Announcing the 2017 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge

Once again I will be doing this challenge.  I will try to get between 25 and 50 books, or more. Sign up here.

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 am reading:

1. City of Women--David R. Gilliam
2. One Thousand White Women--Jim Fergus
3. Lady Susan--Jane Austen
4. Black Beauty--Anna Sewell
5. The Epic of Gilgamesh
6. Quicksand--Nella Larsen
7. Angle of Repose--Wallace Stegner
8. The Language of Flowers--Vanessa Diffenbaugh
9. The Blacker the Berry--Wallace Thurman
10. The Big Rock Candy Mountain--Wallace Stegner
11. Slaughterhouse Five--Kurt Vonnegut
12. The Goose Girl--Shannon Hale
13. Big Bob--Georges Simenon
14. Lost Horizon--James Hilton
15. Martin Chuzzlewit--Charles Dickens
16. The Chocolate War--Robert Cormier
17. Wives and Daughters--Elizabeth Gaskell
18. The Light Between Oceans--M.L. Stedman
19. Out of the Dust--Karen Hesse
20. Soulless--Gail Carrier
21. The Hound of the Baskervilles--Arthur Conan Doyle
22. If You Come Softly--Jacqueline Woodson
23. Girl in Hyacinth Blue--Susan Vreeland
24. La Cucina--Lily Prior
25. No Promises in the Wind--Irene Hunt
26. Orphan Train--Christina Baker Kline
27. Night of the Ninth Dragon--Mary Pope Osborne
28. The Spectator Bird--Wallace Stegner
29. The Girls--Emma Cline
30. Britt-Marie Was Here--Fredrik Backman
31. The House--Danielle Steel
32. Lisette's List--Susan Vreeland
33. Crossing to Safety--Wallace Stegner
34. A Study in Scarlet--Arthur Conan Doyle
35. Crime and Punishment--Fyodor Dostoevsky
36. Candide--Voltaire
37. All the Little Live Things--Wallace Stegner
38. The Rum Diary--Hunter S. Thompson
39. Ballet Shoes--Noel Streatfeild
40. Little House in the Big Woods--Laura Ingalls Wilder
41. Eight Cousins--Louisa May Alcott
42. Stardust and Shadows--Janelle Taylor
43. Dragon of the Red Dawn--Mary Pope Osborne
44. Monday With a Mad Genius--Mary Pope Osborne
45. Dark Day in the Deep Sea--Mary Pope Osborne
46. Interpreter of Maladies--Jhumpa Lahiri
47. Serena--Ron Rash
48. Southern Discomfort--Rita Mae Brown
49. Chanda's Secrets--Allan Stratton
50. Little House on the Prairie--Laura Ingalls Wilder
51. Beautiful Ruins--Jess Walter
52. A Dead Liberty--Catherine Aird
53. Pirates--Linda Lael Miller
54. Lady Audley's Secret--Mary Elizabeth Braddon
55. Agnes Grey--Anne Bronte
56. The Fall of the House of Usher and Four Other Tales--Edgar Allan Poe
57. The Importance of Being Earnest--Oscar Wilde
58. The Moonstone--Wilkie Collins
59. The Turn of the Screw--Henry James
60. The Way to Paradise--Mario Vargas Llosa
61. Blood Red, Snow White--Marcus Sedgwick
62. North and South--Elizabeth Gaskell
63. Heartless--Marissa Meyer
64. The Scarlet Letter--Nathaniel Hawthorne
65. Nicholas Nickelby--Charles Dickens
66. The Nix--Nathan Hill
67. Snow & Rose--Emily Winfield Martin
68. The Apple Orchard--Susan Wiggs
69. Caraval--Stephanie Garber
70. Life Studies--Susan Vreeland
71. One Second After--William R. Forstchen
72. A Christmas Visitor--David Saperstein and George Samerjan
73. The Birds' Christmas Carol--Kate Douglas Wiggin

Calling challenge completer on December 19