List your favorite Top 10 Historical Fiction Reads

Leyland · Post by **Leyland** » Thu January 1st, 2009, 1:19 am

[quote=""Misfit""]

I know what that's like. We still can't get the controller to tell us what the name of the class is in college where they taught a*** retentiveness. [/quote]
That would probably be Auditing, Misfit! Just a guess .....

lindymc · Post by **lindymc** » Thu January 1st, 2009, 11:52 am

My favorite ten of the past year:

A Place Beyond Courage, Elizabeth Chadwick
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer
Devil's Brood, Sharon Kay Penman
Saxon series, Bernard Cornwell
Grail Quest series, Bernard Cornwell
Heaven Tree trilogy, Edith Pargeter
City of Dreams/City of Glory, Beverly Swerling
Harold the King, Helen Hollick
Through a Glass Darkly, Karleen Koen
Roselynde Chronicles (books 1-3), Roberta Gellis

BTW a favorite historical romance that both my daughter and I really enjoyed was The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer. It was pure fun to read.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Thu January 1st, 2009, 2:36 pm

[quote=""Leyland""]That would probably be Auditing, Misfit! Just a guess .....[/quote]

I'll try naming that one and see what he says

Carine · Post by **Carine** » Thu January 1st, 2009, 5:58 pm

Nice work Red805 !!

Laura · Post by **Laura** » Mon January 5th, 2009, 2:34 pm

My favorites are the following:
1- The Welsh trilogy by Sharon kay Penman
2- Devil´s Brood
3- Katherine by Anya Seton
4- Forever Amber
5 - Harold the King
6 - Anna Karenina
7 - War and Peace
8 - The Light Bearer
9 - Legacy
10 - The Last Queen: A Novel of Juana La Loca

Margaret · Post by **Margaret** » Wed January 7th, 2009, 6:14 am

I liked a lot of the novels on your list, Laura, but just could not finish The Light Bearer. I enjoyed the scenes with the young Roman, but Auriane's scenes just seemed to go on and on and on a lot of the time. I got about halfway through before I wore out. I really wanted to like it, too, because I'm interested in early Germany.

Belili · Post by **Belili** » Wed January 7th, 2009, 11:24 am

My favorites, in no particular order:

Sunne in Splendor - Sharon Kay Penman
The Secrets of Jin-Shei - Alma Alexander
The Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier
Innocent Traitor - Alison Weir
The Secret River - Kate Grenville
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
Peony in Love - Lisa See
The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
The Bonesetter’s Daughter - Amy Tan

diamondlil · Post by **diamondlil** » Wed January 7th, 2009, 11:40 am

There's some good books on your list!

Welcome to the board.

Laura · Post by **Laura** » Wed January 7th, 2009, 12:11 pm

may I suggeste a nice link, made by blueemerald at Amazon? His link is:
http://www.1mpages.com/HistoricalFiction.html

leehow · Post by **leehow** » Wed January 7th, 2009, 1:34 pm

1 Shogun by James Clavell
2 Tai Pan by James Clavell
3 Gai Jin by James Clavell
4 Sharpe by Bernard Cornwell(whole series)
5 Alan Lewrie series by Dewey Lambdin
6 The Mucketeer series by Alexandre Dumas
7 Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
8 The Eagle series by Simon Scarrow
9 The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell
10The Emperor series by Conn Iggulden

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List your favorite Top 10 Historical Fiction Reads

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