Any suggestions?
Historical fiction that I have read that isn’t set during the 20th century:
• War & Peace
• A Tale of Two Cities
• a couple of The Cousins’ War series
• The Count of Monte Cristi
• The Tea Rose
• Les Miserables
• Hamnet
• Wolf Hall
• The Underground Railroad
• Victoria
• the Outlander series
I’m honestly super tired of reading historical fiction set during the 20th century
by Vancouverreader80
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Maybe the Bronze Bow by E B Speare or some of Pearl S Buck’s work?
Glencoe by john prebble is about a genuine event (17th century Scotland iirc). but the narrative reads a lot like fiction, with backstory and characters and so forth.
Horatio Hornblower, or Dostoyevsky maybe?
*The Cancer Ward* by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It can be a slog at times, but you made it through War and Peace soooo..
*Black Beauty* by Anna Sewell
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame* by Victor Hugo. I guess technically it has romance but…not like a Disney movie (ironically)
Edit: Also anything by Jack London: Sea Wolf, White Fang, Call of the wild. He also has a literal shit ton of short stories of which *To Build a Fire* is my favorite of all time.
Billy Budd by Herman Melville. Moby Dick if you’re not busy for a year.
Have you read the Century trilogy by Ken Follett?
The Brother Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters are set in 11th century England.
_I, Claudius_ and _Claudius the God_ by Robert Graves cover the beginning of the Roman Empire.
– Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America by J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
‘Call Me By Your Name’ by André Aciman is a book I find myself recommending for its beautiful prose and exploration of desire. The summer romance between Elio and Oliver in Italy is a profound meditation on the intensity of first love and the marks it leaves on our lives.