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    I guess I'm looking for the literary equivalent of James Cameron's Titanic. The Titanic actually sank, but Jack and Rose were completely made up.

    What are the best books that do something similar?

    by arashtp

    9 Comments

    1. Germinal by Emile Zola- while the town and the miner’s strike is fictional, the author did a lot of research and heavily based his writing on what he actually saw in similar strikes. The names are fictional , the events aren’t kinda deal. 

      Mila 18 by Leon Uris

    2. ‘The Other End of the Telescope’ tells the story of a doctor working at a refugee camp. It was the best book I read last year.

    3. Butterball-24601 on

      Flashman Papers! Harry Flashman, fictional 18th century British soldier, goes on all sorts of wild adventures across the Empire with various real historical figures and events.

    4. whoiwasthismorning on

      The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

      A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe

      The Girls of Pearl Harbor by Soraya M. Lane

      War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

      Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

      Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys

      The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

      A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

      My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young

    5. Kristin Hannah does this well with her historical fiction. Migrant farmer labor movement during the dust bowl, nurses in Vietnam war, etc.

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