Which books do you consider to be essential/must-read historical fiction?
ITT: Historical Fiction
Augustus by John Willams
War and Peace
Things Fall Apart
Cry, The Beloved Country
Fight Club
I, Claudius is a good read.
What?
Fight Club, the novel written by Chuck Palahniuk
Thrusting out one long arm from beneath his bridge, the troll pulls the traveler down.
Another helpless victim is devoured....
A Tale of Two Cities
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
All the Matthew Shardlake stuff is great.
All of Gore Vidal's American history novels are excellent. Very amusing. Start with Burr.
LOL and I thought the Fight Club guy was trolling!
>my diary desu
The Name of the Rose
The Once and Future King
Memoirs of Hadrian
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.")
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Fatherland
Candide.
Of Fire and Sword.
>Candide
And here I thought the Fight Club guy was trolling
The First Man in Rome
Mary Renault's Greek stuff
Memoirs of Hadrian
The Man Without Qualities
Joseph and His Brothers
The True History of the Kelly Gang