The 12 books on this stack
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Roma 1500
ESPablo Albaladejo 2024
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Charles Frazier 1997
Why it's on the stack
Tender and sad at once · it stays with you
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
The impact of the Civil War on lovers. Inman is not the man he used to be, as wounded in battle he slowly makes his way home to North Carolina.
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Paulette Jiles 2016
Why it's on the stack
Tender and sad at once · a long road where every step counts
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In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world.
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Chinua Achebe 1958
Why it's on the stack
A big story that sweeps you along
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The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable…
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Nicola Griffith 2013
Why it's on the stack
Fierce and defiant · it tells it straight
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'You are a prophet and seer with the brightest mind in an age.
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Umberto Eco 2003 2 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Nothing is quite what it seems · it stirs you up inside
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The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.
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Hilary Mantel 2009
Why it's on the stack
It messes with your head · nobody is entirely good
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It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue and, finally, most powerful of Henry VIII's courtiers, determined to bring England…
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Amitav Ghosh 2005
Why it's on the stack
A world to get lost in · strangers who become a family
Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts.
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Conn Iggulden 2007
Why it's on the stack
Found family
The brand new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Emperor, his series on Julius Caesar.
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Steven Pressfield 1998
Why it's on the stack
A big story that sweeps you along · it leaves you shaken
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
480 BC: At a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of King Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumoured to be over a million strong.
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Mary Renault 1972
Why it's on the stack
Tender and sad at once · a small, intimate story
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Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Macedon army conquered his homeland.
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David Lindsey 1992
Why it's on the stack
You need to know how it ends · one more chapter, then another
Roma, en el año 70 de nuestra era. Bajo el ardiente sol de agosto, Marco Didio Falco, investigador privado, se topa en el Foro con una joven en apuros, la bella Sosia Camilina.