2020 Reading Challenges: HIstorical Fiction

2020 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge
Host: Passages to the Past (sign up) There will be monthly posts to share review links
Duration: January - December 2020
# of books: I'm signing up for Prehistoric 50+ books (I read over 100 in 2019, so this seems doable.)

My goal is to get caught up (or better caught up) on my historical fiction review copies. (Though I'll count any historical fiction I read towards the challenge.)

As of December 12, 2019 this is my TBR list. There are 92 books on the list.

Vagabond Vicar	Brentwood, Charlotte
At the Water's Edge	Gruen, Sara
The Determined Heart	May, Antoinette
Mother Time	Herman, Louise
The Summer Before the War	Simonson, Helen
Radio Girls	Stratford, Sarah Jane
A Bridge Across the Ocean	Meissner, Susan
Seven Days in May	Izzo, Kim
Mr. Rochester	Shoemaker, Sarah
Romancing Daphne	Eden, Sarah
Courting the Country Miss	Hatch, Donna
I, Eliza Hamilton	Scott, Susan Holloway
Can't Buy Me Love	Humphries, Martin
For Castle and Crown	Bessey, Sian Ann
Enchantress of Numbers	Chiaverini, Jennifer
The Lost Season of Love and Snow	Laam, Jennifer
The Girls in the Picture	Benjamin, Melanie
As Bright as Heaven	Meissner, Susan
My Name is Victoria	Worsley, Lucy
Christy	Marshall, Catherine
The Battle for England (Wars of the Magna Carta #1)	Hernon, Austin
The Hidden Women	Barrett, Kerry
Inventing Victoria	Bolden, Tonya
Brides in the Sky	Holladay, Cary
The Beantown Girls	Healey, Jane
Finding Dorothy	Letts, Elizabeth
Spartanburg	Fleming, Richard
A Conformable Wife	Ley, Alice Chetwynd
The Village	Duke, Philip
Storm Chasers of Wentworth Hall	Chambers, IreAnne
No Woman's Land	Midwood, Ellie
A Proper Scandal	Hatch, Esther
Gold Digger	Rosenberg, Rebecca
The Daughter's Tale	Correa, Armando Lucas
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek	Richardson, Kim Michele
Gardenia Duty	Varn, Kathleen
The Summer Country	Willig, Lauren
In the Warsaw Ghetto	Haybittle, Glenn
The Work of Art	Matthews, Mimi
The Violin Maker's Daughter	Maas, Sharon
The Secret Letter	Rix, Debbie
Bethlehem	Kelly, Karen
The Winter Sisters	Westover, Tim
Daisy's War	Summers, Rowena
The Substitute Bride	Mack, Dorothy
All The forgivenesses	Hardinger, Elizabeth
The Ventriloquists	Ramzipoor, E.R.
Uber Alles	Neff, Robert Arthur
The Papers of A.J. Wentworth BA	Ellis, H.F.
Everybody's Somebody	Kingston, Beryl
The Teacher at Donegal Bay	Doughty, Anne
A Matter of Interpretation	MacDonald, Elizabeth
The Last Train to London	Clayton, Meg Waite
Christmas Once Again	Bacarr, Jina
Secrets & Suitors	Barker, Joanne
The Paris Girl	Evans, Natalie Meg
Murder Cuts the Mustard	Ellicott, Jessica
Kit's HIll	Stubbs, Jean
The Caldwell Girls	Summers, Rowena
Love on the Sound	Knight, Ciara
Mercy Road	Creel, Ann Howard
Across a Broken Shore	Trueblood, Amy
The Occupation	Swift, Deborah
Anne and Louis	Gaston, Rozsa
To Crown a King	Melin, Raedene Jeannette
Ravelled	Gannon, Seph
The German House	Hess, Annette
Kit and Elizabeth	Tuft, Karen
All The Ways We Said Goodbye	Williams Beatriz and Lauren Willig and Karen White
The Whispers of War	Kelly, Julia
Lady Clementine	Benedict, Marie
Light Changes Everything	Turner, Nancy E.
The Vineyards of Champagne	Blackwell, Juliet
The Companion	Blakemore, Kim Taylor
Remembered	Battle-Felton, Yvonne
Promised	Garriott, Leah
The Light After the War	Abriel, Anita
The Girl in White Gloves	Maher, Kerri
The Queen's Fortune	Pataki, Allison
The Borgia Confessions	Palombo, Alyssa
Above the Bay of Angels	Bowen, Rhys
The Other Bennet Sister	Hadlow, Janice
My Long List of Impossible Things	Barker, Michelle
The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant	Nunn, Kayte
Beheld	Nesbit, TaraShea
The Engineer's Wife	Wood, Tracey Enerson
Miss Austen	Hornby, Gill
The German Heiress	Scott, Anika
Lakeshire Park	Walker, Megan
The Jane Austen Society	Jenner, Natalie
While the music Played	Lande, Nathaniel
The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls	Hegi, Ursula

