Best Historical Books
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Historical books
Catch-22
Heart of Darkness
The Help
Gone With the Wind
The Crucible
Ulysses
Lonesome Dove
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Plot Against America
The Remains of the Day
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Bronze Bow
Quicksilver
The Killer Angels
Possession
Lincoln in the Bardo
Absalom, Absalom!
Bring Up the Bodies
The Twenty-one Balloons
Sophie's Choice
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
In Memoriam
Pink and Say
The evolution of Calpurnia Tate
A Tale of Two Cities
Emma
East of Eden
Les Misérables
Esperanza Rising
The Nightingale
The Jungle
War and Peace
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Around the World in Eighty Days
A Farewell to Arms
White Fang
Wide Sargasso Sea
Refugee
Memoirs of a Geisha
Shōgun
Little House on the Prairie
Wolf Hall
The Things They Carried
L'amica Geniale
Homegoing
Stone Butch Blues
The Last of the Mohicans
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
By The Great Horn Spoon
Fingersmith
The Underground Railroad
The Scarlet Pimpernel
I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
House of Sky and Breath
Liebeszauber
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Kidnapped
Life on the Mississippi
The Power and the Glory
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Mammoth Hunters
I Survived The Attacks of September 11, 2001
Between Shades of Gray
Ceremony
A Year Down Yonder
An Echo in the Darkness
Shirley
The Tin Drum
Caddie Woodlawn
Suite Française
The English Patient
A Fine Balance
City of Thieves
Meet Samantha
Before We Were Free
Obasan
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
A Column of Fire
The Woodlanders
Jahanara, Princess of Princesses
Between Two Fires
The Moon and Sixpence
As Sure as the Dawn
Tai-Pan (Asian Saga
Ben Hur
Regeneration
Year of Wonders
The Ambassadors
Grenade
Homeless Bird
Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Life After Life
Sharpe's Tiger
Under the Blood-red Sun
Gates of Fire
Meet Molly
The Sorrow of War
Twenty and Ten
Patty Reed's doll