Historical Fictionistas discussion

Scoring Example

Here's an example of how it will look when reported:

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
#15 spot - 15 points
664 pages - 6 points
HF - 5 point
Date added: Jan 1, 2014: 15 pts
Total - 41 points


Scoring Primer:
Initial points is the spot on your list.

Bonuses for:
Historical Fiction
# of pages
Summer Task
How long it's been on your TBR

Any questions you have make sure to post them in the Rules.

Good luck everyone!

50.. Iron Lake by William Kent Kruger
# 50points
464 pagees=4 points
On TBR since 5/2015=15 points
Book total=69 points




Challenge total=69points

Inferno by Dan Brown
#46 spot - 46 points (Exception Book)
578 pages - 6 points
HF - 0 points
Date added: June 14, 2013 - 15 points
TOTAL - 67 points

Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera
#24 - 24 points
336 pages - 4 points
HF - 0 points
Date added: June 22, 2022 - 0 points
TOTAL - 28 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 95 points

Mars the Avenger by Alan Scribner
#50 spot = 50 points
231 pages = 2 points
HF = 5 points
Summer theme (d) = 5 points
Date added 2023 = 0 points
Total = 62 points

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne
#21 - 21pts
496p - 4pts
TBR 2023 - 0pts
Total - 25pts

So Far from God: A Novel by Ana Castillo
#42 - 42 points
251 pages - 2 points
HF - 0 points
Date added: November 17, 2012 - 15 points
TOTAL - 59 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 154 points

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Finished 20Jun23 - audio
#45 - 45pts
536p - 6pts
TBR 15 Nov 2014 - 15pts
HF bonus - 5pts
Bonus E: Author initials in “summer” - 5pts
Total - 76pts

Challenge total - 101pts

The Last Tudor #50 = 50
3b) country = 5
4a) 518 pages = 6
4b) HF = 5

Total = 66

Hook's Tale: Being the Account of an Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself #49 = 49
4a) 288 pages = 2
4b) HF = 5

Total = 56

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling #47 = 47
4a) 373 pages = 4

Total = 51

The Sands of Time #46 = 46
3e) author S = 5
4a) 364 pages = 4

Total = 55

Total to date = 228

#47 Promised to the Crown by Aimee K. Runyan
47 points for list
362 pages=4 points
Hf=5 points
On TBR since 4/16=15 points
Bonus b=5 points
Book total=76 point

Challenge total=145 points

#49 - The Gallery of Beauties by Nina Wachsman = 49 points
378 pages = 4 points
HF = 5 points
Summer theme (f) = 5 points
Date added 2023 = 0 points
Total = 63 points

Challenge total = 125 points

The Angel in the Glass #2 Gabriel Taverner by Alys Clare
#49 spot - 49 points
240 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Bonus D: set in different country (England) - 5 points
Date added: December 10, 2022 - 0 points

Book Total - 61 points
Challenge Total - 61 points
Total Books Read - 1

Hula by Jasmin Iolani Hakes
#40 - 40 points
385 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: May 7, 2023 - 0 points
Bonus (f) - 5 points
TOTAL - 54 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 208 points

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Finished 21Jun23 - print/audio
#14 - 14pts
288p - 2pts
TBR 21 Mar 2014 - 15pts
Bonus D: Set in a foreign country - 5pts
Total - 36pts

Challenge total - 137pts

#43 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
#43=43 points
400 pgs= 4 points
HF=5 points
Total points=52 points

Challenge total=52 points

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley
#8 - 8 points
347 pages - 4 points
HF - 0 points
Bonus (e) - 5 points
Date added: March 24, 2023 - 0 points
TOTAL - 12 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 225 points

#48 - Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid = 48 points
355 pages = 4 points
HF = 0 points (?)
Date added: 12/2019 = 6 points
Summer theme (b) = 5 points
Total = 63 points

Challenge total = 188 points

#49 Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese= 49 points
Date added 3/2022= 2 points
HF =5 points
322 pages= 4 points
Bonus b main character takes a trip = 5 points

Total 65 points

#50 The Favored Child by Phillipa Gregory
Dated Added 7/20 -4pts
614pp -6pts
HF - 5 pts
Bonus C ( summer scene) - -5pts
Book Total : 70 pts

Challenge Total: 70 pts

#49 Ashton Park by Murray Pura
49 points
HF-5 points
384 pages=4 points
On TBR since 2/14=15 points
Bonus- one of author's initials in SUMMER=5 points
Book total=78 points

Challenge total=223 points

#47 - One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters = 47 points
292 pages = 2 points
HF = 5 points
Date added 9/2021 = 2 points
Summer theme (a) = 5 points
Book Total = 61 points

Challenge total = 249 points

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
#42 - 42pts
368p - 4pts
TBR 9 May 2022 - 2pts
Bonus B: MC takes a trip - 5pts
Total - 53pts

Challenge total - 190pts

#48 Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
4a) 464 pages = 4

Book Total = 52

#44 Heidi
4a) 352 pages = 4
4b) HF = 5

Book Total = 53

#43 My Life on the Road
3b) trip = 5
4a) 276 pages = 2

Book Total = 50

#40 The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line
3f) beach = 5
4a) 324 pages = 4

Book Total= 49

Challenge Total = 432

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
#29 - 29pts
240p - 2pts
TBR Sep 2022 - 0pts
Bonus C: Summer on the cover - 5pts
Total - 36pts

