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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