Historical Fiction

[Stephanie]

Read up to 5 books that are in the Historical Fiction genre.

This page has lots of great book suggestions.

[Connie]

Connie's Historical Fiction:
COMPLETED!

1)Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin 17/01/18
2)Fall of Giants by Ken Follett 01/09/18
3)Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 08/10/18
4)Early Warning by Jane Smiley 28/11/18
5)Winter of the World by Ken Follett 19/12/18

[Rhonda]

Rhonda's Historical Fiction:

**COMPLETE**

1. News of the World by Paulette Jiles
2. Into the Bright Unknown by Rae Carson
3. A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare
4. An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
5. The Governess Game by Tessa Dare

[Wanda]

Wanda's Historical Fiction:

1.Oathbreaker by Martin Jensen
2. A Man's Word by Martin Jensen
3. Fire Catcher byC.S. Quinn
4. The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss
5. Edinburgh Dusk by Carole Lawrence

[Linda]

Linda's Historical Fiction:

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
2. The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae by Stephanie Laurens
3. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
4. The Space Between by Diana Gabaldon
5. Duchess in Love by Eloisa James

[Stephanie]

Stephanie's Historical Fiction:

1 - Art in the Blood by Bonnie MacBird
2 - A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell
3 - A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
4 - The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley
5 - One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters

[Emily]

Emily’s Historical Fictions:


1. The Serpent and the Pearl - Kate Quinn
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[Sharon]

Sharon's Historical Fiction:
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[Michael]

Michael's Historical Fiction:
1. The Lost Book of the Grail by Charlie Lovett
2. The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara
3. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
4. No Less Than Victory by Jeff Shaara
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[Gypsy]

Gypsy's Historical Fiction:

1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

2. The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) by Ken Follett

3. The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) by Philippa Gregory

4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

5. Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel

I'll check them off as I read them :)

[Ruth]

Ruth's Historical Fiction:

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[Michelle]

Michelle's hi-fi
1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Shadow of the Wind
3. Water for Elephants
4. The Call of the Wild
5. Lazaretto - its been on my list for a long while and did not disappoint!

[Rebecca]

Rebecca's Historical Fiction:

1) Flying Too High Mystery, but historical setting.
2) Little House in the Big Woods. Re-reading the series, but I'll only count this one.
3) The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
4) Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding by Rhys Bowen
5) The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson

[Kaitlin]

Kaitlin's Historical Fiction:

1. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
2. From Hell by Alan Moore
3.The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
4.A Thousand Splendid Suns byKhaled Hosseini
5.The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

[Jody]

Jody's Historical Fiction:

1. The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff
2. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
3. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
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[Kit]

Kristen’s historical fiction:

1) Between Shades of Gray

[Martha]

Martha's Historical Fiction
1. The Children's Book, 21st Mar 18
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, 15th Apr 18
3. The Penelopiad, 20th Apr 18
4. The Bear and the Nightingale, 28th May 18
5. Kindred, 5th Jun 18

[Emilie]

Emilie historical fiction

1. Men Walking On water
2. Dragon Spring Road
3. Water for Elephants
4. The Book Thief
5. A Gentleman in Moscow

[Ann-Marie]

Ann-Marie´s historical fiction
COMPLETE
1 -The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters (read jan)
2 - The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett (read feb)
3- Treason: A Catholic Novel of Elizabethan England by Dena Hunt (read feb)
4-The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
5-Dandy by Jan Guillou

[Sam]

1. The Pillars of the Earth
2. When the Lion Feeds
3. Eagle in the Sky
4. A Maggot
5. The Garment Maker's Daughter

[Fatima]

Fatima'a Historical Fiction:
1. Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
2. Bachelor Girl by Kim van Alkemade
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[Patty]

Patty’s Historical Fiction:
1. Water for Elephants - 3/6/18
2. The Kingmaker's Daughter - 9/11/18
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[Cathy]

Cathy's Historical Fiction:

1. The Escape by Mary Balogh
2. Alias Grace byMargaret Atwood
3. In a Far Country by Linda Holeman

[Jennifer]

Jennifer's Historical Fiction

1. The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd (03/23/18)
2. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (02/27/18)
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (04/10/18)
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[Meera]

Meera's Historical Fiction:

1. Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn 3/23
2. Murder on Mulberry Bend by Victoria Thompson 4/4
3. Murder on Marble Row by Victoria Thompson 4/10
4. Murder on Lenox Hill by Victoria Thompson 4/12
5. Murder in Little Italy by Victoria Thompson 4/14

I like historical mysteries! All done.

[Stephanie]

Kaitlin wrote: "Kaitlin's Historical Fiction:

1. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
2. From Hell by Alan Moore
3.[book:Their Eyes Were Watching God|..."

Hi Kaitlin, I just noticed this but you have "Their Eyes Were Watching God" here and under Classics. Can you take it off of this one? Thank you!

[Jell-O]

1. Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye

[Martha]

Complete!

Martha's Historical Fiction
1. The Children's Book, 21st Mar 18
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, 15th Apr 18
3. The Penelopiad, 20th Apr 18
4. The Bear and the Nightingale, 28th May 18
5. Kindred, 5th Jun 18

[Kate]

Kate's historical fiction:

1. A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear (Spanish civil war)
2. Kind One by Laird Hunt
3. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
4. Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce