13 Top historical books like The Tenants of Time (The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy #2) by Thomas Flanagan

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The Tenants of Time (The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy #2)

By: Thomas Flanagan

4.11

Format: 849 pages, Paperback

Ireland, 1867: A time of unbridled courage and rage. Here Robert Delaney and his young friends j…

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1. Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.72

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"And she wondered then if she herself were the problem reading malice into motives when there was none intended"

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"It struck her that he might have told no one, not even his brothers, how he felt, and she thought how lonely that might have been for him."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

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2. The Bone Clocks

By: David Mitchell

3.84

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old li… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"The Future,"

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

"Books’ll be back,"

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

"Guys are all sperm-guns."

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

"Don’t mess with the fairies."

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

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3. Tula Station

By: David Toscana , Patricia J. Duncan

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A hurricane ravages the town of Tula, and the author's friend is declared missing. When his totaled… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2) by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, James Grieve

4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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5. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)

By: Hilary Mantel

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Brighton Rock

By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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7. The Time of Our Singing

By: Richard Powers

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Jonah, Joseph and Ruth are the children of mixed-race parents determined to protect them from the g… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Original 3 Volumes: Kransen ('20), Husfrue ('21) & Korset ('22). In Kristin Lavransdatter(1920-22),… read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel

9. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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10. Deliverance

By: James Dickey

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In t… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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11. Drood

By: Dan Simmons

3.50

Format: None pages,

Drood... is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his lif… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Spies of the Balkans (Night Soldiers, #11)

By: Alan Furst

3.54

Format: None pages,

Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece--the cit… read more

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  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Red Azalea: A Memoir

By: Anchee Min

3.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up… read more

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  • historical
"If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter."

-Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

"I led my schoolmates in collecting pennies. We wanted to donate the pennies to the starving children in America."

-Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

"Imi spuse ca era adevarat ca nici una dintre operele exemplare nu vorbea despre dragoste. I-am spus: Eu nu cred ca eroii nu au deloc iubiti in vietile lor. Nu cred ca o minte omeneasca ar putea raman…"

-Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

15. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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16. New York 2140

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

It is 2140. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained th… read more

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17. To Love and Be Wise (Inspector Alan Grant, #4)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a strikingly handsome young photographer mysteriously disappears, it's up to Inspector Alan Gr… read more

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18. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.39

Format: 759 pages, Paperback

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

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20. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • historical
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21. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • historical
  • war
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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22. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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23. Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

Cover of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

25. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • historical
Cover of We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole

26. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Cover of My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle

27. My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now

By: Peter Mayle

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new … read more

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28. On Animals

By: Susan Orlean

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestseller Th… read more

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"I know now that even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone."

-Susan Orlean, On Animals

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29. Dolphin Junction: Stories

By: Mick Herron

4.02

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Now, for the first time, Mick Herron’s short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Tenants of Time  (The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy #2) by Thomas Flanagan

30. The Tenants of Time (The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy #2)

By: Thomas Flanagan

4.11

Format: 849 pages, Paperback

Ireland, 1867: A time of unbridled courage and rage. Here Robert Delaney and his young friends j… read more

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  • irish literature

19 best-selling fiction books like The Tenants of Time (The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy #2) by Thomas Flanagan

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Colm Tóibín

3.72

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David Mitchell

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David Toscana , Patricia J. Duncan

3.79

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