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Escape to the Maroons
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4.85 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 241,485 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 408,259 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,148,183 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
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4.30 avg rating — 2,076,624 ratings
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See Through Love
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4.82 avg rating — 100 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 861,305 ratings
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 379,134 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 281,745 ratings
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Beloved
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3.99 avg rating — 516,708 ratings
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Cold Mountain
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3.89 avg rating — 252,841 ratings
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The Sunne in Splendour
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4.41 avg rating — 23,115 ratings
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August: We carry what we bury
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4.75 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
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4.31 avg rating — 108,203 ratings
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The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 185,348 ratings
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People of the Book
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4.04 avg rating — 160,476 ratings
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The Red Tent
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4.21 avg rating — 644,782 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.32 avg rating — 1,272,988 ratings
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Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 25,483 ratings
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The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 49,385 ratings
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Year of Wonders
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4.01 avg rating — 180,289 ratings
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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4.03 avg rating — 68,929 ratings
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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 221,717 ratings
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 75,644 ratings
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 63,897 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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4.09 avg rating — 99,922 ratings
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 249,182 ratings
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The Thorn Birds
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4.25 avg rating — 370,782 ratings
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 265,498 ratings
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Alias Grace
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4.04 avg rating — 162,378 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 755,780 ratings
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When Secrets Bloom (Blood of Kings, Heart of Shadows, #1)
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4.49 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5)
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4.37 avg rating — 23,866 ratings
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The Nightingale
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4.65 avg rating — 2,403,160 ratings
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Remarkable Creatures
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3.90 avg rating — 57,460 ratings
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Flow Down Like Silver
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4.01 avg rating — 4,508 ratings
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Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake, #6)
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4.44 avg rating — 20,536 ratings
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Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
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4.26 avg rating — 34,121 ratings
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The English Patient
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3.86 avg rating — 142,782 ratings
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
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3.94 avg rating — 27,877 ratings
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The Light Between Oceans
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4.05 avg rating — 492,207 ratings
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The Crimson Petal and the White
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3.89 avg rating — 45,728 ratings
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Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)
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4.37 avg rating — 28,542 ratings
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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3.94 avg rating — 799,507 ratings
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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4.31 avg rating — 711,202 ratings
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Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 41,410 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.12 avg rating — 542,514 ratings
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March
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3.82 avg rating — 81,808 ratings
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.88 avg rating — 263,552 ratings
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The Kitchen House
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4.24 avg rating — 313,471 ratings
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Dominion
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3.87 avg rating — 14,656 ratings
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Circe
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4.22 avg rating — 1,488,500 ratings
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The Sandcastle Girls
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3.89 avg rating — 43,495 ratings
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Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)
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4.30 avg rating — 34,136 ratings
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Jamaica Inn
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3.90 avg rating — 64,591 ratings
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The African Queen
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,494 ratings
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The Blind Assassin
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3.96 avg rating — 167,655 ratings
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The Secret Magdalene
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4.13 avg rating — 4,807 ratings
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When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 17,801 ratings
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The Quincunx
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4.02 avg rating — 8,231 ratings
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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 285,304 ratings
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The Birth of Venus
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3.82 avg rating — 100,802 ratings
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The Prague Cemetery
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3.51 avg rating — 31,107 ratings
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The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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4.20 avg rating — 21,862 ratings
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Captain Blood
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4.18 avg rating — 18,253 ratings
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The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
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4.26 avg rating — 29,148 ratings
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Winter in Madrid
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3.88 avg rating — 20,026 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,987,131 ratings
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Fingersmith
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4.02 avg rating — 124,419 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
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4.03 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Known World
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3.84 avg rating — 46,534 ratings
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Oscar and Lucinda
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3.73 avg rating — 22,106 ratings
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Black Robe
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3.79 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
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3.89 avg rating — 56,671 ratings
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The Heaven Tree Trilogy: The Heaven Tree / The Green Branch / The Scarlet Seed
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4.31 avg rating — 1,134 ratings
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Silence
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4.10 avg rating — 42,168 ratings
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Morality Play
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3.78 avg rating — 4,740 ratings
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To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
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4.10 avg rating — 45,853 ratings
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Angels and Insects
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3.64 avg rating — 6,226 ratings
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The Secret River
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3.81 avg rating — 26,139 ratings
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My Name Is Red
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3.87 avg rating — 63,495 ratings
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My Cousin Rachel
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4.01 avg rating — 74,715 ratings
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Lionheart (Plantagenets, #4; Richard the Lionheart #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 8,096 ratings
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Restoration
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3.97 avg rating — 7,180 ratings
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The Siege of Krishnapur
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3.93 avg rating — 8,907 ratings
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A Desert between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories
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4.51 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Frenchman's Creek
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3.99 avg rating — 25,958 ratings
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Eaters of the Dead
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3.72 avg rating — 48,257 ratings
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Possession: A Romance
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3.90 avg rating — 86,556 ratings
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Pompeii
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3.89 avg rating — 57,227 ratings
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The Remains of the Day
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4.14 avg rating — 388,511 ratings
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Raintree County
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3.99 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
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In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages
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4.10 avg rating — 2,813 ratings
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Hawaii
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4.22 avg rating — 82,683 ratings
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Mason & Dixon
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4.15 avg rating — 13,230 ratings
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The Eagle of the Ninth
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3.94 avg rating — 12,486 ratings
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Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 17,380 ratings
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The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 11,809 ratings
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To Serve Them All My Days
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4.33 avg rating — 3,268 ratings
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English Passengers
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4.07 avg rating — 7,754 ratings
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Thanks K, Fritch, this is one of the best lists of historical fiction books I've yet to see and so much fun to vote on :D
Memoirs of a Geisha is also listed twice! The second time at number 260. Please scroll down the list and vote.
