17 must-read historical fiction books like All Our Broken Idols by Paul M.M. Cooper

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All Our Broken Idols

By: Paul M.M. Cooper

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

To the god of old thingsTo the gods of the riverbankTo the god of hunters Assyria, 7th century BC.…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in All Our Broken Idols by Paul M.M. Cooper , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1) by R. Scott Bakker

1. The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

By: R. Scott Bakker

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a world from whole cloth-its l… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester

2. Beat to Quarters

By: C.S. Forester

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty h… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Anil's Ghost

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found . With his first novel since the internationa… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara, Aleida Guevara March

4. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more

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5. The Gospel of Loki (Runemarks, #0.5)

By: Joanne Harris , Allan Corduner

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The first adult epic fantasy novel from multi-million copy bestselling author of Chocolat, Joanne H… read more

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6. An Instance of the Fingerpost

By: Iain Pears

5.00

Format: 224 pages,

An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and tu… read more

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7. Eve in Hollywood

By: Amor Towles

3.48

Format: None pages, ebook

Near the end of Amor Towles's bestselling novel Rules of Civility, the fiercely independent Evelyn … read more

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8. Ship of the Line

By: C.S. Forester

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in com… read more

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Cover of The Grief of Stones  (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2) by Katherine Addison

9. The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)

By: Katherine Addison

4.32

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by John Scalzi

10. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera

11. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

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  • historical
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

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12. Gun Island

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07DNDDFLD Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns De… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"That the world of today presents all the symptoms of demonic possession."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"... there was a land of sugar, where everything was sweet; and also a country made of cloth, and an island of chains."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"Sometimes, said Moyna, it seemed as though both land and water were turning against those who lived in the Sunderbans."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

Cover of Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1) by Dan Jones

13. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

By: Dan Jones

3.92

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"

-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

14. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Sparrow by James Hynes

15. Sparrow

By: James Hynes

4.00

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of an enslaved boy being raised in a Roman brothel, a stunning literary h… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9) by John Banville

16. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

By: John Banville

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2) by T. Kingfisher

17. Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.23

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a… read more

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  • fiction
"I somehow thought you had experience with stealth missions."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

"Saints teeth, everyone gets younger every year I think. Except me."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

"The larger part of power was understanding the power you had over others, even if you would rather not have had that much power in the first place."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

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18. Warlight

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.60

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A memoir is the lost inheritance."

-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

"we order our lives with barely held stories"

-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

"the lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out"

-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

"I was about to enter a borderless terrain between adolescence and adulthood"

-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

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19. Other Women

By: Emma Flint

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A husband. A wife. A lover. Each has a secret they’d kill to protect . . . From the author of Li… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Once Upon a River

By: Diane Setterfield

3.95

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes pla… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There must be more to stories than you think."

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

"A curtain was drawn back in every man's inner theater and their storytelling minds got to work."

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

"They think I am concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding."

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

"A child is not an empty vessel.... to be formed in whatever way the parent thinks fit. They are born with their own hearts and they cannot be made otherwise, no matter what love a man lavishes on the…"

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

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21. The Bucharest Dossier

By: William Maz

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Bill Hefflin is a man apart—apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love At the start … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. The Vanished Birds

By: Simon Jimenez

4.07

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in t… read more

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  • fiction
"She was amused by how much she enjoyed Dana's surprise kisses, and the impromptu hand-holding; displays of affection she had been averse to in other couples, finding it trite and ostentatious, as if …"

-Simon Jimenez, The Vanished Birds

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23. The Kingdoms

By: Natasha Pulley

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the futu… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"He'd been stitching a fragile cloak of half-imagined hopes, barely with the substance of thule but there all the same. It dissolved and left him with a nasty residue of shame."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, …"

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

Cover of Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1) by Conn Iggulden

24. Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)

By: Conn Iggulden

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

TYRANTS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE RAISED. ANCIENT ROME, AD 37 It begins with a man’s hand curled aro… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan

25. We Are All Birds of Uganda

By: Hafsa Zayyan

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

'You can't stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will...' 1960s UGANDA. Hasan… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Glorious Exploits by Ferdia  Lennon

26. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

Cover of The Damning Stone (Tales From Verania, #5) by T.J. Klune

27. The Damning Stone (Tales From Verania, #5)

By: T.J. Klune

4.42

Format: 521 pages, Kindle Edition

A year has passed since the Dark Wizard Myrin attempted to take control of the Kingdom of Verania. … read more

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28. Four Seasons in Japan

By: Nick Bradley

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation… read more

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  • fiction
"Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"You don’t have to, though,’ his friend said, with a tilt of his head. ‘You can do whatever you like, man. It’s your life. Don’t live it for other people."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"But the important thing is that you turn up, you get out your pen, and you draw one small thing, one line at a time. That’s how you achieve something big."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"I remember looking out into that dark night sky, and I remember feeling something I hadn’t in a long time – I want to live. Having found myself that close to death, I suddenly knew that I wasn’t read…"

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

Cover of Drift by Caryl Lewis

29. Drift

By: Caryl Lewis

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'A truly beautiful and haunting novel, and an incredible feat of storytelling' DONAL RYAN, author o… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of All Our Broken Idols by Paul M.M. Cooper

30. All Our Broken Idols

By: Paul M.M. Cooper

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

To the god of old thingsTo the gods of the riverbankTo the god of hunters Assyria, 7th century BC.… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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