Historical Fiction

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 8.4

Purple Hibiscus

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I picked up Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie because it’s part of my son’s school-assigned reading. He was having a little trouble with…

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam 7.4

A Passage North

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I’ve been wanting to explore more Sri Lankan literature, especially books dealing with the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict, after my experience with The Seven Moons of…

Shōgun 8.8

Shōgun

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Of late, I haven’t really read many chunksters. My sweet spot seems to be around 500 pages maximum. If I see anything longer, I…

8.9

Homegoing

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Homegoing was recommended to me some time last year when I was raving on Instagram stories about the History of Slavery podcast. Only, I…