History fiction reading list

You are all short of time and are told that in order to do well you have to read around the subject. Have you ever thought that this could be done by reading historical fiction? Please see below a list of books that may help. ( created with help from my collegues in Linkedin  - Paola Andrea Ramirez Perez, Jan Foss,Helen Norris, Gill Kaye, Margaret Onen, Dan Nieman, Jeffrey Slott, LH 'Daisy' Johnson, Tim Zijlstra, Sue Austin, Stuart Raymond, Joan Mann, Rhonda Hankins, Lucile Deslignères, Katherine Howard, Sue Matthews, Michael Paoli, Aad Van Duijn, Emmet Keoghan,

Afganistan
Hosseni, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hosseni, Khaled The Kite Runner

America 1930's
Kingsolver, Barbara The Lucuna
McCarthy, Mary The Group

America 1945 - 1975

Bruchac, Ian  "code Talker"
Fleming, Ian  James Bond.....

Hansberry, Harper   A Raisin in the Sun

Heller, Joseph  Catch 22

Holen, Anne I am David

Kerouac,  Jack On the Road

Kesey,  Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kesey, Ken  Sometimes a great notion

Lee, Harper  To Kill a Mockingbird

Salinger, Joseph   Catcher in the Rye

Stockett, Kathryn The Help

Vonnegut, Kurt  Slaughterhouse Five

Asia
Amitav, Ghosh The Glass Palace
Amitav, Ghosh The Hungry Tide
Amitav, Ghosh Sea of Poppies

Cold War 1980's

Clancy, Tom Hunt for Red October

Deighton, Len Bernard Samson Series starts with Berlin Games

Hooker, Richard MASH A novel about three army doctors

Le Carre, John The spy who came in from the cold

Le Carre, John Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (There is a new film out)

Le Carre, John Smiley's People

Miller, Arthur The Crucible

Orwell, George Animal Farm

Vidal, Gore 1876

Colonialism
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart

Dictators

Orwell, George  1984

East Germany in the early 1970s

Dowswell, Paul  Sektion 20

India - British Rule
Dalrymple, William The Last Mughal
Dalrymple, William The White Mughal

Germany

Jung, Reinhardt  Dreaming in Black and White

Frank, Anne  Diary of a young girl

Great Depression

Sinclair,  Upton The Jungle (also covers early cold war, socialism in America, unionising, corporate corruption and greed etc...)

Steinbeck, John  Of Mice and Men

India 1950's
Vikram, Seth A Suitable Boy

India 1970's
Mistry, Rohinton A Fine Balance

Israel
Michener, James The Source

Nazi-occupied Holland 2nd World War

Peet, Mal  Tamar

Political Poetry

Akhmadulina,  Bella Over my street for many years

Akhmatova,  Anna Requiem (Written in Stalinst times, both her husband and son were in prison and her first husband was executed)

Pre World War II

Ishiguro, K The Remains of the Day

Russian History

Brien, Alan  Lenin – The Novel

Bulgakov, Mikhail  Heart of a Dog (Beware - the Bible has been rewritten)
Bulgakov, Mikhail The Master and Margarita 

Isaac, Bable  The Red Cavalry (author was there!)

Koestler, Arthur   Darkness at Noon
Montefiore, Simon Sachenka

Pasternak, Boris  Dr Shivargo 
Shamalov, Varlam  Kolyma Tales (make sure the stories are not too rough)

Solzhenistsyn, Aleksandr  Aug 1914

Solzhenistsyn, Aleksandr  One Day in the Life of Denisovan (Good short read)

Solzhenistsyn, Aleksandr   Gulag Archipelago ( I have been told that this may take time to read and is non-fiction)

South America 1950's
Guevara, Che Motorcycle Diaries 

Soviet Occupation

Holman, Felice  The Wild Children

Meyer, Carolyn  Anastasia, the last Grand Duchess

Sopetys, Ruta  Between Shades of Gray 

Whelan, Gloria  Angel on the Square

Spanish Civil War 
Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sansom, C.J. Winter in Madrid
  

World War I

Barker, Pat  Life class

Faulkner, Sebastian  Bird Song
Remarque, Erich Maria All quiet on the Western Front

Trumbo, Dalton  Jonny got his Gun

   

Other suggestions

Seton, Anya   - Historical romance

Rutherford, Edward  - writes about New York and Russia

Wolfe, Tom  The Electric Kool-Acid Test (Late beat and hippy movement)

Tolkien, Tom  The Lord of the Rings (Written by Tolkien after his experiances during WWI)

Michener, James  - Historical novels

Morpurgo, Michael

Boyd, William

Green, Graham
Voltaire Candide 
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