2016 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge

I've gotten into reading historic fiction the last two years, but the two different historic fiction challenges I did during those years no longer exist.  So I am glad to see this one offered at Passages to the Past. I'm going to try to get to 25 books, maybe more if possible.

Here are the Reading Challenge details:

Each month, a new post dedicated to the HF Challenge will be created. To participate, you only have to follow the rules:

• Everyone can participate, even those who don't have a blog (you can add your book title and thoughts in the comment section if you wish)

• Add the link(s) of your review(s) including your name and book title to the Mister Linky we’ll be adding to our monthly post (please, do not add your blog link, but the correct address that will guide us directly to your review)

• Any sub-genre of historical fiction is accepted (Historical Romance, Historical Mystery, Historical Fantasy, Young Adult, etc.)

During the following 12 months you can choose one of the different reading levels:

20th century Reader - 2 books
Victorian Reader - 5 books
Renaissance Reader - 10 books
Medieval - 15 books
Ancient History - 25 books
Prehistoric - 50+ books

Here are the Reading Challenge details:

Each month, a new post dedicated to the HF Challenge will be created. To participate, you only have to follow the rules:

• Everyone can participate, even those who don't have a blog (you can add your book title and thoughts in the comment section if you wish)

• Add the link(s) of your review(s) including your name and book title to the Mister Linky we’ll be adding to our monthly post (please, do not add your blog link, but the correct address that will guide us directly to your review)

• Any sub-genre of historical fiction is accepted (Historical Romance, Historical Mystery, Historical Fantasy, Young Adult, etc.)

During the following 12 months you can choose one of the different reading levels:

20th century Reader - 2 books
Victorian Reader - 5 books
Renaissance Reader - 10 books
Medieval - 15 books
Ancient History - 25 books
Prehistoric - 50+ books

Here is what I'm reading:

1. Anne of Green Gables--Lucy Maud Montgomery
2. The Iliad--Homer
3. The Funeral Dress--Susan Gregg Gilmore
4. The Alchemist--Paulo Coelho
5. History--Elsa Morante
6. War and Peace--Leo Tolstoy
7. The Education of Little Tree--Forrest Carter
8. Murder in Little Italy--Victoria Thompson
9. Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
10. Far Away and Close to Home--Michael Katz
11. Somewhere in the Dark--Walter Dean Myers
12. Devil's Prize--Kat Martin
13. Little Bee--Chris Cleave
14. The Pillars of the Earth--Ken Follett
15. Medea and Other Plays--Euripides
16. To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper Lee
17. Werewolves of New Idria--John Chadwell
18. Corsets and Clockwork
19. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
20. The Odyssey--Homer
21. Queen's Own Fool--Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris
22. The Divine Comedy--Dante Alighieri
23. Everything I Never Told You--Celeste Ng
24. The Notebook--Nicholas Sparks
25. Etiquette & Espionage--Gail Carriger
26. Curtsies & Conspiracies--Gail Carriger
27. Waistcoats & Weaponry--Gail Carriger
28. Manners & Mutiny--Gail Carriger
29. Great Expectations--Charles Dickens
30. The Husband's Secret--Liane Moriarty
31. Will Sparrow's Road--Karen Cushman
32. Northanger Abbey--Jane Austen
33. The Red House Mystery--A.A. Milne
34. The Widow of the South--Robert Hicks
35. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel--Deborah Moggach
36. The Lake House--Kate Morton
37. Say You Love Me--Johanna Lindsey
38. Things Fall Apart--Chinua Achebe
39. Gorky Park--Martin Cruz Smith
40. Villette--Charlotte Bronte
41. Monterey Bay--Lindsay Hatton
42. Firefly Lane--Kristin Hannah
43. Fly Away--Kristin Hannah
44. The Summer of the Swans--Betsy Byars
45. The Higher Power of Lucky--Susan Patron
46. King of the Wind--Marguerite Henry
47. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children--Ransom Riggs
48. The Girl You Left Behind--Jojo Moyes
49. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty--A.N. Roquelaure
50. The Kite Runner--Khaled Hosseni
51. The Bell Jar--Sylvia Plath
52. The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner
53. Polar Star--Martin Cruz Smith
54. Calico Bush--Rachel Field
55. The Catcher in the Rye--J.D. Salinger
56. The Ghost Bride--Yangsze Choo
57. The Third Witch--Rebecca Reisert
58. Lenobia's Vow--P.C. Cast
59. The Underground Railroad--Colson Whitehead
60. Red Square--Martin Cruz Smith
61. Follow the Sun--Paul J. Shanley
62. Another Brooklyn--Jacqueline Woodson
63. Empress Orchid--Anchee Min
64. A Walk to Remember--Nicholas Sparks
65. From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun--Jacqueline Woodson
66. A Season of Goodwill--Elizabeth Walter
67. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan--Lisa See
68. The Genius--Jesse Kellerman
69. The Queene's Christmas--Karen Harper
70. Carol--Patricia Highsmith

Challenge completed on December 25