Anyone have a favorite historical fiction to share?
I’m looking for historical fiction recommendations! Anyone have a favorite to share? Thank you ?
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I’m looking for historical fiction recommendations! Anyone have a favorite to share? Thank you ?
Anything (except The Virgin Blue) by Tracy Chevalier. My favorite is Remarkable Creatures, a fictional account of two amateur female paleontologists in 1800s England.
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Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain…5 stars
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I read both America’s First Daughter and My Dear Hamilton. Both were very good. I also read The Alice Network which was exceptional. If you have not read The Orphan Train, and Before We Were Yours, please do 🙂
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I’ll second and third The Alice Network
Underground Railroad
anything by kate morton
Anne Girard writes really good historical fiction, but they’re each in a different time period. Melanie Benjamin’s are good too.
I also need to add My Name is Resolute (this book was FANTASTIC) and Freeman, I also should add The Last Suppers (again wonderful) The Summer I Met Jack (a Kennedy love story) Mudbound (5 stars) I’ll stop now!
Loved My Name is Resolute!
As Bright as Heaven. About the flu epidemic in Philadelphia during WWI.
Anything by Michelle Moran is amazing! Madame Tussaud is my fav.
Jamie Ford’s novels are all fantastic: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of the Willow Frost, and Love and Other Consolation Prizes each stand alone so they can be read in any order.
All But My Life..
Once we Were Brothers..
Karolinas Twins..
Memory of Violets…
The Orchardist…
The Dressmaker…
The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. It’s like wickedly funny jane Austen set at sea.
This this this this! You beat me to it! My favorite book series ever!!!!
Fall of Marigolds
Lisette’s List
All of DeeAnne Gist’s Books. A Bride Most Begrudging was a hoot!
Sarah’s Key
Homegoing by Yaa gyasi
Kane Chronicles!!! i love love it!! not really historical but it’s egyptian mythological fiction books, really goooodd✨
Sharyn McCrumb’s balladseries
Kate Quinn’s The Alice Network, The Lilac Girls, Pam Jenoff’s The Orphan’s Tale, Jenna Blum Those Who Save Us, The Paris Architect….
Underneath the Scarlet Sky
Jennings,Rutherford,Mitchener.
Unbroken, The One Man, Lilac Girls, The Nightengale, The Girl From the Train, Winter Garden, so many good ones.
Not all are completely fiction, some based on real people, all good.
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! Also, the ebook is free 😉
– Illustrated by NC Wyeth (PDF)
https://archive.org/details/whitecompanypict00doylrich
– not illustrated (epub etc)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/903
A Gentleman in Moscow
Wolf hall
I was just looking to see if someone else suggested this!
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
We were the lucky ones, The Paris architect, manhattan beach, the Alienist, Circling the sun, Everyone brave is forgiven, The miniaturist…oh so many!
The Lilac Girls, The Book Thief, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Alienist.
The Other Boleyn Girl
Robert McCammon’s Matthew Corbin series is excellent.
Mistress of rome♡
Katherine by Anya Seton if you want to read about 14th century England
Orphan Train, The Boys in the Boat, Unbroken, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Unbroken is a true story ?
Pillars of the earth
Shogun by James Clavell…Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh…Conrad Richter’s trilogy about the Ohio Frontier: The Awakening Land. The books in it are: The Trees, The Field, The Town …Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning…The Quiet American by Graham Greene…I, Claudius by Robert Graves …Zorro by Isabel Allende…Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman…Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset …The Last Aloha by Gaellen D Quinn…Sacajawea by Anna L Waldo…True Women: A Novel of Texas by Janice Woods Windle…Doc by Mary Doria Russell…The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama …
I, Claudius ?
Kent Family Chronicles by John Jakes. It is old but my all time favorite series. It is one that you are sad when you finish the last book.
Anything by Sharon Kay Penman. Also Margarrt George
The Alice network, Alan Furst crime novels WWII
The Red Tent
Bruno Giordano Series – S J Pariss.
Aztec by Jennings
Caribbean by Michener
Sho-Gun by Clavell
Like humor? See Christopher Moore Sacre Bleu or Fool
Authors:
Sharon Kay Penman
Edward Rutherfurd?
Under the Wide and Starry Sky and Mrs. Poe
The Girl From Old Nichol from Betty Annand. Amazing start to a 3 book series plus she was 90 when she published the first one…and she is my Nana so if you love it too I can connect you with her!
This is so sweet!
Sashenka and one night in Moscow by Simon montefiore
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet.
It accurately represents the 12th century and how the building of cathedrals was back then.
It’s huge but the story is very engaging.
Jeff Shaara historical fiction novels on the Civil War/Revolutiony War. ❤️ his writing.
Gone with the Wind! Also enjoy Leila Meachum novels
The shardlake series by CJ Sansom
Pachinko
A Place called Winter – Patrick Gale.
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Cane river
The Traitor’s Wife
Twain’s End
THE WIDOWS OF MALABAR HILL by Sujata Massey. The setting of this mystery novel is India during the early 1920s. ‘Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female lawyer [Oxford University graduate], is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous.’
Thank you!
You fantastic ladies & gents have given me my reading list for the next 12 months. So excited to get started!!! ?
The Secrets of Mary Bowser
Alicia weir
The Other Einstein..
Loving Frank…
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. All the Light We Cannot See. Memoirs of a Geisha.
Blood Meridian
Guernsey literary and potato peel pie Society
The tournament….By Matthe’s Rielly
The tournament….By Matthew Rielly
Indu Sundaresan…. one of the best historical fiction books I have read.
I once attended a book reading Indu Sundaresan gave in a local bookstore for one of her novels. That was roughly 25 years ago.
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Ken Follett’s trilogies (1100-1500 AD, 1900)
Just finished “Lilac Girls”. Awesome!
The Nightingale
Shogun
@Emily
The Nightingale
One thousand white women
These is my words trilogy is gwtw of the West.
The last queen of spain
The Nightingale, Pillars of the Earth , Fall of Giants. Wolf Hall.