Historical
Best Historical BooksBoyd Tonkin's Top 12 Historical Books
Walter Scott
Ivanhoe (1819)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace (1863–9)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Weir of Hermiston (1896)
Virginia Woolf
Orlando (1928)
Robert Graves
I, Claudius and Claudius the God (1934)
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
E. L. Doctorow
Ragtime (1975)
Toni Morrison
Beloved (1987)
Pat Barker
Regeneration trilogy (1991–5)
George MacDonald Fraser
Black Ajax (1997)
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