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Historical


 There’s something special about stepping into another time through a good book. Historical reads can introduce us to places, people, and stories from the past while giving us a glimpse of what life may have been like. Some are sweeping and unforgettable; others are quieter stories that stay with you long after the last page.

Famous Historical Books

Gone with the Wind — Margaret Mitchell
The Scarlet Pimpernel — Baroness Orczy
A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
Les Misérables — Victor Hugo
The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame — Victor Hugo
The Pillars of the Earth — Ken Follett
The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco
The Book Thief — Markus Zusak
All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
The Nightingale — Kristin Hannah
The Alice Network — Kate Quinn
The Red Tent — Anita Diamant
The Other Boleyn Girl — Philippa Gregory
Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel
The Miniaturist — Jessie Burton
The Tea Planter's Wife — Dinah Jefferies
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society — Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
The Paris Wife — Paula McLain
The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead
Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi
The Women — Kristin Hannah
A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini
Memoirs of a Geisha — Arthur Golden
The Physician — Noah Gordon
The Far Pavilions — M. M. Kaye
Forever Amber — Kathleen Winsor
The Thorn Birds — Colleen McCullough

Newer Reads

The Tea Planter's Wife
White Chrysanthemum
Burial Rites
The French Baker's War
The Other Mrs. Samson
The Silk Weaver's Wife
The Runaway Children
The Forgotten Family of Liverpool
Minik: The New York Eskimo
Top Gun
Alexander Hamilton- Graphic Novel
Ernest Hemingway Artifacts from a Life
Legacy of One Room Schools


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