Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #135

  Possession

  by A.S. Byatt

  (6 Reviews)

  142 Points

  "The book was thick and black and covered with dust."

  

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  #142

  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

  by Michael Chabon

  (6 Reviews)

  137 Points

  "In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back..."

  

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  #150

  Underworld

  by Don DeLillo

  (5 Reviews)

  132 Points

  "He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.Parla la tua lingua, l'americano, e c'è una luce nel suo sguardo che è una mezza speranza."

  

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  #154

  The Good Earth

  by Pearl S. Buck

  (7 Reviews)

  130 Points

  "It was Wang Lung's marriage day."

  

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  #156

  Ironweed

  by William J. Kennedy

  (1 Review)

  130 Points

  "Riding up the winding road of Saint Agnes Cemetery in the back of the rattling old truck, Francis Phelan became aware that the dead, even more than the living, settled down in neighborhoods."

  

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  #157

  Persuasion

  by Jane Austen

  (15 Reviews)

  129 Points

  "Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation..."

  

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  #159

  A Dance to the Music of Time

  by Anthony Powell

  (2 Reviews)

  127 Points

  "The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of a camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an abyss in the road led down to a network of..."

  

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  #161

  Kim

  by Rudyard Kipling

  (6 Reviews)

  125 Points

  "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum."

  

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  #164

  The Adventures of Augie March

  by Saul Bellow

  (1 Review)

  120 Points

  "I am an American, Chicago born–Chicago, that somber city–and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; and sometimes..."

  

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  #168

  Sophie's Choice

  by William Styron

  (1 Review)

  118 Points

  "In those days cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan, so I had to move to Brooklyn."

  

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