Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #359

  Le Silence de La Mer

  by Vercors

  (1 Review)

  59 Points

  

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  #363

  Snow Falling on Cedars

  by David Guterson

  (6 Reviews)

  58 Points

  "The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendant's table - the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible..."

  

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  #364

  Fathers and Sons

  by Ivan Turgenev

  (3 Reviews)

  58 Points

  "Well, Piotr, not in sight yet?" was the question asked on May the 20th, 1859, by a gentleman of a little over forty, in a dusty coat and checked trousers, who came out without his hat on to the...

  

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  #370

  The Jungle

  by Upton Sinclair

  (3 Reviews)

  56 Points

  

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  #379

  The House of the Spirits

  by Isabel Allende

  (4 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "Barrabás came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy."

  

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  #386

  Blood Meridian

  by Cormac McCarthy

  (6 Reviews)

  53 Points

  "See the child."

  

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  #387

  The Home and the World

  by Rabindranath Tagore

  (3 Reviews)

  53 Points

  

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  #392

  The Thornbirds

  by Colleen McCullough

  (2 Reviews)

  52 Points

  "On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday."

  

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  #394

  Good Night, Mr. Tom

  by Michelle Magorian

  (1 Review)

  52 Points

  "Yes," said Tom bluntly, on opening the door. "What d'you want?"

  

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  #397

  The Magnificent Ambersons

  by Booth Tarkington

  (2 Reviews)

  51 Points

  "Major Amberson had "made a fortune" in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then."

  

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