@Rhonda do what patty said, I first read the other boleyn girl, and then whatever other books of hers that I could find, so I never had a specific order, but I bet it would be awesome to follow the series
@Allyson I just started the show a few days ago going on season 3 it’s amazing I may read the books I’m just wondering how graphic is the sex in the books and captain Randall’s tourture?
So many to list!! Some favorites are Gone with the Wind, The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom, Katherine by Anya Seton, The Book of Negoes, Doomsday Book, Lonesome Dove, The Thornbirds, These is My Words, The Nightingale
1.Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum 2. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 3. The Butterfly and the Violin by Kristy Cambron and its sequel A Sparrow in Terezin 4. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 6. Second Hand Smoke by Thane Rosenbaum 7. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly 8. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay 9. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult 10. We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
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
These is my words Series by Nancy E Turner, The red tent by Anita Diamant, and Into the Wilderness series by Sara Donati! Just a couple of my favorites! Also anything by Stanley Gordon West!
@Abby I am waiting to get the latest one, Tombland. I have enjoyed the series so far. In this latest one Shardlake is working for the 15 year old Elizabeth, can’t wait.
The Nightingale The Book Thief All The Light We Cannot See We Were The Lucky Ones Beneath A Scarlet Sky Before We Were Yours The Tattooist of Auschwitz The Alice Network
Anything by phillipa Gregory! Love her books
Read them all….start with Cousins series then read the Tudor series… she is excellent.
@Kacy I have never read any of her books. Where do you start
@Rhonda do what patty said, I first read the other boleyn girl, and then whatever other books of hers that I could find, so I never had a specific order, but I bet it would be awesome to follow the series
The Red Queen and The white Queen books by Phillipa Gregory or Outlander Series
Before we were yours
@Cara loved this book!
Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett.
Then World Without End and Column of Fire..trilogy.
All The Light We Cannot See…A Gentleman in Moscow…News of the World.
Before we were yours, the nightingale
Outlander and Susanna Kearsley books
Sold on a Monday
Before We Were Yours
@Holly just finished sold on a Monday!
My dear Hamilton
Between Shades of Gray
The Tuscan Child
White Rose Black Forest
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Leon Uris
Trinity
The Blessing Stone
The Red Tent
Dove Keepers
@Alison the Red Tent was so good
Galveston by Suzanne Morris
One Thousand White Women
second this one
Sarah’s Key
A very wide genre, what time period are you interested in?
Outlander
@Allyson I just started the show a few days ago going on season 3 it’s amazing I may read the books I’m just wondering how graphic is the sex in the books and captain Randall’s tourture?
The Invention of Wings
Lilac Girls
Devil in the White City (historical non-fiction but reads like a novel)
The Century Trilogy
The Kitchen House
Awesome book. I second that?
How accurate do.you want it?
The name of the Rose
Dissolution C J Sansom
The song series by Catherine Coulter. She has a few other series too.
Lilac Girls, Orphan Train, The Help, The Secret Life of Bees
The devil in the white city! The amount of research that went into that book is insane
So many to list!! Some favorites are Gone with the Wind, The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom, Katherine by Anya Seton, The Book of Negoes, Doomsday Book, Lonesome Dove, The Thornbirds, These is My Words, The Nightingale
@Beth The Nightingale is a great read
Salt to the Sea is an amazing book!!!
@Myranda what’s it about? ?
The “formal” description might be better.
It is one of my top 5 favorites.
It does sound good and very cheap to buy so I might give it a go thank you ☺️
The Physician by Noah Gordon
THe book thief
The Island, The Return by Victoria Hislop – based on true events! Great reads
Also the thread which is my favourite Victoria Hislop
Ive read that too, very good !
Hi The Dovekeepersby Alice Hoffman
The Marriage of Opposies by Alice Hoffman
The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne
N. E. Brown’s Indignities Series. So good!!
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Outlander series
The Nightingale. The Alice Network. The Tattooist.
WW2 Historical Fiction:
1.Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
2. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
3. The Butterfly and the Violin by Kristy Cambron and its sequel A Sparrow in Terezin
4. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
6. Second Hand Smoke by Thane Rosenbaum
7. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
8. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
9. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
10. We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
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 loved The Nightingale
The Kitchen House
Carnegie’s Maid
Widow of the South
Belinda Alexandra novels
Tattooist of Auschwitz
@Drea fabulous book
@Janie, agree! I loved it!!
The Help
The Invention of Wings
These is my words Series by Nancy E Turner, The red tent by Anita Diamant, and Into the Wilderness series by Sara Donati! Just a couple of my favorites! Also anything by Stanley Gordon West!
The Century Trilogy
yes, the Century Trilogy or most anything Ken Follett
The Other Boleyn Sister
Diana gsbaldon series
Any book by Philippa Gregory
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin, an Australian woman. Written at the beginning of the 20th century.
Beneath a scarlet sky
The bronze horsemen
c.j.sansom shardlake series
@Abby I am waiting to get the latest one, Tombland. I have enjoyed the series so far. In this latest one Shardlake is working for the 15 year old Elizabeth, can’t wait.
I’m currently reading Euphoria and thoroughly enjoying it.
The Morland Dynasty series by Cynthia Harrod Eagles
The Alice Network
Have you tried Philippa Gregory books? http://www.philippagregory.com/books
Cold Mountain, by Fraizer.
@Mary my favorite
The Nightingale
The Book Thief
All The Light We Cannot See
We Were The Lucky Ones
Beneath A Scarlet Sky
Before We Were Yours
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Alice Network
try the St. Mary chronicals, they are Brill.
Yellow Crocus
The Survivors by Kate Furnival and it’s 99p on amazon kindle today
Sarah Dunnant – The Birth of Venus, In The Company of the Courtesan, can’t remember the other one in the trilogy.
@Tiffany Sacred Hearts. Also Blood and Beauty and In the Name in the Family (about the Borgia). I agree these books are incredible.
@Jenny are the subsequent two books by Sarah Dunnant? I so loved The Birth of Venus.
@Tiffany – yes they are. Not published too long ago. They focus on Lucrezia Borgia. I agree – Birth of Venus was the best.
@Jenny Thank you. Will add them to my list!
Pillars of the earth by Ken follett or any Philippa Gregory books
After Pillars read World Without End and Column of Fire…it is a trilogy.
The Road to Alexander
Bernard Cornwell
Edward Marston- The Railway Inspector series very good set in the 1850s
I’d reccommend Katherine by Anya Seton
The Nightingale
Beneath the Scarlet Sky
Kingsbridge series is great.
Anything by Sharon Kay Penman!!!!!!
How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
Under A Scarlet Sky
Paula McClain books, and Fiona Davis also.
The last kingdom series Bernard Cornwall the novels of Germania and Rome series by Alaric Longward
All The Light We Cannot See.
How to stop time x
For something different, The Terror by Dan Simmons
The marriage of opposites. Alice Hoffman.
The Dress Lodger by Shari Holman
The Long Walk. The true story of a trek to freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth series.
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen, The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen.
Following
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How about Euphoria by Lily King?
Snowflower and the secret fan by Lisa see
Ginny Dye , Bregdan Chronicles
So many good ones. Outlander is at the top of my list now. It all sort of depends on whose history and where you want to read about it.
Bregdan @Historical Civil War Era