2015's "Reading Through Time" Historical Fiction Reading

Yes, another challenge.  The Historical Fiction challenge I did last year isn't being offered, and it didn't look like any similar challenges were being offered either.  But the same blog hosting the Cloak and Dagger challenge has stepped in to host a historical fiction challenge.  I'm sure I can get at least 10 books, so I'm signing up for Level 2.  Sign up at the link above.

While I was over at A Novel Challenge looking for the challenges that I wanted to sign-up for in 2015 I found it strangely lacking in a historical fiction reading challenge so I decided to start my own, even if we are already six days into January!

So here are the rules, which are almost identical to the rules for the Cloak & Dagger Reading Challenge I am also hosting:

1.) The challenge starts January 6, 2015 and ends  December 31, 2015.

2.) You can read any novel, short story or author just so that the genre is historical fiction, and yes this genre is a wide one in terms of defining historical fiction but I trust your judgement if you think it is in the historical fiction genre it probably is. Even those mysteries you might read for the Cloak & Dagger Reading Challenge might even qualify since a lot of them occur in the past.

3.) 1 novel counts as 1 novel( 1 novel is anything over 100 pages) of course but you will have to read 5 short stories to count as 1 novel. Audio books and e-books also count.

4.) There will be a monthly post for you to add a link or links to your post showing the progress that you have made so far. There will be two link-ups on each reading challenge post, one is a text link-up for those of you who are participating without a blog/through Goodreads/or through another way and then a thumbnail link-up for those of you that are participating from a blog.

5.) There will be a book giveaway each month and for initially signing up.

As an incentive each month’s link-up post (including this sign-up link-up post) will be followed by another link-up post that will be a giveaway of a work of historical fiction from my own bookshelf, just a note that these are used books but I would never give away something not up to par so even though it is used it is still in good condition.

The post for the giveaway and reading challenges are separate you will be able to see which book I am giving away and then you get to decide whether you want to enter for the giveaway or not, you do have to sign-up to enter the sign-up giveaway and then for the monthly giveaway you will have had to link-up a read for that month.

If you read a certain number of novels you receive a rank, which are named after historical fiction authors, at the end I will award a secret prize to the person who reads the most books:

5 books= Anthony Doerr

10 books = Kate Morton

15 books = Sarah Waters

20 books = Linda Lafferty

25 books = Hilary Mantel

30 books= Philippa Gregory

35 books= Ken Follett

40+ books= Diana Gabaldon

So even though we are off to a late start I hope that you all will be able to join along with us! Please use the link-up below to join.

Amy

Here is what I'll be reading:

1. All He Ever Wanted--Anita Shreve
2. Jewels--Danielle Steel
3. The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963--Christopher  Paul Curtis
4. Perfect--Judith McNaught
5. The Color Purple--Alice Walker
6. Like Water for Chocolate--Laura Esquivel
7. Sea Glass--Anita Shreve
8. Of Mice and Men--John Steinbeck
9. Zoot Suit and Other Plays--Luis Valdez
10. Strawberry Girl--Lois Lenski
11. Suddenly You--Lisa Kleypas
12. Kira-Kira--Cynthia Kadohata
13. Memoirs of a Geisha--Arthur Golden
14. The Thief--Megan Whalen Turner
15. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler--E.L. Konisburg
16. Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen
17. The Company You Keep--Neil Gordon
18. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul--Deborah Rodriguez
19. Wuthering Heights--Emily Bronte
20. The Most of P.G. Wodehouse
21. Summer of My German Soldier--Bette Greene
22. Oh My Stars--Lorna Landvik
23. Outlander--Diana Gabaldon
24. Brooklyn--Colm Toibin
25. The Book of Life--Deborah Harkness
26. The Wednesday Wars--Gary D. Schmidt
27. The Witch of Blackbird Pond--Elizabeth George Speare
28. For All Their Lives--Fern Michaels
29. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall--Anne Bronte
30. Blizzard of the Blue Moon--Mary Pope Osborne
31. Moonlight on the Magic Flute--Mary Pope Osborne
32. The Kitchen House--Kathleen Grissom
33. Sarah's Key--Tatiana de Rosnay
34. A Long Way From Chicago--Richard Peck
35. Emma--Jane Austen
36. A Year Down Yonder--Richard Peck
37. The Bad behavior of Belle Cantrell--Loraine Depres
38. The Grapes of Wrath--John Steinbeck
39. The Diamond Slipper--Jane Feather
40. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle--Avi
41. The Thirteenth Tale--Diane Satterfield
42. Peony in Love--Lisa See
43. Christmas in Camelot--Mary Pope Osborne
44. Inferno--Dan Brown

Challenge completed on December 15