Saturday, December 10, 2022

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge

 


Marg at The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader will be hosting the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge again this year. I've still got a couple of historical series to work on and plan to join in for another round.. If historical fiction is your thing (or you'd like to see if it is), take a peek at the details at the link above.

I'm going to sign up for the Victorian Reader level (5 books). I may wind up venturing further, but if I reach my initial goal then I will claim the challenge complete

1. A Gentleman's Murder by Christopher Huang (1/22/23)
2. Mysterious Invitation by Bernice Bloom [over half the story takes place in the past] (1/27/23)
3. The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian (2/12/23)
4. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by various (2/15/23)
5. Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (3/4/23)
Victorian Reader (Commitment Complete!)
6. The Black Cat Murders by Karen Baugh Menuhin (3/7/23)
7. Sidney Chambers & the Perils of the Night by James Runcie (3/11/23)
8. Dead, Mr. Mozart by Bernard Bastable (3/15/23)
9. Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn [half the story takes place in the past] (3/30/23)
10. Speakers of the Dead by J. Aaron Sanders (4/1/23)
Renaissance Reader
11. Where Serpents Sleep by C. S. Harris (4/3/23)
12. Gone West by Carola Dunn (4/6/23)
13. Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield (4/7/23)
14. Fatal Enquiry by Will Thomas (4/9/23)
15. Pride of the Peacock by Victoria Holt (4/23/23)
Medieval Reader
16. The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits by Mike Ashley, ed. (4/30/23)
17. Blackstone Fell by Martin Edwards (5/23/23)
18. Murder Is Pathological by P. M. Carlson (6/8/23) 
19. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (6/15/23)
20. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (6/29/23)
21. Who Cries for the Lost by C. S. Harris (7/4/23)
22. See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy (7/7/23)
23. Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott (7/16/23)
24. The Private Wound by Nicholas Blake (7/25/23)
25. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (8/6/23)
Ancient History
26. The Mystery of the Yellow Hands by Jake & Luke Thoene (8/16/23)
27. The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier (9/2/23)
28. Holding by Graham Norton (9/5/23)
29. Hemlock Hollow by Culley Holderfield (9/19/23)
30. Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan (10/6/23)
31. Death & the Conjuror by Tom Mead (10/26/23)
32. The Floating Lady Murder by Daniel Stashower (10/28/23)
33. The Red Death Murders by Jim Noy (11/6/23)
34. A Most Efficient Murder by Anthony Slayton (11/18/23)
35. Murder in Mayfair by D. M. Quincy (11/29/23)
36. Murder in Bloomsbury by D. M. Quincy (11/30/23)
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1 comment:

Stephanie Jane said...

I'm looking forward to seeing your choices, and maybe picking up some recommendations for my own challenge list :-)