i want some recommendations on historical novels, /lit/

the wife of martin guerre by janet lewis

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>>9311705
Augustus by John Williams

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>>9311705
I really like Gore Vidal's. Going by your picture I say start with Julian

But I also loved Memoir's of Hadrian. Absolute classic

Robert Graves' Claudius books
Mark Twain's Joan of Arc

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Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz is worth checking out

>>9312313
Awful film.

Would you know if Lew Wallace's Ben Hur is any good?

The Long Ships by Bengtsson

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>>9312320

I haven't seen the film, but Quo Vadis in book form is interesting, especially if you're interested in Christianity.

I haven't seen or read anything about Bun Hur in my life, actually.

>>9311705
I realize it is being memed a bit as of late, but Zola's Germinal was wonderful

>>9311705
>which ones are good
Good at what?

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>>9311705
I, Claudius is my favorite (about the Augustean era of ancient Rome)
War and Peace (About Napoleonic wars in Russia)
Darkness at Noon (about the Stalinist purges after WWI)

Yea those are my favorite three

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