Do you generally want American historical fiction or is there more specific types of story you want?
bdunkirk on
Not sure if it’s exactly what you want but James Michener novels are great historical fiction.
Texas was my favorite but he also has Chesapeake, Alaska, Hawaii, and Centennial (about Colorado).
I read Texas over 10 years ago and still think about it quite often.
StreetsOfFire320 on
Have you read East of Eden?
SaintCharlie on
You might check out Shaman, by Noah Gordon, about a frontier doctor out on the plains as the Civil War is ramping up. Super interesting medical stuff, satisfying characters, and a great narrative. If you enjoyed Pillars of the Earth, the same author wrote a book called The Physician about a young boy apprenticed to a barber surgeon during the Middle Ages, and it is just wonderful.
lostinpjm on
I can’t recommend the Lonesome Dove series highly enough. It takes place mostly in Texas and Mexico in the mid 19th century and mostly follows what happens with two men. I would recommend reading in chronological order and not publication order (Lonesome Dove was published first):
1. *Dead Man’s Walk* – set in the early 1840s
2. *Comanche Moon* – set in the 1850–60s
3. *Lonesome Dove* – set in mid-to-late 1870s
4. *Streets of Laredo* – set in the early 1890s
If you haven’t read them, please do yourself a favour and read these books. Beyond spectacular.
eat_vegetables on
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Much less world-building than the Pillars of Earth series tho
Queenofhackenwack on
the journals of may dodd ( one thousand white women) by jim fergus……. he has a series of them, but i have only read this one… i am on book four of follett’s pillars…… world with out end my favorite………………….
bridge4captain on
Edmund Rutherford foes a few. New York is good.
RandyTheSnake on
Ken Follett, the same author, has exactly this in the Century Trilogy. Each book has multiple families in USA, UK, Germany, and Russia, and their descendants continue in subsequent books.
It’s the time of WWI, WWII, and then the Cold War for the three books respectively.
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Do you generally want American historical fiction or is there more specific types of story you want?
Not sure if it’s exactly what you want but James Michener novels are great historical fiction.
Texas was my favorite but he also has Chesapeake, Alaska, Hawaii, and Centennial (about Colorado).
I read Texas over 10 years ago and still think about it quite often.
Have you read East of Eden?
You might check out Shaman, by Noah Gordon, about a frontier doctor out on the plains as the Civil War is ramping up. Super interesting medical stuff, satisfying characters, and a great narrative. If you enjoyed Pillars of the Earth, the same author wrote a book called The Physician about a young boy apprenticed to a barber surgeon during the Middle Ages, and it is just wonderful.
I can’t recommend the Lonesome Dove series highly enough. It takes place mostly in Texas and Mexico in the mid 19th century and mostly follows what happens with two men. I would recommend reading in chronological order and not publication order (Lonesome Dove was published first):
1. *Dead Man’s Walk* – set in the early 1840s
2. *Comanche Moon* – set in the 1850–60s
3. *Lonesome Dove* – set in mid-to-late 1870s
4. *Streets of Laredo* – set in the early 1890s
If you haven’t read them, please do yourself a favour and read these books. Beyond spectacular.
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Much less world-building than the Pillars of Earth series tho
the journals of may dodd ( one thousand white women) by jim fergus……. he has a series of them, but i have only read this one… i am on book four of follett’s pillars…… world with out end my favorite………………….
Edmund Rutherford foes a few. New York is good.
Ken Follett, the same author, has exactly this in the Century Trilogy. Each book has multiple families in USA, UK, Germany, and Russia, and their descendants continue in subsequent books.
It’s the time of WWI, WWII, and then the Cold War for the three books respectively.
Check out “The Frontiersmen”