Hopefully this isn’t too specific- Right now I’m reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and one thing I’m really enjoying about the book is how I’m learning more about the intricacies of the conflicts that have been going on there since the 70s in a way that’s extremely interesting and memorable.
Does anyone else have any recommendations of books that are fictional but take place during real life historically significant times?
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1632 by Eric Flint. A small American town is sent back through time and space to 17th century Germany, during the Thirty Years War.
Ken Follett is great at historical fiction. Dan Jones primarily writes excellent nonfiction about the Middle Ages, but now has two historical fiction books on the 100 Years War. The first is called Essex Dogs
Try Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy #1) by Naguib Mahfouz. I loved this novel, which is the first in Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy. It tells the story of an Egyptian family living in Cairo in the early 20th century. It was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, making Mahfouz the first Arab-language author to win the prize.
The Shogun saga by James Clavell
For whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway