The Back to History Challenge, hosted by Shannon, is "designed to encourage readers to stretch themselves in the history genre." The requirement is to read one historical fiction or non-fiction book each month in 2008. Cross-listing with other challenges is allowed, but the historical books should not all be from the same sub-genre.
Here is my preliminary list, with some alternates:
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson
- Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
- Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green
- Thorn in My Heart by Liz Curtis Higgs
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
- 1776 by David McCullough
- The Colony by John Tayman
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
- Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
- Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 by Barbara Kingsolver
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
I've listed a bunch of titles in this sub-genre for the "In Their Shoes" challenge here. I will plan to cross-list some of those to this challenge - but not more than four or five.
Looks like a good list. Summer of My German Soldier was one of my favorite books when I was a teenager. I know I still have it around here somewhere. Must dig it out...
ReplyDeleteInteresting list!
ReplyDeleteI have read Night and it is sad. The Book Thief is in my TBR.