What are some new good historical fiction I can read?! TIA
I’m in the historical fiction mood. What are some new good ones I can read?! TIA
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I’m in the historical fiction mood. What are some new good ones I can read?! TIA
The nightingale
I have this one sitting unread !!
@Cathy it’s amazing!!! I loved it!
One of the best books I’ve ever read
@Ashley agreed
The Glass Ocean!!
Sounds familiar. Let me check it out. I feel like it’s on my wish list lol
This? Looks amazing
It’s not out until 9/4 but their first collaboration, The Forgotten Room, is good.
@Cathy – It is. I read it in one sitting, last night.
@Cathy I just read a review and it was incredible. Sorry, I got carried away!!
How about The Lake House!
@Carmen my library has it on order so I put it on hold! Thanks
Laura Frantz is excellent. New author Joanna Davidson Politano new book Lady Jayne Disappears is wonderful.
I loved Lady Jayne!
@Cathy me too!
Have you read Next Year in Havana by @Chanel? So good! Also, Dreams of Falling by Karen white is really good too. I also recommend The Alice Network.
I have! I loved it! I’ll check the others.
I’m reading Meredith Jaeger’s Boardwalk Summer. It’s her second novel, just published. I like it. Her first, The Dressmaker’s Dowry, was a favorite from last year.
Oh The Alice Network is also really good
The Kitchen House
Just finished Clara and Mr Tiffany..
And just discovered there is a Tiffany glass museum in Central Florida!
Any of Sandra Dallas’ books are wonderful!
I do want to read her! I got the last midwife and her newest at the library, which one is your favorite?
I think my favorite is Tallgrass because I learned so much. I really enjoyed The Bride’s House, too. My intro to Sandra’s books was Prayers for Sale – an impulse buy at BN several years ago. Then I just kept reading…I’m currently reading The Patchwork Bride and enjoying it, too!
@Cathy I loved The Diary of Mattie Spencer, Buster Midnight’s Cafe, Alice’s Tulips and The Christmas Quilt
Have one of her books but haven’t read it. Now it goes on the soon to read list!
@Camille The Way of Beauty!
It’s in my cart on Amazon! Looking to add a couple more ????
Agreed!
Anything NYC and suffragettes are an automatic must read for me
I did buy that one
I love this book!
Also, @Michelle The Summer I met Jack and @Jamie The Husband Hour!
Lucinda Riley’s books are phenomenal
Three Shoe Boxes by Steven Manchester!!!
Have you already done the Outlander route?
No but I know sooo many who love those books!
I’m reading Hawkman right now, also M.J. Rose has some good ones.
The room on Rue Amelie
I’ve been eyeing it!!
I just finished it today !! Was amazing !
My Dear Hamilton
My favorite book of 2018!!!!! I also loved the traitors wife. Any other colonial time period suggestions? That one about ruined me for 2018 lol
Cathy Daniel, have you read, The Stolen Marriage, by Diane Chamberlain?
I haven’t but sounds promising ?
Love and Ruin by Paula McClain, The Art of Inheriting Secrets by Barbara O’Neal. The Myth of Perpetual Summer by Susan Crandall, Dreams of Falling, Karen White. Subway Girls, @Susie, Another Side of Paradise, Sally Kaslow
Love Barbara O’Neal. Such rich, layered books
I’m doing Perpetual Summer now! Loved Dreams, Paradise & Subway (but subway isn’t out until 7/10) ?
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed The Subway Girls. Two weeks till launch. So excited ?
@Jamie ??
I loved “The Accidental Empress” by Allison Pataki
I loved her Traitors wife book a lot so I’ll check it out
Fields of Gold by Alexandra Ripley.
Between Earth and Sky, by Amanda Skenandore. Beautiful and powerful.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/481446.Nefertiti
Camille di maio. Kate morton
The Nightingale
Great. I just finished.
Anything by @Ellen has some history intertwined into fabulous reads.
The Lace Weaver by Lauren Chater is a must. Getting amazing reviews too.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. I loved it. I have many more but that’s a start
Lilac girls
Woman in the Water by Charles Finch
Memory of Violets by
@Hazel
Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
I love Hazel Gaynor!!!! Need to read that one
Just finished Cottingly Secret..cute story and characters
@Justine that was the one I read by her. I love her writing
Beneath a Scarlet Sky, all the light we cannot see, The Librarian of Auschwitz, Mrs Sinclair’s Suitcase
Agreed
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum with haunt you.
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The Alice Network, Goodnight from London
The Lost Family
by Jenna Blum
If you just want to go back to the 1950’s, Karen White’s
Dreams of Falling.
I do!!
Love and Ruin
Sally by J. Schlenker
Varina by Charles Frazier
I have that one on hold at my library !
Fiona Davis for quicker reads and Ken Follett for long drawn out sagas.?
Love Fiona Davis!
Great historical fiction was Lilac Girls, The Alice Network, All the Light We Cannot See… great nonfiction that reads like historical fiction We Were The Lucky One’s and Beneath The Scarlet Sky. All WWII, all super good
Read them all..excellent books
Anything by Margaret George; anything by Phillipe Gregory; Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, and Column of Fire; anything by Lisa See; anything by Michael Sharra or Jeff Shaara. I could go on…I love historical fiction!
Mary, have you read anything by Cameron Judd? He is from TN and has a couple of trilogies, one from the Civil War and the other about the Rev. War, that are fantastic!
@Amy no, I haven’t. I’ll put him on my BTR list.
