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Recommended by 3 notable people, including Sophie Bakalar and Anya Taylor-Joy
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Adult, Historical Fiction, and Fantasy.
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Ed Yong
“Three glorious books I read last month. Would highly recommend all of them. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin”
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Consider The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Recommended by 5 sources.
“This sprawling, detail-rich historical novel follows cathedral builders, nobles, and townspeople across decades, delivering immersive scene-setting and a steady accumulation of plotlines. Its useful part is the sustained attention to craft—architecture, politics, rivalry—that makes the medieval world tangible. The main limitation is repetitive melodrama and swings in pacing: long, satisfying set pieces sit beside stretches that feel slow or contrived. Better read slowly rather than skimmed; readers who stick it out will find payoff in the concluding convergences.”
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