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Author of the USA Today bestseller Sisters At War, Lana Kortchik gives Big Issue her rundown of the best historical fiction.

Stuff Your Kindle Day is a reader-organized digital event where authors and publishers temporarily make hundreds of e-books free or drop them to just $1 (well, 99 cents to be precise).

The latest opportunity to get hundreds of free books onto your ereader offers historical fiction titles as well as many contemporary stories.

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From Musashi to Taiko, these are the best novels to read if you're obsessed with Hulu and FX's Shogun.

We celebrate the period as a golden age of cultural rebirth. But two new books argue that the Renaissance, as we imagine it, is little more than myth.