Here's a list of all the historical fantasies and alternate histories I've reviewed (although some of these "reviews" were written ages ago, and were not as detailed/thoughtful etc. as those I write nowadays). I'm not including all the time travel books I've reviewed, because they have their own page.
I found, as I pulled this list together, that "historical fantasy" is blurrier than I had thought. I've tried to keep this list confined to "historical fiction set in our world with magical elements," but other things--alternate histories, fantasies that seem like they are set in the past of our world, but not definitivly--crept on. However, I did exclude a number of "medivalish" fantasies that don't specifically take place in real history, which was painful, but necessary. I had to use the 19th century as a reasonable default for some books that don't clearly say when they are, which I couldn't help. Please let me know if you see problems or mistakes, and please feel free to send me recommendations for more!
I've put loose age recommendations in -- mg = middle grade, ages 9-12, ya = young adult, ages 12 and up, and adult is what it is.
I've also put stars next to the books I Love.
Ancient Greece
Dark of the Moon, by Tracy Barrett ya -- Ariadne and Theseus
Dragonfly Song, by Wendy Orr mg
King of Ithaca, by Tracy Barrett mg/ya --Telemachus
The King Must Die, by Mary Renault, adult (1958) --Theseus
The Pig Scrolls, and The Pig Who Saved the World, by Paul Shipton mg
The Oracle Betrayed, by Catherine Fisher mg/ya
Ancient Rome
Mark of the Thief, by Jennifer Nielsen mg
Dark Ages/Early Medieval, Europe and Africa
Between the Forest and the Hills, by Ann Lawrence (early Christian Britain) mg/ya/adult
Bloodline Rising, by Katy Moran (primarily Anglo-Saxon England) ya
Chronicles of the Red King: The Secret Kingdom, by Jenny Nimmo mg
The Coming of the Dragon, by Rebecca Barnhouse (Beowulf) mg/ya
The Empty Kingdom, by Elizabeth Wein (arguable not fantasy, just alternte history) mg/ya
The Hawk of May, by Ann Lawrence ya
The Humming of Numbers, by Joni Sensel (early Medieval Ireland) ya
Icefall, by Matthew Kirby (Vikings) mg
The Ring of Solomon, by Jonathan Stroud mg/ya
Twighlight of Avalon, by Anna Elliott (Authurian) adult
The Wizard's Dog, by Eric Kahn Gale mg
Mesoamerica, pre-contact
Sea of the Dead, by Julia Durango (another that's more alternate history than fantasy) mg
The European Middle Ages (generously defined)
By These Ten Bones, by Clare Dunkle ya
The Castle Behind Thorns, by Merrie Haskell mg
*The Crowfield Curse, The Crowfield Demon, and The Hob and the Deerman, by Pat Walsh mg
*The Good Little Devil, by Ann Lawrence mg
No Such Thing as Dragons, by Philip Reeve mg
The Princess Curse, by Merrie Haskell mg/ya
The Shadow Hunt, by Katherine Langrish mg
*Tom Ass, by Ann Lawrence mg
Troll Fell, by Katherine Langrish mg
Historic Japan
Little Sister, and The Heavenward Path, by Kara Delkey ya
Moonshadow: Rise of the Ninja, by Simon Higgins mg
Historic South and Central Asia
The Conch Bearer, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni mg
I Rode A Horse of Milk White Jade, by Diane Lee Wilson mg
The Silver Anklet, by Mahtab Narsimhan mg
Tiger Moon, by Antonia Michaelis ya
Toads and Diamonds, by Heather Tomlinson ya
Renaissance Europe
The Celesital Globe, and The Jewel of the Kalderash, by Marie Rutkoski (I've yet to review the first book, The Cabinet of Wonders) mg (Elizabethan alchemy)
Hammer of Witches, by Shana Mlawski mg/ya (Inquisition-era Spain, Columbus)
The Queen Elizabeth Story, by Rosemary Sutcliff mg
18th century Europe/Regency England
The Bewitching Season, by Marissa Doyle ya
A Riddle in Ruby, by Kent Davis mg
Lilliput, by Sam Gayton mg
Magic Below Stairs, by Caroline Stevermer mg
Renegade Magic, and Stolen Magic, by Stephanie Burgis mg
Still She Wished For Company, by Margaret Irwin ya/adult
19th Century Europe and Beyond (with some alternate versions, because fantasy)
Castle in the Stars: The Space Race of 1869, by Alex Alice mg/ya graphic novel
Timebreaker, and Chainbreaker, by Tara Sim ya
The Cheshire Cheese Cat, by Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright mg
*The Grey Horse, by R.A. MacAvoy ya
The House of Dead Maids, by Clare Dunkle ya
How To Catch a Bogle, by Catherine Jinks, MG (2013)
The Incredible Charlotte Sycamore, by Kate Maddison, MG (2013)
*The Little White Horse, by Elizabeth Goudge mg
*Ludo and the Star Horse, by Mary Stewart mg (the fantasy overwhelms the historical fiction here)
Magic Under Glass, by Jaclyn Dolamore ya
The Mesmerist, by Roland L. Smith mg
The Museum of Mary Child, by Cassandra Golds mg
The Old Country, by Mordicai Gerstein mg
Plain Kate, by Erin Bow ya
Secrets at Sea, by Richard Peck mg
Splendors and Glooms, by Laura Amy Schiltz mg
The Toymaker, by Jeremy de Quidt mg
*The Valley of Song, by Elizabeth Goudge mg
The Wicked Enchantment, by Margot Benary-Isbert mg
19th Century America, or alternate Americas
Audacity Jones Steals the Show, by Kirby Larson mg
The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel mg
The Broken Lands, by Kate Milford ya
In Search of Goliathus Hercules, by Jennifer Angus mg (I put in American, but the action also progresses across Europe and into South East Asia)
The Inquisitor's Apprentice, and its sequel, The Watcher in the Shadows, by Chris Moriarty mg/ya
The Left-Handed Fate, by Kate Milford mg/ya
Seraphina and the Black Cloak, by Robert Beatty mg
The Thirteenth Child, by Patricia Wrede ya
The Tombs, by Deborah Shaumberg ya
First half of the 20th century
The Atomic Weight of Secrets, by Eden Unger Bowditch mg
The Aviary, by Kathleen O'Dell mg
The Children of the King, by Sonya Hartnett mg
The Diviners, by Libba Bray, ya
The Dollmaker of Krakow, by R.M. Romero mg
Dreamhunter, by Elizabeth Knox ya
Dust Girl, by Sarah Zettel mg/ya
The Explosionist, and Invisible Things, by Jenny Davidson ya
The Giant-Slayer, by Iain Lawrence mg
Hoodoo, by Ronald L. Smith mg
In the Shadow of Blackbirds, by Cat Winters ya
Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld mg/ya
The Scarlet Stockings, by Charlotte Kandel mg
Sophie in Shadow, by Eileen Kernaghan ya
The 1950s on
The Apprentices, by Maile Meloy mg/ya
