What are some amazing historical fiction books?

Alison Weir has written several novels about the Tudors. She has also written several nonfiction biographies.

Some good historical novels:

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini

Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin

The House Girl by Tara Conklin

Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (set in Renaissance era of Holland)

The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran

Lily of the Nile by Stephanie Dray

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Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" series is excellent, although a lot of us fans wish she would hurry the heck up and write the final volume :) It's about the era of Henry VIII, narrated by Thomas Cromwell. If you've ever read or seen the play/movie "Man for All Seasons," Mantel's book will give you a much less "saintly" picture of Thomas More.

The Brother Cadfael books by Ellis Peters are a series of murder mysteries set in medieval England. The "detective" is a Benedictine monk.

Another monk-detective story of a very different kind is "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco, set in medieval times in the remote Italian Alps.

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This is a wide field - there's an awful lot of historical fiction out there (and a lot of awful historical fiction...).

However, I recommend Dorothy Dunnett, Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters), Mary Renault, Lindsey Davis, Robert Harris, Bernard Cornwell, C S Forrester, Sharon Penman, James Clavell...

axis of time trilogy: https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Choice-Axis-Time-Tr...

the guns of the south: https://www.amazon.com/Guns-South-Harry-Turtledove...