- Brief gaudy hour, a novel of Anne Boleyn, Margaret Campbell Barnes
- The warrior, a novella, Francine Rivers
- The first man in Rome, Colleen McCullough
- Burr, a novel, Gore Vidal
- The nine lives of Charlotte Taylor, Sally Armstrong
- Double play, Robert B. Parker
- Claudia, wife of Pontius Pilate, a novel, Diana Wallis Taylor
- The queen's vow, a novel of Isabella of Castile, C. W. Gortner
- Three sisters, three queens, Philippa Gregory
- Girl in disguise, Greer Macallister
- The virtues of war, a novel of Alexander the Great, Steven Pressfield
- Carnegie's maid, a novel, Marie Benedict
- Lincoln in the bardo, a novel, George Saunders
- Daphne, a novel, Justine Picardie
- The unquiet grave, a novel, Sharyn McCrumb
- Loving Frank, a novel, Nancy Horan
- The secret bride, in the court of Henry VIII, Diane Haeger
- The It girls, a novel, Karen Harper
- Life mask, Emma Donoghue
- A name of her own, Jane Kirkpatrick
- Kleopatra, Karen Essex
- The scarlet contessa, a novel of the Italian Renaissance, Jeanne Kalogridis
- The complete McAuslan, George McDonald Fraser
- Before Versailles, a novel of Louis XIV, Karleen Koen
- Washington and Caesar, Christian Cameron
- The pyramid, Ismail Kadare ; translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos in consultation with the author
- The Lincoln conspiracy, a novel, Timothy L. O'Brien
- The king's favorite, a novel of Nell Gwyn and King Charles II, Susan Holloway Scott
- The wife, the maid, and the mistress, a novel, Ariel Lawhon
- The wife, the maid, and the mistress, Ariel Lawhon
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, Chris Greenhalgh
- Christ the Lord, [out of Egypt : a novel], Anne Rice
- One day the ice will reveal all its dead, Clare Dudman
- Clara and Mr. Tiffany, a novel, Susan Vreeland
- The constant princess, Philippa Gregory
- The other Boleyn girl, Philippa Gregory
- I, Elizabeth, a novel, Rosalind Miles
- The queen's vow, a novel of Isabella of Castile, C.W. Gortner
- Double play, Robert B. Parker
- The fatal crown, a novel, Ellen Jones
- Joan of Arc, Mark Twain
- Michal, a novel, Jill Eileen Smith
- Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
- Figures in silk, Vanora Bennett
- The daughter's walk, Jane Kirkpatrick
- Royal harlot, a novel of the Countess of Castlemaine & King Charles II, Susan Holloway Scott
- Confessions of Marie Antoinette, a novel, Juliet Grey
- The invention of wings, a novel, Sue Monk Kidd
- Romancing Miss Brontë, a novel, Juliet Gael
- Then and now, W. Somerset Maugham