Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #411

  Kane and Abel

  by Jeffrey Archer

  (3 Reviews)

  47 Points

  "April 18, 1906 - Slonim, Poland - She only stopped screaming when she died."

  

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  #414

  Sense and Sensibility

  by Jane Austen

  (10 Reviews)

  47 Points

  "The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex."

  

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  #420

  Libra

  by Don DeLillo

  (2 Reviews)

  46 Points

  

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  #423

  Parade's End

  by Ford Madox Ford

  (2 Reviews)

  44 Points

  

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  #438

  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  by Betty Smith

  (5 Reviews)

  41 Points

  "Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York."

  

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  #439

  Half of a Yellow Sun

  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  (2 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair."

  

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  #441

  Martin Eden

  by Jack London

  (2 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in..."

  

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  #444

  The Leopard

  by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

  (3 Reviews)

  39 Points

  "'Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.'"

  

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  #445

  The Alexandria Quartet

  by Lawrence Durrell

  (2 Reviews)

  39 Points

  "The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind."BALTHAZAR" - Landscape-toes: brown to bronze, steep skyline, low cloud, pearl ground with shadowed oyster and violet reflections...."

  

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  #446

  The Ballad of the Salt Sea

  by Hugo Pratt

  (1 Review)

  39 Points

  

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