Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

  • Ethan Frome

    #169

    Ethan Frome

    by Edith Wharton

    (7 Reviews)

    117 Points

    "I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. (Author's Introductory Note)The village lay under two feet of snow,..."

  • Buddenbrooks

    #170

    Buddenbrooks

    by Thomas Mann

    (3 Reviews)

    116 Points

  • The Killer Angels

    #172

    The Killer Angels

    by Michael Shaara

    (5 Reviews)

    115 Points

    "1. THE SPY He rode into the dark of the woods and dismounted."

  • Anne of Green Gables

    #173

    Anne of Green Gables

    by L. M. Montgomery

    (11 Reviews)

    115 Points

    "Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the..."

  • The bridge of San Luis Rey

    #175

    The bridge of San Luis Rey

    by Thornton Wilder

    (4 Reviews)

    114 Points

    "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below."

  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    #180

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    by Muriel Spark

    (5 Reviews)

    109 Points

    "The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes,..."

  • Far from the Madding Crowd

    #182

    Far from the Madding Crowd

    by Thomas Hardy

    (8 Reviews)

    107 Points

    "When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them,..."

  • Gilead

    #183

    Gilead

    by Marilynne Robinson

    (2 Reviews)

    107 Points

    "I told you last night that I might be gone sometime and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I'm old, and you said, I don't think you're..."

  • The Wings of the Dove

    #185

    The Wings of the Dove

    by Henry James

    (2 Reviews)

    107 Points

    "She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face postiively pale with the..."

  • The Red Badge of Courage

    #187

    The Red Badge of Courage

    by Stephen Crane

    (7 Reviews)

    104 Points

    "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."