Which books do you consider to be essential/must-read historical fiction?
ITT: Historical Fiction
Lincoln Williams
Matthew Gray
Augustus by John Willams
Leo Reyes
War and Peace
Noah Harris
Things Fall Apart
Cry, The Beloved Country
Parker Cox
Fight Club
Christopher Morris
I, Claudius is a good read.
Daniel Cook
What?
Bentley Rivera
Fight Club, the novel written by Chuck Palahniuk
Ryder White
Thrusting out one long arm from beneath his bridge, the troll pulls the traveler down.
Another helpless victim is devoured....
Benjamin Adams
A Tale of Two Cities
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Carson Walker
All the Matthew Shardlake stuff is great.
Christopher Bailey
All of Gore Vidal's American history novels are excellent. Very amusing. Start with Burr.
Jack Flores
LOL and I thought the Fight Club guy was trolling!
Landon Barnes
>my diary desu
Isaiah Allen
The Name of the Rose
Camden Sullivan
The Once and Future King
Memoirs of Hadrian
Joshua Williams
Ancient Evenings.
I, Claudius.
William T. Vollmann's novels and short stories (just pick one based on a period that interests you, I enjoyed his Japanese stories in "Ghost Stories and Other Stories.")
Lincoln Lopez
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Dylan Martin
Fatherland
Carter Edwards
Candide.
Of Fire and Sword.
Carson Clark
>Candide
And here I thought the Fight Club guy was trolling
Jose Long
The First Man in Rome
Josiah Davis
Mary Renault's Greek stuff
Memoirs of Hadrian
The Man Without Qualities
Joseph and His Brothers
The True History of the Kelly Gang