Historical Fiction Bucket List

One ordinary day in a Siberian labour camp; the book that told the USSR about the Gulag.

The Glanton gang scalp their way across the border in 1849 and the Judge dances; McCarthy's violent Bible.

Three generations of the Trotta family and the last decades of the Habsburg empire.

Scarlett O Hara from Tara to the burning of Atlanta; a thousand pages and the most popular American novel.

Hester Prynne and the letter on her dress in Puritan Boston.

Jean Valjean, a loaf of bread and nineteen years; Hugo's Paris from the sewers to the barricades.

D Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis against the Cardinal; all for one.

A Roman patrician and a Christian girl under Nero; Sienkiewicz's Nobel.

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

London and Paris during the Terror; "it is a far, far better thing that I do".

Ezio in Constantinople as an old man, closing his own story and finally Altair.

Revolutionary Paris rendered building by building, once the patches landed.

Altair in the Third Crusade; the first Animus, and nine identical viewpoints.

Connor in the American Revolution, with naval battles and a rope dart.

Victorian London, a grappling hook and twins who share the story.

Bayek in Ptolemaic Egypt; the reboot into an open-world RPG.

Two siblings in plague-era France pursued by the Inquisition and rats; Asobo's stealth.

A murder in a 16th-century Bavarian abbey, drawn like a manuscript; Obsidian's history game.

Henry at Kuttenberg; the 2025 sequel that doubled everything.

A blacksmith's son in 1403 Bohemia with no magic and real sword fighting; Warhorse's history.

Ezio Auditore in Renaissance Florence and Venice; the game that made the series.

Umberto Eco's labyrinthine medieval murder mystery, set in a doomed monastery library