History novels (not too romancey)

Description
Historic fiction.
1
The Bearkeeper's Daughter
by Gillian Bradshaw
213 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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2
The Last of the Wine
by Mary Renault
1,672 members
25 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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3
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
19,550 members
312 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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4
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
8,724 members
416 reviews
4
2 Members
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5
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
9,191 members
167 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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6
Kristin Lavransdatter
by Sigrid Undset
3,030 members
75 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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7
Niccolò Rising
by Dorothy Dunnett
1,361 members
35 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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8
Helena
by Evelyn Waugh
727 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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9
The Dream of Scipio
by Iain Pears
2,206 members
54 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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10
A Month in the Country
by J. L. Carr
2,311 members
118 reviews
4.2
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11
Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
3,617 members
273 reviews
4
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12
The rider on the white horse
by Theodor Storm
938 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
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13
Shadows on the Rock
by Willa Cather
871 members
21 reviews
4
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14
The Grass Crown
by Colleen McCullough
1,969 members
33 reviews
4.2
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15
Complete Fursey: "Unfortunate Fursey" AND "Return of Fursey"
by Mervyn Wall
16 members
4
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16
My Father's Glory
by Marcel Pagnol
853 members
10 reviews
4
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17
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
by Tariq Ali
610 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
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18
Magnus
by George Mackay Brown
149 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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19
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
by Richard Zimler
847 members
29 reviews
½ 3.6
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20
The Wild Girl
by Kate Forsyth
269 members
20 reviews
4.1
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21
The White Seahorse
by Eleanor Fairburn
20 members
2 reviews
3.8
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22
Laurus
by Eugene Vodolazkin
566 members
18 reviews
4.1
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23
That Lady
by Kate O'Brien
268 members
6 reviews
3.8
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24
The Cypresses Believe in God
by José María Gironella
280 members
11 reviews
3.9
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25
The Vizard Mask
by Diana Norman
139 members
7 reviews
4.1
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26
Sunlight on a Broken Column
by Attia Hosain
198 members
6 reviews
3.8
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27
The Wild Geese
by Bridget Boland
68 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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28
The Pope's Rhinoceros
by Lawrence Norfolk
615 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
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29
Star of the Sea
by Joseph O'Connor
1,954 members
61 reviews
3.9
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30
Summer Will Show
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
492 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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31
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
6,575 members
150 reviews
4.1
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32
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
13,537 members
652 reviews
4
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33
Tulip Fever
by Deborah Moggach
1,183 members
44 reviews
½ 3.4
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34
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,920 members
244 reviews
4
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35
Sacred Hunger
by Barry Unsworth
1,571 members
36 reviews
4.1
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36
When Christ and His Saints Slept
by Sharon Kay Penman
2,079 members
62 reviews
4.2
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37
To Calais, In Ordinary Time
by James Meek
194 members
7 reviews
3.8
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