16th Century

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century lasted from 1501 to 1600. It is regarded by historians as the century in which the rise of the West occurred.

In England, this roughly coincides with the Tudor Period. In much of Europe the Renaissance was taking place at this time. In the Americas, it marks the era when the first European colonies were established.
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The Cardinal
Malinalli
Daughter of Fire
The Six Loves of James I
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I (Tudor Rose, #3)
The City of Tears (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #2)
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)
The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1)
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
City of Vengeance (Cesare Aldo #1)
Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens, #6)
The Tower
The Virgins of Venice
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Prince
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
Julius Caesar
Utopia
The Taming of the Shrew
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
Dr. Faustus
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
Richard III
As You Like It
Hamnet
Maid of Secrets by Jennifer  McGowanWarped by Maurissa GuibordAt the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary HooperThe Stolen One by Suzanne CrowleyVenom by Fiona Paul
Young Adult Renaissance
98 books — 26 voters
Queen of the Sea by Dylan MeconisThe Redheaded Princess by Ann RinaldiThe Smile by Donna Jo NapoliMidnight Magic by AviMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
Middle Grade Renaissance
38 books — 3 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDracula by Bram StokerWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëDe historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart by Betje WolffThe Kitáb-i-Íqán by Bahá'u'lláh
Pre 1900's
112 books — 4 voters

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerParadise Lost by John Milton
Best Renaissance Literature
59 books — 6 voters


Jonathan     Kennedy
Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later.
Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

[Don Carlos] will always remain open-ended, asking to be fleshed out by the imagination of others, silently demanding a finale of his authors, no matter how fantastical.
Maria-Cristina Necula Ph.D., The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations Of Historical Fictions

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