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Favourite Historical Novels

When one of my students is â€œstuckâ€ for something to write, I have them do a â€œtop tenâ€ listâ€”they pick the topic. The rules are, you select the ten items on your list, with a reason why itâ€™s loved.

For example, one of my students wrote a â€œtop ten favourite breakup songsâ€ list that was fabulousâ€”and included the poignant reasons why each of the songs had, in some way, been part of her own breakups.

Having said that, I wanted to take a crack at this with my ten favourite historical fiction novels. BUT, I refuse to rank them, because at the time, each of them were important to me.

So in no particular order:

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