Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction discussion

Hi all,

I recently discovered the magic of historical fiction after being a lifelong fantasy fan!

Anyway Im looking for recommendations from all you learned HF folk....im most interested in the following events/periods:

Viking
Medieval
Ottoman Empire
Byzantine

Ive already read some Bernard cornwell and Christian Cameron and loved 'em both

Planning on read the first Khan book by Iggulden or Blood Eye by Giles kristian next but will need other recommendaitons

Looking forward to your responses

Thanks!

Vaelin,

First - Welcome to the group, look at various threads might give you some ideas for reads.

Second, Our esteamed leader, Teri, has put up a list on the A&M blog that might be of interest and will also give you some ideas.

http://ancientandmedievalmayhem.blogs...

First: I'm just moving this thread from General Discussion to Looking for a Book as it fits better.
Second: Welcome Vaelin, please remember to add book links in any future posts and I'm sure you'll find stacks of books for those interests in the regular threads.

And Third: My ideas for your interests would be, The Whale Road by Robert Low for Vikings
The Last Kingdom or Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell or Outlaw by Angus Donald for medieval
For Ottoman Empire I'd go with The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (FYI: this is a mystery)
And Byzantine would be A Place Called Armageddon by C.C. Humphreys or The Mosaic of Shadows by Tom Harper

Vaelin wrote: "Hi all,

I recently discovered the magic of historical fiction after being a lifelong fantasy fan!

Anyway Im looking for recommendations from all you learned HF folk....im most interested in the ..."


Good timing, Vaelin! Such a coincidence. As happy pointed out, in the last week I did up a 'must read' in the genre list for this very reason. For people discovering the genre to get a good taste of a lot of the kinds of Historical Fiction this group caters to.

I will soon be setting up a thread which includes a must read list from my two fellow mods as well. It will include my list and a list from each of them.
I'll post a link to that thread here in this topic as soon as the new thread is up and running.

You could check out Gordon Doherty's books, and , which deal with Byzantium. He does a good job covering the period before the rise of Alexios Comnenos.

Also, there is Ann Perry's book, which takes place about 200 years after Gordon's books.

Here we have it. The brand new thread I was speaking about that gives ten selections from all three group moderators.
The three lists, with ten books on each list plus two alternatives, was inspired by new members with needs exactly like yours, Vaelin.

I hope the lists help you out.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

As far as Vikings: The Long Ships is granddaddy of all Viking books and a real classic in that subgenre!