8 must-read historical fiction books like Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

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Captain Blood

By: Rafael Sabatini

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Short Description: Peter Blood, an Irish physician and soldier in England in the 1680's, is wrongly…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Talulla Rising (The Last Werewolf, #2) by Glen Duncan

1. Talulla Rising (The Last Werewolf, #2)

By: Glen Duncan

3.78

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When I change I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth and it goes throug… read more

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"Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement."

-Glen Duncan, Talulla Rising (The Last Werewolf, #2)

"He loved the feel and smell of her palm and because he was one of those men who was always ultimately looking to dissolve himself into a woman."

-Glen Duncan, Talulla Rising (The Last Werewolf, #2)

"It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket."

-Glen Duncan, Talulla Rising (The Last Werewolf, #2)

"Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy …"

-Glen Duncan, Talulla Rising (The Last Werewolf, #2)

Cover of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Richard Pevear, John      Lee

2. The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Format: 625 pages, Paperback

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"All for one and one for all."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

Cover of Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

3. Captain Blood

By: Rafael Sabatini

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Short Description: Peter Blood, an Irish physician and soldier in England in the 1680's, is wrongly… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • adventure
  • historical
  • pirates
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1) by Johnston McCulley

4. The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

By: Johnston McCulley

3.99

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Old California, in a bygone era of sprawling haciendas and haughty caballeros, suffers beneath the … read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Ha! A laggard at love-and in your pressence? What ails the man? Is he ill?"

-Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

"The persecution would cease instantly, for the commands of a Vega were made to be obeyed by all men of whatever rank."

-Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

"Zorro also is part of the bandido tradition, most closely associated with the possibly mythical Joaquin Murrieta and the historical Tiburcio Vasquez. As well as these local California legendary figur…"

-Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

Cover of The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1) by James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Tilton

5. The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

By: James Fenimore Cooper , Robert Tilton

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that set… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Mysterious Island (Extraordinary Voyages, #12) by Jules Verne, Caleb Carr, Jordan Stump

6. The Mysterious Island (Extraordinary Voyages, #12)

By: Jules Verne , Caleb Carr , Jordan Stump

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Five Union prisoners escape from the siege of Richmond in a balloon, are blown off course and crash… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • adventure

7. Montezuma's Daughter

By: H. Rider Haggard

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

8. Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection

By: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Of One Bloodis the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, N.C. Wyeth

9. Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From … read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • pirates
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Doctors is all swabs."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"We must go on, because we can't turn back."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

Cover of King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1) by H. Rider Haggard

10. King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

By: H. Rider Haggard

3.79

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publ… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"When one can only do one thing well, one likes to keep up one’s reputation in that thing."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

11. The Prisoner of Zenda

By: Anthony Hope

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from… read more

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12. The Pyrates

By: George MacDonald Fraser

3.80

Format: None pages,

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13. Das fliegende Klassenzimmer

By: Erich Kästner , Walter Trier

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Seit Jahren sind die Schuler des Internats Kirchberg und der benachbarten Realschule verfeindet. Be… read more

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14. The Italian Secretary

By: Caleb Carr

3.67

Format: 363 pages,

Mycroft Holmes's encoded message to his brother, Sherlock, is unsubtle enough even for Dr. Watson t… read more

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Cover of The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

15. The Black Arrow

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"He is one that goes to bed Lancaster and gets up York."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"... and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

16. Ivanhoe

By: Walter Scott

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more

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17. Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois (The Last Valois, #1)

By: Alexandre Dumas

3.85

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Released to coincide with the new Miramac film starring Isabelle Adjani, this is the classic novel … read more

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18. The Pathfinder (Leatherstocking Tales, #3)

By: Thomas Berger , James Fenimore Cooper , John Stauffer

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

The third novel in James Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, starring the heroic Natty Bumppo… read more

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19. The Son of Tarzan (Tarzan, #4)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , J. Allen St. John

3.96

Format: 464 pages,

Tarzan returns to jungle when Paulvitch lures Lord Greystoke's active son away from London. The gre… read more

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20. Two Captains

By: Veniamin Kaverin , Bernard Isaacs

3.80

Format: 240 pages,

Two Captains is the most renowned novel of the Russian writer Veniamin Kaverin. The plot spans from… read more

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