Anonymous
Post 01/03/2025 22:42     Subject: Re:Historical Fiction recommendations?
Giver of Stars
Frozen River
Island of Sea Women
The Island by Victoria Hislop

I was unable to put down any of these books.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2025 22:07     Subject: Re:Historical Fiction recommendations?
None Left to Tell by Noelle Ihli
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2025 21:03     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 20:12     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
I am getting back into reading for fun for 2025. I am an academic (History) and I find it tedious to read all of the time.

My favourites:

The Josephine B Trilogy
(Part of the Josephine Bonaparte Series) by Sandra Gulland

Susan Sontag’s The Volcanoe Lover - it’s about Lord Nelson’s mistress when he was serving in Italy
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2024 22:34     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
The Diary of Mattie Spencer by Sandra Dallas
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2024 10:33     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Hilary Mantel
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2024 09:50     Subject: Re:Historical Fiction recommendations?
Anonymous wrote:The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff.


I loved this!
Bartlebythescrivener
Post 12/25/2024 19:52     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Children of the Neon Bamboo-- 10/10
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 18:28     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Gore Vidal has written a lot of great historical fiction. My favorite Vidal novel is Julian.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 14:17     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

Becoming Madame Secretary by Stephanie Dray

The House of Eve by Sadequa Johnson
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 14:09     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Hilary Mantel's books are amazing. The Wolf Hall trilogy and A Place of Greater Safety.
I also love Amitav Ghosh - The Glass Palace is my favorite, but the Ibis trilogy is also good.
Anonymous
Post 12/21/2024 18:39     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Books by Madeline Miller
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2024 10:13     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
I read Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon on DCUM recommendation and really enjoyed it.

This one has a bit of mythical angle but I enjoyed the details about viking era living in The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2024 22:31     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Anonymous wrote:Check out The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Based on a true story about 1600s witch trials in Norway and a modern sculpture by Louise Bourgeois commemorating those who died in the trials.

I’ll add that I enjoyed The Vaster Wilds (and The Matrix is on my list to read). It was a sad but good, fast read.

I liked Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, by the same author as Wicked. It takes place in Holland during tulip madness.

Richard Mason has a book called Who Killed Piet Barol? about South Africa as apartheid is starting. There’s also a prequel about Piet’s beginnings in Holland.




I also liked The Dance Tree by the same author, about the “dancing plague” of 1500s France.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2024 14:35     Subject: Historical Fiction recommendations?
Outlander - 10 huge books worth of historical fiction and drama.