 What I have read.

January
1. Death's Door. (Billy Boyle #7) James R. Benn. 2012. Soho Crime. 358 pages. [Source: Library] [Genres: Historical Fiction; Mystery]
2. A Blind Goddess (Billy Boyle #8) James R. Benn. 2013. Soho Crime. 320 pages [Source: Library] [Genres: Historical; Mystery]
3. Kopp Sisters on the March (Kopp Sisters #5) Amy Stewart. 2019. 355 pages. HMH. [Source: Library] [Genres: Historical]
4. The Rest Is Silence. (Billy Boyle #9) James R. Benn. 2014. Soho Crime. 323 pages. [Source: Library] [Genres: Historical; Mystery]
5. The Twelve Brides of Christmas Collection. Barbour Books. 2015. 544 pages. [Source: Review copy] [Historical; Romance; Christian Fiction]
6. Serving Up Love: A Harvey House Brides Collection. Tracie Peterson. Karen Witemeyer. Regina Jennings. Jen Turano. 2019. Bethany House. 384 pages. [Source: Library] [Christian Fiction; Historical; Romance]
7.  The Sobbin' Women. Stephen Vincent Benet. 1937. 26 pages. [Source: Online]
8. The White Ghost. (Billy Boyle #10). James R. Benn. 2015. 352 pages. [Source: Library] [Historical Fiction; Mystery; World War II]

February
9. Blue Madonna. (Billy Boyle #11) James R. Benn. 2016. 316 pages. [Source: Library] [Historical; Mystery; World War II]
10. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven. Chris Cleave. 2016. 418 pages. [Source: Library] [World War II; Historical; Romance; Adult Fiction]
11. The Devouring (Billy Boyle #12) James R. Benn. 2017. 310 pages. [Source: Library] [Historical; Mystery; World War II]
12. Solemn Graves. (Billy Boyle #13) James R. Benn. 2018. 340 pages. [Source: Library] [Historical; Mystery; Adult Fiction; World War II]
13. When Hell Struck Twelve. (Billy Boyle #14) James R. Benn. 2019. 360 pages. [Source: Library] [adult mystery; adult fiction; adult historical; world war 2]
14. Promised. Leah Garriott. 2020. 368 pages. [Source: Review copy] [Proper Romance; Clean Romance; Regency Romance; Adult Fiction]

March
15. Words on Fire. Jennifer A. Nielsen. 2019. 336 pages. [Source: Library] [Historical fiction; mg fiction; ya fiction]
16. Fever 1793. Laurie Halse Anderson. 2000. 252 pages. [Source: Library][historical fiction; mg historical; mg fiction]
17. The Clergyman's Wife: A Pride and Prejudice Novel. Molly Greeley. 2019. 304 pages. [Source: Library] [adult historical; adult fiction; women's fiction; Austen adaptation]
18. Plague Land. (Somershill Manor Mystery #1) S.D. Sykes. 2015. 336 pages. [Source: Library] [adult fiction; historical; mystery]
19. The Butcher Bird. (Somershill Manor Mystery #2) S.D. Sykes. 2015. 342 pages. [Source: Library] [adult mystery; adult historical]

