Anonymous
11/17/2024 19:09
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
I agree Matrix is amazing.
All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore.
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue.
The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear
All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore.
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue.
The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear
Anonymous
11/17/2024 14:38
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
I just read Matrix. I thought it was amazing.
Anonymous
11/17/2024 04:47
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Code Name Verity is SO damn good. It’s about women in WWII who were pilots and one gets taken by the Nazis and then tells her story but it’s hard to know what’s true and what she’s saying to throw them off.
Also Pachinko
Also Pachinko
Anonymous
11/16/2024 20:51
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Check out The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Based on a true story about 1600s witch trials in Norway and a modern sculpture by Louise Bourgeois commemorating those who died in the trials.
I’ll add that I enjoyed The Vaster Wilds (and The Matrix is on my list to read). It was a sad but good, fast read.
I liked Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, by the same author as Wicked. It takes place in Holland during tulip madness.
Richard Mason has a book called Who Killed Piet Barol? about South Africa as apartheid is starting. There’s also a prequel about Piet’s beginnings in Holland.
I’ll add that I enjoyed The Vaster Wilds (and The Matrix is on my list to read). It was a sad but good, fast read.
I liked Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, by the same author as Wicked. It takes place in Holland during tulip madness.
Richard Mason has a book called Who Killed Piet Barol? about South Africa as apartheid is starting. There’s also a prequel about Piet’s beginnings in Holland.
Anonymous
11/16/2024 20:29
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Anonymous wrote:Ken Follet’s Kingsbridge series (start with Pillars of the Earth) and Century Trilogy.
Hamnet and the Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
The Physician by Noah Gordon
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
I know you said no WWII (and I agree, the market is oversaturated!) but All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer is a really beautiful novel.
Love you list we could be book friends
Follet is a favorite/ I’d add pillars of the earth.
Anonymous
11/16/2024 20:06
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar.
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar.
Anonymous
11/16/2024 20:04
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Anonymous wrote:These are military-based (not WWI or II). All excellent:
- The Conqueror series (Conn Iggulden, about Genghis Khan)
- Saxon Tales (Bernard Cornwell)
- Agincourt (Cornwall)
- Gates of Fire (Steven Pressfield, about ancient Sparta)
- Alexander the Great trilogy (Mary Renault)
Mary Renault is so amazing!
I’d add her Theseus trilogy to the list— which I loved even more than the Alexander trilogy!
Anonymous
11/16/2024 19:37
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
These are military-based (not WWI or II). All excellent:
- The Conqueror series (Conn Iggulden, about Genghis Khan)
- Saxon Tales (Bernard Cornwell)
- Agincourt (Cornwall)
- Gates of Fire (Steven Pressfield, about ancient Sparta)
- Alexander the Great trilogy (Mary Renault)
- The Conqueror series (Conn Iggulden, about Genghis Khan)
- Saxon Tales (Bernard Cornwell)
- Agincourt (Cornwall)
- Gates of Fire (Steven Pressfield, about ancient Sparta)
- Alexander the Great trilogy (Mary Renault)
Anonymous
11/16/2024 18:55
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Katherine by Anya Seton is a classic.
Anonymous
11/16/2024 17:56
Subject: Re:Historical Fiction recommendations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff.
I love Lauren Groff but found this almost completely unreadable.
I hear you. I was very skeptical, but I guess I happened to be in the right frame of mind for it when I picked it up. It’s slow and dark, but I found it imaginative. Ready for something brisker and lighter now for sure!
NP. I also loved Vaster Wilds but disliked Matrix so YMMV.
Anonymous
11/15/2024 05:09
Subject: Re:Historical Fiction recommendations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff.
I love Lauren Groff but found this almost completely unreadable.
I hear you. I was very skeptical, but I guess I happened to be in the right frame of mind for it when I picked it up. It’s slow and dark, but I found it imaginative. Ready for something brisker and lighter now for sure!
Anonymous
11/15/2024 04:09
Subject: Re:Historical Fiction recommendations?
It has a male protagonist, but I love Below the Salt by Thomas B. Costain. It’s set roughly around the time of the Magna Carta and has a slight fantasy (reincarnation) element in its framing which interweaves some modern (1950’s) scenes.
Anonymous
11/15/2024 04:07
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
The Island of the Sea Women
Anonymous
11/15/2024 03:17
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
It’s old, but The Red Tent is excellent.
Anonymous
11/14/2024 21:51
Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The First Ladies by Heather Terrell
I can't find this - OP
https://www.target.com/p/first-ladies-target-exclusive-edition-by-marie-benedict-hardcover/-/A-89450830#lnk=sametab