mimi10v3The past rebuilt through labor, architecture, and family continuity. Cathedrals, settlements, courts, and migrations become long-duration systems that individual lives must inhabit and alter.
The recorded ratings average 8.3/10, with 0 perfect tens. Recurring authors include Ken Follett.
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The Pillars of the Earth
About the bookKen Follett’s sweeping historical novel follows the construction of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge during the twelfth century. Spanning decades of political upheaval,…
9/10Popular Fiction : Historical FictionWalking Up a Rainbow
About the bookSet in 1852, this adventure novel follows Susan Carlisle, a fourteen-year-old orphan in Iowa, who inherits a flock of two thousand sheep and a crushing debt. To save her home from a vil…
9/10Popular Fiction : Historical FictionWorld Without End
About the bookSet in 1327, two centuries after the events of *The Pillars of the Earth*, this sequel to Ken Follett’s Kingsbridge saga follows four children whose lives become inextricably linked to…
6/10Popular Fiction : Historical FictionThe Boleyn Inheritance
About the bookThis historical novel by Philippa Gregory shifts the focus of the Tudor court away from the famous Boleyn sisters to the women who survived them. The narrative follows three distinct wo…
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| Outlander | Diana Gabaldon | 1991 | — | Read | → |
| The Boleyn Inheritance | Philippa Gregory | 2006 | 6 | Read | → |
| The Help | Kathryn Stockett | 2009 | — | Read | → |
| The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | 1989 | 9 | Read | → |
| Walking Up a Rainbow | Theodore Taylor | 1994 | 9 | Read | → |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | 2006 | — | Read | → |
| Winter Garden | Kristin Hannah | 2010 | — | Unread | → |
| World Without End | Ken Follett | 2007 | 9 | Read | → |