2017 Reading Challenge discussion

This folder is for books that are historical in nature - either fiction or nonfiction. It's up to you - choose your favorite time period, or travel in time to somewhere new.

Please share your suggestions, or any resources you've used to help find your book for this category in this thread.

I am starting this challenge by tackling "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon next month.

The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage is my choice.

I'm going to read The Wake . This book would also work for #9 (an award winning book), as it won the Gordon Burn Prize, and #23 (a debut novel).

Will probably do Phillipa Gregory. I have been eyeing her newest book The Taming of the Queen.

Sarika wrote: "The Luminaries just might fit this category. I'm very curious about this book and plan to read it soon anyway."

I loved this one!
I think I will read sth. from Bernard Cornwell or the fourth book from Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon

Either the second book in the Outlander series, A Dragonfly In Amber, or the second book in the Cousin's War series by Phillipa Gregory, The Red Queen.

I'm currently reading Lucy McDiarmid's At Home in the Revolution: What Women Said and Did in 1916. It is based on the diaries and letters of women involved in the Easter 1916 Rising in Dublin Ireland. It is particularly apt given the centenary celebrations which have begun today in Dublin Castle.

A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

Killing A King: The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin.

The seems a fitting book for the year we have had going into 2016.

I am going to read The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan. It is non-fiction and follows a couple different families who survived the Dust Bowl. That would have been such a difficult time to live! I am very excited to read it.

Would At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen qualify for this category? I see it's listed under the genre Historical Fiction

It seems that I am trying (unwittingly) to keep a balance between over planning and spontaneity. I have a number of categories for which I have not fully made up my mind. This is one of those. The two contenders are:

Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans, which is about the evacuation of London children to the North and the South during WWII, or
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, recommender by a fellow challenge participant. Since both are waiting for my attention in my kindle, The spur of the moment spontaneity would decide the winner. . .

I finished "The Romanov Sisters", was very interesting and adds a different perspective about the life at the tsar's court.

Dead Wake - The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Anabel wrote: "I finished "The Romanov Sisters", was very interesting and adds a different perspective about the life at the tsar's court."

I finished that one over Christmas/New Year....very interesting, inevitably sad. Glad I read it though.

I'm three quarters done with Dragonfly in Amber. Even though it's a fictional work, I've learned a lot about Bonny Prince Charles' rebellion.

I'm three quarters done with Dragonfly in Amber. Even though it's a fictional work, I've learned a lot about Bonny Prince Charles' rebellion.

I just finished Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. Wonderful book and would fit this category well. It is the story of 2 Chinese women during the era of footbinding. Well written and a quick read. If you haven't picked a book for this category I highly recommend this one.

I just finished The Jungle for this task. It focuses on the lives of stockyard workers in Chicago at the turn of the 19th century. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, this book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day. I was actually surprised at how much I liked this book.

Would 35 Miles from Shore: The Ditching and Rescue of ALM Flight 980 qualify for this category? It's the true story about a plane crash from 1970.