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Recommend me some good historical fiction books...

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Dragnov

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I read a few of the Sharpe series, Emperor Series, and the Gods & Generals/Killer Angels/Last Full Measure Series.

I just picked up the Counte of Monte Cristo and The Winter King but I'm finding the reading boring for both and looking to exchange them. They both have a lot of nonsense talk in it, and I don't like first person point of view in The Winter King.
 
Here is a list of some historical fiction books that you might like.

Fifth Century ? Eleventh Century

Anand, Valerie ? The Proud Villeins
Borchardt, Alice ? Devoted
Bradshaw, Gillian ? Imperial Purple
Bradshaw, Gillian ? The Wolf Hunt
Cross, Donna Woolfolk ? Pope Joan
Dunnett, Dorothy ? King Herafter
Garwood, Haley Elizabeth ? Swords Across the Thames
Holland, Cecilia ? Jerusalem
Larsen, Jeanne ? Silk Road
Penman, Sharon Kay ? Time and Chance
Rivele, Stephen ? A Booke of Days
Tarr, Judith ? Queen of Swords

Seventeenth Century
Brooks, Geraldine ? Year of Wonders
Dumas, Alexandre ? The Three Musketeers
DuMaurier, Daphne ? Frenchman?s Creek
Laker, Rosalind ? Circle of Pearls
Llywelyn, Morgan ? The Last Prince of Ireland
Riley, Judith Merkle ? The Oracle Glass
Smith, Wilbur ? Birds of Prey
Tremain, Rose ? Music & Silence

Early Twentieth Century/World War I
Barker, Pat ? Regeneration (also audio)
Borovsky, Natasha ? A Daughter of the Nobility
Butler, David ? Lusitania
Deighton, Len ? Winter: A Novel of a Berlin Family
DeRosa, Peter ? Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916
Dos Passos, John ? 1919
Flanagan, Thomas ? The End of the Hunt
Fleming, Thomas ? Over There (also South)
Gann, Ernest ? In the Company of Eagles
Lennox, Judith ? The Secret Years
Llywelyn, Morgan - 1916
McCutchan ? The Last Farewell
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr ? August 1914
Tsukiyama, Gail ? Women of the Silk

World War II
Aaron, David ? Crossing by Night
Beach, Edward ? Dust on the Sea
Harris, Robert ? Enigma
Higgins, Jack ? The Eagle Has Landed
Jones, Tristan ? Dutch Treat: A Novel of WWII
Keneally, Thomas ? Schindler?s List
Robbins, David ? The End of War
Toland, John ? Gods of War
Wales, Ken ? Sea of Glory: A Novel
 
Gary Jennings: Aztec, Aztec Autumn, The Journeyer, Raptor

Steven Pressfield: Gates of Fire

John Jakes: The North and South trilogy
 
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth
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That book SUCKS, I'm sorry to say. The first time I read it, I thought it was good but a second reading had me severely questioning my sanity.

Admittedly, Follett did appear to do quite a bit of research but his storytelling ability sucks when it comes to this book. He should have stuck to writing spy thrillers, IMHO.
 
Originally posted by: Encryptic
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth
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That book SUCKS, I'm sorry to say. The first time I read it, I thought it was good but a second reading had me severely questioning my sanity.

Admittedly, Follett did appear to do quite a bit of research but his storytelling ability sucks when it comes to this book. He should have stuck to writing spy thrillers, IMHO.
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I loved the book. I'm also a fan of Michener.
 
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