Please recommend any historical fiction book, no matter which period
>>23627084Q by Luther Blissett takes place during Protestant Reformation
Doctor Zhivago
The Flashman papers by George MacDonald FraserThe Long Ships by Frans BengtssonI, Claudius by Robert GravesGates of Fire by Steven PressfieldThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Currently on the third book of this trilogy, has been a fantastic read. BBC adaptation of the first two books is great too, adaptation of the third novel is dropping this year
Read the real thing.
>>23627084Samarkand is a recent favourite
>>23627810I do, but I like historical fiction as well. To imagine an enviroment settled in a past time is comfy, you experience things alongside the characters. That is a kind of perspective that plain historical books dont give us often, because it minds more major events than everyday life.
Colleen McCullough The Masters of Rome series:The First Man in Rome (1990); spanning the years 110–100 BCThe Grass Crown (1991); spanning the years 97–86 BCFortune's Favourites (1993); spanning the years 83–69 BCCaesar's Women (1997); spanning the years 67–59 BCCaesar (1998); spanning the years 54–48 BCThe October Horse (2002); spanning the years 48–41 BCAntony and Cleopatra (2007); spanning the years 41–27 BC the above from WikipediaSharon Kay Penman:The Sunne in Splendour The Land Beyond The Sea Welsh Princes trilogyHere Be Dragons Falls the Shadow The Reckoning Plantagenet seriesWhen Christ and His Saints Slept Time and Chance Devil's Brood Lionheart A King's Ransom Allan W. Eckert The Frontiersmen series
>>23627084-Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa (About Hideyoshi)-Dumas: the sequels to The Three Musketeers series dive way more into history (Louis XIV). Also Le Reine Margot (The Valois)-Gates of Fire (and most of his work) by Steven Pressfield -Most of Bernard Cornwall's work (The Sharpe series being the most famous)-James Clavell's stuff, though it is definitely a "reimagining" (Though that can be said about most historical fiction) -War and Peace (though this is more about the people that lived through historic events, opposed to the events themselves or the historical figures involved - though those events and figures do definitely play a part)-Shakespeare's history plays That's all I have for now.
I'll throw in another vote for Gate of Fire. Makes you feel like a badass spartan
Cadfael series20 books of medieval monk mystery
>>23627084>be Gustav Flaubert >invent the sword and sorcery genre
Patrick O'Brian
>>23627084>Please recommend any historical fiction bookAny book on evolution or the big bang.
>>23629216lazy
Didius Falco
>>23629060It's kind of strange that S&S evolved to become one of the most lowbrow and least respected of all genres when the original S&S book is a literary masterpiece written by one of the most respected novelists of the 19th century.
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>>23627084Memoirs of Hadrian
Not OP but a based thread, lots for me to read
>>23627084just read this and it was extremely good. eco has great historical fiction novels under his belt
>>23631467I want to read this but I stop every time I get to the talking dog
>>23629060Salambo is og and today would be considered mega problematic lol
>>23627676Heard this is good
>>23627538Nobody has read this i guarentee
>>23627540>I, Claudius by Robert GravesBritish political satireAlso erotica (Read White Goddess to understand why)>The Baroque Cycle by Neal StephensonCyberpunk
>>23629168>Patrick O'BrianGay husband erotica (no sex).
>>23631681Time to die faggot
>>23631685Kill yourself
Youngblood Hawke
