Putting together my book list for the summer…I love historical fiction. Please make suggestions.
Putting together my book list for the summer…I love historical fiction. Please make suggestions.
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Anyone reading or read The Discovery of Witches series. I loved the first book, but having a hard time getting into the second one.
that is on my list to read.
Enjoyed the first one the most.
@Alicia I loved it, keep reading the third one is better
@Amy thanks
Winter Garden, The Nightengale, Alice Network, Lost Girls of Paris, Sarah’s Key, Karolina’s Twins, Once We Were Brothers, The Girl from Berlin, Bright As Heaven! Enjoy ?
I’m reading My Dear Hamilton right now and enjoying it. Also check out Beneath a Scarlet Sky. One I won’t forget.
@Debbie have both downloaded on ITunes!
Susanna Gregory’s Matthew Bartholomew series are good reads.
Lavinia by Ursula K Le Guin
Just finished Daughter of Moloka’i by Alan Brennart. Excellent read!
Enjoying it now!
This one is on my tbr list. I enjoyed Moloka’i.
Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes is a great book.
What the Wind Knows, a time travel book about the Irish Revolution in the early 1900s.
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See Great book set on an island near Korea. It is my book club pick.
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson was one of my all time favorites. The cover itself is so unique and beautiful. After 6 years, her second book The Summer Before the War did not disappoint!
Nefertiti by Michelle Moran is a great historical fiction
The Zion Chronicles are awesome
Pillars of the Earth
For WWII historical/Europe: The Lilac Girls, The Summer Before the War, We Were the Lucky Ones, The Alice Network, Warlight. US Historical: Before We Were Yours, The Invention of Wings, A Fall of Marigolds, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet. Other Historical: A Gentleman in Moscow ♥️
Into the Wilderness series by Sara Donati
Just finished The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner. So good!!!
I love anything by James Michener, Pauline Gedge.
Just finished “a place called winter” by Patrick gale and its fantastic x. Also, “alias grace” by atwood, if you prefer female writers.
The Paris Apartment by Michele Gable
The Midwife’s Revolt, The Only Woman in the Room, America’s First Daughter
The Shardlake series.
Hilary Mantel’s novels about Thomas Cromwell,
Wolf Hall and
Bring up the Bodies.
Anything by Sharon Kay Penman,, The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott, The Kingsbridge series by Ken Follet, The Asian series by James Clavell, the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, almost anything by Umberto Eco…………..
Just finished Woman 99 by Greer Macallistet. Fantastic read!
I meant Macallister
Under a Scarlet Sky, The Nightingale, Lilac Girls, Carnegie’s Maid, The Only Woman in the Room
The Outlander series by DIana Gabaldon! One of my favourite series!
Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles. Begin with the first, The Game of Kings, to minimize confusion.. There are six in the series
Before We Were Yours, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Women in Sunlight, The Tattooist of Auschwitz,
BELLEWETHER by Susanna Kearsley and What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon. Both are such good stories.
What era? Been a lot out set during WWII. I won’t mention them since there are so many. How about The Kitchen House and its sequel Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grisom?
Sarah’s Key,
Portrait in Sepia/Isabel Allende,
Peony/ Pearl S. Buck
Phillipa Gregory’s books,
Lust for Life/Irving Stone
The Cairo Trilogy/ Nagib Mahfouz
Stefan Zweig’s books
The Valley of Amazement/Amy Tan
Snowflower and the Secret Fan/Lisa See
No Promises in the Wind
Michelle Moran’s books are really good, as are Phillipa Gregory’s. Beneath a Scarlet Sky (WW2 In Italy), Beneath a Marble Sky (love story behind the building of the Taj Mahal). Lisa See (especially Snow Flower and the Secret Fan)
Secrets of a Charmed Life
Sarah’s Key, Yellow Crocus, The Storyteller, The Nightingale
My all time favorite: Spring Came On Forever Bess Streeter @Aldrich
The Big Burn (Timothy Egan), The Immortal Irishman (T. Egan), In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree (Vaddey Ratner), Liar Temptress Soldier Spy (Karen Abbot), Neverhome (Laird Hunt), Skeletons at the Feast (Chris Bohjalian) and My Name is Mary Sutter (Robin Oliveira). Loved them all!
Here is a link to a google doc of WWII/Holocaust related books. It’s long, so be prepared! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VPahHLl4mNnjP7yVAYmsN2krfFv1byYLp46n2j-hBQU
@Mari, Between Shades of Gray, one of my favorite books.
I will be interested in your final list, I love historical fiction. My favorite author with this genre is Edward Rutherford’s book.
Seven Sisters series / Lucinda Riley.
I adore the Seven Sisters series!
Philippa Gregory.
Memoirs of Cleopatra
Masters of Rome series – Collen Mc Cullough
Alison @Weir
I just put this list together for my book club to vote on:
The Brothers K
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Invention of Wings
A Constellation of Vital Phenomina
All very different!
I loved The Paris Wife
The Boston girl
A Memory of Violets
A friend of mine, Brien Brown, recently published for the first time. It’s called Abigail’s Tale.
The Plantation Series are wonderful, there are 4 books. By Gretchen Craig
A Gentleman in Moscow: The Address: Carnegie’s Maid: All The Light We Cannot See: a few of my favorites. I go to a History Books page by Sue Fitzmaurice
I liked The Milkman by Anna Burns, award winner (Booker I think). Humorous and written in a different way than many- you learn about the conflict in Belfast/Northern Ireland. Also like A Thousand White Women, about early American attempt to marry natives to white women. Also The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (one person’s journey from SE Asia to America)
The alice network by kate quinn, circling the sun by paula mclain
Just finished The Huntress by Kate Quinn. Fantastic story and even better than The Alice Network.
Martine Bailey’s books are good. Also Ken Follett, CJ Sansom. I also love ‘Burial Rites’ by Hannah Kent, set in Iceland.