Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #61

  Don Quixote

  by Miguel de Cervantes

  (9 Reviews)

  291 Points

  "Idle reader, you can believe without any oath of mine that I would wish this book, as the child of my brain, to be the most beautiful, the liveliest and the cleverest imaginable.Prologue: Idle..."

  

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  #64

  Brideshead Revisited

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (8 Reviews)

  269 Points

  "When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning."

  

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  #66

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  by Mark Twain

  (28 Reviews)

  263 Points

  "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The..."

  

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  #67

  Things Fall Apart

  by Chinua Achebe

  (11 Reviews)

  255 Points

  "Okonkwo was well-known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing..."

  

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  #73

  Absalom, Absalom!

  by William Faulkner

  (4 Reviews)

  246 Points

  "From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it..."

  

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  #78

  A Farewell to Arms

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (7 Reviews)

  230 Points

  "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."

  

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  #79

  Women in Love

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (5 Reviews)

  226 Points

  "Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was..."

  

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  #85

  Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady

  by Samuel Richardson

  (4 Reviews)

  215 Points

  "I am extremely concerned, my dearest friend, for the disturbances that have happened in your family."

  

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  #88

  The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

  by Daniel Defoe

  (10 Reviews)

  211 Points

  

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  #90

  All the King's Men

  by Robert Penn Warren

  (5 Reviews)

  207 Points

  "MASON CITY. To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, that day we went up it."

  

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