27 books
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18 voters
Historical Epic Books
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 845,130 ratings — published 1989
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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avg rating 4.33 — 280,476 ratings — published 2007
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.33 — 351,840 ratings — published 2005
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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avg rating 4.59 — 261,551 ratings — published 1985
War and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 372,224 ratings — published 1869
The Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.59 — 1,705,446 ratings — published 2024
The Armor of Light (Kingsbridge, #4)
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avg rating 4.22 — 62,565 ratings — published 2023
The Man Without Qualities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 7,531 ratings — published 1930
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
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avg rating 4.39 — 180,560 ratings — published 2012
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 853,817 ratings — published 1862
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
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avg rating 4.39 — 137,504 ratings — published 2020
River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 44,430 ratings — published 1993
Lavinia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 18,173 ratings — published 2008
Circe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,403,808 ratings — published 2018
Homegoing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 416,477 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,083,968 ratings — published 2011
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 10,489 ratings — published 1969
The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
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avg rating 4.18 — 11,438 ratings — published 1972
Roma (Roma, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 8,854 ratings — published 2007
The Covenant (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 22,099 ratings — published 1980
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,052,367 ratings — published 1846
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 272,000 ratings — published 2004
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 24,687 ratings — published 1990
The Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,221,904 ratings — published -700
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 4.04 — 7,103 ratings — published 2022
Pope Joan (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 75,225 ratings — published 1996
Immanuel's Veins (Audio CD)
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avg rating 3.78 — 6,701 ratings — published 2010
Warbreaker (ebook)
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avg rating 4.29 — 293,308 ratings — published 2009
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 657,924 ratings — published 2017
Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire, #3)
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avg rating 4.22 — 58,317 ratings — published 2013
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 125,122 ratings — published 2011
Daughters of the Grail (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,317 ratings — published 1993
The Penguin Book of Dragons (Penguin Classics)
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avg rating 3.53 — 346 ratings — published 2021
The Last Legion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 7,346 ratings — published 2002
Dreaming the Eagle (Boudica, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,607 ratings — published 2003
Empire (Roma, #2)
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avg rating 4.06 — 2,854 ratings — published 2010
Katherine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 36,401 ratings — published 1954
The Mercies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 54,805 ratings — published 2020
The Pretender (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,635 ratings — published 2025
The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 17,232 ratings — published 2018
Lady of Sherwood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 944 ratings — published 1999
The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 49,831 ratings — published 2021
HOMER: THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY - DELUXE HARDBOUND EDITION (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.17 — 7,538 ratings — published 2015
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.74 — 3,303 ratings — published 2024
Marcus Agrippa: Right-Hand Man of Caesar Augustus (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.86 — 299 ratings — published 2014
The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.42 — 62,229 ratings — published 1986
Empress of the Seven Hills (The Empress of Rome, #3)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,150 ratings — published 2012
The Grass Crown (Masters of Rome, #2)
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avg rating 4.33 — 13,411 ratings — published 1990
Vindolanda (Vindolanda, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,075 ratings — published 2017






