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  • A struggling journalist and a gentleman team up to rescue a lady from scandal. This novella is set in an English village during the Regency era.

  • Lush writing, a finely woven plot, and a medieval romance between a wounded viking and a Christian monk generate this story a winner in my eyes.

  • The first in a trilogy about a charming earl and a cross-dressing Shakespearean player, set in Elizabeth England - one of my favorite historical periods!

  • A lethargic burn romance based in Cornwall. Apparently i contain a thing for eccentric scientists. I'd been waiting for this one a long time and it was well worth the wait.

  • Two men in the French Foreign Legion - one an incorrigible misfit and the other a highly respected commandant - plan a daring prison break in s Algiers.

  • A rollicking pirate adventure arrange in the Caribbean during the 19th century. This one appeals to my desire to get missing on a deserted island.

  • This whirlwind romance spans a few decades in the 20th century. Likable characters and Hollywood scandals generate this a great launch to a series.

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    It&#;s Pride month, which means I get to unapologetically talk up queer booksall month (as if I don&#;t do that 12 months of the year). For me, Pride has always been about honoring the past as much as celebrating the introduce. So it&#;s no surprise that Pride has got me thinking about lgbtq+ historical fiction. There&#;s definitely not enough queer historical fiction in the planet. You might think, given the general lack of queer characters in historical fiction, that queer people sprang into existence sometime in the late s. Obviously, this is not the case. And while we desperately need more historical fiction staring gender non-conforming people, there are, happily, some wonderful books out there that center homosexual stories from centuries past. Not all of these books have happy endings, although many of them do. The queer characters in them have complete, complicated, sometimes joyful, sometimes heartbreaking lives. In short: they are human. Yes, there is queer suffering in many of these books, but there is also queer resilience and joy. These books are a testament to the fact that queer people have been

    Titles are approximately chronological within time periods.  Note: This list includes Historical Fantasy but not Historical Romance or YA. 

    For Historical Romance novels, click here.
    For Historical YA, click here.

    Female Protagonists

    Antiquity

    • Alcestis by Katharine Beutner
    • The Palace of Eros by Caro de Robertis
    • Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
    • The Aven Cycle by Cass Morris

    Medieval/Middle Ages

    Pre-Columbian

    16th Century

    17th Century

    18th Century

    19th Century

    • The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (, Jamaica and London)
    • Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller (, NE US)
    • Bittersweetby Nevada Barr (US)
    • Devotion by Hannah Kent (, Prussia)
    • The Companion by Kim Taylor Blakemore (, New Hampshire)
    • The Prophetsby Robert Jones, Jr. (pre-Civil War, Thick US South)
    • Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis (, Paris)
    • Frog Music by Emma Donoghue (, San Francisco)
    • Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens (, Midwest US)
    • The Best BadThings and Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco (, Washington Territory)
    • Clio Rising by Paula Martinac (, NYC)
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      Gay love stories in historical fiction

      What was it like to be a gay man in Paris in ? While researching my novel The Beasts of Paris, I couldn’t find much in 19th-century writing about homosexual passion, and even later there are strangely few literary, queer, period-set love stories (shout outs to Sarah Waters and Mary Renault), so I’m pushing the boundaries of both ‘love story’ and ‘historical’ here. All I create in 19th-century accounts is an occasional minor character – e.g. in Zola’s Nana – or documentary reports of police raids, or porn (thank you, Jack Saul). I delved into novels, paintings and photographs as adv as history. And if my historical period stretches from Ancient Greece to the early s – well, you take what you can get.

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      Maurice by E.M. Forster

      The daddy of all homosexual love stories. Although written in , Forster’s book was not published until after his death, in He was inspired to write it after meeting the writer and activist Edward Carpenter and his long-term partner George Merrill. It’s a deeply empathetic picture of a man who experiences intense pass