/lit/ - Literature

This book has a fair deal of political intrigue- an englishman is shipwrecked in Japan which is on the brink of civil war. I enjoyed it.

I know it's a stretch, but do you guys have any recommendations for alternate history or historical fiction that has fantasy twists?

I saw people mention Shogun earlier and honestly I love the book, but it doesn't really fall into historical fiction because it's only losely inspired by history and all the characters are extremely fictional twists on real people. I'd classify it as alternate history and would love read more similar stories.

Every time I try making historical fiction threads nobody responds or someone shitposts about how every fictional book written before 1950 is historical fiction

Just finished this book

I fucking loved it. I read through it first quickly and now I've just started my proper read-through.

Anyone else loved these books? I read Tai-pan to shreds, then I think I read Gai-jin next. I'm no weaboo, but I loved his style of storytelling. The whole east meets west thing is rich as fuck.

Has anyone read King Rat? I think that's what I'll go for next.

For a non-weeb, is Shogun worth reading?

No, that book is shit. This is amazing.