A real riot is taking place on the book market - there are raging crowds of romance novels, comics, all kinds of stories, novels and trilogies with flashy headlines and blood-colored covers. But here historical books are published less and less. Therefore, for everyone who is upset by this fact, in our today's selection we have collected the best works of our time related to history. They are worthy of the attention of connoisseurs and connoisseurs of past centuries, tucked up by the haze of time.

• Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan. As everyone knows, only the most powerful and brave warriors remained in Sparta. And those who did not meet these parameters were ruthlessly thrown into the abyss of cliffs and countless hells, limited only by the power of imagination. It was this outcome of life that Aristarchus expected for his son. But once on the way of a hero there is a sage who is ready to save a little boy.
• David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas. The reader will have to travel from the past to the future, and then back to the past. The story tells of six people who are interconnected by invisible threads. This is a notary public, composer, journalist, publisher, clown and goat security. So why are they related to each other and what do they have in common?
• Rafik Shami, The Secret of the Calligrapher. The story of a famous calligrapher who considered himself endowed with a divine gift. After all, it was he who could capture the joys and sorrows of people's lives. But this book is not only about him. She will also tell you about his pupil, Salman, who devoted himself to love, and about the calligrapher's wife, Nur, and about the rich man who uses love only to satisfy his needs. All of them are sides of the mysterious polygon of human destinies that the calligrapher captures.
• Ben Elton, "Two Brothers." All events of the book take place in wartime. Paul and Otto live a normal life: they are friends, study, fall in love. But they don’t even realize that one of them is adoptive and different in blood. 1920 is drawing near. The year the Nazis came to power in Germany. Millions of people are faced with the question of blood posed by eugenics. So what kind of answer will the brothers and their parents give?
• Philip Gregory, The White Queen. A young girl who is not afraid of obstacles and difficulties, with the help of her natural qualities and beauty, falls in love with the king of England, Edward VI. With her, she secretly marries and overnight becomes the queen of a vast country. But she will not have to live a happy social life in a fabulous palace surrounded by servants. In the courtyard, the war of the Scarlet and White Rose is unfolding. But the heroine is not afraid of betrayal, suffering or pain, because she is the White Queen.
• Philip Gregory, "Another of the Boleyn family." They try to make the main character, Maria, the secret mistress of the childless king Henry VIII. The goal is to improve the financial situation of her entire Boleyn family. But on the way stand the sisters of Mary, who also want to take a seat next to the king. The intricacies of a female career at court will be of great interest to those who know what palace intrigues are, firsthand.
• Dan Simmons, Terror. 1845 year. John Franklin, an experienced polar explorer, is assembling an entire expedition to the coast of northern Canada to discover the passage between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. But for unknown reasons, the entire crew and their ship, Terror and Erebus, disappear without a trace. The author himself, Dan Simmons, suggests that this happened after a meeting of researchers with a gigantic monster. Almost 170 years later, one of the ships was found almost in its original form. Now a group of scientists will have to give an answer, why did a whole scientific expedition disappear.
• Arthur Drake, "A Strange Memory." The main character, the Frenchman Jean - Antoine, gets involved in a series of big troubles and decides to flee the country. Outside of his house, he meets a robber who has so many enemies. But Jean-Antoine does not believe that all these threats are so dangerous, and decides to help the robber with the help of ordinary memories and a couple of trivial miracles.
• Carolly Erickson, Mary’s Secret Diary - Antoinette. " The life story of the famous Queen of France Marie Antoinette. On the pages of this novel, the reader will find out how one of the famous women in history actually lived, what she felt and experienced in luxurious chambers. An interesting reflection on whether kings can all, and why the rich cry too.
• Julian Barnes, The Flaubert Parrot. The author of this book wants to learn all about the life of the famous French prose writer-realist Gustave Flaubert. But what interests him most is not the writer's work, but the stuffed parrot, which according to some versions was on the table. This fiction attracts the public with a lightning-fast plot and unexpected turns of events.

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