Hello ? Can anyone please suggest me a good historical fiction book? ?
Hello ? Can anyone please suggest me a good historical fiction book? ?
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Hello ? Can anyone please suggest me a good historical fiction book? ?
The Nightingale!
On my to-read list ? thank you!
between shades of gray, salt to the sea – ruta sepetys
I’ve been wanting to read between shades of gray..I guess it’s about time 🙂 thank you!
Mad Miss Mimic was great! not sure how accurate the history is but I adored the book
Thank you for the suggestion!
Stalking Jack the Ripper is similar!
Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth
Thank you for the suggestionn
What time in history?
Hmmm..I like everything historical..from antiquity to renaissance or nineteenth century 🙂
some good classics: the scarlet letter, the importance of being earnest, the awakening, gone with the wind, the Canterbury tales
Thank you! I’ve already read the scarlet letter and gone with the wind. I’ll add the others on my tbr list!
Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series! Love them ?
Then I should absolutely give it a try! Is there a boxed set of the entire series?
I’m sure you could probably buy them all somewhere but usually I’ve seen them in little sets! There’s 8 books right now so I’ve seen boxes of the first 4 for example
I love this series! I read them all multiple times. Fantastic novels.
Wow you’ve read them multiple times? That’s awesome! It’s been a struggle for me to get through them while in school so I’ve been slowly working on it. I just have the 8th book left!
Looooove these. I’ve read them three times through all eight. Book one I’ve read nine or ten times.
Anything by Kenn Follet or Phillipa Gregory
Thank you!
I’m becoming a broken record as I’ve mentioned her a few times recently, but in my mind Rosemary Sutcliff is the queen of historical fiction and the most satisfying storyteller I know, rivaled only by Tolkien and sometimes CS Lewis. “The Mark of the Horse Lord” is a masterpiece of intrigue and action, while books like “The Eagle of the Ninth” and “The Lantern Bearers” add even more character depth and nuance. And then she has “Sword at Sunset,” an epic tale of King Arthur that has about as much ring of historicity as we can expect of him in addition to unique takes on the legend. Happy reading!
Going on my tbr list!
Thank you very much for the suggestion! Classic historical fiction sound even more appealing!
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Thank you!
No problem 🙂
Eric Larson writes some good historical fiction
Thank you 🙂
Bregdan Chronicles by Ginny Dye
Thanks!
Outlander by Diana gabaldon or the lost sisterhood by Anne fortier
Juliet by Anne Fortier is also good!
Haven’t read any from Anne Fortier. Thank you!
Yes!! But I liked better the other one. Both are great though
The Women in the Castle just came out today, I got an advanced reader copy, and it’s great!!
Hmmm..I’ll have to see if I can find a copy..thanks!
Homegoing is great too! By a new, young author. Followed two sisters, and their descendants from Africa during the slave trade. I’ll never get over how well written it was, even changing tone to fit each character and generation.
Oooh that’s on my tbr!
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet is really good. Be prepared to be reading a while though as it is considerably longer than your average novel.
If I made it through the Brothers Karamazov, I’m sure I can handle Ken Follet ? thanks for the suggestion!
Oh! And Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell!
The aviator’s wife or anything by erik larson!
Thanks!
Anythign by John Boyne
Also The d’Artagnan romances are classic and awesome
Thank you!
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly.
Thankss
If you like early 19th century, the jacky faber series by LA Meyer is funny and awesomely ties in history
Thanks
The nightingale by Kristin Hannah 😀
Thanks
War horse ❤❤ is also a movie
Thankss
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
Thanks
The Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein is really good – based on the life of Pan Yuliang, a famous Chinese female artist. If you liked Memoirs of a Geisha, you’ll love this too.
I hope I’ll like it because I just ordered it online ?
Awesome! I hope so too!
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Thanks!
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Thank you!
Have you read The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert?
No :/ thanks for suggestionn
The song of Achilles
Thanks
Oooh I second this one! I was a crying mess on the train!
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys!!!!!!!! I just finished it 🙂 so good
Thanks!
His Fair assassin series by Robin LaFever
Thanks!
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Thanks
The River of Time series is really good! It’s about these two sisters who somehow travle back trough time to the 14th cetnury in Italy. I promise it’s really great. It has action and ramance and the characters are great. It has five books and I’m currently on the last one.
Thank you!
