18 books like The Last Days of Pompeii

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Le Temple des Millions d'Années Christian Jacq · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 379p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Roman historique. Shares: Civilization, Historical Fiction

The Queen's Man Sharon Kay Penman · 1996 · ★ 3.9 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The 12th Century sleuth, Justin de Quincy, investigates a murder which could shed light on a plot to usurp the crown of England. Prince John is scheming to unseat his brother, King Richard the Lionheart, who went missing as he was returning from a crusade. Shares: Civilization, Historical Fiction

Home as found James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · ★ 5.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Challenging "No society, dear!--Why you were at the Henderson's, and the Morgan's, and the Drewett's; three of the greatest _réunions_ that we have had in two winters!"' "I did not know that you meant those unpleasant crowds, by society". "Unpleasant crowds! Why, child, that is society, is it not?' "Not what I have been taught to consider such; I rather think it would be better to call it company". "And is… Shares: Historical Fiction

The Border Empire Ralph Compton · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Wes Stone was a lawman—until the Sandlin gang gunned down his legendary father. Now, he's giving up his badge for vengeance... Shares: Historical Fiction

Damiano's Lute R. A. Macavoy · 1984 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "I found Damiano's Lute very absorbing. The author's ability to bring to vivid life the general background of this period of history, and yet interweave it with the type of fantasy which was actually accepted in that day of positive faith is truly amazing. I really found this book to be more compelling than the first. The scenes of the Black Death—dreadful as they were—come through as if taken… Shares: Italy, Historical Fiction

Vittorio the Vampire Anne Rice · 1999 · ★ 3.8 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out… Shares: Italy, Historical Fiction

The Family Mario Puzo · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 418p · ≈ 13h · Moderate What is a family? Mario Puzo first answered that question, unforgettably, in his landmark bestseller The Godfather; with the creation of the Corleones he forever redefined the concept of blood loyalty. Now, thirty years later, Puzo enriches us further with his ultimate vision of the subject, in a masterpiece that crowns his remarkable career: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian… Shares: Italy, Historical Fiction

The English Patient Michael Ondaatje · 1992 · ★ 3.9 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of… Shares: Italy, Historical Fiction

Pan Michael An historical novel Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1893 · ★ 4.2 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving… Shares: Historical Fiction

St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald · 1876 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers… Shares: Historical Fiction

A Bitter Cut Anna Lee Huber · 2026 Lady Kiera Darby plans to spend the summer reconnecting with friends and family in anticipation of the betrothal of her beloved brother. But when a future in-law is implicated in a murder, the party takes a deadly turn. . . .July 1833. Lady Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, are settling into their newly renovated home at Bevington Park in Warkwickshire with their young daughter. With… Shares: Historical Fiction

Sous l'acacia d'Occident Christian Jacq · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In the final novel in the bestselling series, Christian Jacq writes of the Hittite king who wants Ramses to marry his daughter, while revolt is brewing among the revenge-driven Libyans. Shares: Civilization, Historical Fiction

Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster · 1920 · ★ 3.6 · 131p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott. Lilia falls passionately in love with the country, and also with a young Italian man. Her decision to remain in Italy enrages her dead husband's family, who send her brother-in-law to fetch her back. Shares: Italy, Historical Fiction

Le fils de la lumière Christian Jacq · 1824 · 409p · ≈ 13h · Challenging In het Egypte van 1200 voor Chr. wordt Ramses door zijn vader aangewezen als zijn opvolger; niet iedereen is het daar mee eens en twee troonpretendenten bereiden een greep naar de macht voor. Shares: Civilization, Historical Fiction

Storia della bambina perduta Elena Ferrante · 2000 · ★ 4.5 · 614p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Ostatni tom bestsellerowej serii, którą otwiera Genialna przyjaciółka. W skład tetralogii wchodzą również Historia nowego nazwiska oraz Historia ucieczki. Wszystkie powieści odniosły międzynarodowy sukces i zostały docenione także w środowisku pisarskim. Elenę i Lilę łączy niełatwa więź oparta na miłości, nienawiści, zazdrości, dominacji i podległości. Wspólnie wychowywały się na przedmieściach… Shares: Italy, Historical Fiction

The Portrait of a Lady Henry James · 1881 · ★ 3.8 · 634p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Young American Isabel Archer charms European society, but falls prey to the machinations of a calculating older woman. Shares: Italy, Historical Fiction

A Room with a View E. M. Forster · 1905 · ★ 3.9 · 196p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son… Shares: Italy, Historical Fiction

Annette, the Metis Spy Joseph Edmund Collins · 1886 · 132p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This is a adventure book. The sun was hanging low in the clear blue over the prairie, as two riders hurried their ponies along a blind trail toward a distant range of purple hills that lay like sleepy watchers along the banks of the Red River. The beasts must have ridden far, for their flanks were white with foam, and their riders were splashed with froth and mud, 'The day is nearly done, mon… Shares: Historical Fiction

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