Great historical fiction books?

[Anonymous]

House Divided (by Ben Ames Williams)

[Anonymous]

Pachinko

[Anonymous]

Flight of the Heron. It's about Scotland in 1745 and Diana Gabaldon acknowledges it as an inspiration for her Outlander series. The hero is even a red-headed Scot called Jamie. My Scottish grandmother gave it to me when I was 13 or 14.

[Anonymous]

All the Light We Cannot See
The Nightingale
The Four Winds
Daisy Jones and the Six
A Discovery of Witches
Geraldine Brooks’ novels
Edward Rutherford’s novels

[Anonymous]

The Winds of War and it's sequel War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk. Navy family during WWII. Epic. Two of my favorite books ever, I read them years ago and more recently listened to the audio versions. Probably available at the library but also worth buying because I found each time I reread or listened I got a lot more out of it, so much to digest!

[Anonymous]

In the very good time travel historical fiction category are Connie Willis books (doomsday book, to say nothing of the dog etc). Also Time After Time.

[Anonymous]

Daughter of War by Dinah Jeffries. Pretty much anything by Dinah Jeffries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the very good time travel historical fiction category are Connie Willis books (doomsday book, to say nothing of the dog etc). Also Time After Time.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the very good time travel historical fiction category are Connie Willis books (doomsday book, to say nothing of the dog etc). Also Time After Time.

+1

+1 Love Connie Willis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Winds of War and it's sequel War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk. Navy family during WWII. Epic. Two of my favorite books ever, I read them years ago and more recently listened to the audio versions. Probably available at the library but also worth buying because I found each time I reread or listened I got a lot more out of it, so much to digest!

I was surprised by how much I loved these as well!

[Anonymous]

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

[Anonymous]

Love, love, love “The Golum and the Ginni”. This year really enjoyed “The Rose Code”. They’re YA but I love revisiting Elizabeth George Spear (The Witch of Blackbird Pond and Calico Captive)

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Anonymous wrote:Love, love, love “The Golum and the Ginni”. This year really enjoyed “The Rose Code”. They’re YA but I love revisiting Elizabeth George Spear (The Witch of Blackbird Pond and Calico Captive)

I absolutely loved Golum and the Ginni. Didn’t enjoy Rose Code.

I’ll add The Marriage Portrait.

[Anonymous]

I have the Rose Code sitting on my kindle and I said “oh I’ll go read it” and then I said “hmm maybe not” 😂

[Anonymous]

I just read Shrines of Gaiety and enjoyed it. Also, if you are into historical mysteries, the Maisie Dobbs series is really good.