YESSS! Definitely an excellent book, but be sure to check her most recent too. I love Margaret Atwood.
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Seconding the recommendations for Code Name: Verity and the Outlander series (my fave!) in historical fiction. Also very good: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which is made up of fictional correspondence between characters in WWII England. I learned a bunch of history from that! Same for Dreams of…
Lol, no, just not to everyone's tastes ;)
Also the first sentence should have read 'condemned for murder', typing on the iPad is hard!
The Virgin Lover and The Red Queen and other silly titles are awaiting you with a palpating chest.
Then you will love The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon. Its a serie of seven books that start with The Iron King
So I read the entire thread to make sure my suggestions haven't been suggted yet, and there are so many books that sound so interesting. Whenever I go to the bookstore I don't know what to pick, so I will definitely bookmark this discussion. Thanks for starting it! My favorite of all times is probably The Lord of the…
Yes! With John Goodman and Bill Murray, I believe. Our book club chose it to read before it comes out.
I don't need much incentive to recommend books to anyone (after finishing a good book I have to resist the urge to hand a copy to friends and stand over them glaring at them until they have read every. Single. Page.) but the dancing flamingo certainly helped!
I've never even once considered whether flamingos might be cute or not, and now I am very decidedly on team flamingos are cute.
I'm absolutely loving that gif
Connie Willis does a lot of historical fiction. Some of it has a sort of sci-fi tinge (time travel), but the focus is on the history, and she does fantastic research. Black Out and All Clear are the latest ones I know of, about the London blitz.
Disclamer: full blown history nerd. That being said, my favourite is Humberto Eco, who writes amazing books. An oldie, but very good is The name of the rose. Also amazing are Steven Saylor and Anne Perry. For pure fun, go Elizabeth Peters. Her Amelia Peabody series is just scrumptious. I also heard good things about…
I hadn't read any of his books since Carrie or Christine back when I was in high school in the late 80's but I love time travel (and historical fiction) and it was a daily deal on Kindle before Christmas for $2.99 so I decided to give it a shot. So far, I'm glad I did.
Recently read and LOVED The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell. It's got love, adventure, random historical info, a fascinating multi-racial cast of characters and NINJAS.
I'm a quarter of the way through Stephen King 11/22/63. Our hero plans to time travel back to 1963 to kill Lee Harvey Oswald before he can kill Kennedy. So far, it has been way more about time travel and character development than politics, which I'm very pleased about, and it has been really good, the kind of book I…
Recently completed Hild by Nicola Griffith set in 7th century Britain. One of those fabulous historical novels that immerses you in an entirely different culture and era. Also, if you're an historical fiction fan looking for a long winter's read, try Kristen Lavransdatter, which was published as a trilogy back in the…
Awesome! This one focuses pretty much entirely on a female friendship, which I found very refreshing in any kind of fiction. It's also beautifully written, with a fascinating plot and heartbreaking characters. Highly recommended.
The crow was still pissed off about that Noah's ark thing.