Fiction

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Thu May 14, 2020, 02:42 AM May 2020

17 Historical Fiction Books That Will Immerse You In A Different Era

BuzzFeed Books recently asked Goodreads about the historical fiction books that its users have been loving lately.

Below are 17 titles that have been getting high ratings and ample attention from the site's many lovers of history.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ariannarebolini/historical-fiction-books-goodreads-quarantine-reading

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17 Historical Fiction Books That Will Immerse You In A Different Era (Original Post) left-of-center2012 May 2020 OP

Thank you! Silver Gaia May 2020 #1

K&R livetohike May 2020 #2

Thanks, will take a look at some of these. gladium et scutum May 2020 #3

Thanks. murielm99 May 2020 #4

K&R, nt. druidity33 May 2020 #5

Thank you. Bookmarking! Tanuki May 2020 #6

Thanks kelly97 May 2020 #7

So glad you posted this! hermetic May 2020 #8

Question? Amy-Strange May 2020 #9

Do you have any more good lists like this one? murielm99 Jul 2021 #10

Silver Gaia

(5,430 posts)

1. Thank you!

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2020, 04:30 AM

May 2020

livetohike

(24,417 posts)

2. K&R

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2020, 06:00 AM

May 2020

gladium et scutum

(831 posts)

3. Thanks, will take a look at some of these.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2020, 06:04 AM

May 2020

currently wading through the ninth book in Forester's Horatio Hornblower series. Read them all 50 years ago. No much for deep or meaningful thinking, but good reads anyway.

murielm99

(33,082 posts)

4. Thanks.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2020, 06:39 AM

May 2020

These look great.

druidity33

(6,933 posts)

5. K&R, nt.

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Thu May 14, 2020, 07:25 AM

May 2020

Tanuki

(16,508 posts)

6. Thank you. Bookmarking!

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2020, 07:32 AM

May 2020

kelly97

(55 posts)

7. Thanks

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 04:42 AM

May 2020

Thank you so much for this!

hermetic

(9,281 posts)

8. So glad you posted this!

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 12:21 PM

May 2020

There are wonderful books on that list plus I've now added more to my must-read list. So, .

Amy-Strange

(854 posts)

9. Question?

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2020, 10:22 PM

May 2020

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Thanks for the list, but does today's fiction become historical fiction after a certain amount of years?

For example, is War and Peace considered historical fiction, even though it was written around the time all that stuff was really happening in Russia?
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murielm99

(33,082 posts)

10. Do you have any more good lists like this one?

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Wed Jul 7, 2021, 10:39 AM

Jul 2021

I have read all of the now. Thanks!

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