Books like The Count of Monte Cristo
12 books with a reading profile close to The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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The Three Musketeers
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
D’Artagnan, a headstrong provincial nobleman, arrives in 17th-century Paris hoping to join the elite guard of King Louis XIII.
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Micah Clarke
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
In the late seventeenth century, young Micah Clarke leaves his father’s shop in Hampshire to join the Monmouth Rebellion against King James II.
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Gates of Fire
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
Steven Pressfield’s historical novel reconstructs the Battle of Thermopylae through the eyes of Xeones, a squire and the sole survivor of the Spartan defense.
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The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
During the American Civil War, five northern prisoners escape Richmond by hijacking a hot air balloon, only to crash onto a remote, uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific.
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Sir Nigel
Also clear-cut and escapist · history, narrative
Set during the opening decades of the Hundred Years' War, this historical novel follows Nigel Loring, an impoverished scion of a noble house.
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The Scottish Chiefs
by Jane Porter
Also clear-cut and escapist · history, narrative
Jane Porter’s historical novel recounts the life of William Wallace during the Scottish Wars of Independence against King Edward I of England.
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Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott
Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Set in twelfth-century England, the story follows Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a Saxon knight returning from the Crusades to a land fractured by ethnic tension.
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Small Sacrifices
by Ann Rule
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
Ann Rule chronicles the 1983 shooting of the three children of Diane Downs on a rural Oregon road.
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Hawaii
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
James Michener’s narrative begins with the volcanic formation of the islands before chronicling the successive waves of human arrivals.
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Paris
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
Edward Rutherfurd’s narrative follows several families—the aristocratic de Cygnes, the rebellious Le Sourds, and the Jewish Rochens—across centuries of French history.
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Child's History of England (Annotated and Illustrated)
by Charles Dickens, Toby Davidson
history, narrative
In this work, Charles Dickens provides a chronological narrative of English history spanning from the ancient Roman invasions under Julius Caesar to the seventeenth-century Glorious Revolution.
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