Popular European Historical Fiction Books

Find historical fiction books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (424)

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American Gods by Neil Gaiman EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Since it was first published, American Gods became an instant classic. Now discover the mystery and majesty of American Gods in this beautiful reissue of the Author's Preferred Text edition. Featuring a new preface by Neil Gaiman in honor of the novel's 20th anniversary, this commemorative volume is a true celebration of a modern masterpiece. Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the magic day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and... continue


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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy EN

Rating: 4 (32 votes)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
Presents the classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.

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Aquella noche la vi by Drago Jančar ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Slovenia flag Slovenia
Description:
Aquella noche la vi es la novena novela de Drago Jančar, y tiene su origen en la historia real de una aristocrática pareja de Liubliana, el matrimonio Hribar, y en la trágica suerte que corrieron en enero de 1944. La historia se centra en la joven Veronika, rubia excéntrica, educada, y cuya misteriosa desaparición agita los recuerdos de cinco personas directamente ligadas a su círculo íntimo. El amante, un oficial del ejército real yugoeslavo, que recuerda su naturaleza indomable y caprichosa; su madre anciana, que rememora los extraños s... continue

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Artemisia by Anna Banti EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio.

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At Night All Blood Is Black : A Novel by David Diop EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Selected by students across France to win the the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, David Diop’s English-language, historical fiction debut At Night All Blood is Black is a “powerful, hypnotic, and dark novel” (Livres Hebdo) of terror and transformation in the trenches of the First World War. Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a l... continue

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Atlas: the Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
The final novel in the Seven Sisters series is here. Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's saga to its stunning, unforgettable conclusion. 1928, Paris. A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn’t dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who he really is. As he grows into a young man, falling in love and taking classes at... continue



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Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before.