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Book recommendations for less common time periods

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EAminy
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Book recommendations for less common time periods

Post by EAminy » Sun December 3rd, 2017, 3:16 pm

Hi!
I'm an avid historical fiction reader but I always have a hard time finding books about periods I've not already read abouth in a thousand different books and was wondering if some recommendations could be made for books that don't fall into any of the following categories.

Greco-Roman-Barbaric antiquity
Vikings
English-French middle ages (unless it's really f*cking good)
Mongols
Napoleonics
Victorian era Britain (unless it's really good)
World war 1 (unless it's really good)
World war 2 (unless it's in an unusual theater of war)
Cold war antics from a US/Soviet perspective
In general anything about the US (I don't care how good it is, I'm not interested)
In general anything about China (unless it's really good)

I am quite partial to European history but I am open to basically anything as long as it's pre-2000s.

Thanks you very much for any help!

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Susan
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Re: Book recommendations for less common time periods

Post by Susan » Sun December 3rd, 2017, 9:59 pm

Here's a resource you may find useful: http://www.historicalnovels.info/ - Over 5000 Historical Novels Listed by Time and Place Including more than 700 Reviews
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Margaret
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Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
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Re: Book recommendations for less common time periods

Post by Margaret » Wed May 23rd, 2018, 4:44 am

I loved The Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffrey Hantover, set in the late 16th century in what is now, I believe, Myanmar. A really different setting! And an absorbing love story that is not "romantic." (Reviewed here)
Browse over 5000 historical novel listings (probably well over 5000 by now, but I haven't re-counted lately) and over 700 reviews at www.HistoricalNovels.info

ellisael
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Interest in HF: I am interested in the stories of colonisation rn
Favourite HF book: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Preferred HF: Mughal Era
Location: New York

Re: Book recommendations for less common time periods

Post by ellisael » Thu October 8th, 2020, 8:07 am

Susan wrote:
Sun December 3rd, 2017, 9:59 pm
Here's a resource you may find useful: http://www.historicalnovels.info/ - Over 5000 Historical Novels Listed by Time and Place Including more than 700 Reviews
terrific resource- thank you!

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