Retrospective of Historical Fiction
- Beschrijving
- Guiding my reading in historical fiction.
1
door Margaret Atwood
16,478 leden
384 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 01:13 PM
- 4 Members
- sturlington, peterveen, kara.shamy, dianeham
2
door Geraldine Brooks
8,717 leden
414 besprekingen
4
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2014-09-14, 03:13 PM
- 4 Members
- KimarieBee, sturlington, kara.shamy, dianeham
3
door Patrick Süskind
18,114 leden
448 besprekingen
3.9
Score 3
Toegevoegd 2014-09-14, 03:43 PM
- 3 Members
- KimarieBee, sturlington, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963: A weird tale, verging on if not actually horror, but certainly worth reading.
4
door Cormac McCarthy
11,569 leden
272 besprekingen
4.2
Score 3
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 12:38 PM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, peterveen, kara.shamy
5
door Michael Ondaatje
11,552 leden
174 besprekingen
3.9
Score 3
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 01:04 PM
- 3 Members
- KimarieBee, sturlington, peterveen
6
door Hilary Mantel
6,928 leden
345 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 3
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 11:44 AM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, peterveen, kara.shamy, dianeham,sturlington
7
door David Mitchell
5,909 leden
315 besprekingen
4.1
Score 3
Toegevoegd 2014-09-14, 03:42 PM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, peterveen, dianeham
8
door Wallace Stegner
5,460 leden
182 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 3
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 12:43 PM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, ahef1963, dianeham
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963: One of the best. Partially epistolary, so vivid in detail.
9
door Sarah Waters
5,084 leden
343 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 3
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 01:10 PM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, peterveen, kara.shamy
10
door Eleanor Catton
5,032 leden
248 besprekingen
3.8
Score 3
Toegevoegd 2014-09-16, 07:57 AM
- 4 Members
- KimarieBee, peterveen, kara.shamy, dianeham,sturlington
11
door Ellis Peters
3,937 leden
103 besprekingen
3.8
Score 3
Toegevoegd 2014-10-09, 10:25 AM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy
12
door Iain Pears
2,205 leden
54 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 3
Toegevoegd 2014-09-14, 11:44 AM
- 3 Members
- KimarieBee, sturlington, peterveen
13
- 3 Members
- sturlington, kara.shamy, dianeham
14
door Charles Dickens
36,632 leden
456 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2
Toegevoegd 2014-09-14, 03:41 PM
- 3 Members
- KimarieBee, peterveen, ahef1963,sturlington
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963: a) The first Dickens I ever read, and I was swept away by the story. b) Bring Kleenex.
15
door Arthur Golden
36,593 leden
562 besprekingen
4
Score 2
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 01:19 PM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, peterveen, ahef1963,dianeham
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963: Excellent.
16
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, peterveen, kara.shamy, dianeham,sturlington ,ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963 : Way too many characters to remember. I kept losing track of who was who.
17
door Madeline Miller
13,059 leden
508 besprekingen
4.2
Score 2
Toegevoegd 2018-05-22, 10:13 AM
- 2 Members
- sturlington, kara.shamy
18
- 3 Members
- peterveen, ahef1963, kara.shamy,sturlington
19
- 3 Members
- peterveen, ahef1963, dianeham,sturlington
20
door Josephine Tey
5,896 leden
226 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2
Toegevoegd 2014-09-12, 10:55 AM
- 3 Members
- peterveen, ahef1963, dianeham,sturlington
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963: I have heard it described as the best crime novel ever. It's really good.
21
door Patrick deWitt
4,269 leden
314 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2
Toegevoegd 2014-09-17, 02:28 PM
- 2 Members
- sturlington, dianeham
22
door Hilary Mantel
2,762 leden
105 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 2
Toegevoegd 2020-06-20, 12:31 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, kara.shamy
23
door Mary Renault
2,672 leden
55 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2
Toegevoegd 2014-09-14, 11:00 AM
- 2 Members
- sturlington, peterveen
24
door Elizabeth Kostova
21,440 leden
756 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1
Toegevoegd 2014-10-09, 10:36 AM
- 2 Members
- ahef1963, kara.shamy,sturlington
- Verklaringen
- sturlington : abandonedahef1963: If I had a top ten favourite books list, this one would be on it. History, vampires, mystery, beautiful settings; it's grand.
25
door Michael Cunningham
12,708 leden
232 besprekingen
3.9
Score 1
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 12:54 PM
- Member
- sturlington
26
- 2 Members
- peterveen, kara.shamy,sturlington
27
door Michel Faber
6,738 leden
197 besprekingen
3.9
Score 1
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 12:35 PM
- 2 Members
- peterveen, kara.shamy,sturlington
28
door Sarah Waters
4,392 leden
153 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 01:10 PM
- 2 Members
- peterveen, kara.shamy,sturlington
29
- 2 Members
- peterveen, ahef1963,sturlington
30
- Member
- sturlington
31
door Emma Donoghue
900 leden
46 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 1
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 12:27 PM
- Member
- sturlington
32
door Nathaniel Hawthorne
36,541 leden
373 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Score 0
Toegevoegd 2014-09-14, 03:15 PM
- Member
- ahef1963,sturlington
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963: A real favourite. As vibrant a tale today as it was when it was written.
33
- 2 Members
- peterveen, kara.shamy,sturlington ,ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- sturlington : Slavery, Americaahef1963 : I managed to finish it, but only with the help of an online source that steered me through what she was talking about. Unnecessarily dense.
34
door Tracy Chevalier
17,263 leden
319 besprekingen
3.8
Score 0
Toegevoegd 2014-09-14, 03:26 PM
- Member
- ahef1963,sturlington
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963: Lovely book.
35
- Member
- ahef1963,sturlington
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963: Another great book. Gives so much power to the women who populate the Old Testament.
36
door Sarah Waters
5,094 leden
147 besprekingen
4
Score 0
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 12:30 PM
- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
37
- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
38
door Sarah Waters
3,204 leden
199 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 0
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 12:56 PM
- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
39
door M. M. Kaye
2,389 leden
68 besprekingen
4.1
Score 0
Toegevoegd 2014-09-12, 11:31 AM
- Member
- ahef1963,sturlington
- Verklaringen
- sturlington : Sadly, it is not available at my library.ahef1963: I love this one so much that one of my children is named for a character in this book. It is chick flick meets historical fiction and it is a great story.
40
- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
41
- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
42
door Ford Madox Ford
362 leden
4 besprekingen
3.8
Score 0
Toegevoegd 2014-10-13, 11:47 AM
- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
43
- Member
- kara.shamy,sturlington
44
door Philippa Gregory
15,554 leden
379 besprekingen
3.9
Score -1
Toegevoegd 2014-09-14, 02:50 PM
45
door Margaret Atwood
5,873 leden
257 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score -1
Toegevoegd 2014-09-14, 10:58 AM
46
- Member
- peterveen,sturlington ,ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963 : Reading one of the books I can imagine, but it's pretty dry getting through all four.
47
door Jean M. Auel
12,752 leden
286 besprekingen
3.9
Score -2
Toegevoegd 2014-09-14, 09:44 AM
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963 : Honestly, it's great for light reading, but it's not well-written.
48
- Verklaringen
- ahef1963 : This is probably just me, but as I don't know port from starboard, I felt dreadfully lost in a book that is constantly needing the reader to know where the characters are on the ship!