I agree this is an awesome series!! And totally underrated!
@Nicole I know! I have never heard of the series until one day a couple years, I stumbled acrossed the first book at a christain bookstore and I bought it and fell in love with it. Nobody that I’ve ever talked to has even heard of this series so I try to tell everyone how awesome it is lol
Me too! I’ve managed to get lots of my friends to read it haha. Lisa Bergren is actually writing a new spin off series, but personally I’m not really a fan. It’s just not the same when it’s not set in Europe!
@Nicole I just found out about the spin off series a couple weeks ago. I’ve heard a lot of people weren’t really impressed with it but I’m still going to evetually read it considering it’s still technically part of the River of Time seris. I’m sure I won’t like it as much as the others tho because I’m kind of set on the She-Wolves and Luca and Marcello lol and like you said it’s not set in Europe which made it more intersting to me considering I’m from the US.
I suppose that does make a difference, I don’t have any connection to the US but I was born in Europe! I will probably eventually go back and read the rest of the spin off books when I’m in the mood, but I just wasn’t invested in the chracters. I just miss Luca too much, he’s my favourite haha
@Nicole That’s understandable lol And Luca is my faovrite too!!! I love how funny he is.
All The Light We Cannot See, it is a tough read and takes a while to get into. But I loved it.
Agreed! Loved that book!
Agreed!
Thanks!
The eight by Katherine Neville. The cemetery of forgotten books by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Memoirs of a Geisha. The book thief. The kite runner. To kill a mockingbird. Gone with the wind. The Japanese lover by Isabel Allende. The house of Spirits. The man from Beijing by Mankell.
I love love love The Eight!!! Not nearly enough people have read it or even heard of it to my liking! I’m so glad you have!
We must have some similar taste in books because I’ve read most of these :)))
Have u girls read the burning times by Jeanne Kalogridis? This one seems to be under the radar too for some reason it took me a while to find a copy of it where I used to live.
Hmm..no I haven’t :/
Give it a try 🙂
Outlander, the White Queen, Between Shades of Gray, The Book Thief, Orphan Train, The last Romanov
Thank you!
Rome series by M.C Scott was quite good
Thanks
The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
The Bronze horseman trilogy
Thankss
The Nightingale is amazing. The Book Thief if you haven’t read it yet. Also, The Light Between Oceans!
Thanks!
The Eight!!! One of my favorites!
Mine too. Glad to see another fan. I’m sad that Neville didn’t write anymore. I read all of her books
Love that book! She wrote a sequel to The Eight called The Fire in 2008.
Looks very interesting..thank you!
@Valeria I need to check out her others. I have the sequel to The Eight, but haven’t read anything else yet.
I have read it. The fire. Is not as good as the first but it was nice to know more about what happened to the characters. The magic circle I loved it too. And then there’s one called a calculated risk which has no fantasy involved but it’s a good read too
Sweet thank you!
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
Thanks!
From Sand and Ash – Amy Harmon
Thanks!
The Historian by I think Elizabeth Kostova or something like that is pretty great!
Thanks!
I agree – it’s really long and it took me a while to get into it, but if you can get through the first, maybe 70 pages, it gets REALLY good after that!
All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr
Thanks!
Incredible
Seriously consider this one. Its totally worth it.
That cover looks lovely!
Between Shades of Gray by Rupta Sepetys was really good if you like WWII stuff. Or Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.
Love Daphne!
Salt to the sea is great too also by Sepetys
Any from Ken Follet, o Khaled Housseni
I’ve already read every khaled housseni’s book ?
What about Francisco Ildelfonso? I’m currently reading “La Mano de Fatima” and it is really good!
I’ll try to find it online! Thanks a lot 😀
i loved The devil on her Tounge by Linda Holeman
Thanks!
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead – won the Pulitzer and is incredible
I’m adding it to my tbr :))) Thanks!
Devil in the Countryside by Cory Barclay ?
Thanks!
The book thief is anazing
Thanks
No problem
Have you read “Girl with a pearl earring” by Tracy Chevalier? It’s really good!
Already on my tbr 😀
Front Lines by Michael Grant is really good!
Thanks!
The Winners Curse by Marie Rutkoski (it’s also fantasy)
Thanks for the suggestion!
The Bronze Horseman and Between Shades of Grey are amazing.
Thanks!
Outlander series!
Thank you!
