Historical Fiction I've Read

Picture Books
Aston, Dianna Hutts - The Moon Over Star (1969 Moon Landing)
Atkins, Jeannine - Anne Hutchinson's Way (1634 Massachusetts Bay Colony)
Barker, Michelle - A Year of Borrowed Men (WWII Germany - French POWs)
Barron, T. A. - The Day the Stones Walked (Ancient Easter Island)
Bartone, Elisa - Peppe the Lamplighter (Immigration NYC - Little Italy)
Bildner, Phil - The Hallalujah Flight (1932 Transcontinental Flight)
Bunting, Eve - Pop's Bridge  (building, Golden Gate Bridge 1933-1937)
Burleigh, Robert - Abraham Lincoln Comes Home (Civil War/Post-CivilWar)
Fleming, Candace - Boxes for Katje (1945 Netherlands)
Fredericks, Anthony D. - The Tsunami Quilt (1946 Hawaiin Tsunami)
Hopkinson, Deborah - Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story (WWI US)
Huget, Jennifer LaRue - Thanks a Lot, Emily Post! (1922 America)
Kerby, Mona - Owny, The Mail -Pouch Pooch (1888 Across America)
Koehler-Pentacoff - Jackson and Bud's Bumpy Ride (1903 Across America)
Levine, Ellen - Henry's Freedom Box (Underground RR)
Lowry, Lois - Crow Call (1945 America, after-the-war)
Malaspina, Ann - Finding Lincoln (Civil Rights Era in the south)
Newman, Leslea - Gittel's Journey (Immigration to Ellis Island around 1900 from Russia)
Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing (1952 - 1970 No. Carolina)
Peacock, Louise - At Ellis Island (Immigration from Armenia to Ellis Island) 48 pgs.
Polacco, Patricia - Fiona's Lace (Immigration)
Polacco, Patricia - January's Sparrow (Underground Railroad)
Polacco, Patricia - An Orange for Frankie (turn-of-the-century America)
Polacco, Patricia - Tucky Jo and Little Heart (WWII in the Pacific)
Snyder, Elaine - Anna & Solomon (1897 Immigration to the US from Russia)
Stroud, Betty - The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom (Underground Railroad)
Wheeler, Eliza - Home in the Woods (The Depression)
Wiviott, Meg - Benno and the Night of Broken Glass (1938 Berlin)
Wood, Douglas - Aunt Mary's Rose (1950s America)

Middle Grade Books
Anderson, Laurie Halse - Chains (American Revolution) or YA?
Blackford, Cheryl - Lizzie and the Lost Baby  (WWII England)
Giff, Patricia Reilly - Gingersnap (1944 Brooklyn)
Hesse, Karen - Brooklyn Bridge (1903 Brooklyn, NY)
Lai, Thanhha, Inside Out and Back Again (1970s Vietnam)
Latham, Irene - Leaving Gee's Bend (1932 Depression Alabama)
Partridge, Elizabeth - Dogtag Summer (Flashbacks to 1975 Vietnam)
Patt, Beverly - Best Friends Forever (1942 Japanese Interment Camp)
Pinkney, Andrea Davis - Dear America: With the Might of Angels, The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley Virginia, 1954 (desegration, 1954 Virginia) (5)
Rose, Caroline Starr - May B. a Novel (late 18th century Kansas)
Selznik, Brian - Wonderstruck (1927 NJ and 1977 Minnesota)
Stolz, Joelle - The Shadows of Ghadames (19th century Libya)
Timberlake, Amy - One Came Home (1871 Wisconsin prairie)

Wendell, Mindy Nichols - Light and Air (1935 Tuberculos/upstate NY) (4)
Whelan, Gloria - Listening for Lions (1919 Kenya & England)
Whelan, Gloria- Small Acts of Amazing Courage (1919 India)
Williams-Garcia - One Crazy Summer (1968 California)
Wolk, Lauren - Wolf Hollow  (1940s rural PA)

YA Books
Cushman, Karen - The Loud Silence of Francine Green (McCarthy era)
Schlitz, Laura Amy - The Hired Girl (1911 Baltimore)
Taylor, Janet B. - Into the Dim (Eleanor of Aquataine Taylor time travel)

Adult Books
Barnes, Kim - In the Kingdom of Men (1967 Saudi Arabia)
Bartels, Erin - We Hope for Better Things (1861/1963/contemporary Detroit)

Benedict, Marie - Agent 355 (based on true story of female spy during American Revolution)
Blackwell, Elizabeth - In the Shadow of Lakecrest (1928 Lake Michigan)
Brooks, Geraldine - Caleb's Crossing (1660s New England)
Brown, Amy Belding - Flight of the Sparrow (1676 Mass. Bay Colony)
Bryce, Megan - To Catch a Spinster (Regency Romance, England)
Chamberlain, Diane - Big Lies in a Small Town (contemp & 1940 NC)
Cornick, Nicola - The Phantom Tree (1557 England/ Time Travel)
Dallas, Sandra - Prayers for Sale (1930s/Depression, Colorado)
Fortier, Anne - The Lost Sisterhood (ancient Odyssey times)
Gerritsen, Tess - The Bone Garden (1830 Boston)
Goolrick, Robert - A Reliable Wife, (1907 rural Wisconsin)
Harkness, Deborah - Shadow of Night (1591 England, France, Prague)

............................... - Time's Convert  (American & French Revolution embedded in fantasy)
Harmon, Amy - Where the Lost Wander (1853 Overland Trail)
Hashimi, Nadia - The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (Early 20th Century Kabul, Afghanistan)

Hawker Olivia - One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow (1876 Wyoming)

.........................-The Fire and the Ore (1856 Mormon Trail/Utah)
Hoffman, Alice - Everything My Mother Taught Me (1908 coastal Mass.)
Howe, Katherine - Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Salem Witch Trials)

Jenner, Natalie - The Jane Austen Society (post WWII Hampshire, England)

Kline, Christina Baker - The Exiles (1840s Britain & Australia, plus ship voyage)
.................................... - Orphan Train (1929 Minnesota)
Krueger, William Kent - Ordinary Grace (1961 Minnesota)
Lovett, Charlie - The Bookman's Tale
Morton, Kate - The Forgotten Garden (multiple/early 20th century: Australia & England)

Moyes, Jojo - The Giver of Stars (1937 eastern KY)

Nesbit, TaraShea - Beheld (1630 Plymouth colony)
Otsuka, Julia - Buddha in the Attic (1920-1940 California)
Pulley, D. M. - The Buried Book (1952 rural farmland Michigan)
Raybourn, Deanna - A Curious Beginning, (1897 England) Mystery
Richardson, Michele - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (1936 eastern KY/Appalachi)
Romer, Anna - Lyrebird Hill (1898 and 2013 in alternating chapters, New South Wales, Australia)
Shaffer, Mary Ann & Annie Barrows - Guernsy Literary and Potato Peel Society (German Occupation of Guernsey Island)
Spera, Deb - Call Your Daughter Home (1924 SC/ 3 female POV)
Taylor, Janet B. - Into the Dim Time Travel that takes us to 1200 Eleanor of Aquitaine & Becket's London
Wallace, Michael - Crow Hollow (1676 Puritan Boston)
Wingate, Lisa - The Book of Lost Friends (1875 & 1987 Louisiana)

Zugg, Victor - A Ripple in Time (TT to early 1700s Charleston)

Movies
The Butler (Civil Rights era)
Invictus (end-of-apartheid South Africa)
The King's Speech (1930s England)