Best Historical Fiction besides The Nightingale?
Best Historical Fiction besides The Nightingale?
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Lilac girls
I like Margaret George’s stuff. Memoirs of Cleopatra and The Autobiography of Henry the Eighth especially
The Bregdan Chronicles by Ginny Dye
@Christine I enjoyed the first two but the rest are no longer available on Kindle
WW2 Historical Fiction:
1.Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
2. The Butterfly and the Violin by Kristy Cambron and its sequel A Sparrow in Terezin
3. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. Second Hand Smoke by Thane Rosenbaum
6. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
7. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
8. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Non WW2 historical fiction:
1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
4. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
@Lori also We Were the Lucky Ones for WW2. ????
@April I have it on hold at the library!
Lori Laquidara I’m having to read it a little at a time. I love WW2, would consider myself a mild to moderate history buff, but it’s pretty intense. The author has a very good grip on conveying a sense of foreboding.
Edited to say I meant that I love learning and reading about WW2, not the idea of or the actual events of WW2. I’m not a psychopath.
@Lori “the Dutch wife” for WW2 was awesome !!!
@Jennifer thank you!
Before We Were Yours
@MaryBeth loved that book!
@Lara one of my all time favorites!!
@MaryBeth I have it on Audible too – reader is amazing – great for car rides
Thanks!!!
The great alone
The Dutch wife- the holocaust and has an interesting take
Oranges for Christmas -it’s about the Berlin Wall
@Jennifer Both of those sound interesting.
@Joanne trust me they were both amazing books
Oranges for Christmas was truly beautiful like completely captivating I couldn’t put it down or stop thinking about it ..
with the Dutch wife I was worried because there were erotic moments that I was worried that’s what the whole book was about but it not that book has so much depth and character development
Beneath A Scarlet Sky
All the light we cannot see
I also liked Devil in the White City, if you’re into serial killers and architecture.
The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn. Most of the action is set during WWI, and features heroic female characters.
@Kay sooo good!
East of Eden by Steinbeck isn’t historical fiction per se, but is my all time favorite book, and is set in post Civil War/turn of the century America, and gives a TON of context about the people and settings of the book.
I think I’m going to read it again actually. So good.
I really loved All The Light We Cannot See.
Once We Were Brothers
Wolf Hall is fabulous.
The Kitchen House
The invention of wings
Home for unwanted girls
Orphan train
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Book Thief & The Paris Wife.
Under A Scarlet Sky – Italy in WW2
I loved Burial Rites and Radium Girls. 🙂
Lilac Girls
following. historical fiction is my favorite genre.
Next Year in Havana
Just about anything from James Michener. Well researched and fascinating.
I have too many to list but some of my faves are:
-The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
-Katherine by Anya Seton
-Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
-Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
-Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati (series)
-These is My Words by Nancy E Turner
-Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
@Beth Pillars of the Earth ???
@Beth I second Lonesome Dove and Pillars of the Earth
I loved Bright as Heaven and 11/22/63
Kitchen house
The Betrayal
11/22/63
Hazel Gaynor too. She is a great author.
The Alice Network was wonderful. I felt cheated no one had shared a story like that sooner.
Read her other book Winter Garden and it will smash your heart into a million pieces. The Turtle Catcher is also a good historical fiction read.just beautiful writing.
Sara’s Key. Also about French Jews in WWII. I like it better than The Nightingale.
Outlander ?
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett.
The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva.
Gracious! Have read quite a few of these but my TBR list just grew by leaps!!
Hmmm. I really enjoyed the Tudor-era books by Phillips Gregory.
Anything by Jeff/Michael Shaara
‘All the light we cannot see’ by Anthony Doerr
The kitchen house
Try Tracy Rees for an easy read
Outlander
The Sealwoman’s Gift!!!
And the Shardlake Series…is it C J Sansom??
Pachinko
Philippa Gregory.
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
The Kichen House
Oliver Wiswell
The Alice Network, Kate Quinn
Tapestry, Fiona McIntosh ☺️
Hard to pick just one. That’s my preferred genre. I’d have to say Pillars of the Earth and the whole Kingsbridge trilogy, the Century trilogy by Ken Follett, Hawaii and I just read the Romanov Empress which was great! Just to name a few. I could go on and on. Too many to pick
Older but good…Winds of War and remembrance by Herman Wouk. Love story, family saga.
The Alice Network was really good.
The storyteller
Jimmy Carter wrote one a few years ago: The Hornet’s Nest. It’s set during the America’s Revolution. I was captivated!
Loved the Alice Network!
How to pick one? The Pillar, The KiteRunner, The Other Boleyn Girl, the year of wonder, Shogun, The Thorn Birds, Night, The Orphan Train, just read The Paris Architect and The Liliac Girls…really good.
Don’t you mean ‘despite The Nightingale’? #joke! before I get shot down in flames.
I really have to read that one just to make up my own opinion. lol
I liked Pam jennoff. She wrote multiple books and they flowed wonderfully. I realized after reading, I read a series in the wrong order, but I didn’t mind at all. I wasn’t missing any critical information and there were some revelations in one book that was touched upon in the first, but it was a shock to me.
The way she explained everything didn’t seem like a recap if you already read it, but it didn’t feel lost if you didn’t. I’m not sure if that makes sense, but i loved them!
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver.
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
Tell me who I am Julia Navarro based around the Spanish Civil War
Beneath a scarlet sky – excellent and close runner up to the Nightingale
Just read this and it was excellent!
I second that. Beneath a Scarlet Sky and Two Brothers and the Tattooist of Auschwitz (in that order) are excellent follow ons from the Nightingale. Going to try Alone in Berlin next which has been recommended..
Outlander
The Kitchen House
We Were The Lucky Ones
Alice Network
The Last Hours by Minette Walters. It’s centred around 14th century plague stricken England. I read just over a year ago and I loved it.
Outkander series
Judith Lennox (early novels )
Alison Weir