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• A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales, by Jonathan Nield (Gutenberg text)
• History in Fiction: A Guide to the Best Historical Romances, Sagas, Novels, and Tales (2 volumes, ca. 1907), by Ernest A. Baker
  • Volume I (English fiction): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (American and foreign fiction): multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Sir Walter Scott (c1932), by John Buchan (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper, Edited by His Grandson, James Fenimore Cooper (some printed issues as 2 volumes; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922), by James Fenimore Cooper, ed. by James Fenimore Cooper, contrib. by Susan Fenimore Cooper
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • single-volume printing: PDF at gasl.org

• The Real, the True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Eric L. Berlatsky (PDF at Ohio State)
• Whose History? Engaging History Students Through Historical Fiction (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013), by Grant Rodwell (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1983), by Harry E. Shaw (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2004), by Margaret Reid (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1986), by Barbara Foley (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper, by Allan M. Axelrad (HTML at James Fenimore Cooper Society)

• Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the British Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2016), by Fiona L. Price
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• The Lion and the Cross: Early Christianity in Victorian Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Royal W. Rhodes (PDF at Ohio State)

• Whose History? Engaging History Students Through Historical Fiction (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013), by Grant Rodwell (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Ring of Fire, ed. by Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, by Howard Pyle, ed. by Merle Johnson (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Stories of the Old Missions of California, by Charles Franklin Carter (Gutenberg text)

• Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper, by Warren S. Walker (HTML at James Fenimore Cooper Society)

• Old Tales of a Young Country (1871), by Marcus Clarke (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)

• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends (second edition, 1926, with supplements from 1937 and 1952), by Mary Huse Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Universal Sherlock Holmes (web version, 2000), by Ronald Burt De Waal, ed. by George A. Vanderburgh (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels, Given to the New York Public Library by Dr. Frank P. O'Brien (reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1922), by New York Public Library
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dime Novels: Bibliography, 1860-1928 (Brooklyn, NY: C. Bragin, c1938), by Charles Bragin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House of Beadle and Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of a Vanished Literature, by Albert Johannsen (HTML at niu.edu)

• Science Fiction and Fantasy (1994), by Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural (Boston: Boston Book Co., 1909), by Jean Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• A List of Legal Novels (extract from the Illinois Law Review, 1908), ed. by John Henry Wigmore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural (Boston: Boston Book Co., 1909), by Jean Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction (online edition, last revised 2015), by Paul Brians (HTML at wsu.edu)
• Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections (combined elecctronic edition, c2015), by William G. Contento (HTML at philsp.com)
• 333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel (Providence, RI: The Grandon Company, 1953), by Joseph H. Crawford, James A. Donahue, and Donald M. Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Science Fiction and Fantasy (1994), by Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recursive Science Fiction (electronic edition; continuously updated), contrib. by Anthony R. Lewis and Barry N. Malzberg (HTML with commentary at nesfa.org)

• Fantasy Fiction Decimal Classification (reprinted as a supplement to Dynatron 25; Albuquerque, NM: R. Tackett, ca. 1964), by Jack Speer (PDF at fanac.org)

• Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections (combined elecctronic edition, c2015), by William G. Contento (HTML at philsp.com)
• Drug Themes in Science Fiction (Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1974), by Robert Silverberg (PDF at ed.gov)
• Science Fiction Bibliography ("vol. 1 no. 1" only issue published; Austin: Science Fiction Syndicate, 1935), by D. R. Welch (PDF with commentary at efanzines.com)

• Index to Short Stories (second and enlarged edition; White Plains, NY: H. W. Wilson Co.; London: Grafton and Co., 1923; with supplements from 1929 and 1936), by Ina Ten Eyck Firkins
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML (without supplements) at WikiSource
• Index to Short Stories (first edition; White Plains, NY: H. W. Wilson Co., 1915), by Ina Ten Eyck Firkins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Best British Short Stories of 1922, ed. by Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos (Gutenberg text)

• Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction (online edition, last revised 2015), by Paul Brians (HTML at wsu.edu)

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