Historical Fiction

[Anonymous No.23627084]

Please recommend any historical fiction book, no matter which period

[Anonymous No.23627217]

>>23627084
Q by Luther Blissett takes place during Protestant Reformation

[Anonymous No.23627522]

Doctor Zhivago

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[Anonymous No.23627540]

The Flashman papers by George MacDonald Fraser
The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson

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[Anonymous No.23627657]

Currently on the third book of this trilogy, has been a fantastic read. BBC adaptation of the first two books is great too, adaptation of the third novel is dropping this year

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[Anonymous No.23627810]

Read the real thing.

[Anonymous No.23627977]

>>23627084
Samarkand is a recent favourite

[Anonymous No.23627983]

>>23627810
I do, but I like historical fiction as well. To imagine an enviroment settled in a past time is comfy, you experience things alongside the characters. That is a kind of perspective that plain historical books dont give us often, because it minds more major events than everyday life.

[Anonymous No.23628334]

Colleen McCullough The Masters of Rome series:
The First Man in Rome (1990); spanning the years 110–100 BC
The Grass Crown (1991); spanning the years 97–86 BC
Fortune's Favourites (1993); spanning the years 83–69 BC
Caesar's Women (1997); spanning the years 67–59 BC
Caesar (1998); spanning the years 54–48 BC
The October Horse (2002); spanning the years 48–41 BC
Antony and Cleopatra (2007); spanning the years 41–27 BC
the above from Wikipedia

Sharon Kay Penman:
The Sunne in Splendour
The Land Beyond The Sea

Welsh Princes trilogy
Here Be Dragons
Falls the Shadow
The Reckoning

Plantagenet series
When Christ and His Saints Slept
Time and Chance
Devil's Brood
Lionheart
A King's Ransom

Allan W. Eckert The Frontiersmen series

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[Anonymous No.23628669]

>>23627084
-Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa (About Hideyoshi)
-Dumas: the sequels to The Three Musketeers series dive way more into history (Louis XIV). Also Le Reine Margot (The Valois)
-Gates of Fire (and most of his work) by Steven Pressfield
-Most of Bernard Cornwall's work (The Sharpe series being the most famous)
-James Clavell's stuff, though it is definitely a "reimagining" (Though that can be said about most historical fiction)
-War and Peace (though this is more about the people that lived through historic events, opposed to the events themselves or the historical figures involved - though those events and figures do definitely play a part)
-Shakespeare's history plays

That's all I have for now.

[Anonymous No.23629008]

I'll throw in another vote for Gate of Fire. Makes you feel like a badass spartan

[Anonymous No.23629051]

Cadfael series
20 books of medieval monk mystery

[Anonymous No.23629060]

>>23627084
>be Gustav Flaubert
>invent the sword and sorcery genre

[Anonymous No.23629168]

Patrick O'Brian

[Anonymous No.23629216]

>>23627084
>Please recommend any historical fiction book
Any book on evolution or the big bang.

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[Anonymous No.23629292]

>>23629216
lazy

[Anonymous No.23630209]

Didius Falco

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>>23629060
It's kind of strange that S&S evolved to become one of the most lowbrow and least respected of all genres when the original S&S book is a literary masterpiece written by one of the most respected novelists of the 19th century.

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>>23627084

[Anonymous No.23630444]

>>23627084
Memoirs of Hadrian

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[Anonymous No.23631471]

Not OP but a based thread, lots for me to read

[Anonymous No.23631613]

>>23627084
just read this and it was extremely good. eco has great historical fiction novels under his belt

[Anonymous No.23631622]

>>23631467
I want to read this but I stop every time I get to the talking dog

[Anonymous No.23631665]

>>23629060
Salambo is og and today would be considered mega problematic lol

[Anonymous No.23631670]

>>23627676
Heard this is good

[Anonymous No.23631672]

>>23627538
Nobody has read this i guarentee

[Anonymous No.23631681]

>>23627540
>I, Claudius by Robert Graves
British political satire
Also erotica (Read White Goddess to understand why)

>The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Cyberpunk

[Anonymous No.23631685]

>>23629168
>Patrick O'Brian
Gay husband erotica (no sex).

[Anonymous No.23631686]

>>23631681
Time to die faggot

[Anonymous No.23631699]

>>23631685
Kill yourself

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Youngblood Hawke

[Anonymous No.23634636]

Denis Johnson- Train Dreams for a nice novella

[Anonymous No.23634667]

The Crook Factory by Dan Simmons. An unappealing title, but a very enjoyable novel. A "95% accurate," per Simmons, account of the counter-espionage and spy ring that was set up by Hemingway in Cuba during World War II. Highly recommend. Very vivid and believable portrait of Hemingway.

[Anonymous No.23635452]

>>23627084
The Siege of Krishnapur. Much better than Catch-22

[Anonymous No.23635687]

Anything by Terry C. Johnston.

