Wednesday, December 30, 2015

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

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