12 must-read historical fiction books like Rob Roy by Walter Scott

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Rob Roy

By: Walter Scott

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Scott's tour de forceof family intrigue has two heroes. Francis Osbaldistone, dispatched in disgrac…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Rob Roy by Walter Scott , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, Angeline Goreau

1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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2. The Mind of the Maker

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.18

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

This classic, with a new introduction by Madeleine L'Engle, is by turns an entrancing meditation on… read more

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"To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker

"The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker

"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker

"The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern write…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker

Cover of The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40 by William Manchester

3. The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40

By: William Manchester

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester's critically acclaimed trilogy,… read more

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4. Ormond

By: Maria Edgeworth

3.00

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

When Harry Ormond--an orphan--is involved in a near-fatal shooting, he is sent away to live with hi… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by Jonathan Lethem, G.K. Chesterton

5. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Format: 166 pages,

G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Ruth Rendell

6. Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

By: Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell

4.14

Format: 557 pages, Paperback

A recent cover reprint for this ISBN can be found here and an older one here. Son of a bankrupt … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the …"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am near…"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

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7. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • literature
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And life is all a variorum, at the best."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

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

8. 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
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Stevie Davies

9. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • historical fiction
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10. The Nun

By: Denis Diderot , Russell Goulbourne

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Rob Roy by Walter Scott

11. Rob Roy

By: Walter Scott

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Scott's tour de forceof family intrigue has two heroes. Francis Osbaldistone, dispatched in disgrac… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • literature
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin, Victor Sage

12. Melmoth the Wanderer

By: Charles Robert Maturin , Victor Sage

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a s… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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13. The White Company

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

"Now order the ranks, and fling wide the banners, for our souls are God's and our bodies the king's… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire #4) by Anthony Trollope

14. Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire #4)

By: Anthony Trollope

3.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Fourth in the Barsetshire Chronicles, FRAMLEY PARSONAGE was published in 1860. In it the values of … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8) by P.G. Wodehouse

15. Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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16. Letters to an American Lady

By: C.S. Lewis , Clyde S. Kilby

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

On October 26, 1950, C. S. Lewis wrote the first of more than a hundred letters he would send to a … read more

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  • classics
Cover of The Charterhouse of Parma by Robert Andrew Parker, Richard Howard, Stendhal, Arthur Schurig

17. The Charterhouse of Parma

By: Robert Andrew Parker , Richard Howard , Stendhal , Arthur Schurig

3.79

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about t… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Mutluluğu uzaklarda aramaya kalkmanın ne anlamı var, işte burada, elimin altında!"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Hay que confesar que había días en que la condesa no dirigía la palabra a nadie; era vista paseando bajo los altos castaños, hundida en sombríos ensueños; era demasiado inteligente para no sentir a v…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Men siden året 1635, da Milano-provinsen ble underlagt spanjolene, disse tause, mistenksomme, hovmodige herrer som alltid fryktet opprør, hadde livsgleden vært borte. Folk tok etter herskernes livsfo…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"El lejano sonido de la campana de un pueblecito escondido bajo los árboles conmueve nuestra imaginación. Estos sones que las aguas transportan dulcificándolos adquieren un tinte de dulce melancolía y…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

18. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

By: James Hogg , John Carey

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more

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19. And Quiet Flows the Don

By: Mikhail Sholokhov

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Tikhii Don, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epi… read more

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20. Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)

By: Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

The second of Trollope's "Palliser" novels introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented… read more

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21. Castle Rackrent

By: Maria Edgeworth

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, Castle Rackren… read more

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22. 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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  • classics
  • adventure
  • literature
  • 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

"Sir knight,’ observed the messenger, with bitterness, ‘while that ye are here, roaring for five hundred pounds, the realm of England is elsewhere being lost and won."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

23. Faro's Daughter

By: Georgette Heyer

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

THE HIGH STAKES OF LOVE Skilled in the art of card playing, Deborah Grantham, a gambler's daughter,… read more

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24. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon

By: Géza Gárdonyi , None

4.21

Format: None pages,

Geza Gardonyi set his Hungarian children's classic in the 16th century during the 150-year Ottoman … read more

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25. 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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26. Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances, #2)

By: Alexandre Dumas , David Coward , Auguste Maquet

4.34

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.' Twenty Years After(1845), the sequel to The Three … read more

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Cover of The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton

27. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

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28. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

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29. The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind

By: Jason M. Baxter

4.51

Format: None pages, Audio CD

C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an auth… read more

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  • literature
Cover of Charlotte Mason’s Great Recognition: A Scheme of Magnificent Unity (Charlotte Mason Centenary Series) by Deani Van Pelt

30. Charlotte Mason’s Great Recognition: A Scheme of Magnificent Unity (Charlotte Mason Centenary Series)

By: Deani Van Pelt

4.60

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Within these pages we delve into the detail and relevance of Charlotte Mason’s Great Recognition . … read more

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Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

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3.79

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James Fenimore Cooper , Robert Tilton

3.57

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3.52

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Horace Walpole

3.18

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Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

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J. Sheridan Le Fanu

4.00

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

4.02

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