Loving historical fiction right now. What are some recommendations from y’all in this genre?
Loving historical fiction right now. What are some recommendations from y’all in this genre? Looking for some new ideas.
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The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
“America’s First Daughter” – loved it.
Omg…loved it too!
Destiny of the Republic. One of the best books I’ve ever read.
Ron Hansen is a great author in this genre. Desperadoes and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion are my favorites of his. Erik Larsen is another author. Devil in the White City is fantastic.
America’s First Daughter
Memoirs of a Geisha
Lilac Girls
Salt to the Sea
The Book Thief
Christy by Catherine Marshall
Someone Knows My Name
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Luther and Katharina by Jody Hedlund
The Confessions of X
The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green
Mrs Lee and Mrs Gray
LOVED The Book Thief!
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
The Nightengale, Winter Garden, The Girl From the Train
Philippa Gregory is pretty good.
Pachinko, The Hamilton Affair, Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Salt to the Sea! Obviously, have a box of tissues handy. ?
LOVED that book!
Excellent book and author Ruth Sepetys
The Orphan Train (my FAVE-Christina Baker Kline)
The Silver Suitcase (Terrie Todd)
The Kite Runner
Kindred (Octavia Butler)
Snowflower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
I second the orphan train, awesome book. Don’t know The Kite Runner yet but read another book by the other (A Thousand Splendid Suns) which was great ??
I tried A Thousand Splendid Suns and couldn’t. I think it’s because I LOVED The Kite Runner so much, that I held it on a pedestal? I’m not really sure lol
The Tales of Alvin Maker.
I just read Panchinko! I highly recommend it.
The Alice Network is my favorite.
Started this today. In the meantime I truly recommend The time in between, by Maria Dueñas
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10836813-the-time-in-between
Have you read the Outlander novels?
A rising man (India) // green city in the sun (Kenya) // a gentleman in Moscow (Russia) – all end of 19th / beginning of 20th century.
The Alice Network, A Bridge Across the Ocean, Windfallen, Paris for One.
The girl who wrote in silk.
Ken Follets series about WW1 is great as is his Middle Ages trilogy that starts with Pillars of the Earth.
I loved Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker, about NYC during the Civil War.
The Son by Philip Meyer was unbelievably good, but very bloody.
All The Light You Cannot See. Wonderful story, also The Paris Architect.
All the Light You Cannot See
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck (WWII). Great story, compelling chatacters.
If you like mysterides, the Sister Frevisse series by Margaret Frzaer is very good.
I loved Pachinko and The Nightingale. So good!
The Shoemakers Wife
Maude
The Nightingale
All the Light we cannot see
Beneath a Scarlett Sky
The girl from Krakow
Kitchen House
Yellow Crocus
Orphan Train
The Matthew Corbet series by Robert McCammon.
In Farleigh field, the chillbury ladies choir, Victoria Thompson’s gaslight series, the lady Helen series
I am reading “The Miniaturist” at the moment and loving it!
One of my all time favorites, love The Miniaturist
-Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth
-Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Series
-Philippa Gregory’s Tudor series
-Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring
-Michelle Moran’s Nefertiti (for a change from Europe)
My name is Resolute
Provence, 1970 by Luke Barr
The Signature of all Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
The Master Butcher’s Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
The Paris Wife.
The Saxon Series by Bernard Cornwall. Actually, anything by
Bernard Cornwall is brilliant.
Have you read The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon? Kindred by Octavia Butler is a great choice, too.
Most of Tracy Chevalier’s books are captivating, News of the World by Paulette Jiles, The Alienist by Caleb Carr if you like some mystery thrown in.
I just finished Before We were Yours…excellent book
America’s First Daughter
Anything by Jean Plaidy or Anya Seton.
The Terror
I have a lot to look up now! Thanks y’all ❤️
have you read design by dying? 1937 LA/Hollywood excellent – and not my usual interest
News of the World by Paulette Jiles, Sarah’s Key by Tatianna de Rosnay, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
Loved Sarah’s key!
The Devil in the White City. Isaacs Storm
“Trans Atlantic”
Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society is wonderful. ❤️?