I’m looking for historical fiction or nonfiction books with such a rich atmosphere that you find yourself doing research on the setting and historical context afterward.
Some of my favorites have been The Jungle, The Grapes of Wrath, A Woman in Berlin, The Indifferent Stars Above, The Good Earth, Memoirs of a Geisha, First They Killed My Father, and In the Heart of the Sea.
What book have you read that had you going down Wikipedia rabbit holes afterwards? Or having a new perspective about how people lived in that time/place?
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Pachinko! I knew NOTHING about Korean/ Japanese history and it was beautiful.
Wolf Hall trilogy was amazing (the BBC adaptation has just finished)