Female Protagonists

Antiquity

• Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane

Middle Ages

• The Light of the World by Nicola Griffith (7th c. Britain)
• Spear by Nicola Griffith
• The Princess Knight by Cait Jacobs – bi4bi
• Emry Merlin by Robyn Schneider (YA)

18th Century

• *Endless Blue Beneath by Shannon K. English

Edwardian 

• Stormsong by C.L. Polk

20th Century

• This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings (Prohibition Era YA)
• The Spy With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke (WWII YA)
• When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee (1972)

Male Protagonists

Antiquity

• The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley

Medieval

• The Lost Book of Lancelot by John Glynn
• The Princess Knight by Cait Jacobs – bi4bi
• The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman

Regency

• The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide
• The Faerie Hounds of York by Arden Powell (1810, England)

Edwardian

• Witchmark by C.L. Polk

19th Century

• The Red Sacrament by Sara Hinkley

20th Century

• The Fealty of Monsters by Ladz

Nonbinary Protagonists

Middle Ages

• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (1345, China, Fantasy)