Includes more than 3300 works. There are genre, place and subject indexes. Updates the 5th edition of Dickinson's American Historical Fiction which included about 3000 novels issued between 1917 and 1984. An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and Young Adults by Lynda Adamson. Updates McGarry's World Historical Fiction and complements Adamson's American Historical Fiction .
Annotations are short.
Historical Figures in Fiction by Donald Hartman includes about 4200 novels arranged by 1500 historical characters. More than half the books were published before 1970. Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers by Aruna Vasudevan and Lesley Henderson is part of the St. James series. About 500 writers are included. Includes works from Walter Scott to those issued in 1996.