Favourite historical fiction

[RogueLDN]

Easy for me, Sharpe series by bernard cornwell, also patrick o brian's naval series (Master and commander) and Hornblower. Christ Englands army was good.

 

[squeekness]

The Persian Boy by Mary Renault. It's about Alexander the Great. It was awesome.

 

[Flame on!]

The Arthurian legend or Robin Hood.

 

[bored]

"Mutiny on the Bounty" by Nordhoff and Hall (tells the story from a fictional crew member's perspective), or "Hawaii" by James Michener.

 

[squeekness]

Ah, yes, Michener is awesome. I loved "The Source." Very good stuff.

 

[Ronny Shade]

"True History of the Kelley Gang" springs to mind

 

[C. Lee]

Ah, yes, Michener is awesome. I loved "The Source." Very good stuff.

His "Centennial" was excellent too.

 

[squeekness]

His "Centennial" was excellent too.

Haven't read that one, but I've been meaning to. The Covanant was good as well, it was about South Africa and apartied.

 

[bored]

I have copies of all of those Michener books, though I haven't read them yet. Sadly, that goes for a lot of his catalogue. How did one person write so many massive novels in one lifetime?

 

[ShadowBoxing]

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[C. Lee]

The novels of Wilbur Smith are good too....a couple are "Dark of the Sun" (about mercenaries in Africa) and "Shout at the Devil" (about WWI in Africa).

 

[U.S War Machine]

The Alamo

 

[squeekness]

Shogun by James Clavell. That's another classic. He wrote a ton of books about Japan and Hong Kong.

 

[Hudson]

Easy for me, Sharpe series by bernard cornwell, also patrick o brian's naval series (Master and commander) and Hornblower. Christ Englands army was good.

I like his Arthur Series

 

[Danyisqueen]

It has to be Mary Stewart's books on the Arthurian legend. The way she fleshed out the characters, and modernised the legend really appealed to me. I also loved her book The Wicked Day, which did a really interesting story on Mordred.

I also loved The Once and Future King, my mum gave me her original book of it, and I always treasured it, I still have it somewhere. t:

 

[Lighthouse]

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[moviedoors]

The Terror by Dan Simmons. That book made my soul shiver.

 

[squeekness]

The entire John Jake's Kent family saga is another good one.

 

[tzarinna]

Kindred by Octavia Butler.

 

[squeekness]

The Alienist by Caleb Carr. They've done wonderful things with the tv series so far.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Top of my list has got to be Neal Stephenson's CRYPTONOMICON. The narrative goes back and forth between a modern setting and WWII, touching on a search for lost treasure from Imperial Japan, Alan Turing, code breaking, modern Libertarian philosophy, religion, mythology, Internet culture and more that's probably just not coming to me right now.

 

[Sundancer]

"Adventures of Kavalier and Clay." Won the Pulitzer and has Stan Lee in it.