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Originally titled Children of the Wolf, this novel tells the story of King Romulus and the founding of Rome through the eyes of a variety of characters who come to the new city.

Founding Fathers (1959) by Alfred Duggan.

If you know of works set in the pre-Republican era, please expand this section. Historical novels arranged by the period of their setting Rome as a Kingdom

10 Works inspired by Roman history, or by works of fiction and non-fiction about Rome.

1.5.3 The Nervan-Antonian (Ulpio-Aelia) Dynasty.

1.5 Early/High Empire (27 BC to AD 192).

1 Historical novels arranged by the period of their setting.

But still we read intently onward, ensnared by her depiction of the personalities and politics of Tudor England. (Holt, 757 pp., $30.) The final volume of MantelвЂ™s trilogy will end as we knew it would, with the execution of Thomas Cromwell on the order of his sovereign, Henry VIII. THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT, by Hilary Mantel. Was the death of the familyвЂ™s only son, 11-year-old Hamnet, the inspiration for one of literatureвЂ™s greatest plays? (Knopf, 305 pp., $26.95.) Little is known about ShakespeareвЂ™s marriage, but this allows OвЂ™Farrell to place his wife at the center of an eloquent novel about motherhood, passion and almost unbearable grief. Also timeless questions about what constitutes a вЂњgoodвЂќ life. (Harper, 352 pp., $28.99.) An ambitious novel that peels back the layers of history, moving from modern-day Rome to the times of the Medicis and the Romans, with an intermediate stop among some ninth-century monks. Its heroine is a midwife and healer adept at hoodoo, the вЂњBlack folksвЂ™ currencyвЂќ of the antebellum South. (Random House, 416 pp., $27.) Ricocheting between the 1850s and the 1860s, this first novel shows how the legacy of bondage played out on an isolated plantation after the abolition of slavery. A labor struggle pitting workers against the powers that be, this confrontation also provided a platform for a charismatic historical figure named Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.Д¬ONJURE WOMEN, by Afia Atakora.

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(Harper, 352 pp., $28.99.) Walter sends two fictional brothers into the free speech riots that seized Spokane, Wash., in the early years of the last century.

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Narrated by a fictional version of the real-life impresario Ziggy Johnson, itвЂ™s a series of mini-biographies inspired by the Roman Catholic book of saints and a Black bartenderвЂ™s classic collection of cocktails. (Amistad, 368 pp., $26.99.) A rambunctious portrait of the вЂњcaramel CamelotвЂќ that was DetroitвЂ™s Black Bottom neighborhood from the late 1930s to the late 1960s. And then an assassin arrives, all the way from America.Д«LACK BOTTOM SAINTS, by Alice Randall. An Irishman, he must cope with suspicious British colleagues, rebellious fellow countrymen and his own past fondness for the bottle. (Random House, 320 pp., $27.) Manchester, England, in the mid-1860s is gripped by political violence that Head Constable James OвЂ™Connor may be ill equipped to handle. So letвЂ™s just say that the titles presented below, in alphabetical order, were вЂњthe bestвЂќ at capturing my attention in this most distracting of years. Whittling down a best-books list can be uncomfortably arbitrary.

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