Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #453

  The Joy Luck Club

  by Amy Tan

  (5 Reviews)

  36 Points

  "The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum."

  

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  #460

  A Separate Peace

  by John Knowles

  (3 Reviews)

  34 Points

  "I went back to Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before."

  

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  #461

  The Quiet American

  by Graham Greene

  (3 Reviews)

  34 Points

  "After dinner I sat and waited for Pyle in my room over the rue Catinat; he had said, ‘I’ll be with you at latest by ten,’ and when midnight struck I couldn’t stay quiet any longer and went down..."

  

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  #471

  Cold Sassy Tree

  by Olive Ann Burns

  (2 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "Three weeks after Granny Blakeslee died, Grandpa came to our house for his early morning snort of whiskey, as usual, and said to me, "Will Tweedy? Go find your mama, then run up to yore Aunt Loma's..."

  

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  #475

  Oliver Twist

  by Charles Dickens

  (9 Reviews)

  30 Points

  "Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to..."

  

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  #477

  A High Wind in Jamaica

  by Richard Hughes

  (2 Reviews)

  30 Points

  "One of the fruits of Emancipation in the West Indian islands is the number of ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or within a stone's throw of them: ruined slaves' quarters, ruined..."

  

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  #478

  Cities of Salt

  by Abdelrahman Munif

  (1 Review)

  30 Points

  

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  #482

  The Power and the Glory

  by Graham Greene

  (2 Reviews)

  29 Points

  "Mr. Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust."

  

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  #483

  War and Remembrance

  by Herman Wouk

  (1 Review)

  29 Points

  "A liberty boat full of sleep hung-over sailors came clanging alongside the U.S.S. Northhampton, and a stocky captain in dress whites jumped out to the accommodation ladder."

  

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  #484

  Baudolino

  by Umberto Eco

  (1 Review)

  29 Points

  "Rattisbon Anno Domini mense decembri mclv Cronicle of Baudolino of the fammily of Aulario."

  

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