Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #336

  The God of Small Things

  by Arundhati Roy

  (6 Reviews)

  66 Points

  "May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.Maj je v Ajemenemu vroč, morast mesec."

  

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  #338

  Lord Jim

  by Joseph Conrad

  (2 Reviews)

  65 Points

  "He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think..."

  

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  #341

  Ragtime

  by E. L. Doctorow

  (3 Reviews)

  65 Points

  "In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle."

  

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  #342

  The Kite Runner

  by Khaled Hosseini

  (12 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975."

  

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  #345

  The Warden

  by Anthony Trollope

  (3 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of ---; let us call it Barchester."

  

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  #346

  The Riddle of the Sands

  by Erskine Childers

  (2 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "I have read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude - save for a few black faces - have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain..."

  

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  #350

  The Shell Seekers

  by Rosamunde Pilcher

  (2 Reviews)

  62 Points

  "She sometimes thought that for her, Nancy Chamberlain, the most straightforward or innocent occupation was doomed to become, inevitably, fraught with tedious complication."

  

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  #352

  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

  by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  (5 Reviews)

  62 Points

  "As usual, at five o'clock that morning reveille was sounded by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up near the staff quarters."

  

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  #354

  Call it Sleep

  by Henry Roth

  (2 Reviews)

  60 Points

  

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  #358

  The Sot-Weed Factor

  by John Barth

  (2 Reviews)

  59 Points

  "In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and the fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than..."

  

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