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Novels set during the Tokugawa Shogunate include James Clavell's epic historical fiction Shōgun, David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Ryōtarō Shiba's historical account The Last Shogun, and Laura Joh Rowland's detective series featuring Sano Ichiro, beginning with Shinjū. Other notable works are Eiji Yoshikawa's samurai novel Musashi and Takashi Matsuoka's Cloud of Sparrows.

Here is a list of novels set during the Tokugawa Shogunate:

Shōgun by James Clavell**: A massive historical novel about an English pilot who becomes entangled in a power struggle in 17th-century Japan, leading to the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell: A historical novel focusing on the Dutch trading post in Dejima during the late Edo period of the Tokugawa shogunate, according to Wikipedia. The Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu by Ryōtarō Shiba: A historical work focusing on the life of the last Tokugawa shogun. The Inspector Sano Series by Laura Joh Rowland: A series of detective novels set in Edo-period Japan, including titles like Shinjū and The Incense Game, featuring the investigator Sano Ichiro. Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa: An epic historical novel following the life of the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi during the tumultuous early years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, according to Reddit users.

Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka: A novel set in the samurai era of Japan, which would be around the beginning of the Tokugawa period.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan by Eiji Yoshikawa: Another epic historical novel by Yoshikawa that covers the period just before and leading into the Tokugawa era, according to Amazon.com users.

The Tokaido Road by Lucia St. Clair Robson: A historical novel set in Japan during the era of samurai, with significant details about the period.

Silence by Shusaku Endo: A historical novel that explores the persecution of Christians during the Tokugawa period, as mentioned on Wikipedia.