Ken Follett 2007
- What it is
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A world to get lost in
- Genre
- Historical fiction Classics
- Feels
- Morally grey Epic Hopeful Dark Adventurous
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to Pillars of the Earth
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexander Dumas 1940
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James Clavell 1975
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck 1952
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Winter King
Bernard Cornwell 1995
A world to get lost in · love in the middle of danger
The Godfather
Mario Puzo 2004
A world to get lost in · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Die Drei Musketiere
Alexandre Dumas 1973
Love and laughs in equal parts · love in the middle of danger
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson 2010
Grouped with yours in Big books to disappear into for a month
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe 1800
It makes you think, without a lecture · surviving with everything scarce
News of the World ARE
Paulette Jiles 2016
Tender and sad at once · a long road where every step counts
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard 2000
A world to get lost in · in search of a lost world or a treasure
The revenant
Michael Punke 2002
Fierce and defiant · it tells it straight
A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin 1998
Readers put them together in Big books to disappear into for a month
The Black Company
Glen Cook 1984
You won't want to come back, but in fantasy
El reino imposible
Yeyo Balbás 2026
It grabs you with a mystery · you can't put it down
Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth 1990
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll keep turning it over for days
Ssea Of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh 2005
A world to get lost in · strangers who become a family
Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1 - 6
Frank Herbert 1965
A world to get lost in · full of big ideas
15 books · Alike in just one
Only adventurous
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen 2006
The same dark and adventurous, turned more sensual and atmospheric
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious 1900
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it tells it straight
I am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes 2013
It tells it straight, but in a thriller
Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews 2013
You end up rooting for the wrong people, but in a thriller
Wolf of the Plains
Conn Iggulden 2007
The same adventurous, also in historical fiction
Lincoln Lawyer
Michael Connelly 1895
Nobody is entirely good, but in crime fiction
True Grit
Charles Portis 1969
Sharp and very funny · outlaws and guns in the West
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden 2022
The truth comes out bit by bit, but in a thriller
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead 2021
As adventurous as yours, only more atmospheric and bittersweet
Serpent
Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos 1999
It grabs you with a mystery, but in a thriller
8 books · Alike in just one
Only epic
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell 1992
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Sarum
Edward Rutherfurd 1987
Readers put them together in Big books to disappear into for a month
Gates of fire
Steven Pressfield 1998
It leaves you shaken · a big story that sweeps you along
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee 2017
It makes you cry, in a good way · fierce and defiant
The Persian Boy
Mary Renault 1972
Tender and sad at once · a small, intimate story
The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
Jonas Jonasson 2012
Odd and endearing · sharp and very funny
A Time to Kill
John Grisham 1989
No clean hands here, but in a thriller
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Hilary Mantel 2009
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