You may click on the titles to buy the books from or use this list as a resource when you go to the library or the bookstore of your choice. Click here to find an independent bookstore at IndieBound.

Place of Setting	Author	Title	Notes
British Isles	Surasky, Jan	Rage Against the Dying Light	Celtic Queen Boudicca, who led uprising against Roman Empire in 60 CE
China	Larsen, Jeanne	Silk Road	Historical fantasy set in 700’s including Buddhist and Taoist folktales
China	Randel, Weina Dai	The Moon in the Palace	Based on the life of Empress Wu, who lived in the 600’s
China	Shan Sa	Empress	Based on the life of Empress Wu
England	Bradley, Marion Zimmer	The Mists of Avalon	400’s to 500’s – classic historical fantasy of King Arthur’s time
England	Vasbo, Vibeke	The Song of Hild	Princess Hild and her journey to become an abbess in the 7th century
England	Griffith, Nicola	Hild	600’s – based on the life of St. Hilda of Whitby
Europe	Cross, Donna Woolfolk	Pope Joan	In the 800’s, a young woman disguises herself as a man to gain education and, eventually, the papal throne
France	Holland, Cecelia	The Angel and the Sword	A Spanish princess disguises herself as a man to fight the Vikings in Paris (800’s)
India	Divakaruni, Chitra	The Palace of Illusions	Mahabharata (Hindu epic) re-told from a woman’s POV
India	Patel, Vaishnavi	Kaikeyi	Inspired by one character from the Ramayana (Hindu epic)
Italy	Ferri, Linda	Cecilia	Based on the life of St. Cecilia in the 2nd century CE
Italy	Whittemore, Christine	Inscription	Based on the life of a female saint
Middle East	Anton, Maggie	Rav Hisda’s Daughter, Book I: Apprentice	Late 200’s–a Talmudic sage’s daughter studies Jewish sorcery in Babylonia
Middle East	Fredriksson, Marianne	According to Mary Magdalene	Early Christianity through the eyes of a woman
Middle East	Hoffman, Alice	The Dovekeepers	Survivors of the Masada massacre of Jews by Romans
Middle East	Weizman, Janice	The Wayward Moon	800’s – the life and adventures of a Jewish woman
Portugal	Hooper, Emma	We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky	Five early Christian saints
Vietnam	McLean, Elizabeth	Imagining Vietnam	Starts in the 10th century and progresses to the 20th century