Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
The rules are simple:
- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
- Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
- Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
- Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books Set in Another Time. As someone whose favourite genre is historical fiction, my struggle this week wasn’t so much thinking of books as trying to restrict it to only ten! My solution was to draw on the annual When Are You Reading Challenge hosted by Sam at Taking On a World of Words and list the ten books, each set in a different historical period, I read for the challenge last year. Links from each title will take you to my review.
1500-1699: The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola – Rome in 1659
1700-1799: The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable – Venice in 1704
1800-1899: The Household by Stacey Halls – London in 1847
1900-1919: The Paris Peacemakers by Flora Johnston – Paris in 1919
1920-1939: A Madras Miasma by Brian Stoddart – Madras in the 1920s
1940-1959: The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear – London in 1945
1960-1979: Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers – Croydon, near London in 1964
1980-1999: Possible Happiness by David Ebenbach – USA in the late 1980s
2000-Present: A Place Without Pain by Simon Bourke – Dublin, Ireland from the 2000’s onwards
The Future: The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse – a chaotic world in 2037
What Cathy Read Next... 
The Comfort of Ghosts looks like a good read.
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The Coming Storm is right up my alley!
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
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The Coming Storm is the second book in the series. The first one, The Coming Darkness, I really enjoyed too.
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Good to know! Goodreads didn’t have it as part of a series.
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We have The Paris Peacemakers in common. It’s so interesting to see the variety on everyone’s lists.
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This is such an interesting concept, and a great way to pull together a post like this.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/favorite-historical-fiction-reads-from-2024/
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Nice work. I haven’t read any of these!
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I like that you chose a book from each time period. I wasn’t that creative with my list. 🙂
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I have Sam at Taking on a World of Words to thank for the concept.
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I’m a big hist fic fan as well, although I find that I rarely read books set before 1800. I’m not sure why, but I just prefer more contemporary history, I guess!
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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I’m the opposite. The periods I struggle to find books to match with are the 1970s onwards.
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I love how you put this together, Cathy. I have The Instrumentalist coming up within the next couple of weeks.
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