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10 Best Historical Fiction Books of All Time

How strangely unnerving and comforting that, despite the chasm – in time, culture, context, and geography – that separates us from the past, the stories of people who have walked the earth before us are familiar to our own. What do we have in common with a young girl stealing books in Nazi Germany or a young woman married off to an Italian Grand Duke? Novels set in the past often feel like fantasy; a character's circumstances are so wildly different than our own, yet their reality – even if fictionalized – recounts hard truths about our history and lays bare our humanity. By Olivia Smith..
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Alias Grace (Atwood)
Alias Grace (Atwood)
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All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
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The Saints of Swallow Hill (Donna Everhart)
The Saints of Swallow Hill (Donna Everhart)
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Night Angels (Weina Dai Randel)
Night Angels (Weina Dai Randel)
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The Stranger in the Lifeboat (Mitch Albom)
The Stranger in the Lifeboat (Mitch Albom)
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief
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The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
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The Marriage Portrait (Maggie O'farrell)
The Marriage Portrait (Maggie O'farrell)
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
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The Personal Librarian (Marie Benedict)
The Personal Librarian (Marie Benedict)
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