Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #94

  The 42nd Parallel

  by John Dos Passos

  (3 Reviews)

  200 Points

  "General Mills with his gaudy uniform and spirited charger was the center for all eyes especially as his steed was extremely restless."

  

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  #95

  Under the Volcano

  by Malcolm Lowry

  (5 Reviews)

  199 Points

  "Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaus."

  

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  #98

  Bleak House

  by Charles Dickens

  (8 Reviews)

  189 Points

  "London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall."

  

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  #100

  The Scarlet Letter

  by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  (19 Reviews)

  187 Points

  "A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the..."

  

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  #102

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin

  by Louis de Bernières

  (4 Reviews)

  183 Points

  "Dr. Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse."

  

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  #103

  Howards End

  by E. M. Forster

  (6 Reviews)

  182 Points

  "One may as well begin with Helens letters to her sister."

  

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  #104

  The Heart is A Lonely Hunter

  by Carson McCullers

  (8 Reviews)

  181 Points

  "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."

  

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  #105

  Vanity Fair

  by William Makepeace Thackeray

  (8 Reviews)

  181 Points

  "While the present century was in its teens, and on one sun-shiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large..."

  

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  #107

  The Count of Monte Cristo

  by Alexandre Dumas

  (15 Reviews)

  180 Points

  "On February 24, 1815, the watchtower at Marseilles signaled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples."

  

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  #108

  An American Tragedy

  by Theodore Dreiser

  (4 Reviews)

  179 Points

  "Dusk - of a summer night."

  

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