Historical Fictionistas discussion

COUNTRY
US: What Girls Are Good For: A Novel of Nellie Bly, David Blixt, 1/8/20
ENGLAND: Radio Girls, Sarah-Jane Stratford 1/22/20
ITALY: The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia, CW Gortner 2/15/20
FRANCE: Mistress of the Ritz, Melanie Benjamin, 1/9/20
RUSSIA: The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna CW Gortner 3/7/20
KENYA: Green City in the Sun, Barbara Wood 2/8/20
EGYPT: The Heretic Queen, Michelle Moran, 1/28/20
ICELAND: Burial Rites, Hannah Kent, 1/18/20
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Lusitania R.E.X., Greg Taylor 2/29/20

ERA
US: 1886, House of Thieves, Charles Belfour 3/21/20
ENGLAND: 12th Cent., Here Be Dragons, Sharon Kay Penman 5/31/20
ITALY: 4TH CENT. Julian Gore Vidal 4/24/20
FRANCE: LOUIS XV, The Sisters of Versailles, Sally Christie 4/15/20
RUSSIA: 1800, The Girl Who Fought Napoleon: A Novel of the Russian Empire, Linda Lafferty 5/16/20
KENYA: 1950s, Leopard at the Door, Jennifer McVeigh, 3/25/20
EGYPT: 1920s, The Visitors, Sally Beauman 6/10/20
ICELAND: 15TH CENT, On the Cold Coasts, Vilborg Davidsdottir, 3/22/20
ATLANTIC OCEAN: 1625, The Black Tulip, Elwood Yoder 3/29/20

AUTHOR
US: Opium and Absinthe Lydia Kang, 6/20/2020
ENGLAND: Above the Bay of Angels Rhys Bowen, 7/12/20
ITALY: The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco, 7/22/20
FRANCE: The Last of the Stanfields Marc Levy, 6/21/2020
RUSSIA: Lolita Vladimir Nobakov 6/24/20
KENYA: The River and the Source, Margaret Ogola, 7/19/20
EGYPT: The Map of Love Ahdaf Soueif, 7/10/20
ICELAND: The Greenhouse, Audur Ava Olafsdottir 6/14/20
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea, Steven Callahan 8/4/20

NON-FICTION
US: Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General Bill O'Reilly 9/27/20
ENGLAND: The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens[book:The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made EnglandDan Jones 12/5/20
ITALY: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, Ross King, 9/4/20
FRANCE: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, Sonia Purnell, 10/14/20
RUSSIA: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Robert Massie 9/1/20
KENYA: I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry... Susie Kelly 11/23/20
EGYPT: When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt Kara Cooney 9/21/20
ICELAND: Out of Thin Air, 10/28/20
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived, Andrew Wilson, 11/11/20

Really interesting list, hope you enjoy them all

thanks! I can't wait to get started!

Finished Level One!!!!!

Go Nancy! 😊

I love that you picked the Atlantic Ocean as a country. :)

I read Green City in the Sun and loved that book. I also read several other books by the author which I also enjoyed but not as much as Green City.

Anna wrote: "I love that you picked the Atlantic Ocean as a country. :)"

:)

Nancy from NJ wrote: "I read Green City in the Sun and loved that book. I also read several other books by the author which I also enjoyed but not as much as Green City."

I loved it as well. I will have to check out her others!

Finished Level 2!!!!

Great job finishing level 2!

Finished Level 3!! I love this challenge! I especially liked finding authors from the different countries. I chose to find contemporary authors rather than the old standards. Marc Levy from France was a great find (and it was historical fiction!). Ahdaf Soueif from Egypt and Audur Ava Olafsdottir from Iceland were also great. I will continue to look for modern writers from other countries!
On to Level 4!!!

FINISHED!!!!! The non-fiction section took awhile to get through but, get through it, I did!!!!

So what's the plan for next year?????

Congratulations!

Congrats!! Looks like some great books. Any that you would recommend?

Congratulations on completing your ambitious list!