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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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avg rating 4.33 — 285,903 ratings — published 2007
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.33 — 357,059 ratings — published 2005
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.35 — 863,294 ratings — published 1989
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.34 — 703,882 ratings — published 2017
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.61 — 294,961 ratings — published 1985
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.17 — 380,075 ratings — published 1868
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,854,974 ratings — published 2024
The Armor of Light (Kingsbridge, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.22 — 65,903 ratings — published 2023
The Man Without Qualities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 7,679 ratings — published 1930
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.39 — 184,077 ratings — published 2012
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
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avg rating 4.39 — 141,285 ratings — published 2020
River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.23 — 45,202 ratings — published 1993
Lavinia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 19,182 ratings — published 2008
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,498,510 ratings — published 2018
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,320 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,207,662 ratings — published 2011
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,792 ratings — published 1969
The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
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avg rating 4.18 — 11,872 ratings — published 1972
Roma (Roma, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 9,049 ratings — published 2007
The Covenant (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 22,267 ratings — published 1980
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,093,017 ratings — published 1846
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 276,620 ratings — published 2004
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.14 — 25,048 ratings — published 1990
The Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,297,641 ratings — published -800
The Game of Kings (The Lymond Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,434 ratings — published 1961
The Summer Garden (The Bronze Horseman, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,370 ratings — published 2005
Battle for the Island Kingdom: England's Destiny 1000–1066 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.28 — 182 ratings — published 2023
Parzival (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 4,058 ratings — published 1215
The Confessions of Young Nero (Nero, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-epic)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,077 ratings — published 2017
The Exiled (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.86 — 76 ratings — published
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.06 — 64,031 ratings — published 2003
Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.30 — 272,616 ratings — published 1996
The Midnight Train (The Midnight World, #2)
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avg rating 3.95 — 95,269 ratings — published 2026
The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)
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avg rating 4.47 — 69,493 ratings — published 2022
Circle of Days (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 44,156 ratings — published 2025
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,575 ratings — published 2022
Pope Joan (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 75,832 ratings — published 1996
Immanuel's Veins (Audio CD)
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avg rating 3.78 — 6,789 ratings — published 2010
Warbreaker (ebook)
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avg rating 4.29 — 308,598 ratings — published 2009
Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire, #3)
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avg rating 4.22 — 59,087 ratings — published 2013
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 127,059 ratings — published 2011
Daughters of the Grail (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,369 ratings — published 1993
The Penguin Book of Dragons (Penguin Classics)
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avg rating 3.53 — 370 ratings — published 2021
The Last Legion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,487 ratings — published 2002
Dreaming the Eagle (Boudica, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,744 ratings — published 2003
Empire (Roma, #2)
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avg rating 4.06 — 2,879 ratings — published 2010
Katherine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 37,097 ratings — published 1954
The Mercies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 57,537 ratings — published 2020
The Pretender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-epic)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,571 ratings — published 2025
The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-epic)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,939 ratings — published 2018
