Showing posts with label Historical Fiction List. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historical Fiction List. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

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)