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Best Historical BooksBoyd Tonkin's Top 12 Historical Books



Walter Scott

Ivanhoe (1819)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace (1863–9)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Weir of Hermiston (1896)

Virginia Woolf

Orlando (1928)

Robert Graves

I, Claudius and Claudius the God (1934)

John Fowles

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)

E. L. Doctorow

Ragtime (1975)

Toni Morrison

Beloved (1987)

Pat Barker

Regeneration trilogy (1991–5)

George MacDonald Fraser

Black Ajax (1997)

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Literature Reference: American Literature, English Literature, Classics & Modern FictionAuthors on FictionHistorical: Boyd Tonkin