Between Shades of Gray, Out of the Easy, and Salt to the Sea (all by Ruta Sepetys) are all fantastic!
Thank you!
OUTLANDER !!! ??
On my tbr!
Also, Prisoner of Night and Fog, I didn’t enjoy it at first, but it’s about Hitler and the nazies, and the main character is a fictional german girl who discovers the truth about Hitler, when she falls in love with a jew. If you like stories about the jews and nazies during WWII, you may like, Number the stars, it’s a really small book, but I liked it.
Can you reccomand me other books about Holocaust or so, I love everything writen about it.
Shindler’s list, Once, Then and Now by Morris Gleitzman, Between Shades of Gray, the Book Theif, Beyond Courage, The boy in the striped pajamas…
Birth of Venus. Sarah Sarah Dunnant
I’ve read it! Sarah Dunnant writes good historical fiction :))
Thanks!
I don’t know if someone said it. Wolf by Wolf is also good but it’s an alternate universe when hitler won the war and it’s YA
Thanks!
Redeeming love is amazing!!
Thanks!
Definitely a fan of all of Philippa Gregory’s historical fiction novels, especially the ones set in the Tudor court.
I’ve been wanting to read the other boleyn girl.. i’ve already seen the movie and like it very much 🙂
I love this author. And this is only a couple titles, she has more. She does a lot of historical fiction before, during, and after the Elizabeth era. Which is one of my favorite times. She also writes others time periods. ???
I like the White Queen and the White Princess. They just started a show about the second one 🙂
Huh i didn’t know that. Have u seen the show?
I saw the White Queen and I loved it. The White Princess is with different actors, but always taken from Pilippa Gregory’s book.
Hmmmmm i think i will have to check it out
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman is one of my absolute favorites, and Moloka’i by Alan Brennert is wonderful. 🙂
I’ve been wanting to read a book from Alice..thank you!
The Seeds of America Trilogy by Laurie Halse Anderson: Chains, Forge, Ashes. And also The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
OUtlander!!!
The girl you left behind by Jojo Moyes is one of my favorites
I’ve read me before you from moyes..i’d like to read more of hers.thanks for the suggestion!
@Toni
Elizabeth Wein is a great author of historical fiction, and Moloka’i is a good book for historical Hawii.
Thank you!
The Orphan Tale!
Not sure if it’s already been mentioned, but The Girl With the Pearl Earring…Leonard’s Swans, Far From the Maddening Crowd, The Outlander series…I could go on and on?
Oh and the Pillars of the Earth!
Thanks for the great suggestions..i’ve read far from the madding crowd. I’m adding the others to my tbr list!
Erica Obey’s new book The Curse of the Braddock Brides is good! It comes out in April. Her writing is fun to read.
Thanks!
Thanks for the excellent suggestions!
The Boy Who Could Talk To God, Faheem Jackson
Thanks!
…following
All the light we cannot see. ??
The orphan train
Curses and Smoke (it’s about Pompeii)
Sounds interesting!
Gone With the Wind; North and South (although it does get a tad sleazy at times), A Tree Grows in Brookly (one of may favorites) To Kill a Mockingbird
I’ve read gone with the wibd and to kill the mocking bird.. both are among my favorites! All add the two others on my tbr
Here be Dragons
By Sharon Penman
Thanks!
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Time’s Echo.
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Between shades of gray, Salt to the Sea both by Ruta Sepetys
Dark Diamond by Shazia Omar
REVOLUTION BY JENNIFER DONNELLY!!!!! SOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOD!!
Secrets of a Charmed Life.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah! 🙂
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons and the Outlander by Diana Galbardon!
Discovery of witches by deborah harkness.
Such a great trilogy!
The audio books who just as great!
Were**
Ooh, haven’t listened to those!
You should! Their really amazing to listen too.
I’ve already read the trilogy :))) thanks!
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse 🙂
I’ve already read it.. great book! Thanks!
Outlander
America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray
Salt to the sea ??
Angels and demons
Man? that was the first book that came into my mind when I saw this post yesterday?
Hehe. Wow?
If you want to dive into a series I would suggest “The Pemberly Chronicles” by Rebecca Ann Collins 🙂
River of time series
Or
Any book by Melanie Dickerson
I highly recommend Jean Auel’s series: The Clan and Cave Bear, the Valley of the Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, etc.
Love these!
Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran, Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys, Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman,… I could keep going