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
My Lady Jane by Cynthia HandWitchfall by Victoria LambMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerBeware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn MeyerElizabeth I by Kathryn Lasky
YA & Middle Grade Tudor Fiction
129 books — 49 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 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

Queen of the Sea by Dylan MeconisThe Redheaded Princess by Ann RinaldiThe Smile by Donna Jo NapoliMidnight Magic by AviMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
Middle Grade Renaissance
38 books — 3 voters
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerParadise Lost by John Milton
Best Renaissance Literature
59 books — 6 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