I am in love with historical fiction and have been for a while. Future reading suggestions anyone?
I am in love with historical fiction and have been for a while. Future reading suggestions anyone?
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Phillipa Gregory is great!
The nightingale
All the light we cannot see
The other boelyn girl
Water for elephants
The light between oceans
Have you read At the Water’s Edge by Sara Green? She wrote Water for Elephants. It was really good!
Sara Donati – The Wilderness Series – set in upstate New York (with Canada and New Orleans trips) in the late 1700s – early 1800s.
People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
Outlander
I’m struggling through this right now…. very slow. Hoping it picks up soon
Dont give up. The rewards are BIG.
This is one of the best book series I have ever read. I am up to book 5 on my current re-read, they never get old and the story and characters are just awesome. Can not wait for book 9 (whenever DG gets it finished). Keep going @Rebecca it will be worth it.
11/22/63
The Zookeepers wife
Linkon in the bardo…
The Book Thief
THE KITE RUNNER
I second this! ?
Check out Lynn Cullen. She wrote “Mrs. Poe” and “Twain’s End”. Also, How Green is my Valley.
I love Stephanie Laurens’ books
If you like time travel along with historical fiction, then you will love “The Machine; First Strike” by W. C. Wallbaum. They travel to many different time periods.
A Star Called Henry!!!!!!!!!
The Nightingale, Lilac Girls, The Other Boleyn Girl
Phillipia Gregory, Anne Easter Smith, Conn Iggulden, Alison Weir, Margaret George, Jean Plaidy
The Invention of Wings
Homegoing
These Is My Words
The Pillars of the Earth
Cold Mountain
Century trilogy by Ken Follet the books are just beautiful ?
And also The Books Thief
Read Belgravia ! ❤
Beneath a Scarlet Sky.
Stalking Jack the Ripper, Between Shades of Gray.
Bomb by Steve Sheinkin. Written for middle grade. Historical, not fiction, but written as such. This book is amazing.https://www.amazon.com/Bomb-Build-Steal-Worlds-Dangerous/dp/1250050642/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1514568410&sr=8-2&keywords=bomb
I haven’t read it yet but I’ve heard great things about The Alice Network
Wonderful book!
I’m reading this right now. Love it so far.
I don’t know if you read Christian fiction, but Sarah Sundin is awesome! World War II fiction.
I Love the birth house by Amy McKay
My Lady Jane
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The book thief
Just finished Code Name Verity. loved it !
I second this one. Grab the tissues and get started!
The Orphan Train, The Kitchen House, Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Hearts Invisible Furies are some of my faves!
I loved Orphan Train. Such an interesting part of history. Would love to learn more about it.
The Last Kingdom
Queen of the South, The Hangman’s Daughter series
Kinda historical/mystery. The Maise Dobbs books by Jacqueline Winspear. She’s a private detective and it’s set in London right after WW1 there are 10 books so far and the last one is set at the start of WW2. Not strictly historical fiction, but made me think a lot more about WW1.
Ken Follett! I just finished his latest book from the pillars of the earth series and it was fantastic ?
And I darken
Beneath the Scarlet Sky. I’m currently reading, I haven’t been able to leave my kindle down!
Sarah’s key
The Tudor series by Philippa Gregory. Tracey Chevalier writes historical fiction too, loved her version of the girl with the pearl earring.
The Nightingale!! My #1 book!!
The white queen is pretty good
Between shades of grey
Barbara Erskine.
Elizabeth Chadwick.
Sara Donati.
Following
Susan Elia MacNeal…WWII…female spy. The Alice Network. House of Shadows by Nicola Cornick is also excellent. Victoria Thompson’s Gaslight mysteries are fun.
Philippa Gregory
Witch Child by Celia Rees (I believe that’s the author)
Julia Quinn writes wonderful historical romance fiction series.
Following
These is my Words by Nancy Turner.
The Tearling series!
Sharyn McCrumb ; Sharon Kay Penman.
America’s First Daughter – life through the eyes of Thomas Jefferson’s oldest daughter, so good!
Nightingale, Lilac Girls, the Boston Girl, the Dollhouse, the Stars are Fire, Sarah’s Key, Stars Over Clear Lake, The Women in the Castle. The Underground Railroad.
Juliet Marillier
The Book Thief
Kent Family by John Jake
Anything written by Philippa Gregory.
And I Darken
The Gentleman’s guide to vice and Virtue
The Nightingale, by Kristen Hannah
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer
The Thomas Hawkins series by Antonia Hodgson
Stalking Jack the Ripper.
I heard this is really good!
@Katie I couldn’t put it down!
Lincoln in the Bardo and All the light I cannot see are newer ones. My favorite genre besides maybe Microhistory.
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-historical-fiction-books-2017
All Sarah Dunant
Acheron by Sherrilyn kenyon
The Hangman’s Daughter
Im currently reading The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah and its wonderful so far!
Between Shades of Gray, Out of the Easy, and Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys. Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein, they’re companion novels so you should read Code Name Verity first. She also wrote The Pearl Thief which is set before Code Name Verity, but I haven’t read it yet. A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper, which is a series. The precious gems trilogy by Kersten Gier. Crabwalk by Günter Grass.