2019 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge

Another one I have been doing is up now.

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! If you don't have a blog you can post a link to your review if it's posted on Goodreads, Facebook, or Amazon, or 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 use the direct URL that will guide us directly to your review)
• Any sub-genre of historical fiction is accepted (Historical Romance, Historical Mystery, Historical Fantasy, Young Adult, History/Non-Fiction, 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

To join the challenge you only need to make a post about it, add your link in Mr. Linky below or just leave a link to your blog if you are not yet ready to post about it yet. If you don't have a blog you can just leave a comment for this post saying that you are joining, and link to your Facebook, Goodreads or other social media page where you will be sharing your reviews.
The challenge runs from January 1st to December 31st, 2019.

Here is what I am reading:

1. Journey to Topaz--Yoshiki Uchida
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles--Agatha Christie
3. The Diary of a Nobody--George Grossmith
4. The Gangster We Are All Looking For--Le Thi Diem Thuy
5. Not Without Laughter--Langston Hughes
6. Red Earth and Pouring Rain--Vikram Chandra
7. A Raisin in the Sun--Lorraine Hansberry
8. White Houses--Amy Bloom
9. Cat Running--Zilpha Neatly Snyder
10. Stella By Starlight--Sharon M. Draper
11. Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories--Giovanni Verga
12. When You Reach Me--Rebecca Stead
13. The Godfather--Mario Puzo
14. Dead End in Norvelt--Jack Gantos
15. Don Quixote--Miguel de Cervantes
16. Burning Bright--John Steinbeck
17. A Painted House--John Grisham
18. The Heretic's Apprentice--Ellis Peters
19. Between Shades of Gray--Ruta Sepetys
20. Where the Crawdads Sing--Delia Owens
21. And the Mountains Echoed--Khaled Hosseini
22. Ulysses--James Joyce
23. A Line in the Sand--Sherry Garland
24. The Saturdays--Elizabeth Enright
25. The Neighborhood--Mario Vargas Llosa
26. The Carnival at Bray--Jessie Ann Foley
27. The Inheritance of Loss--Kiran Desai
28. A Cup of Tea--Amy Ephron
29. Rachel--Vivian Schurfranz
30. Extremely Loud & Incredible Close--Jonathan Safran Foer
31. Blameless--Gail Carrier
32. The Joy Luck Club--Amy Tan
33. Rebel--Beverly Jenkins
34. Jo's Boys--Louisa May Alcott
35. On Tall Pine Lake--Dorothy Garlock
36. Before We Were Yours--Lisa Wingate
37. The Color of Lightning--Paulette Jiles
38. Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo--Ntozake Shange
39. Al Capone Shines My Shoes--Gennifer Choldenko
40. The Night Watch--Sarah Waters
41. The Temple Dancer--John Speed
42. Keeper of the Light--Diane Chamberlain
43. Our Town--Thornton Wilder
44. The Tale of Genji--Murasaki Shikibu
45. The Wayward Bus--John Steinbeck
46. The Feast of the Goat--Mario Vargas Llosa
47. Lies We Tell Ourselves--Robin Talley
48. That Was Then, This is Now--S.E. Hinton
49. Summer of '69--Elin Hilderbrand
50. Daughter of the Pirate King--Tricia Levenseller 
51. The Bone People--Keri Hulme
52. Ruth--Elizabeth Gaskell
53. Spoon River Anthology--Edgar Lee Masters
54. A Corner of the Universe--Ann M. Martin
55. Stalin's Ghost--Martin Cruz Smith
56. Merci Suarez Changes Gears--Meg Medina
57. The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde--Robert Louis Stevenson
58. The Borrowers--Mary Norton
59. Miracle's Boys--Jacqueline Woodson
60. Malinche--Laura Esquivel
61. Time's Arrow--Martin Amis
62. Salvage the Bones--Jesmyn Ward
63. Unaccustomed Earth--Jhumpa Lahiri
64. The Wind in the Willows--Kenneth Grahame
65. Play It As It Lays--Joan Didion
66. The Magic Barrel--Bernard Malamud
67. A Death in Vienna--Daniel Silva
68. Fruit of the Drunken Tree--Ingrid Rojas Contreras
69. Eve of the Emperor Penguin--Mary Pope Osborne
70. City of Girls--Elizabeth Gilbert

Challenge completed on December 17