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I'm sorta thinking 2016-2020 is all historical fiction.
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Why not the Ivory Carver (Sue Harrison)
I'd exclude anything contemporary: otherwise every single fiction book becomes 'historical fiction' in about 50 or so years. Thus, this massive list!
And just think, in only 50 years or so, "twilight' will be historical fiction! Potter, 50 Shades, etc.!
Memoirs of a Geisha and Gone with the Wind don’t count. The former is nothing more than a cabbage cart full of misinformation and character defamation that ruined Mineko Iwasaki’s life. The latter is just a bunch of Lost Cause propaganda.
Jeffrey wrote: "Memoirs of a Geisha and Gone with the Wind don’t count. The former is nothing more than a cabbage cart full of misinformation and character defamation that ruined Mineko Iwasaki’s life. The latter ..."Agreed on both counts; however, GR protocols forbid me, or anybody, from removing them. If your remark is here because you need to vent, however, you've reached the right librarian.
Wild Swans is nonfiction.Sorcery & Cecelia is fantasy, so is Mirror Mirror.
Reading historical fiction is like reading behind the history books!
Pat wrote: "I am ashamed that I even have read historical fiction. "Why?
Charlotte wrote: "The Whiskey Rebels (by David Liss) should be on the list. Though I must say the list itself is sketchy. Just because a book takes place in some moment of time past does not make it historical ficti..."There are a lot of novels on this list which aren't historical fiction....
Removed for genre: The Man Without Qualities:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
To Kill a Mockingbird:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Mary Renault's books? About ancient Greece and Alexander? Every single one of them should be on this list.
Liz wrote: "Mary Renault's books? About ancient Greece and Alexander? Every single one of them should be on this list."If you want them on the list, please add them. Use the button at the top of the list.
Memoirs of a Geisha doesn’t count; It’s terribly written and filled with slander. Mineko Iwasaki is a true hero and Arthur Golden is a fraud.
Jeffrey wrote: "Memoirs of a Geisha doesn’t count; It’s terribly written and filled with slander. Mineko Iwasaki is a true hero and Arthur Golden is a fraud."Removing titles from the list based on the criteria you provided would be a quick way to lose librarian privileges and possibly GR membership as well. We don't get to censor the choices of others based on our own evaluations of the work; that is what book reviews are for. I can, however, remove books that are clearly out of genre.
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It seems to me that a book written 200 years ago, about that time, was not historical fiction THEN, but it is now, to me. It is a fictional account of life 200 years ago. Isn't that historical fiction?
Paladin wrote: "It seems to me that a book written 200 years ago, about that time, was not historical fiction THEN, but it is now, to me. It is a fictional account of life 200 years ago. Isn't that historical fict..."Nope. It has an historical feel to it, but it isn't, just as a book someone writes today about the Obama years isn't historical fiction, but will seem like it to someone reading it in sixty or seventy years. That doesn't mean it lacks value in terms of conveying information about the time in question, of course, assuming it's well written, but it doesn't belong in the genre.
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Removed a bunch of non-fiction and obvious misclassified fiction titles (The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, The Handmaid's Tale, Twilight, etc.)
The best historical fiction novel I have read this year is Skulduggery by Paul Rushworth-Brown. I haven't finished it yet but I am spellbound by the vivid picture of 16th century life on the bleak moorlands around Haworth in Yorkshire, my home county. The twists and turns? I don't want it to end!
Amanda wrote: "The best historical fiction novel I have read this year is Skulduggery by Paul Rushworth-Brown. I haven't finished it yet but I am spellbound by the vivid picture of 16th century life on the bleak ..."If it isn't on the list, be sure to add it, Amanda.
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I'm a GR librarian, I've been going through and pulling them off. There are a number of high fantasy novels, and back in the 50's (pages) I found a ton of financial books, diet books, and autobiographies!