James Clavell 1975
- What it is
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A world to get lost in · a big story that sweeps you along
- Genre
- Historical fiction Classics
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.
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Sarum
Edward Rutherfurd 1987
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Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett 2007
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Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell 1992
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexander Dumas 1940
A reader shelved it with yours in Big books to disappear into for a month
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson 2010
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Winter King
Bernard Cornwell 1995
Love in the middle of danger · an adventure with a love story in it
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard 2000
A world to get lost in · in search of a lost world or a treasure
Ssea Of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh 2005
A world to get lost in · strangers who become a family
Die Drei Musketiere
Alexandre Dumas 1973
Love and laughs in equal parts · love in the middle of danger
The revenant
Michael Punke 2002
Fierce and defiant · it tells it straight
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
El reino imposible
Yeyo Balbás 2026
It grabs you with a mystery · you can't put it down
Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1 - 6
Frank Herbert 1965
A world to get lost in · full of big ideas
The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 2008
A world to get lost in · love in the middle of danger
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien 1972
Just as epic and adventurous, but more wondrous and melancholic
Ilium
Dan Simmons 2006
Full of big ideas · a myth or a classic told anew
15 books · Alike in just one
Only adventurous
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen 2006
The same atmospheric and bittersweet, turned more sensual and dark
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead 2021
As atmospheric and bittersweet as yours, only more mysterious and reflective
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid 2021
Comforting, like coming home · love hurts sometimes
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017
Love hurts sometimes · it makes you cry, in a good way
Nautical Chart
Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2000
It messes with your head · it changes how you see things
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson 1997
It stays with you · you end up rooting for the wrong people
I am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes 2013
It tells it straight, but in a thriller
The Paris Bookseller
Kerri Maher 2022
Love hurts sometimes · it leaves you with a warm feeling
Wolf of the Plains
Conn Iggulden 2007
The same adventurous, also in historical fiction
Cold mountain
Charles Frazier 1997
It stays with you · tender and sad at once
Thunderhead
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child 1999
A mystery you want to solve, but in a thriller
Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón 2006
It leaves you thinking · tender and sad at once
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel 2014
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7 books · Alike in just one
Only epic
East of Eden
John Steinbeck 1952
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Gates of fire
Steven Pressfield 1998
A big story that sweeps you along · it leaves you shaken
The Persian Boy
Mary Renault 1972
Tender and sad at once · a small, intimate story
The Godfather
Mario Puzo 2004
A big story that sweeps you along · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe 1958
A big story that sweeps you along · melancholic and unhurried
The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
Jonas Jonasson 2012
Odd and endearing · sharp and very funny
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Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan 2013
A love story that makes you laugh, but in literary fiction
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel 2009
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The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks 2002
Comforting, like coming home · a love story that hurts
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