
4.35 avg rating β 105 ratings
94.
Dead Man's Ransom (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #9)
by:
Ellis Peters
4.07 avg rating β 6,955 ratings
95.
The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)
by:
Sharon Kay Penman
4.45 avg rating β 9,636 ratings
96.
A Burnable Book (John Gower, #1)
by:
Bruce Holsinger
3.55 avg rating β 4,527 ratings
97.
The Other Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #16)
by:
Philippa Gregory
3.70 avg rating β 49,042 ratings
98.
Galiene: A Twelfth-Century Tale of Love and War (The Butterfly Chronicles Book 1)
by:
Dawn Hammill
4.07 avg rating β 15 ratings
98.
The Virgin's Lover (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)
by:
Philippa Gregory
3.74 avg rating β 56,842 ratings
98.
Rebecca of Salerno: A Novel of Rogue Crusaders, a Jewish Female Physician, and a Murder
by:
Esther Erman
4.17 avg rating β 111 ratings
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