Call me boring, but I really do not like authors with a very flowery, wordy, poetic style of writing. For instance, while I did like all the colors of the dark, Chris Whitaker is right at the very top of my tolerance for worthy or poetic writing. To simplify I don't really care for a lot of extra words. I'm a busy mom and generally I am listening to audiobooks while doing other things so I appreciate when a book is just easy to follow along. I just like character and story driven writing.
Some of the historical fiction books I have loved-
The Orphans Tale
The nature of fragile things
The four winds
Here are my top rated books in general so you can kind of get an idea of what I like.
1. Lonesome Dove
2. The Green Mile
3. The Prince of Tides
4. These Silent Woods
5. The Four Winds
6. The Great Alone
7. 11/22/63
8. Demon Copperhead
9. The Orphan’s Tale
10. On a Quiet Street
11. What Kind of Paradise
12. The River Is Waiting
13. Where the Crawdads Sing
14. The Most Fun We Ever Had
Thank you!
by Cbclcm
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Anything by Elmer Kelton. His Ranger series consists of 9 books and covers about fifty years, the 1830s to 1880s.
Stand Proud is a great book that covers a guy’s life from when he was a young man during the Civil War to him being a rancher around the turn of the century.
Kelton has books that take place from the early 1800s all the way to the 1980s when they were written. He was the son & grandson of working cowboys and he worked for years as a stock reporter for the San Angelo, Texas newspaper.
In case you can’t tell, he’s probably my favorite author of all time.
This tender land by William Kent Krueger
The Crimson Petal and The White
Fingersmith
True Grit
The Physician y Noah Gordon.