Novels

• The Firedrake (1966) – After wandering across Western Europe, Laeghaire, an Irish mercenary knight, finds himself reluctantly accompanying the Norman invaders at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The novel spans a period of years and focusing on the historical period and Laeghaire's life as a mercenary.
• Rakóssy (1967) – Rakóssy, a Hungarian aristocrat with a wide independent streak, fights the Ottoman Turkish invaders in 1526.
• The Kings in Winter (1968) – The authority of High King Brian Boru is being contested by other clans and by the Danish invaders, and Muirtagh O'Cullinane must balance his own honor and that of his clan against loyalties to the various kings. It all comes to a head at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014.
• Until the Sun Falls (1969) – Psin, a senior general of reconnaissance from the steppe, takes part in the Mongol conquest of Russia and the nearly successful invasion of Eastern Europe in the first generation following the death of Genghis Khan, c. 1240. Portrayal of Mongol horde conquest, way of life, as seen through Psin, a Merkit rather than a Mongol and his fights with his son who is coming into his own in the army. Told in the 3rd person.
• Antichrist (1970) – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen leads a successful crusade of liberation to Jerusalem in 1229. 40. [Published in the UK as The Wonder of the World.]
• The Earl (1971) – Fulk, the Anglo-Norman Earl of Stafford, carries out his political and family schemes but manages to maintain his loyalties during The Anarchy that followed the death of Henry I of England, c. 1140. [Published in the UK as A Hammer for Princes.]
• The Death of Attila (1973) – Tacs, a young, ne'er-do-well Hunnish warrior, becomes unlikely friends with Dietric, son of a subject king, in the harsh world of 453.
• Great Maria (1974) – Maria is the daughter of a Norman robber baron in Southern Italy in the late 11th century, forced to marry her father's choice, the young and ambitious Richard d'Alene, though she prefers his brother, Roger. She must struggle to maintain her independence and identity during the Norman conquest of Sicily. This is often described as Holland's first "feminist" novel.
• Two Ravens (1977) – Bjarni Hoskuldsson, a pagan Icelander trying to maintain the old values in an increasing Christian world of the early 12th century, leaves the family's Icelandic farm in search of adventure in the England of William Rufus; he eventually returns to Iceland to finally make his presence felt.
• Valley of the Kings (1977) [credited to Elizabeth Eliot Carter in earlier editions] – Structured as two independent narratives, one about the last years and death of Tutankhamen, the other about Howard Carter's search for the pharaoh's tomb in the 1920s.
• City of God (1979) – In 16th-century Rome during the Borgia period, Nicholas Dawson — a highly educated homosexual and the secretary to the Florentine ambassador — is drawn into dangerous political intrigue by the ruthless Cesare Borgia.^[1]
• The Sea Beggars (1982) – A young Dutchman joins the revolt by the Netherlands in the 1590s (led by pirates) against their Spanish overlords and the Inquisition.
• The Belt of Gold (1984) – Hagen, an unsophisticated Frankish pilgrim in Constantinople at the beginning of the 9th century, blunders into politics at the court of the Empress Irene, where nothing has value but power. Holland herself does not consider this a particularly successful work, "maybe because it didn't take long enough to grow."
• Pillar of the Sky (1985) - The charismatic and visionary Moloquin – "the unwanted"—leads The People to erect the stone circle at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, and to defend it from their enemies.
• The Lords of Vaumartin (1988) – Everard de Vaumartin, a young, orphaned French aristocrat driven from his home, decides to immerse himself in books rather than continuing his knightly training, and experiences the turmoil of Paris of the mid-14th century, including chivalry vs. political realism, the Black Death, and the First Commune.
• The Bear Flag (1990) – After her husband's death on the trek across the Great Plains, Catherine "Cat" Reilly finds a home in the new state of California in the 1850s, in a world driven by the forces of Manifest Destiny. ISBN 978-1953034625
• Pacific Street (1992) - Mitya, a taciturn American Indian man, and Frances Hardheart, a sharp-tongued and manipulative escaped slave, come together with other lost souls and make their way in San Francisco during the first years of the California Gold Rush. ISBN 978-1953034748
• Jerusalem (1996) – Beginning with the Christian victory at the Battle of Montgisard, Norman Templar Sir Rannulf Fitzwilliam struggles to maintain his personal values (which serve him better in war than in diplomacy) while trying to survive the politics of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, all of which come to an end at the Battle of Hattin in 1187. Holland considers this her best novel.^[2]
• The Angel and the Sword (2000) – The young Princess Ragny of Spain, having escaped from her disreputable father, disguises and transforms herself into the bold and fearless warrior, Roderick, seeking revenge for her mother's murder and saving Paris from Viking assault in 861. Based on the medieval fabliau of Roderick the Beardless. ISBN 978-1953034465
• Heart of the World (2020), set during the Siege of Bagdad of 1258 by the Mongols. ISBN 978-1953034069^[3]
• Jack (2021) - During the summer of 1776, a young woman ran away from her fleeing family to join the Continental Army dressed as a man after the British Army started to land troops near her home on Long Island to reclaim the colony from the rebels. ISBN 978-1956015249

Series

Princess Eleanor

1. The Secret Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine (2010), set in the years 1151–1152, is centered on Eleanor's relationship with her sister Petronilla; it narrates the meeting of Eleanor and Henry Plantagenet, the beginning of their love affair, Eleanor's annulment of her marriage to Louis VII, and Petronilla's role helping her sister in these events, in a fictional secret history concordant with the known facts of their lives.
2. “Nora’s Song” (2013), short story in the cross-genre anthology Dangerous Women edited by Martin and Dozois, about Princess Eleanor and her observations of the royal household of Henry II of England and (future) Richard I.^[4]

Short stories

• "The King of Norway" (2010), short story in the cross-genre anthology Warriors edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.
• "Demon Lover" (2010), short story in the cross-genre anthology Songs of Love and Death edited by Martin and Gardner Dozois, an erotic fairy tale.^[5][6][7][8]