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I love the genre but there's so much of this around that I can't make my mind up. Give me some suggestions, brothers.

>> No.10060988

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

>> No.10060996

>>10060915
Salammbo
War and Peace
Notre-Dame de Paris
Ivanhoe (and other Walter Scott novels)
The Three Musketeers (and other Dumas novels)
Quo Vadis?
The Perfume
The Name of the Rose

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>>10060996
I also forgot The Leopard

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>> No.10061059

>>10060915
Mémoires of Hadrien

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>>10060915
Interesting not so much for its engagement with broad historical events - those have been done to death elsewhere - but its deeply human character study.

>> No.10062117

>>10061004
Oh fuck this is great

>> No.10062120

>>10060915
What a qt

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>>10060915
The Latro novels by Gene Wolfe

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>I CLAUDIUS

> or Memories of Hadrian

>> No.10063053

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>> No.10063059

>>10063053
The Egyptian is without a doubt pulpy as hell, but it's great fun.

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>> No.10064095

>>10060915
Surprised no one mentioned the /lit/ sweetheart John Williams and his Augustus. The epistolary format for the work really makes it a fantastic historical fiction piece