In the mood to travel back in time this summer? Andrew Miller has compiled a list of his top ten historical novels for The Guardian: “The books listed here share the essential virtues of all good fiction: the renewal of our sense of the world, of ourselves, of language, the extension of ourselves across time…

Life by Keith Richards Room by Emma Donaghue The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Just Kids by  Patti Smith Autobiography of Mark Twain One Day by  David Nicholls Weigh in on People‘s choices…