Fiction Featuring Real People

Description
I'm looking for books that have real historical figures as characters in them. It doesn't matter if the real people are the main characters or side players.
1
The Tale of Hill Top Farm
by Susan Wittig Albert
671 members
30 reviews
3.8
3 Members
raidergirl3, MDGentleReader, jenniferw88
2
Burning Bright
by Tracy Chevalier
2,315 members
91 reviews
3.2
3 Members
lahochstetler, raidergirl3, elkiedee
3
Arthur and George
by Julian Barnes
5,027 members
177 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
raidergirl3, souloftherose, jenniferw88
Explanations
souloftherose: Arthur Conan Doyle
4
Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier
3,343 members
230 reviews
3.9
3 Members
Chatterbox, raidergirl3, souloftherose
Explanations
souloftherose: Mary Anning
5
The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory
16,035 members
384 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ursula, jenniferw88
6
The Paris Wife
by Paula McLain
6,290 members
378 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
Chatterbox, raidergirl3
7
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Therese Anne Fowler
1,955 members
93 reviews
3.8
2 Members
raidergirl3, jenniferw88
8
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
13,018 members
234 reviews
3.9
2 Members
raidergirl3, souloftherose
9
Madame Tussaud
by Michelle Moran
1,070 members
96 reviews
4
2 Members
Chatterbox, jenniferw88
10
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
5,519 members
259 reviews
3.9
Member
souloftherose
11
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
by Robert Shea
4,695 members
55 reviews
3.9
Member
wester
12
Lust for Life
by Irving Stone
2,065 members
35 reviews
4.1
Member
ursula
13
Clara and Mr Tiffany
by Susan Vreeland
976 members
76 reviews
3.8
Member
lahochstetler
14
The Book of Dead Days
by Marcus Sedgwick
707 members
26 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Soupdragon
15
Frida
by Barbara Mujica
386 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
SqueakyChu
16
Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf
by David Madsen
237 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
paradoxosalpha
17
The Darling Strumpet
by Gillian Bagwell
187 members
24 reviews
3.8
Member
elkiedee
18
The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham
by Brian Keene
121 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
yoyogod
19
Waiting for Robert Capa
by Susana Fortes
106 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Chatterbox
20
Cleopatra's Daughter
by Michelle Moran
1,592 members
97 reviews
4
Member
Chatterbox
21
Move Under Ground
by Nick Mamatas
229 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
yoyogod
22
The First Man in Rome
by Colleen McCullough
3,420 members
60 reviews
4.1
Member
Chatterbox
23
Death at Gallows Green
by Robin Paige
495 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
lahochstetler
24
Pulptime
by Peter H. Cannon
41 members
½ 4.3
Member
yoyogod
25
Circling the Sun
by Paula McLain
2,062 members
185 reviews
3.9
Member
raidergirl3
26
Lionheart
by Sharon Kay Penman
926 members
55 reviews
3.9
Member
Chatterbox
27
The Winter Palace
by Eva Stachniak
904 members
83 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Chatterbox
28
The Master
by Colm Tóibín
3,206 members
92 reviews
3.9
Member
jenniferw88
29
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
by Sandra Gulland
1,281 members
34 reviews
4.1
Member
raidergirl3
30
Reign of Madness
by Lynn Cullen
91 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
Chatterbox
31
The Master of Bruges
by Terence Morgan
84 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Chatterbox
32
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore
by Stella Duffy
273 members
28 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Chatterbox
33
Count Belisarius
by Robert Graves
1,053 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Chatterbox
34
The Great Lover
by Jill Dawson
256 members
13 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
Chatterbox
35
The Broken Lands
by Robert Edric
54 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
Chatterbox
36
The Collector of Worlds
by Ilija Trojanow
641 members
31 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Chatterbox
37
Sunflowers
by Sheramy Bundrick
219 members
11 reviews
3.8
Member
Chatterbox
38
The Lambs of London
by Peter Ackroyd
878 members
38 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
Chatterbox
39
Vanessa and Her Sister
by Priya Parmar
642 members
93 reviews
3.9
40
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
by Hayden Herrera
1,677 members
16 reviews
4.2
Explanations
aulsmith : Not fiction