Complete reading orders for popular historical fiction series.
Few Victorian mystery series have matched the staying power of Anne Perry’s Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels. Thirty-two books spanning nearly four decades, all set in the fog-drenched streets and drawing rooms of late nineteenth-century London. This is a series…
Colleen McCullough spent seventeen years and seven novels recreating the fall of the Roman Republic in one of the most ambitious works of historical fiction ever written. The Masters of Rome series is enormous in every sense: in scope, in…
Simon Scarrow’s Eagles of the Empire series is one of the longest-running and most beloved Roman military fiction series in print. With 24 novels and counting, it follows two Roman soldiers, Centurion Macro and his young subordinate Cato, across the…
Behind every Tudor history book stands the same six women, and yet their stories are almost always told through the lens of the man they married. Alison Weir’s Six Tudor Queens series sets out to change that entirely. Six novels,…
If you love historical mysteries packed with conspiracy, religious intrigue, and razor-sharp wit, the Giordano Bruno series by S.J. Parris belongs at the top of your reading list. Set in the dangerous political landscape of Elizabethan England, these novels follow…
The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell brings the brutal reality of 14th-century warfare to life through the eyes of Thomas of Hookton, an English archer whose skill with the longbow makes him both a deadly warrior and a reluctant…
The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell offers a dark, gritty, and historically grounded reimagining of the Arthurian legend. Stripping away the medieval romance and magic, Cornwell presents Arthur as a pragmatic British warlord fighting to preserve Roman civilization against Saxon…
Blood, brotherhood, and the brutal glory of the Viking Age await in Giles Kristian’s acclaimed Raven trilogy, a visceral journey from the shores of ninth-century England to the glittering streets of Constantinople. The Raven series by Giles Kristian is a…
Flavia Albia is the sharp-tongued, fiercely independent daughter of legendary Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, and in Lindsey Davis’s acclaimed spin-off series, she carves out her own path as a private investigator in the darker, more dangerous Rome of Emperor…
The Marcus Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis is one of historical mystery fiction’s most beloved sagas, combining hard-boiled detective storytelling with meticulously researched Ancient Roman settings. Spanning 20 novels published between 1989 and 2010, the series follows Marcus Didius…