The selection criterion this week is to pick a genre and list your top ten selections based on that genre.
I have chosen the Historical Fiction genre. Since I've read more than a hundred novels in this genre from a variety of authors, I have listed ten of my favorites in no particular order. They all represent historical fiction by writers that I love to read.
Top Ten Tuesday is sponsored by Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl
Cloudsplitter: A Novel by Russell Banks
Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel
The Siege of Krishnapur
by J.G. Farrell
Night Soldiers: A Novel by Alan Furst
I, Claudius from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius
by Robert Graves
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
The Covenant by James A. Michener
An Instance of the Fingerpost
by Iain Pears
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
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I tried Wolf Hall but could not bear the writing. The Leopard was interesting reading.
Thanks for stopping by my TTT.
I keep hearing positive buzz on Wolf Hall and want to read it at some point.
@Lydia, Thank you.
@Stephen, The Leopard is one of my favorite books and certainly near the top of my historical novel reads.
@Michael, Thank you.
Hi James, you have some really fine historical novels listed and I have read a bit of James Michener and really enjoyed his writing and I love that he does big historical books where he immerses himself n the subject and so I will look into The Covenant. Also Russell Banks and Pat Barker are writers I have heard alot of good things about.
In terms of historical fiction I very much enjoyed Saints by Orson Scott Card set in thec 19th century it begins in the North of England where a poor family is trying to get by and then they learn about Mormonism and move to Utah to live. A combination Victorian novel and Western and it's excellent.
I love historical fiction, too, although your tastes look a lot more literary than mine. Ha ha. I haven't read any of these authors/books.
Happy TTT!
Hi Kathy,
Thanks for your Scott Card recommendation; I've only read some of his speculative fiction. Barker, Mantel, and Farrell all were Booker Prize winners and deservedly so; I would recommend Barker especially, as she captures issues surrounding British involvement in World War I in a very personal way. The Covenant is the only Michener I've read. The closest I ever got to any of his other works was Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific."
Hi Susan,
Thanks for your comment. Some of the books are not that heavyweight. Cloudsplitter is a good example, exciting historical fiction about the life of John Brown.
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