here are a couple of my favorites but do you have any preference on era/location?
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, about community and recovery in the aftermath of WWII, and also a love of good books.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, a coming of age story set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the McCarthy era.
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I just read All Quiet on the Western front, which was quite good and considered a classic novel about war.
Right now I’m about to finish All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy and it’s been excellent. It’s the first in a trilogy.
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The Aubrey / Maturin books
The Wolf Hall trilogy
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle (the first one is “Quicksilver”)
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Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez Reverte.
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michener or rutherfurd
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
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The Shardlake series by C.J. Sansom is one of my favorites
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Arthur and the Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland is the starting point of a 4 book series, initially following a young son of a minor noble on the Welsh / English border. Really good and worth a read.
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The Physician by Noah Gordon.
Bernard Cornwell wrote several great series asdid Conn Iggulden.
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The Shardlake series – C.J Sansom
The Wolf Hall trilogy – Hilary Mantel
The Last Kingdom series – Bernard Cornwell
The Baroque Cycle books – Neal Stephenson
Eagles of the Empire series – Simon Scarrow
Oxford Medieval Mysteries – Ann Swinfen
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**The Flashman Papers** *George MacDonald Fraser* are a series of books purporting to be the memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, a heroic and highly decorated officer in the British army during the British Empire. Through reading the memoirs we discover that our chum Flashy isn’t so heroic after all, but is a self-confessed liar, cheat, coward and all-round blackguard.
**Wolf Hall** *Hilary Mantel* is the first book in a trilogy about the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII.
**The Accursed Kings** *Maurice Druon* is a series of books following the French Monarchy in the 14th Century. George R. R. Martin cited the series as one of the inspirations behind his Game of Thrones novels.
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Allan Eckert’s “The Winning of America” Series (historical fiction about the Old American Northwest)
• *The Frontiersmen*
• *Wilderness Empire*
• *The Conquerors*
• *The Wilderness War*
• *Gateway to Empire*
• *Twilight of Empire*
• *The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone*
• *A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh*
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Everything by Gore Vidal. Pick your era.
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Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
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Check out Jack Whyte, he’s got 2 notable series you may like The Guardians is a retelling of the William Wallace sage told through different characters in the time period, takes a very historical fiction approach tot he legends. The other I recommend is his Knights Templar series
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Essex Dogs by Dan Jones is a gritty historical fiction set during the Hundred Years War.
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here are a couple of my favorites but do you have any preference on era/location?
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, about community and recovery in the aftermath of WWII, and also a love of good books.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, a coming of age story set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the McCarthy era.
I just read All Quiet on the Western front, which was quite good and considered a classic novel about war.
Right now I’m about to finish All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy and it’s been excellent. It’s the first in a trilogy.
The Aubrey / Maturin books
The Wolf Hall trilogy
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle (the first one is “Quicksilver”)
Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez Reverte.
michener or rutherfurd
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Shardlake series by C.J. Sansom is one of my favorites
Arthur and the Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland is the starting point of a 4 book series, initially following a young son of a minor noble on the Welsh / English border. Really good and worth a read.
The Physician by Noah Gordon.
Bernard Cornwell wrote several great series asdid Conn Iggulden.
The Shardlake series – C.J Sansom
The Wolf Hall trilogy – Hilary Mantel
The Last Kingdom series – Bernard Cornwell
The Baroque Cycle books – Neal Stephenson
Eagles of the Empire series – Simon Scarrow
Oxford Medieval Mysteries – Ann Swinfen
**The Flashman Papers** *George MacDonald Fraser* are a series of books purporting to be the memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, a heroic and highly decorated officer in the British army during the British Empire. Through reading the memoirs we discover that our chum Flashy isn’t so heroic after all, but is a self-confessed liar, cheat, coward and all-round blackguard.
**Wolf Hall** *Hilary Mantel* is the first book in a trilogy about the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII.
**The Accursed Kings** *Maurice Druon* is a series of books following the French Monarchy in the 14th Century. George R. R. Martin cited the series as one of the inspirations behind his Game of Thrones novels.
Allan Eckert’s “The Winning of America” Series (historical fiction about the Old American Northwest)
• *The Frontiersmen*
• *Wilderness Empire*
• *The Conquerors*
• *The Wilderness War*
• *Gateway to Empire*
• *Twilight of Empire*
• *The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone*
• *A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh*
Everything by Gore Vidal. Pick your era.
Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Check out Jack Whyte, he’s got 2 notable series you may like The Guardians is a retelling of the William Wallace sage told through different characters in the time period, takes a very historical fiction approach tot he legends. The other I recommend is his Knights Templar series
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones is a gritty historical fiction set during the Hundred Years War.