Book Reviews Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction

Chinua Achebe
	B	Things Fall Apart
Louisa May Alcott
	B	The Quiet Little Woman
Sherwood Anderson
	B	Winesburg, Ohio
Margaret Atwood
	C	Alias Grace
	A	The Blind Assassin
Jane Austen
	C	Northanger Abbey
	B	Persuasion
	A	Pride and Prejudice
	A	Sense and Sensibility
Julian Barnes
	A	Arthur & George
Geraldine Brooks
	B	People of the Book
Pearl S. Buck
	A	The Good Earth
Kate Chopin
	B	The Awakening
Susanna Clark
	F	Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Paulo Coelho
	B	The Alchemist
Pam Conrad
	B	Prairie Songs
James Fenimore Cooper
	B	The Deerslayer
	B	The Last of the Mohicans
Hannah Crafts (edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
	B	The Bondwoman's Narrative
Michael Crichton
	A	The Great Train Robbery
C.M. Curtis
	A	Return of the Outlaw
Janet Dailey
	A	Silver Wings, Santiago Blue
Robertson Davies
	B	Tempest-Tost
Anita Diamant
	B	The Red Tent
Charles Dickens
	A	Barnaby Rudge
	A+	A Christmas Carol and Other Haunting Tales
	A+	Oliver Twist
	A	A Tale of Two Cities
William Dietrich
	B	Napoleon's Pyramids
E.L. Doctorow
	A	Ragtime
Fyodor Dostoevsky
	F	Crime and Punishment
	C	The House of the Dead
Lloyd C. Douglas
	A	The Robe
Alexandre Dumas
	A+	Three Muskateers
Alexandre Dumas fils
	B	Camille
Jean Echenoz
	B	Lightning
Umberto Eco
	B	The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Clyde Edgerton
	C	The Bible Salesman
Kim Edwards
	B	The Memory Keeper's Daughter
George Eliot
	D	Middlemarch
	C	The Mill on the Floss
	A	Silas Marner
Laura Esquivel
	B	Swift As Desire
Jeffrey Eugenides
	A	Middlesex
	A	The Virgin Suicides
Jonathan Evison
	F	West of Here
Edna Ferber
	C	Giant
F. Scott Fitzgerald
	A	The Great Gatsby
Fannie Flagg
	F	Standing in the Rainbow
	A	Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
Gustave Flaubert
	B	Madame Bovary
Jamie Ford
	B	Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
E.M. Forster
	B	A Room With a View
Frederick Forsyth
	B	The Phantom of Manhattan
M.K. Fottrell
	A	The Color of Blood
Benedict and Nancy Freedman
	B	Mrs. Mike
Ernest J. Gaines
	A+	The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
	A+	A Lesson Before Dying
Richard Galli
	C	Of Rice and Men
Paul Gallico
	A	Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Elizabeth Gaskell
	A	Cranford
Robert Globerman
	A	Say Uncle
Glen David Gold
	B	Carter Beats the Devil
Marv Gold
	D	Story Teller
Arthur Golden
	A	Memoirs of a Geisha
Don Greco
	A	Abramo's Gift
Lauren Groff
	B	The Monsters of Templeton
Sara Gruen
	B	Water for Elephants
Margaret Peterson Haddix
	B	Just Ella
Thomas Hardy
	A	Far from the Madding Crowd
	B	Jude the Obscure
	A+	Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Joanne Harris
	C	Five Quarters of the Orange
	A	Gentlemen & Players
Robert Harris
	C	Imperium
Nathaniel Hawthorne
	C	House of the Seven Gables
	A	The Scarlet Letter
Robert Hellenga
	C	The Sixteen Pleasures
B.J. Hoff
	B	Heart of the Lonely Exile
	B	Land of a Thousand Dreams
	A	Song of the Silent Harp
	B	Sons of an Ancient Glory
Khaled Hosseini
	A+	The Kite Runner
Aldous Huxley
	B	Crome Yellow
Kazuo Ishiguro
	B	The Remains of the Day
Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
	B	The Recipe Club
Henry James
	A	Daisy Miller
	B	The Portrait of a Lady
Jo Janoski
	B	Tea and Chocolates
Raul E. Jiminez
	B	The Music of the Straits, Life as a Cuban Movie Writer
Franz Kafka
	B	The Castle
Susan Kay
	A	Phantom
Jack Kerouac
	B	On the Road
Franz L. Kessler
	A	Jamaica Blood
Sue Monk Kidd
	A+	The Secret Life of Bees
Barbara Kingsolver
	B	The Poisonwood Bible
John Knowles
	C	A Separate Peace
Lorna Landvik
	A	Oh My Stars
	A	Patty Jane's House of Curl
	C	The View from Mount Joy


Zachary Lazar
	C	Sway
Harper Lee
	A+	To Kill a Mockingbird
