I’m looking for books that are earlier in history and are gritty & dark. Could be completely fictional or based on true events.
The sort of feel where you are looking at the underbelly of humanity.
I don’t really care about the place or time but probably not WW2 just because I’ve read a lot of that.
Ideas: Depression, Dust Bowl, colonialism, slavery, medieval life, early American civilizations, exploration, inner city Victorian Europe…
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The Haiti trilogy by M. Smartt Bell.
*The Alienist,* Caleb Carr.
I have the perfect one for you; The Crimson Petal And The White, by Michel Faber. Victorian London, it has the underbelly [prostitution, poverty] contrasted with the lives of the rich and comfortable. It’s a satire, it’s very rude [not for the squeamish], it’s Dickensian, but it’s also moving and often very funny. I loved it.