Challenge total - 226pts

Beach Read by Emily Henry
#50=50 points
358 pgs= 4 points
Bonus c=5points
Book total= 59 points

Challenge total=111 points

The Current by Tim Johnston
BONUS BOOK (Jasmine's TBR) - 50 points
352 pages - 4 points
HF - 0 points
TOTAL - 54 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 279 points

#48 The Painted Girls
Date added 7/17 -10 pts
397pp -4 pts
HF -5 pts
Bonus (d) - 5pts
Book total : 72 pts

Challenge total: 142 pts

Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro
#38 - 38 points
368 pages - 4 points
HF - 0 points
Date added: February 9, 2022 - 2 points
TOTAL - 44 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 323 points

You Don't Want To Know by Lisa Jackson
#48=48 points
416 pages=4 points
On TBR since 9/2012=15 points
Book total=67 points

Challenge total=290 points

The Lioness of Morocco by Julia Drosten
#46= 46 points
450 pages = 4 points
Date added 5/28/2017= 15 points
HF 5 points
Bonus D set in a difficult country= 5 points
Total Points 75

Challenge. Total 140

Go as a River by Shelley Read
#31 - 31 points
320 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: April 29, 2023 - 0 points
Summer bonus (c) - 5 points
TOTAL - 45 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 368 points

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
#48 spot - 48 points
349 pages - 4 points
Bonus B: main character takes a trip (England to Africa) - 5 points
Date added: August 20, 2022: 0 points

Book Total - 57 points
Challenge Total - 118
Total Books Read - 2

#46 Gracie by Ellie Keaton
46 points
285 pages=2 points
HF=5 points
On TBR since 3/16=15 points
Bonus d=5 points
Book total=73 points

Challenge total=363 points

#44 The Arnifour Affair by Gregory Harris = 44 points
304 pages = 4 points
HF = 5 points
Date added: 02/2021 = 4 points
Total = 57 points

Challenge total = 306 points

#23 The Bat by Jo Nesbo (23pts)
369pp : 4 pts
Date Added: 4/18 : 10 pts
Bonus B : 5 pts
Book Total: 42 pts

Challenge Total: 184pts

#42 Fast Track by Fern Michaels = 42 points
299 pages = 2 points
HF = 0
Date added 01/2022 = 2 points
Summer theme (e) = 5 points
Total = 51 points

#45 Tudor Dawn by David Field = 45 points
243 pages = 2 points
HF = 5 points
Date added 12/2022 = 0 points
Total = 52 points

Challenge total = 409

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
#36=36 points
369 pgs=4 points
Bonus E= 5 points
Book Total=45 points

Challenge total=156 points

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
#40= 40 points
409 pages= 4 points
Date added 7/2020= 4 points
Book Total 48 points

Challenge Total 188 points

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Bonus Book #1 (Gretchen) - 50pts
260p - 2pts
Total - 52pts

Challenge total - 278pts

#8 Gunpowder Green by Laura Childs -8pts
Date Added 5/18 - 10pts
244pp - 2 pts
Book Total - 20 pts

Challenge Total: 204pts

Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor EXCEPTION BOOK
#50 spot - 50 points
972 pages - 8 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: August 21, 2021 - 2 points

Book Total - 65 points
Challenge Total - 183
Total Books Read - 3

Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts
#45= 45 points
348 pages = 4 points
Dated added 5/2016= 15 points
Bonus E = 5 points
Book Total= 69 points

Challenge Total 257 points

Duty to the Crown by Aimie K. Runyan
#45 on list=45 points
HF=5 points
354 pages=4 point
On TBR since 10/2016=15 points
Book total=69 points

Challenge total=432 points

The Magic Journey by John Nichols
#48 - 48 points
566 pages - 6 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: October 24, 2011 - 15 points
TOTAL - 74 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 442 points

]#41 The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
380 pages = 4

Book Total = 45

#42 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
272 pages = 2

Book Total = 44

#38 Girl In The Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
242 pages = 2
HF = 5

Book Total = 45

#46 The Lost Summers Of Newport by Beatriz Williams
373 pages = 4
3c)= 5

HF = 5

Book Total = 60

Challenge Total = 626

Tidewater: A Novel of Pocahontas and the Jamestown Colony by Libbie Hawker
#45 - 45 points
539 pages - 6 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: August 13, 2014 - 15 points
TOTAL - 71 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 513 points

#31 Northern Wolf by Daniel Greene = 31 points
245 pages = 2 points
HF = 5 points
Date added: Apr 2020 = 6 points
Total = 44 points

Challenge Total = 453 points

These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
#42=42 points
275 pgs=2 points
TBR-Jan 9, 2022=2 points
Book Total= 46 points

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
#47=47 points
210 pgs=2 points
Book Total=49 points

Challenge total=251 points

Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea
#44 - 44 points
465 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: May 30, 2023 - 0 points
TOTAL - 53 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 566 points

The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
#23=23 points
HF=5 poinnts
354 pages=4 points
On TBR since 11/2019=10 points
Bonus f (set on an island--Manhattan)=5 points
Book total=47 points

Challenge total=479 points

You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
#34 - 34pts
240p - 2pts
TBR 2023 - 0pts
Bonus A: Set in summer - 5pts
Total - 41pts

Challenge Total - 319pts