Historical Fiction Favourites

Below is a list of books discussed at our Book Talk Tuesday – Historical Fiction from December.

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From D.G:

• Sandra Gulland – Trilogy about Josephine Bonaparte
• Ken Follet – Pillars of the Earth – to – A Column of Fire
• Annemarie Salinko – Désirée

From L.N:

• James Michener – Centennial, Hawaii, Poland, The Drifters (Kent State Riots)
• Amy Tan – Joy Luck Club, The Bone Setter’s Daughter
• Arthur Golden – Memoirs of a Geisha

From E.We:

• Janet Skeslien Charles – The Paris Library
• Aika Joshi – The Henna Artist

From D.M:

• Eva Strachniak – The Winter Palace
• Markus Zusak – The Book Thief

From T.E:

• Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
• Michelle Good – Five Little Indians

More from T.E via email:

• Kate Quin – The Huntress, The Alice Network and The Rose Code
• Kristin Harmel – The Book of Lost Names

From R.O:

• Gloria Goldreich – The Paris Children
• Julia Kelly – The Whispers of War
• Jean Auel – Clan of the Cave Bear
• Catherine Cookson – The Moth
• Kevin Major

Also from R.O. via email:

• Itsuka by Joy Kogawa
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (American internment)
• The Wake by Linden MacIntyre (about the tsunami in Newfoundland in 1929 & the mines that opened when the fishing industry was damaged)
• I love books written by Maeve Binchy (Irish)
• Janette Oke  (author of pioneer stories in Canada and US, along with Bacher)
• June Masters Bacher

From I.C:

• Sharon Kay Penman – Welsh Princes Trilogy and British Historical Novels
• Mark Sakamoto – Forgiveness
• Viktor Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning (Non-fiction – Holocaust Survivor’s search for meaning)
• Vikram Seth – A Suitable Boy
• Lawrence Hill – The Book of Negroes

From C.G. via email:

C.G. could not attend the book talk session, but she sent an email list of historical fiction books that she has enjoyed:

• Kate Morton
  • The House at Riverton
  • The Forgotten Garden
  • The Clockmaker’s Daughter
  • The Lake House
• Kate Furnivall
  • The Red Scarf
  • The Jewel of St. Petersburg
  • The White Pearl
  • The Girl from Junkow
  • The Russian Concubine 
• Phillippa Gregory
  • The Other Boleyn Girl 
  • The White Queen 
  • The Other Queen
  • The Kingmaker’s Daughter
  • The Last Tudor
  • The Forgotten Sister
  • The Boleyn Inheritance 
  • The Meridon series

From E.Wh. via email:

• Ami Mckay – The Birth House
• Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Last Crossing