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Chapter 1: Historical Fiction
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The Agony and the Ecstacy by Irving Stone
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Hawaii Hawaii by James Michenet
I, Claudiusby Robert Graves
Katherine by Anya Senton
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Lady in the Tower by Jean Plaidy
Shogun by James Clavell
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The Assyrian by Nicholas Guild
The Beacon of Alexandria by Gillian Bradshaw
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
Gates of fire by Steven Pressfield
The Gilded Chamber by Rebecca Kohn
Hippopotamus Marsh by Pauline Gedge
King and Goddess by Judith Tarr
Pompeii by Robert Harris
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
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The Innoncent by Posie Graeme-Evans
Jerusalem by Cecelia Holland
The Name of the Rose by Umbertco Ecco
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
A Vision in Light by Judith Merkle Riley
The Winter Mantle by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Year of Wonder By Geraldine Brooks
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The Alchemist's Daughter by Katherine McMahon
The Autobiography of Henry VIII, with Notes by His Fool Will Sommers by Margaret George
The Birth of Venus The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Circle of Pearls by Rosalind Laker
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Lady's Maid by Margaret Forester
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
The Penmarric by Susan Howatch
Sails on the Horizon by Jay Worrall
The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Mazwell
Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
Through the Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen
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Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Brookland by Emily Barton
City of Lights by Lauren Belfer
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Creek Mary's Blood by Dee Brown
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Enemy Women by Paulett Jiles
Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
North and South by John Jakes
People of the Wolf by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah by Nancy Turner
Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Spring Moon by Beete Bao Lord
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-Classics: too good to miss
-Ancient world: how now, brown mammoth
-Medieval Europe: Middle Age crisis
-Europe: royality rocks-peasants roll
-United States: red, white and new
-Asia: views from the East
-Middle East/Africa: desert dramas