Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #24

  A Passage to India

  by E. M. Forster

  (8 Reviews)

  469 Points

  "Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary."

  

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  #28

  The Color Purple

  by Alice Walker

  (15 Reviews)

  392 Points

  "You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."

  

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  #29

  Midnight's Children

  by Salman Rushdie

  (9 Reviews)

  391 Points

  "I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time."

  

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  #32

  Heart of Darkness

  by Joseph Conrad

  (18 Reviews)

  382 Points

  "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it..."

  

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  #34

  Slaughterhouse-Five

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (29 Reviews)

  358 Points

  "All this happened, more or less."

  

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  #35

  War and Peace

  by Leo Tolstoy

  (12 Reviews)

  357 Points

  "Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family."Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. (Maude/Maude)

  

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  #36

  Of Mice and Men

  by John Steinbeck

  (38 Reviews)

  349 Points

  "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."

  

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  #37

  Moby-Dick

  by Herman Melville

  (17 Reviews)

  348 Points

  "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see..."

  

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  #38

  Little Women

  by Louisa May Alcott

  (18 Reviews)

  348 Points

  "“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."

  

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  #39

  Native Son

  by Richard Wright

  (6 Reviews)

  348 Points

  "Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."

  

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