2018 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge

**Challenge complete. See my challenge wrap-up post HERE.**

Host: Amy @ Passages to the Past
Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2018

Guidelines:

• Choose your level.
• Read any sub-genre of historical fiction (Historical Romance, Historical Mystery, Historical Fantasy, Young Adult, etc.)
• You don't need a blog to participate.
• There will be a monthly link for reviews.

Levels:

1. 20th Century Reader - 2 books
2. Victorian Reader - 5 books
3. Renaissance Reader - 10 books
4. Medieval - 15 books
5. Ancient History - 25 books
6. Prehistoric - 50+ books

My goal: "Victorian Reader" (5 books).

● See my original post about the challenge HERE. 
● See my challenge wrap-up post HERE. 
● See the challenge announcement/sign-up post HERE.
● See the pages for linking reviews: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December .


MY READING LIST (books I've read, with links to reviews):
1. Holmes Entangled. Gordon McAlpine (2018; set in early 20th Century)
2. The Cottingley Secret. Hazel Gaynor (2017; set in early 20th Century) [review linked up 10/04/2018]
3. Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels. Katherine Anne Porter (1939; pre-WWI setting)
4. When You Reach Me. Rebecca Stead (2009; set in 1970s) [review linked up 7/09/2018]
5. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael #1). Ellis Peters (1977; set in Medieval Wales)
6. A Shadow on the Wall. Jonathan Aycliffe (2000; set in Victorian England)


POSSIBILITIES (some books I'd like to knock off my TBR pile):

• Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood 
• The Alienist. Caleb Carr 
• The Children's Book. A.S. Byatt 
• The Conjurer's Bird. Martin Davies 
• The Cottingley Secret. Hazel Gaynor 
• The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga #1). Mary Stewart 
• The English Patient. Michael Ondaatje 
• Flora. Gail Godwin 
• The Fountain Overflows. Rebecca West 
• A Gentleman in Moscow. Amor Towles 
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Susan Vreeland 
• The Glass Room. Simon Mawer 
• The House of the Spirits. Isabel Allende 
• I Am Madam X. Gioia Diliberto 
• The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. Dominic Smith
• Los Alamos. Joseph Kanon 
• Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper. Harriet Scott Chessman 
• A Mercy. Toni Morrison 
• The Mists of Avalon. Marion Zimmer Bradley 
• Number the Stars. Lois Lowry 
• Remarkable Creatures. Tracy Chevalier 
• Rules of Civility. Amor Towles 
• The Secret Keeper. Kate Morton 
• The Summer Before the War. Helen Simonson 
• The Virgin in the Garden. A.S. Byatt 
• When We Were Orphans. Kazuo Ishiguro 
• Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys 
• The Women in the Castle. Jessica Shattuck 

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