I’m embarrassingly uninformed about the world, history, pop culture, politics, major events. I struggle with non-fiction reading because of a short attention span. Are there fiction books (or books that read like fiction) that will at least expose me to some of these things so I’m not always so clueless when they come up? I’m not looking for something that has all the facts, just an idea of the time period or event or circumstances.
An example would be like the movie Titanic or the book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.
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[Killers of the Flower Moon](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35954609) by David Grann (nonfiction but reads like a fiction novel)
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Pillars of the Earth
Pachinko
Homegoing
Kindred
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (historical fantasy)
The Personal Librarian
_I, Claudius_ and _Claudius the God_ by Robert Graves
The Oxford Time Travel series by Connie Willis
_The Daughter of Time_ by Josephine Tey
_1632_ by Eric Flint (the ongoing series diverges far from historical fact, but this book establishes the setting)
*An Infamous Army* by Georgette Heyer. One of the better fictional accounts of the Battle of Waterloo.
*the lion seeker* – kenneth bonert
*moloka’i* – alan brennert
*we, the drowned* – carsten jensen
*the wives of los alamos* – tarashea nesbit
*accordion crimes* – annie proulx
*at swim, two boys* – jamie o’neill (work your way up to this)
A Tale of Two Cities
A Passage to India
Things Fall Apart
A Jewish Girl in Paris
The Pillars of the Earth
The Things They Carried
As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow- an insightful and gripping historical fiction book about a young woman living in Syria when the revolution hit. It shows her fight to survive through the horrific events and help others to do the same.