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Baker's Dozen : Books Edition

Great Books of Historical Fiction

1. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
2. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
3. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
4. Le Morte D'Arthur - Sir Thomas Mallory
5. Flashman .. George MacDonald Fraser
6. Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean Auel (a bit of a twist, I know)
7. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
8. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
9. The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson
10. Hornblower and the Hotspur ... C.S. Forester

11. 1066 and All That - Yeatman and Sellar
12. Ivanhoe ... Sir Walter Scott
13. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco


Someone else take the next list, please.
 

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A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
 
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
 
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Old Testament
 
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Old Testament
4. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
 
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Old Testament
4. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Don Quixote
 

Doc4

Stumpy in cold weather
Staff member
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Old Testament
4. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Don Quixote
6. Finnegan's Wake ... James Joyce.
 
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Old Testament
4. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Don Quixote
6. Finnegan's Wake ... James Joyce.
7. Beowulf
 
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Old Testament
4. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Don Quixote
6. Finnegan's Wake ... James Joyce.
7. Beowulf
8. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
 
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Old Testament
4. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Don Quixote
6. Finnegan's Wake ... James Joyce.
7. Beowulf
8. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
9. The Mabinogion
 
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Old Testament
4. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Don Quixote
6. Finnegan's Wake ... James Joyce.
7. Beowulf
8. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
9. The Mabinogion
10. The Name of the Rose - Eco
 
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Old Testament
4. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Don Quixote
6. Finnegan's Wake ... James Joyce.
7. Beowulf
8. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
9. The Mabinogion
10. The Name of the Rose - Eco
11. The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
 
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Old Testament
4. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Don Quixote
6. Finnegan's Wake ... James Joyce.
7. Beowulf
8. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
9. The Mabinogion
10. The Name of the Rose - Eco
11. The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
12. Dante's Inferno - Dante
 
A Non-English-language book you wish you could read in the original tongue.

1. The Iliad ... Homer
2. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3. The Old Testament
4. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Don Quixote
6. Finnegan's Wake ... James Joyce.
7. Beowulf
8. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
9. The Mabinogion
10. The Name of the Rose - Eco
11. The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
12. Dante's Inferno - Dante
13. The Sagas of the Icelanders

Someone take the next one. Love MT
 
A book that you brought with you to read while traveling

1. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
2. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (outstanding book, by the way)
 
A book that you brought with you to read while traveling

1. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
2. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (outstanding book, by the way)
3. Not For Tourists - a guidebook and map for locals - www.notfortourists.com
 
A book that you brought with you to read while traveling

1. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
2. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (outstanding book, by the way)
3. Not For Tourists - a guidebook and map for locals - www.notfortourists.com
4. The Escape - David Baldacci
 
A book that you brought with you to read while traveling

1. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
2. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (outstanding book, by the way)
3. Not For Tourists - a guidebook and map for locals - www.notfortourists.com
4. The Escape - David Baldacci
5. Tenth of December - George Saunders
 
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