Favorite Historic Fiction Novels?

I wondered when someone would start a historical fiction tribe...

I have been fixed on England 1500 to 1700 for months now, reading everything I can find.

I really enjoyed these Phillipa Gregory books, as well as the Robin Maxwell series.

The Queen's Fool
The Virgins Lover
The Other Boleyn Girl

The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn
Virgin: Prelude to the Throne
The Queen's Bastard

Ohh, I loved, loved Snow Falling On Cedars! I didn't know if I would think it would be a male adventure but it was perfect. I am surprised it has not been made into a movie (but please a good one...)
A similiar story by one of the greatest writers ever in my opinion is
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday. Similiar in that it aproaches racism & lostness of men post WW2.

My current read along that time is John P Marquand. I loved 'So Little Time' though I need to read it again bcz I could not tell if it was meant to be a anti war statement or not. It was written & published quickly at the beginning of the war in Europe. Before that he was actually in China & writing as the Japanese invaded China his Mr Moto books. I read Mr Motos's 3 Aces, 3 novellas, & they were great. Supposedly Hollywood made many pics of the Mr Moto series which would be interesting bcz he writes like he is on a tight rope between the 3 cultures - America, Japan & China
He was famous for The Late Mr Apley, set in turn of the 20th century Boston, but I am having difficulty plowing through it .....

I agree Elisabeth, The Red Tent was wonderful. It has gotten me interested in learning more factual info of the bibical eras & buying books when I run across them in thrift stores (where I get 95% of my books.....)
LOL Readers Digest evidently made it easier I have just found out

I couldn't find it fo the title but The Four Queens was excellent; based on a true story of an Irish girl enslaved & eventually queen of an Mid East country. It also revolves around a dwarf that was a famous English man that was the Sultans right hand that I would like to know more about him. I guess he was quite the courtier in a few countries......
I read a book about a French Jamaican woman that was similiarly captured & was the last Sultana of ?turkish area... It was written by the woman who wrote the book on eeehhh the slave woman/lover of Jefferson??
A friend ons it so I don't rember the names but the authors research was intense & meticulous bcz she had received so much riff from her book on Sally (?).... sure would like a copy for myself.....

My general favorites are Kenneth Roberts that wrote on early America too. Lydia Baily is about the Haitian Revolution against France but with Americas involvement (it was a movie too but no one remembers it but me I think...) & the Arundel series on the American Revolution. His research is so thorough that he makes a scary case for Benedict Arnold that sure wasn't taught in my history classes.

& Han Suyin, who is just a incredible story herself -Love Is A Many Splendor, The Crippled Tree etc. The Enchantress is fantasy historical fiction of a girl who goes from Switzerland, through the mid east & into southren China area, Burma, becomes a high concubine lives through the civil wars there & home again. Fascinating the information on the trade routes & travels in 1750s

Ilike Chines historical novels too but I'll just leave Pearl S Bucks name for that bcz she's the tops as a compassionate American for the Chinese person.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes novels.

High Victorian is the period and he does it very well.

I love novels by Edith Wharton. Although they are not true "historic" novels she writes very well and captures all the undercurrents of late Victorian society. My favorite is "The Buccaneers" about young newly rich American girls who go to England in search of a place in society and husbands.