So, imagine – you think “I’d really like to read some books set in the XXth Century. But who writes them? Why won’t someone help me figure it out – why, god, why?!!”

You need the Speesh Reads
Historical Novel Timeline!

The dates shown are, where I can find them, for when the book’s story starts.
Books are what I term ‘Historical Fiction’ you’re very welcome to disagree.

For books set in the same year, they are in alphabetical order by author. If they are in the same series, they’re in series order. Click on the title to go to my review.

Go direct to the period you’re interested in (if I’ve read a book from that period, that is!):

If you know better, or if you’re an author passing by and you know different to the below, please get in touch.

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End of Bronze Age-ish

Hittites

1315

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FIFTH CENTURY BCE

Greeks, Spartans, Romans, Carthaginians

480

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THIRD CENTURY BCE

Hannibal, Rome

219

216

213

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FIRST CENTURY BCE

Rome, Romans, the Middle East

53

48

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FIRST CENTURY CE

Romans

9

14

15

26

33

41

45

51

58

59

63

66

68

69

70

72

77

98

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SECOND CENTURy

Romans in Britannia, Romans in Germania

166

181

182

183

184

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THIRD CENTURY

Greeks and Romans in Greece and Rome. Romans in Asia Minor, rest of Europe and Germania. Romans in trouble in Arabia

210

235

238

255

256

260

262

263

264

270

272

273

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FOURTH CENTURY

Romans in Britannia, barbarians, King Arthur

305

362

367

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FIFTH CENTURY

Romans, Goths. Anglo-Saxons, Picts

430

433

448

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SIXTH CENTURY

Saxons, Anglos, Beowulf, Engels and English. And Danes

516

517

523

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SEVENTH CENTURY

Beowulf, the ‘Dark Ages,’ Angles, Saxons, Celts, Picts

630

633

634

635

642

643

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EIGHTH CENTURY

Vikings, Vikings in England, Alfred The Great

‘Early’

785

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NINTH CENTURY

Vikings

Late 9th Century

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TENTH CENTURY

Vikings in Norway, Iceland, Greenland, America, Uhtred, Vikings in England, Europe

910 ?

911 ?

912

914

917 ?

918

937

945

975

979

980

996

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ELEVENTH CENTURY

Vikings in England, Europe, 1066, Normans, Hereward, Crusades, trips to China

1016

1019

1035

1045

1053

1062

1066

1067

1068

1069

1070

1071

1072

1073

1081

1088

TWELFTH CENTURY

Knights Templar, Robin Hood, Normans, Ireland

1164

1170

1187

1186

1189

1190

1192

1194

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THIRTEENTH CENTURY

Robin Hood, Knights Templar

1200

1203

1215

1217

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FOURTEENTH CENTURY

Knights Templar, Knights in England, France

1307

1321

1322

1323

1324

1356

1368

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FIFTEENTH CENTURY

The Wars of The Roses. Lots of killing. Business as usual

1459

1464

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SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Shakespeare. No, not that one. Elizabeth

1585

1587

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SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

English Civil War. Charles II, Buckingham, The Crown Jewels, The Glorious Revolution

1642

1643

1670

1685

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

The Colonies

1779

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NINETEENTH CENTURY

Redcoats, Spanish, French spies, India

1807

1809

1854

1855

1857

1859

1895

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TWENTIETH CENTURY

First World War, Second World War, Spies. Ireland, Ku Klux Klan, Kennedy

1903

1914

1919

1928

1929

1934

1936

1937

1938

1939

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

1947

1948

1949

1950

1953

1954

1956

1963

1964

1965

1969

1975

1986