Circe or Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Ancient Greece)
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (1930s/Great Depression)
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen (Early 1930s)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (19th Century)
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This is a broad ask, but here are some I’ve enjoyed.
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Dennison Rose by Jenny Pattrick
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine by Nancy E. Turner
Into The Wilderness (series of 6 books) by Sara Donati
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You gotta check out the “Maisie Dobbs” series by Jacqueline Winspear. First book covers her coming of age period during and just prior to the Great War but the remainder of the books is set in the 1930’s mostly in and around London but she does travel abroad in many of the books
Great writing style and great protagonist and storylines, each with historical events of the time period worked in. Great audiobooks too, read by Orlagh Cassidy.
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Highly recommend the Flashman series. A cowardly, scandalous British officer from the 1800’s fights, flees, and screws his way across every British holding in the world (i.e. everywhere).
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Ragtime by EL Doctorow, set in NYC 1902-1912
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A Hope Divided by Alyssa Cole
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo Anstine
Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
The Tower by Fiona Carr
Ballad of Love and Glory by Reyna Grande
Cleopatra’s Moon by Vicky Alvear Schecter
Under a Painted Sky by Stacy Lee
A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor
Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman
Yonder by Jabari Asim
The Mercies by Kiran Milwood Hargrave
Outrun the Moon by Stacy Lee
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
East Indian by Brinda Charry
Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn & Janie Chang
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly
Pull of Stars by Emma Donoghue
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“The Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara is a fictional account of the Battle of Gettysburg, and it’s phenomenal.
If you read that and enjoy it, his son Jeff Shaara wrote a lot of similar books set around the Civil War that are worth reading.
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Circe or Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Ancient Greece)
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (1930s/Great Depression)
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen (Early 1930s)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (19th Century)
This is a broad ask, but here are some I’ve enjoyed.
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Dennison Rose by Jenny Pattrick
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine by Nancy E. Turner
Into The Wilderness (series of 6 books) by Sara Donati
You gotta check out the “Maisie Dobbs” series by Jacqueline Winspear. First book covers her coming of age period during and just prior to the Great War but the remainder of the books is set in the 1930’s mostly in and around London but she does travel abroad in many of the books
Great writing style and great protagonist and storylines, each with historical events of the time period worked in. Great audiobooks too, read by Orlagh Cassidy.
Highly recommend the Flashman series. A cowardly, scandalous British officer from the 1800’s fights, flees, and screws his way across every British holding in the world (i.e. everywhere).
Ragtime by EL Doctorow, set in NYC 1902-1912
A Hope Divided by Alyssa Cole
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo Anstine
Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
The Tower by Fiona Carr
Ballad of Love and Glory by Reyna Grande
Cleopatra’s Moon by Vicky Alvear Schecter
Under a Painted Sky by Stacy Lee
A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor
Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman
Yonder by Jabari Asim
The Mercies by Kiran Milwood Hargrave
Outrun the Moon by Stacy Lee
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
East Indian by Brinda Charry
Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn & Janie Chang
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly
Pull of Stars by Emma Donoghue
“The Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara is a fictional account of the Battle of Gettysburg, and it’s phenomenal.
If you read that and enjoy it, his son Jeff Shaara wrote a lot of similar books set around the Civil War that are worth reading.
Ernst von Salomon:
· *The Outlaws.*
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
· *The Great Gatsby*.
Evelyn Waugh:
· *Vile Bodies*.
John Steinbeck:
· *The Grapes of Wrath*.
· *Cannery Row*.
· *The Pearl*.
Robert Penn Warren:
· *All the King’s Men*.