Historical You have read of on this list. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos Fields of Fire by James Webb Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie Old Glory by Jonathan Raban The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco The Red and the Black by Stendhal The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
