Historical Fiction Books

Anyone here know some good historical fiction books? I got nothing to read and I'm terribly booooooooooooooooreed. So I need some help finding a nice novel to read. :happy0144

I just read The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield, damn good book.

depends what kind of historical fiction you look for. Umberto Eco's The name of the rose and Baudolino are great books. Mika Valtari (sp?) has some good books too, but my all time favourite is The Creation by Gor Vidal. this book is a must read. Count Belisarius and I Claudius by Robert Graves are great books too. there are just too many good historical fiction books. the series by S.M.Stirling are nice too.
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What types of books/authors do you like? It would be easier to recommend something if we had a little background on what you like. The Name of the Rose, for example, is a very good book, but can be heavy reading. Baudolino I'd almost classify as fantasy (actually, it is fantasy, IMO).

Just start naming all of your favorite historical fictions and put a quick summary.

Well, if you're into Ancient Greece:

Michael Curtis Ford - The Ten Thousand
Steven Pressfield - Gates of Fire

Napoleonic warfare/times (land):

Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Bernard Cornwell - The Sharpe Books (first written is Sharpe's Rifles, first chronologically is Sharpe's Tiger).
Eileene Hathaway (Ed.) - A Dorset Rifleman: The Recollections of Benjamin Harris (not fiction).

Napoleonic warfare (sea):

C.S. Forester - The Hornblower Books (first written is The Happy Return, first chronologically is Mr. Midshipman Hornblower).
Patrick O'Brian - The Aubrey-Maturin Books (first book Master and Commander).

Medieval warfare/times:

Arthur Conan Doyle - The White Company & Sir Nigel
Ellis Peters - The Chronicles of Cadfael (first book A Morbid Taste For Bones)
Frans G. Bengtsson - The Long Ships
Jan Guillou - The Crusades Trilogy (The Road to Jerusalem, The Knight Templar & The Kingdom at the End of the Road).
Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
Pär Lagerkvist - The Dwarf

1600-1700's:

Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers

That's what I can think of off the top of my head, but there should be something there of interest to you. I am unsure whether the last book in the Jan Guillou series ever got published in English, which is a shame if it didn't, because that is one good series.