Loved the Phillippa Gregory books, The Kitchen House and Orphan Train.
A Fugitive in Walden Woods by Norman Lock – about the relationship of an escaped and freed slave, Samuel Long, who is writing about his relationship with Thoreau
Lock has written several other historical fiction books also
Room on Rue Amelie by Kristin Harmel, The Subway Girls by Susie Orman Schnall is historical mixed with modern.
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Oh, this was a good one. It was looong, but very good.
Before We Were Yours and Pachinko.
News of the World—historical and adventure.
I just started reading Susanna Kearsley and loved The Winter Sea and then The Firebird
As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan (I just noticed this is free to read and listen to if you Kindle Unlimited)
Aviators Wife, Unbroken, Alice Network, Orphan Train
I have Aviators wife !
Loved Orphan Train!
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton, Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers by Sara Ackerman were both wonderful.
The Nightingale, by Kristen Hannah! It’s incredible!!
Most books by Sandra Dallas.
Prayers for Sale, Hardscrabble, The Last Midwife, The Diary of Mattie Spencer.
The Darkling Bride
All the Light We Cannot See
The Romanov Empress
Anything by Michele Moran is good if you like historical fiction about ancient Egypt
The Sara Donati Wilderness Series…
There’s like 5 or 6 books in the series…. you WILL NOT be able to put it down.
Best historical fiction!
Oops…. but it’s not “ new “
Between shades of gray and salt to the sea by Ruta sepetys
I loved Amy Snow and Florence Grace by Tracy Rees
….and The lost wife by Alyson Richman
Karolina’s Twins by Ronald H. Balson
Daughters of the Night Sky by @Aimie The Room on Rue Amelie by Kristin Harmel
The Room on Rue Amelie was great!
@Terri wasn’t it?? A top fav for me this year!
The Address…about the Dakota being built and the architecht’s family
Carnegie’s Maid..very good
The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable.
The Light Between Oceans
Cemetery keepers wife , first historical fiction I’ve read & really enjoyed it!
THE ALICE NETWORK by @Kate (WWI).
Last Woman Standing by Thelma Adams.
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate is so good.
The Boys In The Boat is a “page turner”
We did this for our first One Community One Book in Buffalo NY..great book! And a Buffalo connection
Try any book by Diney Costello
Enjoy fiction set the forties? Head to @Camille‘s wonderful books!
I just ordered her newest last night!
Anything by @Fiona! She’s amazing! @Amber has an amazing read coming out in a day! Lady Be Good! Takes place in NYC, Miami and Cuba!
The Way of Beauty by @Camille
She’s a popular one! Yay! I ordered it last night.
Thank you, @Jessica and @Cathy!
Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie @Aimie!!
Thanks, love!!!
I also recommend @Camille’s books! I have read Before the Rain Falls and I have 50 pages left in The Way of Beauty. Both are great!
Thank you!!
Seconded!
I have her newest book on my TBR on my IPad. Looking forward to it.
Anything by Jocelyn Green!
I love her books!! She’s a favorite! Haven’t found anybody quite like her yet.
The Cemetery Keepers Wife by Maryann McFadden
Goddess of the Hunt by Tessa Dare.
Have you read Somerset and Roses by Leila Meacham? She has not written too many books but these are fantastic!
No but sounds so familiar to me
Takes place in Texas.
@Linda this looks good!! I just placed it on hold at my library. I love family sagas.
Somerset, that is. Start there, right?
@Cathy Me too!
@Cathy Yes
Yay! Thanks
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Keep the kleenex handy especially on Roses.
I’m sure I will. I’m super easy going with books! I just want to be entertained ?
Love and Ruin by Paula McLain. *If you haven’t read The Paris Wife, it is great also. They are both about Ernest Hemingway.
I have them both on my wishlist !!
@Cathy perfect! Happy Reading!
I am reading Love and Ruin by Paula McLain now. It’s wonderful. I have read all of her books.
Beneath Earth and Sky by Amanda Skenandore. I just finished it and thought it was good.
Trilogy, beginning with The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. That’s B as in Bonaparte! Really good!
The Warmth Of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson..
Jenna Blum’s novels.
Love your name! ?
Outlanders
The Bronze Horseman series
Stolen marriage by Diane Chamberlain, the last ballad by Wiley cash
I checked The Last Ballad out this past weekend!
@Cathy I’m reading it now, liking it so far. Enjoy!
I read u wanted new, but the North and South series by John Jakes is great.
I just said new because more chance I haven’t read it yet. That one I’ve eyeballed many times!! I’ll check it out
The Letter!
Who’s the author? I think I know that one
@Cathy kathryn hughes
Her name is so familiar to me! Checking Goodreads
@Cathy read it! You won’t regret it. Cathy Lamb is by far my favorite author but her book genuinely moved me.
I just placed it on hold at the library ?
Hi! The Letter transports you between the past n present. And, it doesn’t abruptly end. Plus, it has a peaceful ending to a turbulent storyline.
I love duel timelines!!
@Cathy do it! So do I! In that case; also, reach back to the 90’s the Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour!
Lisa Kleypas ??
I enjoy Beatriz Williams
“The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane”, by Lisa See. “The Addtess”, “Carnegie’s Maid”…”Pulitzer winner, “All the Light We Cannot See”……”Night”, by Elie Wiesel….try a link called..”History Books”.
A Facebook page History Books
All fabulous ? books ?
Before we were yours is a great book its based on truth though