Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #111

  Atonement

  by Ian McEwan

  (10 Reviews)

  176 Points

  "The play – for which Briony had designed posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper – was..."

  

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  #113

  The House of Mirth

  by Edith Wharton

  (6 Reviews)

  172 Points

  "Selden paused in surprise."

  

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  #115

  The Good Soldier

  by Ford Madox Ford

  (7 Reviews)

  168 Points

  "This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

  

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  #116

  The Name of the Rose

  by Umberto Eco

  (12 Reviews)

  166 Points

  "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

  

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  #121

  My Ántonia

  by Willa Cather

  (9 Reviews)

  159 Points

  "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year,..."

  

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  #125

  Wide Sargasso Sea

  by Jean Rhys

  (6 Reviews)

  153 Points

  "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."

  

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  #126

  Love in The Time of Cholera

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  (8 Reviews)

  153 Points

  "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."

  

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  #127

  The Remains of the day

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  (8 Reviews)

  153 Points

  "It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days."

  

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  #129

  I, Claudius

  by Robert Graves

  (6 Reviews)

  151 Points

  "I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives..."

  

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  #134

  A Suitable Boy

  by Vikram Seth

  (2 Reviews)

  143 Points

  "'You too will marry a boy I choose' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter."

  

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