* Recommended.
** My absolute favorites!
* The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
The Fourth Queen by Debbie Taylor
* In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
* The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Devil Water by Anya Seton
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A. N. Roquelaure
** Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
** Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
* Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
* Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
* The Fiery Cross by by Diana Gabaldon
* A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
* 365 Great Stories from History by W. B. Marsh
* Enslaved by Virginia Henley
Desired by Virginia Henley
The Border Hostage by Virginia Henley
** The Pirate and the Pagan by Virginia Henley
Dark Angels by Karleen Koen
* Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen
Now Face to Face by Karleen Koen
Passion by Jude Morgan
Indiscretion by Jude Morgan
* A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith
Artemisia by Alexandra Lapierre
* The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
The Last Boleyn by Karen Harper
Marie Antoinette by Hilaire Belloc
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
I Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles
Banners of Gold by Pamela Kaufman
Shield of Three Lions by Pamela Kaufman
The Prince of Poison by Pamela Kaufman
The Book of Eleanor by Pamela Kaufman
** The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
I Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis
The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis
Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
* Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Katherine of Aragon by Jean Plaidy
The Loves of Charles ll by Jean Plaidy
Kleopatra by Karen Essex
Pharaoh by Karen Essex
*Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
* The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
* Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
** The Anita Blake Series by Laurell K. Hamilton
* The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Queens Fool by Philippa Gregory
The Virgins Lover by Philippa Gregory
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
Mary Called Magdalene by Margaret George
** The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
** Helen of Troy by Margaret George
* Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret George
The Autobiography of Henry Vlll by Margaret George
** Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy