Sunday, December 4, 2022

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2023

 Another I have been doing for years now. I always get as many books as I can.




20th Century Reader - 2 books
Victorian Reader - 5 books
Renaissance Reader - 10 books
Medieval - 15 books
Ancient History - 25 books

Prehistoric - 50+ books



My Books:

  1. Tending Roses--Lisa Wingate
  2. Three Sisters, Three Queens--Philippa Gregory
  3. Jackie & Me--Louis Bayard
  4. Lost Autumn--Mary-Rose MacColl 
  5. My Name is Asher Lev--Chaim Potok
  6. Seven Years to Sin--Sylvia Day
  7. The Gallery of Vanished Husbands--Natasha Solomons
  8. Night Fire--Catherine Coulter
  9. The Gift of Asher Lev--Chaim Potok
  10. Warriors in Winter--Mary Pope Osborne
  11. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman--Ernest J. Gaines
  12. Six Crimson Cranes--Elizabeth Lim
  13. Lilac Girls--Martha Hall Kelly
  14. Ellen Foster--Kaye Gibbons
  15. Drums of Autumn--Diana Gabaldon
  16. Homegoing--Yaa Gyasi
  17. Tomb of Sand--Geetanjali Shree 
  18. The House of Broken Angels--Luis Alberto Urrea
  19. Lost Roses--Martha Hall Kelly
  20. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day--Pearl Cleage
  21. The Undertaker's Assistant--Amanda Skenandore
  22. Sunflower Sisters--Martha Hall Kelly
  23. The Black Kids--Christina Hammonds Reed
  24. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk--Kathleen Rooney
  25. Summer on the Bluffs--Sunny Hostin
  26. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--Mildred D. Taylor
  27. The Personal Librarian--Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
  28. The Magic in Changing Your Stars--Leah Henderson
  29. Dombey and Son--Charles Dickens
  30. Little Town on the Prairie--Laura Ingalls Wilder (re-read)
  31. Blues For Mister Charlie--James Baldwin
  32. Tales From the Arabian Nights--Anonymous
  33. Irish Gold--Andrew M. Greeley
  34. Kidnapped--Robert Louis Stevenson
  35. The Villa--Rachel Hawkins
  36. Burn Baby Burn--Meg Medina
  37. The Adventures of Augie March--Saul Bellow
  38. The Da Vinci Code--Dan Brown
  39. The Hotel Nantucket--Elin Hilderbrand
  40. Maame--Jessica George
  41. In Deeper Waters--F.T. Lukens
  42. With the Might of Angels--Andrea Davis Pinkney
  43. The Silmarillion--J.R.R. Tolkien
  44. The Late Bourgeois World--Nadine Gordimer
  45. Macbeth--Jo Nesbo
  46. Elatsoe--Darcy Little Badger
  47. Dead Dead Girls-Nekesa Afia
  48. The Witch's Daughter--Paula Brackston
  49. Lolly Willowes--Sylvia Townsend Warner 
  50. The London Seance Society--Sarah Penner
  51. A Woman is No Man--Etaf Rum
  52. Olga Dies Dreaming--Xochitl Gonzalez
  53. Annie John--Jamaica Kincaid
  54. Carrie Soto is Back--Taylor Jenkins Reid
  55. Pineapple Street--Jenny Jackson
  56. Stories--Katherine Mansfield
  57. The Odd Women--George Gissing
  58. The Lions of Little Rock--Kristin Levine
  59. Sister Stardust--Jane Green
  60. Gingerbread--Helen Oyeyemi
  61. The Masterpiece--Emile Zola
  62. The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square--Rosina Lippi
  63. Cherry Ames, Student Nurse--Helen Wells
Challenge completed on December 31

2 comments:

  1. I read a LOT of historical fiction when I was young.

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  2. I've signed up to this challenge for my first year and am keen to get started already!

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