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The Rage of the Vulture
1.  The Rage of the Vulture by Barry Unsworth
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  "A book both of its place and time and yet universal in its central theme of a man haunted by his past.  Unsworth's best novel."
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This Thing of Darkness
2.  This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
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  "If you're at all interested in the way history selects its heroes or the battle between science and religion you must read this book. Absolutely wonderful and the death of Thompson is a terrible loss."
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The Crimson Petal and the White
3.  The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
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  "Yes, too clever by half.  Sex, second person perspective, present tense, all the failings of a modern take on victorian Britain but it IS utterly unputdownable."
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The Fiend In Human
4.  The Fiend In Human by John Maclachlan Gray
The list author says:
  "Less a mystery and more of Edmund Witty, journalist and man about town's prodigious drug intake and the peculiar details of Victorian London.  A one sitter."
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LA Confidential
5.  LA Confidential by James Ellroy
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  "The film is good, the book is majestic."
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Sacred Hunger
6.  Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
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  "not just about slavery and the middle passage but all forms of social bondage."
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English Passengers
7.  English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
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  "Wonderful read detailing the search for heaven in Australasia."
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Flash for Freedom! (The Flashman papers)
8.  Flash for Freedom! (The Flashman papers) by George MacDonald Fraser
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  "A riotous read."
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The Quincunx: The Inheritance of John Huffam
9.  The Quincunx: The Inheritance of John Huffam by Charles Palliser
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  "Long.  Very long.  Huge.  Repetitive at times.  Meticulously researched.  Wilkie Collins reinvented.  Bloody marvellous."
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The Alienist
10.  The Alienist by Caleb Carr
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  "Gripping historical mystery."
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Cloud Atlas
11.  Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The list author says:
  "Ok so not historical fiction in its purest form, future dystopias too but a phenominal read."
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The Lamplighter
12.  The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill
The list author says:
  "Intellectual mystery in Victorian Edinburgh.  I'm not going to say anymore."
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The Athenian Murders
13.  The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
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  "Murder in ancient Greece."
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics)
14.  The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
The list author says:
  "All the dated failings of post modern fiction but get past that and its centre is somewhere betwixt hardy and Eliot at their best."
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The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road
15.  The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
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  "One of the most incisive reads about the Great War."
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
16.  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The list author says:
  "Definitely not historical fiction yet...Murakami shows he can write realistically about the surrealism of war."
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World's End
17.  World's End by T.Coraghessan Boyle
The list author says:
  "The beginnings of New York, union busting in the thirties and the heady days of the sixties in Boyle's best work."
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Little Big Man (Panther)
18.  Little Big Man (Panther) by Thomas Berger
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  "How the West was won."
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The Playmaker
19.  The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally
The list author says:
  "Meticulous retelling of real event"
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The Lighthouse at the End of the World
20.  The Lighthouse at the End of the World by Stephen Marlowe
The list author says:
  "Part Poe biog, part bonkers meditation on art and life and god.  Wonderful and shockingly out of print."
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The Unburied
21.  The Unburied by Charles Palliser
The list author says:
  "The story is fairly thin but the atmosphere is as thick as a Victorian London pea souper."
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Vive La Revolution
22.  Vive La Revolution by Mark Steel
The list author says:
  "Non-fiction by comedic raconteur Steel.  Very funny and positive slant on the French Revolution, maligned by history makers as a bloody mistake."
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (Picador Books)
23.  The Bonfire of the Vanities (Picador Books) by Tom Wolfe
The list author says:
  "Ah c'mon, it's still history...of a sort.  The hyper-real eighties gave birth to the bloated corpse of the 21st century.  Happy New Century."
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Cryptonomicon
24.  Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The list author says:
  "I have to confess that I struggled with the wealth of detail here and the characters weren't perhaps alive enough but still a riveting read."
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The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics)
25.  The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
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  "All for one and all that jazz."
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