What is a historical novel?

Gone with the Wind

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Island of the Blue Dolphins

True Confessions of Charolette Doyle

The Ghost of Mercy Manor

Mr.Revere and I

Anne of Green Gables

Farewell to Manzanar
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane The Cruciblebased on the Salem Witch Trials Centenial and Hawaiias well as many other novels by James Mitchner
I just read an amazing fictional book about Rome called Mistress of Rome, by Kate Quinn.