I have recently gotten back into reading, and have gotten a huge craving for more history books. Would love to know your recommendations for books about history where it's like a pervading force, not just focused to a single point in time. Cycles of empires, rulers or long gone civilizations in relation to the people alive now. Although more objective, overhead viewpoints or jumps between different eras would also be fantastic. 🙂
I am mostly after fiction (real or imagined history both work), though non-fiction would be lovely as well 🙂
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. It’s about four generations of a Korean family across the 20th century.
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez!
The Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu takes place over the course of several generations, and features technological, social, and political advancements of a civilization and those it interacts with, as well as those of older civilization an that collapsed eons ago.
North Woods by Daniel Mason-tells the story of land in New England and all the inhabitants over time. Super unique story with themes of nature, love, paranormal elements.