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Favourite Historical Fiction Reads 


Recent favourites

  • Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

  • Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

  • The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

  • The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman

  • The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

  • When the World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward

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Comfort re-reads loaded with friends

  • ​A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

  • The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim​​
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When in the mood for Jane

  • Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

  • The Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney Mysteries by Claudia Gray: The Murder of Mr. Wickam, The Late Mrs. Willoughby and The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh (and looking forward to #4)

  • The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James

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When in the mood for something slightly darker than Jane

  • ​Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

  • Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

  • Possession by A.S. Byatt

  • Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

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