Suggest absorbing fiction about mysterious England. [more inside]
posted by Doctor Suarez on Aug 2, 2009 - 54 answers

Your recommendations: Historical novels about scientists [more inside]
posted by Ziggy500 on Feb 23, 2009 - 29 answers

[Embarrassingly-revealing-name-that-book Filter] Does anyone remember this historical-fiction shonen-ai manga from the early 90's? [more inside]
posted by mustard seeds on Feb 22, 2009 - 4 answers

I'm looking for books and/or movies that have a supernatural/fantasy aspect and are set in the era between the World Wars. [more inside]
posted by honeydew on Feb 19, 2009 - 19 answers

I'd really like to find some good historical fiction about modern art movements, scenes, or artists. [more inside]
posted by One Second Before Awakening on Feb 13, 2009 - 7 answers

What are some good books of historical fiction that take a contrarian view of some well-known event/person? [more inside]
posted by peacheater on Aug 9, 2008 - 20 answers

Looking for decently written, page-turning historical fiction. [more inside]
posted by banjo_and_the_pork on Jun 15, 2008 - 66 answers

What is your favorite book or DVD series about Mexico? Particularly historical fiction or contemporary fiction. Preferably in English, but if you have a great recommendation in Spanish, I'd take that too! My grandmother thanks you! [more inside]
posted by barnone on Nov 27, 2007 - 8 answers

What good, recent novels depict the lives of actual, once-living people? [more inside]
posted by annabellee on Sep 14, 2007 - 29 answers

Help me recommend a historical novel to my mother. [more inside]
posted by thivaia on Jun 19, 2007 - 50 answers

How do I learn everything about a historical place and time? [more inside]
posted by Bookhouse on Apr 3, 2007 - 18 answers

BookRecFilter: One of my favorite authors has just knocked my socks off with his most recent book. I love what he did so much that I'd like to find other historical fiction like this. *Small spoiler for The Terror inside* [more inside]
posted by i_am_a_Jedi on Jan 10, 2007 - 14 answers

Recommendations for historical fiction about Paris? I'll be there for a couple of weeks, and have found that historical novels can really help me sink my teeth into a place. I have no particular era in mind, so the period is less important than the setting and the writing.
posted by walla on Dec 15, 2006 - 21 answers

Using historical children's fiction to support the teaching of history? [more inside]
posted by paduasoy on Aug 14, 2006 - 18 answers

Historical fiction children's book ID filter: scholars and bandits in 1930s China and bull-jumping children in Rome. [more inside]
posted by nonane on Jul 26, 2006 - 7 answers

I've read everything by Neal Stephenson (and other cyberpunk authors) and most recently finished the baroque cycle. I am looking for recommendations for interesting historical fiction that has that same sort of feel--convoluted, anachronistic, sprawling, adventuresome, but not too adolescent. I need to leave science fiction for a while and need some direction. Thank you!
posted by craniac on Feb 9, 2006 - 48 answers

What are your favourite historical fiction novels? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by Johnny Assay on Dec 11, 2004 - 46 answers

Historical Fiction. I want to branch of of reading almost only middle ages English history. Does anyone have a recommendation for a book about Japan surrounding the nuclear bombs during WW2? Or the Holocost. Or other good historical fiction of other varieties. (I like times of disaster/difficulty.) Heck, I'll even take recommendations for middle ages..but I've probably read it.
posted by aacheson on Oct 29, 2004 - 30 answers