Worlds
World-building, fantasy, and speculative fiction guides.
Best Books About Cultural Heritage by Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela writes the Muslim world from the inside - heritage carried in prayer, language and faith, with clear content notes on every recommendation.
Best Books About Cultural Heritage by Naguib Mahfouz
The first Arab Nobel laureate in literature, Naguib Mahfouz carried Egypt's heritage in novels, not monuments - the essential titles, with content notes.
Best Books About Historical Accuracy by Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall redefined the historical novel - Hilary Mantel's conviction that the past can be known from the inside, with clear content notes on every pick.
Best Books About Historical Accuracy by Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See was built on a decade of research - Anthony Doerr's fiction where the past is exact, with clear content notes on every title.
Best Books About Historical Accuracy by Ken Follett
Ken Follett rebuilt medieval England in The Pillars of the Earth - his historical epics of craftsmanship and accuracy, with clear content notes on every pick.
Best Books About Historical Accuracy by Philippa Gregory
The Other Boleyn Girl made the queens' court a bestseller - Philippa Gregory's Tudor and Plantagenet novels, with clear content notes on every title.
Best Books About Historical Accuracy by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco was a medievalist before a novelist - The Name of the Rose and his other fiction of the exact past, with clear content notes on every title.
Best Books About Historical Fiction by Amin Maalouf
Amin Maalouf tells the meeting of civilizations through the people who crossed borders - his essential historical novels, with clear notes on every pick.
Best Books About Historical Fiction by Anthony Doerr
A blind girl and a German boy in the Second World War - Anthony Doerr's historical fiction of the luminous and the human, with clear notes on every pick.
Best Books About Historical Fiction by Ken Follett
The building of a cathedral in twelfth-century England - Ken Follett's historical fiction of ordinary people in extraordinary times, with notes on every title.
Best Books About Historical Fiction by Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale made Kristin Hannah's name - her historical novels of women enduring and fighting through war, with clear content notes on every title.
Best Books About Historical Fiction by Markus Zusak
Narrated by Death and full of love, The Book Thief is Markus Zusak's masterpiece - his essential novels, with clear content notes on every recommendation.