15th Century

The 15th century was the century which spans the Julian years 1401 to 1500.

In European history, the 15th century is seen as the bridge between the Late Middle Ages, the Early Renaissance, and the Early modern period. It is the period of the Ming Dynasty in China and the Inca and Aztec Empires in the Americas.

The Pretender
The Cardinal
The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1)
Cecily
Revelations
The Godmother's Secret: The Mystery of the Missing Princes in the Tower
The Queen’s Rival
The Princes in the Tower: How History's Greatest Cold Case Was Solved
The Royal Game
Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick
The Borgia Confessions
The Lady of the Ravens (Queens of the Tower #1)
Close Your Eyes
All the Queen's Jewels, 1445-1548: Power, Majesty and Display
Richard III: A Failed King? (Penguin Monarchs)
The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)
The Kingmaker's Daughter (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #4)
The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
The Birth of Venus
The Sunne in Splendour
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
The White Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #5)
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
The Princes in the Tower
Stormbird (Wars of the Roses, #1)
The Lady and the Unicorn
La Celestina
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile
The White Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Lark and the Laurel by Barbara WillardOwen Glendower by John Cowper PowysThe Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Best Books About the 15th Century
4 books — 3 voters
Maid of Secrets by Jennifer  McGowanWarped by Maurissa GuibordAt the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary HooperThe Stolen One by Suzanne CrowleyVenom by Fiona Paul
Young Adult Renaissance
98 books — 25 voters

Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas MaloryThe Mabinogion by UnknownThe Imitation of Christ by Thomas à KempisThe Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de PizanLa Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
Best Books of the 15th Century
72 books — 163 voters
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay PenmanThe Lady of the Rivers by Philippa GregoryThe White Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa GregoryThe Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Fiction Set in 15th Century
77 books — 49 voters

Guidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.The Revenge of King Charles by David Lawrence-YoungThe Princes in the Tower by Philippa LangleyWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsThe Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
The Princes in the Tower
17 books — 4 voters


Dorothy Dunnett
And across the water, you would swear you could sniff it all; the cinnamon and the cloves, the frankincense and the honey and the licorice, the nutmeg and citrons, the myrrh and the rosewater from Persia in keg upon keg. You would think you could glimpse, heaped and glimmering, the sapphires and the emeralds and the gauzes woven with gold, the ostrich feathers and the elephant tusks, the gums and the ginger and the coral buttons mynheer Goswin the clerk of the Hanse might be wearing on his jacke ...more
Dorothy Dunnett, Niccolò Rising