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2695780 No.2695780 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/,
I've recently began reading books in my spare time, after previously having the attitude of 'lol books, laaaame'. How wrong I was! Anyways, I just got done reading A Tale of Two Cities and I'm about half way done with Doctor Zhivago. I'm really liking these types of historical fiction books. Can anyone suggest some books that pertain to this genre?

>> No.2695787

You might like Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman.

>> No.2695803

the egyptian - mika waltari

>> No.2695811

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric

>> No.2695823

Is War and Peace worth reading?

>> No.2695853

OP here.
>>2695811
>>2695803
>>2695787
all look amazing, thanks! Any more suggestions?

>> No.2696077

They aren't 'historical fiction' if they were written roughly around the same time period of the subject matter, you silly faggot. just call them classics.

>> No.2697034

>>2696077
A Tale of Two Cities was written like a hundred years after the French Revolution. The characters in the book are fictional. Ergo, it's historical fiction. Silly faggot.

>> No.2697046

Middlemarch by George Eliot
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

>> No.2697060

>>2697034
it really doesn't matter. when people use the term historical fiction they don't think of shit like this. they think of contemporary shit.