Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #304

  The Horseman on the Roof

  by Jean Giono

  (0 Reviews)

  70 Points

  

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  #307

  Suite Française

  by Irene Nemirovsky

  (3 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "Hot, thought the Parisians."

  

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  #311

  Angle of Repose

  by Wallace Stegner

  (3 Reviews)

  69 Points

  "Now I believe they will leave me alone."

  

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  #314

  Belle Du Seigneur

  by Albert Cohen

  (1 Review)

  69 Points

  

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  #315

  A Town Like Alice

  by Nevil Shute

  (4 Reviews)

  69 Points

  "James MacFadden died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point-to-Point."

  

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  #319

  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

  by Robert Tressell

  (1 Review)

  68 Points

  

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  #323

  Death Comes for the Archbishop

  by Willa Cather

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome."

  

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  #325

  The French Lieutenant's Woman

  by John Fowles

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay - Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched south-western leg - and a person of curiosity could at once..."

  

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  #326

  The Pillars of The Earth

  by Ken Follett

  (10 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "The small boys came early to the hanging. (Preface)In a broad valley, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house. (Chapter 1) "

  

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  #335

  The Bone People

  by Keri Hulme

  (2 Reviews)

  66 Points

  "He walks down the street."

  

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