BIG PAGE COUNT: 500 or more pages (mass market Paperback)
EPIC: Stand-alone books that are heroic; impressively great in scale or character; extending beyond the usual or ordinary in scope.
HISTORICAL FICTION: Historical fiction tells a story that is set at least 50 years in the past. The setting is usually real and story drawn from history. Actual historical persons are involved although may be fictionalized.

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message 1: by blueemerald (last edited Oct 16, 2014 07:56AM) (new)

blueemerald These all look like great reads, although they do not fit this List parameters for inclusion:
"One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus Summary & Study Guide", "On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family" - nonfiction
"Karate Stupid: A True Story of Survival"- nonfiction
"Tales of the South Pacific" - non-epic (384 pages collection short stories)
"Hermead (Volume 2)" - non-historical fiction ("poem in pentameter blank verse")
"Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West 1840-1900" non-fiction


message 2: by Misfit (new)

Misfit Knight of the Purple Ribbon at less than 300 pages is a stretch, but I think that's the author voting her book.


message 3: by blueemerald (last edited Sep 08, 2015 02:16PM) (new)

blueemerald Thanks for your interest in this list. Keepin' it focused, though. I removed several books from list not matching the list criteria of 500 pages or more (a few books removed as not historical fiction).


message 4: by Misfit (new)

Misfit blueemerald wrote: "Thanks for your interest in this list. Keepin' it focused, though. I removed several books from list not matching the list criteria of 500 pages or more (a few books removed as not historical fict..."

Hard to keep up on the lists once they go out of control.


message 5: by blueemerald (new)

blueemerald Thanks for your interest in this list. Keepin' it focused, though. I removed several books from list not matching the list criteria of 500 pages or more.


message 6: by Misfit (new)

Misfit blueemerald wrote: "Thanks for your interest in this list. Keepin' it focused, though. I removed several books from list not matching the list criteria of 500 pages or more."

:)


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Several of these books don't qualify as historical fiction, in my opinion. For me, historical fiction needs to be set at least 50 years before the author wrote it.


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