All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. I have a million other recommendations but will keep it at only two!
All the Light We Cannot See, Salt to the Sea, The German Girl, Lilac Girls…… I also loved We Were the Lucky Ones but that one is based on real people I believe.
Oh my god yes I’ve just seen it on goodreads! I thought the series was finished you have just made my day! I will have to make sure there’s a space on my bookshelf!
Before We Were Yours Sold on a Monday (coming out soon) The Book Thief The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society All the Light We Cannot See The Orphan Tale The Orphan Train
One Thousand White Women and Orphan Train
Loved 1000 white women
Pillars of the Earth
Im finding the cousins war series by philippa Gregory to be page turners! Cant put them down. Starts with the lady of the rivers. LOVE
Before we were yours..Wingate. Awesome book!!!
I did not like that book.
I really did like that book
The Eight by Katherine Neville
The Sealed Letter. I might still have it if you want to borrow it
I’ve become a kindle snob! Thanks anyway x
Too many to list, but I’ll go with Forest Lover by Vreeland. Ooh, and Clara and Mr. Tiffany
Read this when it came out and it’s still in my head! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Winds-Heaven-Mayflower-book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34727535-the-heart-s-invisible-furies
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28103790-salt-to-the-sea
Shardlake series by CJ Sansom.
I second that
@Helen new one out soon 🙂
I know!!!
@Helen I third it brilliant series xxx
Phillips Gregory is fab
Bronze Horseman series
Victoria Hislop- particularly The Thread and The Island
The Poisonwood bible
Circling the sun
See this: http://booxoul.com/5-works-of-indian-historical-fiction-by-indian-authors-that-should-be-on-your-must-read-list/
The Jester -James Patterson
The Daughters walk by Jane Kirkpatrick
A Gentleman in Moscow
-Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
-The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
-A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
This is one (of many) of my most favourite books. I’ve found almost every book she has written difficult to put down.
Pope joan
Dianna bretherick.
Gil Cunningham series by Pat Mckintosh
Lady of rivers by p. G
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. I have a million other recommendations but will keep it at only two!
The Nightingale
Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
My favourite read of last year
@Sharyn I love it. I am crazy about WWII novels
@Debbie me too, my favourite genre by far
@Sharyn Have you read The Baker’s Secret?
I’ve not read that. I take it that it’s worth reading. Who’s the author?
@Sharyn yes it was really good. Set in a small town in France during WWII. It’s by Stephen P. Kiernan
The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence. ❤️
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Before We Were Yours
Salt to the Sea
Sarah’s Key
The Alice Network
I can’t wait to read this! I’m 4th in line now at the library!!!!
@Tiffany I loved it!
Pachinko
The Bronze Horseman
The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963
Molokai
The Nightingale. Up all night reading it.
Salt to the Sea, Between Shades of Grey, The Nightingale, The Island Beneath the Sea.
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The kommandant’s girl
All the Light We Cannot See, Salt to the Sea, The German Girl, Lilac Girls…… I also loved We Were the Lucky Ones but that one is based on real people I believe.
Embellished/dramatic non fiction ok? Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George and her Autobiography of King Henry VIII
The White City is good too
Winds of War and war in Remembrance
Winds of War, War and Remeberance, Trinity
After I read the winds of war books I looked at my daughter and said, “what am I going to do with my life now?” I LOVED them!!!
I’ve yet to find a book that compares
@Tiffany I agree!
Conn iggulden’s roman empire set or Ken Follett’s pillars of the earth trilogy
There is a volume 1&2
If y’all haven’t read these it’s a must!
Outlander by Diana gabaldon
I loved John Jakes Bicentennial Series as well as his Civil War series. Read one right after the other.
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett….OMG…amazing
This for sure.
Love this!!
Memoirs of a Geisha
One of my favorites!
So good!
The Kitchen House.
Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati. It’s a series.
The Nightingale. Winter Garden. The Turtle Catcher. Anything by Ken Follet.
@Heather
How does one narrow this down….
The Last Geisha
The Red Tent
Orphan Train
Johnny got his gun???
The Guns of the South, by Harry Turtledove
Orphan Train; Lilac Girls
Alice Network
Snowflower and the Secret Fan
Anything by Edward Rutherford.
Ed McBain’s police novels.
Also, Second Violin, by John Lawton. And The Hornet’s Nest, by Jimmy Carter. (Yes, THAT Jimmy Carter. I stood in line for a signed copy.)
I haven’t read this book yet but many of my friends say that it is their favorite book!
MY FAVORITE BOOK
My favorite book
One of my favorites!
Outlander. Diana Gabaldon
The Shardlake Series by C. J. Sansom is fantastic, could not put them down
Omg I thought this said “shart lake series” I almost died ???
Love this series and I am looking forward to the new book in the autumn
THERES A NEW BOOK?!
Yes, Tombstone our in October or November
18 October
Oh my god yes I’ve just seen it on goodreads! I thought the series was finished you have just made my day! I will have to make sure there’s a space on my bookshelf!
I thought it was finished as well, I can’t wait ?
Gonna have to reread them all now!
The Kitchen House
The White Hotel
Outlander. Anything by Phillipa Gregory. 11/22/63. The American Heiress. Sisi.
Any book by James Michener…centennial, Alaska , Hawaii
The invisible bridge – Julie Orringer x
Anything by @Elizabeth.
Gone With the Wind
You have to go with Victoria Hislop! Her short stories are rubbish but ‘The Thread’ and ‘The Island’ are amongst the best books I have ever read!!!!
The White Houses by Amy Bloom
Outlander series by diana gabaldon. Amazing books!!!
A gentleman in Moscow
The Morris Murders by Hunter Finn.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Lilac Girls
The Book Thief
Salt to the Sea
Christy by Catherine Marshall
The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Pharaoh’s Daughter by Mesu Andrews
Condemn Me Not by Heather B Moore
The Other Boleyn Girl
Nightingale
Before We Were Yours
Sold on a Monday (coming out soon)
The Book Thief
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
All the Light We Cannot See
The Orphan Tale
The Orphan Train
Great list!
Ransom my heart
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Azincourt by Bernard Cornwall.
Would also agree with those that have said the Book Thief.
Gone With the Wind, Pillars of the Earth
Before we were yours. Orphan train.
North and south
Widow1881 by Sara Knoll Dahmen
As Meat Loves Salt
The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
Anything John Jakes!
The Tree, The Fields, and The Town by Conrad Richter.
Katherine by Anya Seton
I liked that too, also loved Devil Water and Avalon, but I really loved Green Darkness!