Fiction Based on Real People and Events

 

Listed below are selected novels which fall into this category. This list is not comprehensive; rather, it is a list of some of the more popular titles within this category.

 

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Author

Title

Karl Alexander

Time after Time

Cynthia Bass

Maiden Voyage

Peter Benchley

Jaws

Robert Bloch

The Night of the Ripper

William Boyd

Any Human Heart

William F. Buckley

See You Later Alligator

Frederick Busch

A Memory of War

Kathleen Cambor

In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden

David Carkeet

I Been There Before

Blaise Cendrars

Gold: Being The Marvellous History of
General John Sutter

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Sally Hemings

Clive Cussler

Raise the Titanic
Fire Ice: a Novel

Daniel Defoe

Memoirs of an English Officer

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the
Famous Captain Singleton

Gioia Diliberto

I Am Madam X

E. L. Doctorow

World’s Fair: a Novel

Richard Flanagan

Death of a River Guide
The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Janice Galloway

Clara

Margaret George

The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Brendan Graham

The Element of Fire

Gunter Grass

Crabwalk

Graham Greene

Monsignor Quixote

Philippa Gregory

The Other Boleyn Girl

Sandra Gulland

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe

Hella S. Haase

In a Dark Wood Wandering

Ron Hansen

Hitler’s Niece

Marcy Heidish

A Woman Called Moses

James Heneghan

The Grave

Sheri Holman

The Mammoth Cheese

Robert Hough

The Final Confession of Mabel Stark

James D. Houston

Snow Mountain Passage

Matthew Kneale

Sweet Thames

Mary Luke

The Ivy Crown

Keith Mallaird

The Clarinet Polka

Catherine Marshall

Julie

Valerie Martin

Property

Bobbie A. Mason

In Country: a Novel

Anchee Min

Becoming Madame Mao

Miriam Grace Monfredo

Children of Cain

Honore Morrow

The Last Full Measure

Robert Nye

The Voyage of Destiny

Tim O’Brien

The Things They Carried

Joseph O’Connor

Star of The Sea

Nuala O’Faolain

My Dream of You

Maureen Peters

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Jean Plaidy

The Rose Without a Thorn

Frederick Pohl

Chernobyl: a Novel

Michael Pye

The Pieces From Berlin

Philip Roth

I Married a Communist

Michael Shaara

The Killer Angels

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Masters of Illusion

Donald A. Stanwood

The Memory of Eva Ryker

Karen Stolz

Fanny and Sue

Irving Stone

The Origin: a Biographical Novel of Charles Darwin

Darin Strauss

Chang and Eng

D. M. Thomas

Eating Pavlova

M. J. Trow

Lestrade and the Ripper

Mark Tully

The Heart of India

Gore Vidal

Lincoln: a Novel

Janet Wallach

Seraglio

Michael Walsh

And All the Saints: a Novel

Lulu Wang

The Lily Theater

Paul West

The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper

Richard S. Wheeler

Aftershocks

Tom Wicker

Unto This Hour

Janice Woods Windle

True Women


 

 

 

 

 

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