Elmore Leonard
	C	The Hot Kid
Jack London
	B	The Call of the Wild
Jack Woodville London
	A	Engaged in War
Gregory Maguire
	B	Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Heinrich Mann
	B	The Blue Angel
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
	B	Love in the Time of Cholera
Yann Martel
	B	Life of Pi
Henry Martin
	B	The Mad Days of Me: Escaping Barcelona
Cynthia Leal Massey
	A	The Caballeros of Ruby, Texas
Cormac McCarthy
	B	All the Pretty Horses
Carson McCullers
	B	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Colleen McCullough
	B	The Thorn Birds
Ian McEwan
	A	Atonement
Larry McMurtry
	B	Buffalo Girls
James Michener
	A	Hawaii
Marlys Millhiser
	A+	The Mirror
David Mitchell
	D	Cloud Atlas
Margaret Mitchell
	A+	Gone With the Wind
Nancy Mitford
	D	Highland Fling
Julia Lynn Moberg
	A	Skies Over Sweetwater
Chance Montana
	A	Me and Mr. C
Lucy Maud Montgomery
	C	Anne of Avonlea
	A+	Anne of Green Gables
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Michelle Moran
	B	Nefertiti
Bernice Morgan
	B	Random Passage aka Cape Random
Novalis
	C	Henry von Ofterdingen
Brendan O'Carroll
	B	The Mammy
Maggie O'Farrell
	B	The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Baroness Orczy
	A	The Scarlet Pimpernel
Julie Otsuka
	A	The Buddha in the Attic
	B	When the Emperor Was Divine
Marcel Pagnol
	B	Jean de Florette
	B	Manon of the Springs
Boris Pasternak
	C	Doctor Zhivago
Ann Patchett
	B	The Magician's Assistant
Bill Paul and Cindy Paul
	A	Shadow of an Indian Star
Sylvia Plath
	A	The Bell Jar
Gene Stratton Porter
	B	A Girl of the Limberlost
Anne Rice
	A	Interview with the Vampire
Henry Roth
	C	Call It Sleep
Diana Rubino
	A	It Was Like This
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Ayn Rand
	A	The Fountainhead
Salman Rushdie
	B	The Enchantress of Florence
Richard Russo
	B	Bridge of Sighs
Graham Salisbury
	B	Eyes of the Emperor
Vijaya Schartz
	A+	Ashes for the Elephant God
Bernhard Schlink
	B	The Reader
Sir Walter Scott
	B	Ivanhoe
	B	Rob Roy
Diane Setterfield
	A	The Thirteenth Tale
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
	A	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
William Shakespeare
	A+	King Lear
Nevil Shute
	B	A Town Like Alice
Lee Smith
	A	On Agate Hill
John Steinbeck
	A+	East of Eden
	A+	Of Mice and Men
	C	Tortilla Flat
Robert Louis Stevenson
	C	Kidnapped!
	B	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mary Stewart
	D	The Stormy Petrel
Kathryn Stockett
	A	The Help
Irving Stone
	A	The Greek Treasure
Jonathan Swift
	B	Gulliver's Travels
Janet Sue Terry
	A	Possibilities
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Elswyth Thane
	A+	Dawn's Early Light
	D	This Was Tomorrow
John Travolta
	C	Propeller One-Way Night Coach
Anthony Trollope
	A+	Barchester Towers
	A+	The Warden
Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens)
	A+	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
	A+	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
	B	The Prince and the Pauper
John Updike
	C	Rabbit, Run
Tarjei Vesaas
	B	The Ice Palace
Noel Virtue
	B	Always the Islands of Memory
Voltaire
	B	Candide
Alice Walker
	B	The Color Purple
Evelyn Waugh
	B	Brideshead Revisited
Roberta Webb
	B	The Dark and Bloody Ground
Rebecca Wells
	A+	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Edith Wharton
	B	The Age of Innocence
Connie Willis
	B	All Clear
	A	Black Out
P.G. Wodehouse
	A	My Man Jeeves
Virginia Wolfe
	C	The Years
Jason F. Wright
	B	The Wednesday Letters
Steve Yarbrough
	B	The Oxygen Man
Richard Yates
	B	Revolutionary Road
Lynn York
	B	The Piano Teacher
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
	B	The Shadow of the Wind
Markus Zusak
	B	The Book Thief
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