All Quiet on the Western Front (it’s very graphic though)
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Try reading the Egyptian saga by Wilbur Smith. There are four or five books that he wrote before dying. Start with the first book “River God” if you like it try the rest of the series.
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The Terror
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Song of Achilles!
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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. It is a meticulously researched historical fiction novel, the premise of which is that time travel exists and historians use it to study the past first-hand. This particular story (one of several in the Oxford Time Travel series) takes place in the 1300s and is “a record of life in the middle ages” ‐- with a twist.
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Ok here’s my list, and by the nature of witches, some of these include magic/fantasy elements, but not all of them these are also only the actual historical settings, not full/high fantasy
Slewfoot by Brom
The Devils Glove by Lucretia Grindle
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory (plus her Plantagenet series has an entire plot line of magic/witches, beginning with The Lady of the River)
The Great Witch of Brittany by Louisa Morgan (and The Age of Witches)
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
The Witchfinder’s Sister by Beth Underdown
The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
Bitter greens by Kate Forsyth
The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston
And honorable mentions: Circe by Madeline Miller and The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec, both very fantasy rather than historical in setting, but both ancient world and a lot of focus on witches and the craft.
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*A Tale of Two Cities*, by Charles Dickens.
*Lonesome Dove*, by Larry McMurtry.
*True Grit*, by Charles Portis.
*The Three Musketeers* and *The Count of Monte Cristo*, by Alexandre Dumas.
*I, Claudius* and *Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina*, by Robert Graves.
*The Saxon Stories*, a/k/a *The Last Kingdom Series, The Warlord Chronicles,* and *Sharpe Series*, by Bernard Cornwell.
*The Aubrey/Maturin Series*, by Patrick O’Brian.
*Gates of Fire*, by Steven Pressfield.
*The Lymond Chronicles*, by Dorothy Dunnett.
*The Conqueror Series*, by Conn Iggulden.
*The Flashman Papers*, by George McDonald Fraser.
*The Persian Boy*, *The King Must Die*, and *The Bull from the Sea*, by Mary Renault.
*War and Peace*, by Leo Tolstoy.
*The Merlin Trilogy*, by Mary Stewart.
*Les Miserables* and *The Hunchback of Notre Dame*, by Victor Hugo.
*Musashi*, by Eiji Yoshikawa.
*The Iliad*, by Homer.
*The Horatio Hornblower Series*, by C.S. Forester.
*The Winds of War* and *War and Remembrance*, by Herman Wouk.
*Captain Blood*, *Scaramouche*, and *The Sea-Hawk*, by Rafael Sabatini.
*Hawaii*, *The Source*, and *Centennial*, by James Michener.
*Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Chris*t, by Lew Wallace.
*Maus Series*, by Art Spiegelman
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The Killer Angels
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The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore
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*The Last Witchfinder* by James Morrow
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It’s more fantasy, but a book series I picked up on a whim and enjoyed waaaay more than I expected to was Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne. It’s Norse inspired, but with an original Mythos. So it’s Fantasy rather than Historical Fiction, but eh. I really enjoyed it.
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What books have you read already?
All Quiet on the Western Front (it’s very graphic though)
Try reading the Egyptian saga by Wilbur Smith. There are four or five books that he wrote before dying. Start with the first book “River God” if you like it try the rest of the series.
The Terror
Song of Achilles!
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. It is a meticulously researched historical fiction novel, the premise of which is that time travel exists and historians use it to study the past first-hand. This particular story (one of several in the Oxford Time Travel series) takes place in the 1300s and is “a record of life in the middle ages” ‐- with a twist.
Ok here’s my list, and by the nature of witches, some of these include magic/fantasy elements, but not all of them these are also only the actual historical settings, not full/high fantasy
Slewfoot by Brom
The Devils Glove by Lucretia Grindle
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory (plus her Plantagenet series has an entire plot line of magic/witches, beginning with The Lady of the River)
The Great Witch of Brittany by Louisa Morgan (and The Age of Witches)
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
The Witchfinder’s Sister by Beth Underdown
The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
Bitter greens by Kate Forsyth
The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston
And honorable mentions: Circe by Madeline Miller and The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec, both very fantasy rather than historical in setting, but both ancient world and a lot of focus on witches and the craft.
*A Tale of Two Cities*, by Charles Dickens.
*Lonesome Dove*, by Larry McMurtry.
*True Grit*, by Charles Portis.
*The Three Musketeers* and *The Count of Monte Cristo*, by Alexandre Dumas.
*I, Claudius* and *Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina*, by Robert Graves.
*The Saxon Stories*, a/k/a *The Last Kingdom Series, The Warlord Chronicles,* and *Sharpe Series*, by Bernard Cornwell.
*The Aubrey/Maturin Series*, by Patrick O’Brian.
*Gates of Fire*, by Steven Pressfield.
*The Lymond Chronicles*, by Dorothy Dunnett.
*The Conqueror Series*, by Conn Iggulden.
*The Flashman Papers*, by George McDonald Fraser.
*The Persian Boy*, *The King Must Die*, and *The Bull from the Sea*, by Mary Renault.
*War and Peace*, by Leo Tolstoy.
*The Merlin Trilogy*, by Mary Stewart.
*Les Miserables* and *The Hunchback of Notre Dame*, by Victor Hugo.
*Musashi*, by Eiji Yoshikawa.
*The Iliad*, by Homer.
*The Horatio Hornblower Series*, by C.S. Forester.
*The Winds of War* and *War and Remembrance*, by Herman Wouk.
*Captain Blood*, *Scaramouche*, and *The Sea-Hawk*, by Rafael Sabatini.
*Hawaii*, *The Source*, and *Centennial*, by James Michener.
*Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Chris*t, by Lew Wallace.
*Maus Series*, by Art Spiegelman
The Killer Angels
The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore
*The Last Witchfinder* by James Morrow
It’s more fantasy, but a book series I picked up on a whim and enjoyed waaaay more than I expected to was Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne. It’s Norse inspired, but with an original Mythos. So it’s Fantasy rather than Historical Fiction, but eh. I really enjoyed it.
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