These sound like good books to take on our vacation, a lot of traveling time to read.
Never read Michener, can’t exactly say why.
I do enjoy historical fiction.
I don't read him either. I found Michener to be formulaic. His talked of the South Pacific was good, but he coasted after that. He would tell the stories of his individual characters, seemingly unrelated to each other. Then, in the last chapter or so, he would pull it together in the final climax. His denoùment would follow with the characters, if still alive, going off to resume their lives.