Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #271

  The Secret Garden

  by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  (14 Reviews)

  78 Points

  "When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen."

  

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  #277

  Germinal

  by Émile Zola

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "Dans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans étoiles, d’une obscurité et d’une épaisseur d’encre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes à Montsou, dix kilomètres de pavé coupant tout..."

  

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  #282

  Waiting for the Barbarians

  by J. M. Coetzee

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?"

  

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  #284

  The Abyss

  by Marguerite Yourcenar

  (1 Review)

  75 Points

  

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  #285

  The Way We Live Now

  by Anthony Trollope

  (2 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own..."

  

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  #286

  The Rifles

  by William Vollmann

  (1 Review)

  75 Points

  

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  #288

  Cranford

  by Elizabeth Gaskell

  (3 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses, above a certain rent, are women."

  

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  #289

  A Christmas Carol

  by Charles Dickens

  (10 Reviews)

  74 Points

  "Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it:..."

  

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  #293

  Sula

  by Toni Morrison

  (3 Reviews)

  73 Points

  "In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from the roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood."

  

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  #298

  Sea of Poppies

  by Amitav Ghosh

  (1 Review)

  72 Points

  "The vision of a tall-masted ship, at sail on the ocean, came to Deeti on an otherwise ordinary day, but she knew instantly that the apparition was a sign of destiny for she had never seen such a..."

  

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