April
20. The Bone Fire. (Somershill Manor Mystery #4) S.D. Sykes. 2019. 400 pages. [Source: Library] [adult mystery; adult historical fiction; historical mystery]
21. Victoria's War. Catherine A. Hamilton. 2020. 276 pages. [Source: Review copy] [World War II; world at war; adult fiction; historical fiction]
22. Lakeshire Park. Megan Walker. 2020. [April] 320 pages. [Source: Review copy] [adult fiction; adult romance; historical fiction; historical romance]
23. Rakes and Roses. (Mayfield Family #3) Josi S. Kilpack. 2020 [May] 320 pages. [Source: Review copy] [romance; Regency romance; historical]

May
24. The Secret Life of Bees. Sue Monk Kidd. 2003. 302 pages. [Source: Library] [historical fiction; dysfunctional families; adult novels with young protagonists]
25. The Highlander's English Bride. (Clan Kendrick #3) Vanessa Kelly. 2020. 448 pages. [Source: Review copy] [adult* romance]
26. Misleading a Duke (The Wallflowers of West Lane #2) A.S. Fenichel. 2020. [September] 304 pages. [Source: Review copy]
27. Who's That Earl (Love and Let Spy #1) Susanna Craig. 2020. 384 pages. [Source: Review copy]
28. The Pull of the Stars. Emma Donoghue. 2020. [July] 304 pages. [Source: Review copy]

June
29. Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters. Jennifer Chiaverini. 2020. 352 pages. [Source: Review copy] [Historical fiction]
30. The Huntress. Kate Quinn. 2019. 560 pages. [Source: Library] [World War II]
31. Dragonfly. Leila Meacham. 2019. 563 pages. [Source: Library] [World War II]
32. The Downstairs Girl. Stacey Lee. 2019. 374 pages. [Source: Library] [Historical fiction; YA Fiction]
33. The Beauty Chorus. Kate Lord Brown. 2020. (2011) 434 pages. [Source: Review copy] [Historical romance; World War II]
34. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne. William Makepeace Thackery. 1852. 528 pages. [Source: Bought] [dull books; classic; Victorian literature]

July
35. Madeleine. Elvi Rhodes. 1989/2011. 512 pages. [Source: Review copy]
36. Running With The Wind. Dionne Haynes. 2019. 344 pages. [Source: Review copy] [Adult historical fiction]
37. Before the Crown. Flora Harding. 2020. 400 pages. [Source: Review copy] [Adult historical fiction]

38. Letters From the Corrugated Castle: A Novel of Gold Rush California: 1850-1852. Joan W. Blos. 2007. 320 pages. [Source: Review copy]

39. Our Castle By The Sea. Lucy Strange. 2019. 336 pages. [Source: Review copy]

40. Otherwise Engaged. Joanna Barker. 2020. 262 pages. [Source: Review copy]

August

September

41. Gentleman Jim. Mimi Matthews. 2020. [November] 376 pages. [Source: Review copy]

42. The Spoon Stealer. Lesley Crewe. 2020. [September] 360 pages. [Source: Review copy]

43. Poison in the Colony: James Town 1622. Elisa Carbone. 2019. 320 pages. [Source: Review copy]

44. The Paper Daughters of Chinatown. Heather B. Moore. 2020. Shadow Mountain. 384 pages. [Source: Review copy]

45. Beauty Among Ruins. J'nell Ciesielski. 2021. [January] 368 pages. Thomas Nelson. [Source: Review copy]

October

46. Chasing Orion. Kathryn Lasky. 2010. 368 pages. [Source: Review copy]

47. The Children of the New Forest. Frederick Marryat. 1847. 369 pages. [Source: Bought]

48. The Royal Governess. Wendy Holden. 2020. 368 pages. [Source: Review copy] 

49. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. 2008. Random House. 274 pages.  [Souce: Bought]

50. The Four Winds. Kristin Hannah. 2021. [February] 464 pages. [Source: Review copy]

51. Winter Wheat. Jeanne Williams. 1975. 160 pages. [Source: Bought] 

52, A Quiet Madness: A Biographical Novel of Edgar Allen Poe. John Isaac Jones. 2020. 398 pages. [Source: Review copy] 

 53. The Gentleman and the Thief. Sarah M. Eden. November 2020. 368 pages. [Source: Review copy]

54. The Titanic Sisters. Patricia Falvey. 2021 (January) 368 pages. [Source: Review copy]

November
December


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