I loved Gone With The Wind.....

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It's half term and I'm in bed with a bug.
Can anyone recommend a similar epic book to Gone With The Wind?
I've read The Thorn Birds and I liked that too.
Please can anyone recommend a similar Epic? Or a series?

Thanks.

I adored Through A Glass Darkly when I read it as a teenager - think it was a series too but I only read one.

There was a thread recently about the Mists of Avalon series by Marion Zimmer Bradley - also fabulous.

The Cazalet books by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

The Poldark series by Winston Graham (I think) ....there's about five or six books all together I think

The White Oaks of Jalna series

Forever Amber - a lovely long historical indulgent read.

You lot are brilliant!
Thank you

I'll give them a look.

Please keep any suggestions coming.

Penny Vincenzi sagas are generally good. I would start with 'Windfall'.

Gone With the Wind is my all-time favourite and I liked The Thorn Birds too. Have you read East of Eden or A Town Like Alice? Both epics with war and romance.

I'm not sure I'd call "A Town Like Alice" an epic, and it's certainly not as vivid as GWTW.

How about something like Shogun, set in 17th century Japan?

Have you read any R F Delderfield? I've read a few, and particularly enjoyed To Serve Them All My Days - it's a long novel, but he did write series as well, such as A Horseman Riding By.

Thank you, I will have a look at that one too

Gone With The Wind is my favourite book, I've read it three times and was just thinking the other day it's about time I read it again. If you like that sort of rambling epic, I would recommend A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. I bought it and then picked it up and put it down a number of times before I took it on holiday and "forced" myself to read it. I absolutely loved it and, actually, think it's about time I read that again, too.

Ooh yes Forever Amber! Read that about 30 odd years ago, I was gripped. Think I might read again now after being reminded.

The sequel to gone with the Wind, by Alexander Ripley is also very good, if that's any use?

Agree Poldark & Delderfield. For American again what about The Grapes of Wrath?

Oh Gone with the Wind takes me back. I read it in my teens 100 years ago.
Around the same time a similarly epic and exotic love story set in India was The Far Pavillions by MM Kaye.

GWTW is my absolute favourite book and film ever.
Also loved the Thorn Birds and Forever Amber.
Can recommend the Wideacre series by Phillipa Gregory.

Yourlittlesecret, I just looked up The Far Pavillions on Amazon and it looks amazing. It will be on my summer holiday list for sure.

Morgans run is excellent

Love Gone With the Wind and think The Mists of Avalon is ALMOST as good.

I loved the same books as you OP.... I think you'd love the Clan of the Cave Bear series.

A Fine Balance is STILL sitting unread on my shelf after so many years... really must get round to it one of these days.

ooh, Clan of the Cave Bear!

I do like aspects of GWTW, but..but...it's soooo racist. I can't get past the idea that the Klu Klux Klan are the Good Guys.

Have you read Wild Swans?

I really enjoyed it.

Scarlett always reminds me of Becky Sharpe so I think Vanity Fair would be a good follow on read. Susan Howatch also wrote some great family sagas such as Cashelmara and The Wgeel of Fortune.