Favourite books with a bit of history. Adult: Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams The Orange Grove, Kate Murdoch The Colour Purple, Alice Walker Josephine’s Garden, Stephanie Parkyn The Lady of the Tower, Elizabeth St. John The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid Fled, Meg Keneally The Girl in the Painting, Tea Cooper The Spitfire Girls, Soraya M. Lane The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier The Doll Factory, Elizabeth Macneal The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert The Romanov Empress, C.W. Gortner Radio Girls, Sarah-Jane Stratford The Kitchen Boy: a Novel of the Last Tsar, Robert Alexander The Queen’s Prophet, Dawn Patitucci The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris Tidewater: a Novel of Pocahontas and the Jamestown Colony, Libbie Hawker The Lace Weaver, Lauren Chater Sapphire Skies, Belinda Alexandra The Women in the Castle, Jessica Shattuck The Moon in the Palace, Weina Dai Randel The Empress of Bright Moon, Weina Dai Randel Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters The Orphan's Tale, Pam Jenoff A Memory of Violets: a Novel of London's Flower Sellers, Hazel Gaynor The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, Genevieve Valentine Cinnamon and Gunpowder, Eli Brown Burial Rites, Hannah Kent The Girl in the Glass Tower, Elizabeth Fremantle Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen At the Water's Edge, Sara Gruen The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett World Without End, Ken Follett The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer The Confectioner's Tale, Laura Madeleine The Great Alone, Janet Dailey The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton A Kiss From Mr Fitzgerald, Natasha Lester Young adult: Code Name Verity, Elizabeth E. Wein Out of the Easy, Ruta Sepetys Bloody Jack, L.A. Meyer The Book Thief, Markus Zusak Children: Angel on the Square, Gloria Whelan Tru and Nelle, G. Neri The War That Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Withering-By-Sea, Judith Rossell The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick Historical fantasy: Kindred, Octavia E. Butler The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Imogen Hermes Gowar Life After Life, Kate Atkinson Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller Playing Beatie Bow, Ruth Park The Moon and the Sun, Vonda N. McIntyre The Girl From Everywhere, Heidi Heilig Tapestry, Fiona McIntosh Fire Spell, Laura Amy Schlitz Tom's Midnight Garden, Philippa Pearce |
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