Hi! I was wondering if you had any recommendations for historical fictional? Maybe ones about ancient Rome/Greece since I haven’t read any of those, I think. Thank you so much, love! x

mermaidyke:

Oh goodness yes!

Ancient Rome:

• Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn (just read it – it’s marvellous and I 100% recommend)
• Daughters of Rome by Kate Quinn
• Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
• Pompeii by Robert Dennis Harris
• The First Man In Rome (and sequels) by Colleen McCullough
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Ancient Greece:

You’ll find that if you read books set or written around Ancient Greece that a lot of them will also incorporate mythology, as the two are so tightly intwined in ancient Greek culture.

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (please god read this – also based off mythology)
• The King Must Die by Mary Renault
• The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
• Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green, Rick Riordan (short stories)

Ancient Egypt:

Because of reasons…

• Lily of the Nile (and sequels) by Stephanie Dray
• Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
• The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
• Sphinx’s Princess by Esther M. Friesner
• River God by Wilbur Smith
• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Other historical fiction (not set in the ancient world):

• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (haven’t read it yet – it’s staring at me from it’s place in my to-read pile!)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (a personal favourite)
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (read it as an ARC and fell in love)
• The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (another personal favourite!)
• A Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

If you want more, or this isn’t quite what you were looking for, I’m sure elucipher or mythaelogy would know some historical fiction and they have great taste!