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If you could travel back in time, where would you go, and when?
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At their best, these literary works are deft and authenticrigorously researched but effortlessly executed.
They introduce you to figures whose concerns feel immediate and true, their individual stories carving channels into history.
Allow yourself to be transported by 10 of the best historical fiction books of the last several decades.
Fugitive Piecesby Anne Michaels
Fugitive Pieces
Exquisitely rendered, Michaelss 2007 novel is told in two sections.
Smiths first work of historical fiction reevaluates the 19th-century novel and the social concerns of its time.
