Histories and Historical Fiction - 2023-2025

 Histories and Historical Fiction

2023-2025

2023

Jan - The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (updated by Gerrit van Loon and John M. Merriman); all periods of time,

Feb - The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw; 1500 BC

Mar - A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes; 1100 BC

Apr - Maximus: Soldier at the Cross by Richard L. Black; 30 AD

May - Eagle of the Ninth by rosemary Sutcliff; 119 AD

Jun - The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede; 731 AD

Jul - The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Aug - The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli; 1300 AD

               In Freedom's Causes by G.A. Henty; 1300 AD

Sep - A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park; 1100 AD

Oct - The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt; 1400 AD

Nov - The Hawk that Dare not Hunt by Day by Scott o'Dell; 1400 AD

          The Samurai's Tale by Erik Christian Haugaard; 1500 AD

Dec - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; 1520 AD

2024

Jan - The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain; 1547

Feb - The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood; 1564

Mar - The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes; 1600

Apr - The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave; 1620

May - The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare; 1687

Jun - The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper; 1740

Jul - Toliver's Secret by Esther Wood Brady; 1776

        The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy; 1793

Aug and Sep - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; 1815

Oct - Silas Marner by George Eliot; 1800

         The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy; 1828

Nov - Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne; 1828

         Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell; 1840

Dec - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell; 1861

2025

Jan - Gone with the Wind

Feb - Call of the Wild by Jack London; 1897

         Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan; 1910

Mar - Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart; 1910

Apr - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck; 1900

May - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque; 1918

          The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett; 1920

Jun - God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew; 1928

        The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson; 1936

Jul - For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway; 1937

Aug - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer; 1943

Sep - The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan; 1944

Oct - The Chosen by Chaim Potok; 1944

          The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre; circa 1980

Nov - Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang; 1960s

Dec - All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; 1974

          The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy; 1914