A historical fiction period piece but from a time period not done too much and/or from a perspective/POV not heard too much and/or from apart of the world or culture often looked over.
For instance, if it’s wwII era, make it ANYTHING but European or American. Just for an interesting change. If it’s a courtly romance, maybe something Ottoman or something besides Tudor or Regency England. If it’s ancient/antiquity/mythology, anything but Roman, Greek, or Norse. If it’s Egyptian, I need to be from an every day average person or family, I’ve exhausted myself with the gods and the pharaohs.
I hope I’m making sense because my searches are confused as hell.
by Doomofday
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Maybe The Women by Kristen Hannah (American pov and Vietnam but with a female mc) or maybe The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. I hope you find something!
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Molokai by Alan Brennert
Honolulu by Alan Brennert
I really love Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein. It’s set during the early 1900s, in Ethiopia, and I’d never read anything with that setting. It’s a “YA-suitable” book, but I first read it when I was in my 30s and loved it. The author is great at writing unique characters with a very distinctive voice.
Another suggestion is The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds and its sequel, by Selina Siak Chin Yoke. It begins in the late 1800s in what’s now Malaysia, and follows the main character from childhood to old age. It has incredibly detailed and well-researched descriptions of the location, historical context and daily life.
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese is set in south India and is a sort of family epic that begins in 1900.
Aztec by Gary Jennings
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