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Doc

[sage No.23635970]

Anyone have novel/series recs set in colonial era New England, pre-Revolution?
I'm about to start Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon. Never read him before though I've heard plenty of good things about his work

[Anonymous No.23636577]

>>23627084
Kristin Lavransdatter
Scandinavian 1300s, known to be highly historically accurate, nobel prize winner too

[Anonymous No.23636589]

>>23627084
the knight in panther's skin
>>23627810
that would be a fucking great prog rock album title

[Anonymous No.23637144]

>>23635970
It's nonfiction but I highly recommend Albion's Seed; any further reading, fiction or otherwise, about America will benefit from your having read AS. Also not quite what you're asking for but you'd probably like Washington Irving if you haven't read him; his pastoral, nostalgic descriptions of New England and especially upstate New York are second to none.
Are you a New Englander, or attracted to the region for some other reason?

[Anonymous No.23637374]

>>23627084
A Tale of Two Cities

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/98

[Anonymous No.23637481]

James Clavell.

[Anonymous No.23637489]

>>23627084
An Imaginary Life by David Malouf

[Anonymous No.23637609]

>>23628582
Awesome covers.

[El gordo terremoto No.23637635]

Bomarzo is one of my favourite books. Mujica Lainez made good stuff:
El escarabajo
El laberinto
Misteriosa Buenos Aires
Aquí vivieron

[Anonymous No.23638327]

I'm writing a story set in Late Antiquity. Is there anything out there anons might recommend touching on it in case it might influence the story for the better.

[Anonymous No.23638883]

Empire of the Sun

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>>23628334
>Allan W. Eckert The Frontiersmen series
Great recommendation, a pretty undervalued writer.

[Anonymous No.23639322]

>>23638327
Gary Jennings, "Raptor" for Theodoric the Great (plus Odoacer and Zeno-Anastasius).
Also might consider Thomas Harlan's fantasy alt-history of Heraclius/Khusro II. Turtledove did a few of these too. As "Turtletaub" he did a fictional biography of Justinian II, most kino Byzantine Emperor.

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>>23637144
Thanks anon, I'll add these to the stack. Albion's Seed looks like an absolute doorstopper but it seems to be highly regarded which is promising
>Are you a New Englander, or attracted to the region for some other reason?
I guess my colonial New England interest gradually developed via
>salem witch trials
>witchcraft phenomenon across NE
>puritanism in early NE
>>puritanism + history in GB
>>>history of calvinism
>>>>cursory reading on protestant reformation
>>european witch hunts (england, scotland, continental EU)
>general colonial NE history
>>colonial NE environmental history via William Cronon
>>King Philip's War
>Native American histories
>>books by Native Americans + oral histories
>anthropological/ethnographical material on Native American tribes and cultures via George Catlin, Franz Boas, George Bird Grinnell

I'm Aussie so I'm not even American let alone a New Englander lol. US history is just endlessly fascinating to me, especially as an anthropology student currently in uni. I'm admittedly not too interested in military/war history hence why I limit my scope to the colonial era. But that might change in the future, who knows. I've just never really been a 'The Battle of x'/'The Taking of y' kind of history reader

[Anonymous No.23640717]

>>23631670
>>23627676
>alexander the great
>written by a woman

[Anonymous No.23640724]

>>23640717
To be fair Alexander the Great was a bit of a poofter

[Anonymous No.23641642]

>>23640724
Precisely. Women can't comprehend things that don't involve them; they think they have a kinship with gay men but the truth is they understand them even less than they do straight guys, who at least engage with their world and make concessions to it. Women and gay men live in different universes. Have you never noticed how even straight men create significantly more rich and believable gay characters than women do, and "gay" content made by women is only ever willingly engaged with by other women?
>pic unrelated

[Anonymous No.23642631]

>>23639322
Cheers anon.

[Anonymous No.23643722]

>>23627084

[Anonymous No.23643724]

>>23640724
There is one account of him having homosex and it‘s fucking a Persian eunuch later in his heavy drinking phase

[Anonymous No.23644235]

>>23638883
>Empire of the Sun
Sexual fanfiction about gay teenage homoromance, and having US soldiers try to sell you as meat.

[Anonymous No.23644601]

The Leopard by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. A truly beautiful book. The author lived a very /lit life as well, reading for most of his waking hours in a variety of languages.

[Anonymous No.23644880]

Good thread. Got all the recs. Thanks everybody.

[Anonymous No.23645294]

>>23644601
I've been meaning to read this; the film adaptation by Visconti is breathtaking.

[Anonymous No.23645314]

>>23645294
The book is on my to read list because I’m reading books as I go through the Delon film versions

>Swann in Love
>Leopard
>Talented Mr Ripley
>William Wilson

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>>23627676
One my all time faves
didnt know it was a trillogy, lol

[Anonymous No.23647128]

>>23627084
The Prince and the Pauper

[Anonymous No.23647243]

>>23627540
Can someone redpill me on I, Claudius. It looks like a book made for someone with my interested, but I rarely see it discussed.

[Anonymous No.23647353]

>>23631672
i was planning on it but then i saw a review that said it had lots of vulgar sex stuff in it so i promptly removed it from my to-read list.

[Anonymous No.23647822]

>>23647243
>>23647353
Robert Graves believes that women ought to ritualistically slaughter and eat hot 18 year old boys at the peak of their physique. The sex is merely a precursor for the ritual cannibalism.

[Anonymous No.23647823]

>>23647822
Also, uh, his source is literally "I made it up." And he is proud of that. Very very very.