Historical/ Historical Fiction Fans! What Books Do You Like TO Read?

Question

I love the Tudor time period. my two favorite writers are Phillipa Gregory and Allison Wier. Who else should I read? What are the best (fiction or non fiction) movies to watch? What are the best documentaries to watch? I love history!

Answer 1

Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen was really good, and she has a couple other around the same time period, 1500s England. Also, In Lucia's Eyes by Arthur Japin was a good one, and I just finished Labyrinth by Kate Mosse which I loved! The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova was really good too, a little more fiction than historical but a good read none the less.  

Answer 2

"pillars of the earth" & "world without end" by ken follet.

& there's the old classic 'forever amber."  quite a bodice ripper!

Answer 3

I LOVE to read Non- Fiction! the Twilight Series!

Answer 4

If you love the Tudor time period then it is essential that you read Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George. I love that book! It is basically The Other Boleyn Girl plus all of the other girls... all told from Henry's POV.  Phillipa Gregory is indeed awesome.

Read anything by Margaret George! I love her writing style.

Mary Called Magdalene

Helen of troy

Memoirs of Cleopatra....all good.

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet is my other most favorite book.

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova are both good too.

As far as documentaries go, I am slightly Egypt obsessed myself! I like the civilizations that are no longer in existence, I think they are the most interesting.  

Answer 5

I do too! Did you see it in the news that Anastasia and her brother were finally found, dead of course a few ways away from her family.

books- The little princess and the secret garden, dickens, austen

If you like the tudors, the other Belyen girl came out in theaters but i havent seen it yet, King arthur, pearl harbor, titanic

oliver twist, pirates of the caribbean

theres alot more but i cant think of them at the moment

sorz

Answer 6

I love The Three Musketeers and Queen Margot, both by Alexandre Dumas.

Best fiction movies, The Three Musketeers. The 1993 version, corny and hilarious. I love it.

As to the I LUV Twilight - Edward!!! girl, this is HISTORICAL FICTION. In case you didn't notice.