Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #189

  Memoirs of a Geisha

  by Arthur Golden

  (13 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "One evening in the spring of 1936, when I was a boy of fourteen, my father took me to a dance performance in Kyoto.Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting..."

  

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  #191

  The Tale of Genji

  by Murasaki Shikibu

  (4 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "In a certain reign (whose can it have been?) someone of no very great rank, among all His Magesty's Consorts and Intimates, enjoyed exceptional favor."

  

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  #192

  Cannery Row

  by John Steinbeck

  (7 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."

  

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  #196

  Jude the Obscure

  by Thomas Hardy

  (3 Reviews)

  99 Points

  "The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry."

  

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  #201

  Austerlitz

  by W.G. Sebald

  (3 Reviews)

  97 Points

  "In the second half of the 1960s I traveled repeatedly from England to Belgium, partly for study purposes, partly for other reasons which were never entirely clear to me, staying sometimes for just..."

  

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  #203

  The Public Burning

  by Robert Coover

  (1 Review)

  97 Points

  

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  #207

  Jazz

  by Toni Morrison

  (4 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "Sth, I know that woman."

  

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  #208

  Dead Souls

  by Nikolai Gogol

  (3 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "A small, rather smart, well-sprung four-wheeled carriage with a folding top drove through the gates of an inn of the provincial town of N.; it was the sort of carriage bachelors usually drive in:..."

  

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  #217

  Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  (5 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "Well, Sophie dear, as you see, I'm keeping my word and not spending all my time on bonnets and bows, I'll always have some to spare for you!"

  

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  #228

  My Name is Red

  by Orhan Pamuk

  (2 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well."

  

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