I have to read a historical fiction book and do a report on it does anybody know of one that is very good?

Has anybody read a historical fiction that was very interesting and kept them wanting to read Here are some choices my teacher gave and i need a few good ones, THANKS!



Historical Fiction

All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque World War I

The First Man in Rome Colleen McCullough Ancient Rome

The Ten Thousand Michael Curtis Ford Ancient Greece

The Things They Carried Tim O鈥橞rien Vietnam War

The Virtues of War Steven Pressfield Alexander the Great

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas post-revolutionary France

The Bonesetter鈥檚 Daughter Amy Tan China, early 20th c.

Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler USSR

Exodus Leon Uris Israel

The Haj Leon Uris Middle East conflict

Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel Mexico, 19th c.

Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden Japan, 20th c.

Nectar in a Seive Kamala Markandaya India, 20th c.

The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Africa, 20th c.

QB VII Leon Uris post-World War II

Mila 18 Leon Uris Nazi / Holocaust

Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth slave trade

The Samurai鈥檚 Garden Gail Tsukiyama China/Japan, WWII

Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama Japan, early 20th c.

Weep Not, Child Ngugi wa Thiong鈥檕 Kenya 鈥?Mau Mau War

To Swim Across the World: A Novel Frances Park Korea, 1940s

The Good Earth Pearl Buck China, 19th c.

The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone Michelangelo

Shogun James Clavell Japan

Don Quixote, La Mancha Miguel Cervantes chivalry/ Spain

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy pre-revolutionary Russia

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky pre-revolutionary Russia

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton South Africa, apartheid

Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler USSR/ 1920s

Dr. Zhivago Boris Pasternak Russian Revolution

Friedrich Hans Peter Richter Jews in Germany, 20th c.

Les Miserables Victor Hugo Paris, social system injustices

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert France, 19th c./ women鈥檚 roles

No Longer At Ease Chinua Achebe Nigeria, 1950s

So Far From the Bamboo Grove Yoko Kawashima Watkins Japan, Korea, WWII

The Red Tent Anita Diamant ancient Israel

The Walking Drum Louis L鈥橝mour 12th c. Europe, Asia

Year of Impossible Goodbyes Sook Nyui Choi Korea, WWII

A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry India

Almost a Revolution Tong shen China

Caravans James Michener Afghanistan

Clear Light of Day Anita Desai India

For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Spain

From the Land of Green Ghosts Pascal Koo Thwe Burma

Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier Renaissance Europe

Hiroshima John Hersey Japan

Little Drummer Girl John Le Carre Middle East

Longitude Dava Sobel Age of Exploration

Galileo鈥檚 Daughter Dava Sobel Scientific Revolution

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Alexander Solzhenitsyn USSR

Peony Pearl Buck China

Rumor of War Philip Caputo Vietnam War

Sacred Willow Dung van Mai Elliott Vietnam War

The White Nile Alan Moorehead Africa, 19th c.

Winds of War Herman Wouk World War II

Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett middle ages

World Without End Ken Follett middle ages

The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy the Cold War

Alias Grace Margaret Atwood 19th c. Canada/psychology

Eaters of the Dead Michael Crichton Vikings

The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Afghanistan/Taliban

A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Afghanistan/Taliban/women

Deadly Truth A. Heller, Z.Heller South Africa/apartheid

A Man of the People Chinua Achebe post-colonial Africa

No Longer At Ease Chinua Achebe Africa



I have to read a historical fiction book and do a report on it does anybody know of one that is very good?
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas post-revolutionary France

Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett middle ages-----my favorite book ever.

I haven't read World without end yet, I'm awaiting it in paperback.



A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry India - This one is good, but it wasn't at the same time...if that makes sense.
The Winds of War

War and Remembrance



Both by Herman Wouk and both about WWII. War and Remembrance is the sequel to The Winds of War. They are truly fine novels.I have to read a historical fiction book and do a report on it does anybody know of one that is very good?
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is very good! I don't like her other books as much but this book is great!
ask you teacher if the clay marble is okay to readI have to read a historical fiction book and do a report on it does anybody know of one that is very good?
my recommendations from your list



for whom the bell tolls- anything by hemmingway is good



like water for chocolate-never read it, but its a classic



eaters of the dead-loved all michael chritons books



the hunt for red october-Tom Clancys early work is really really good, this is a really good one, you should watch the movie too.