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My historical fiction list The Name of the Rose is awesome. Eco just gets it all right here A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss is pretty kick ass The Alienist for early NY and a great Thriller Time and Again as well for NYC history I enjoy the Boris Akunin books if you want some russian historical flavor If you are into dense tomes, try The Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neil Stephenson. At 3000 pages all said and done, it is a task, but with Isaac Newton and the Royal Society as a subject matter, it does not dissapoint.

Cryptonomicon by the same author is an interesting quasi nerd book on the history of code-breaking. I just read an Interpretation of Murder, which focuses on the one visit that Sigmund Freud made to the US and what may have caused him never to come back, it was good, not great. Sources: my bookshelf .

No bridges blown by William B Dreux This is the "story of an OSS Jedburgh operative in France in WWII" and is "one of the few books ever written about the Jeds by a Jed Sources: My answer .

Patrick o'brian hands down. Not much historical fiction rises to the level of literature, but o'brian's 19 volume aubrey/maturin series does so consistently. Imho..

Graphic Novel "300" by Frank Miller It is just wildly entertaining. There will be a movie based on it coming out in March 2007. amazon.com/300-Frank-Miller/dp/1569714029" rel="nofollow">amazon.com/300-Frank-Miller/dp/1569714029 Sources: amazon.com/300-Frank-Miller/dp/1569714029" rel="nofollow">amazon.com/300-Frank-Miller/dp/1569714029 .

Not to mention a cast of colorful and controversial characters. It is firmly within this maelstrom that Pears (The Last Judgment, LJ 2/1/96) has set this massive historical whodunit. A fellow of New College, Oxford, is found dead of arsenic poisoning (from a fancy carafe of brandy), and a young woman of the evening is accused, sentenced, and hanged for his murder.

Case seemingly closed. But no, four very different versions of what really happened to the late Professor Grange related by four eyewitnesses to the crime weave a convoluted fabric of religious, scientific, and political intrigue. Basing his novel loosely upon an actual case from the period, Pears pits the key minds of the day?

Boyle, Locke, Wren, and others against one another as each takes a shot at gaining from the event. Strange bedfellows indeed. Followers of Brother Cadfael and the works of Anne Perry and Umberto Eco will revel in this smartly paced, rather tongue-in-cheek tour de force.

-? Susan Gene Clifford, Aerospace Corp. , El Segundo, Cal.

Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Inside Flap Copy We are in Oxford in the 1660s - a time, and place, of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances.

A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear about the events surrounding his death from four witnesses: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II, a mathematician, theologican and inveterate plotter; and Anthony Wood, the famous Oxford antiquary. Each witness tells their version of what happened.

Only one reveals the extraordinary truth. An Instance of the Fingerpost is a magnificent tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery story with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page. Mumbles's Recommendations Instance of the Fingerpost Amazon List Price: $7.99 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 310 reviews) An Instance at the Fingerpost Used from: $9.98 Instance of the Fingerpost An Instance at the Fingerpost Used from: $24.99 An Instance of the Fingerpost Used from: $8.81 .

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I'm looking for good booklists for fiction and historical fiction mostly.

Please name some of your favorite non fiction books.

What is your favorite Fiction book of all time. Why?

Can you help me find a book I don't know the title or author it is a fantasy historical fiction book.

Looking for title & author of book-fiction.

I need help finding a YA historical fiction book - I don't know the title nor the author.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.