Category: historical fiction
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The Sisters Brothers
By Patrick deWitt Place: Publisher & Year: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011 Genres: Western, historical fiction, cowboy noir ISBN: 9780062041265 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 328 Setting: Oregon City, Oregon Territory, & California (including San Francisco) Time period: 1851 Plot summary: Charlie and Eli sisters are known throughout the Oregon Territory and California as killers…
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Daughter of Lir
By Judith Tarr Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Forge, 2001 Genres: Fantasy, historical fantasy, historical fiction Series: Epona; 3 ISBN: 9780312876166 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 415 Setting: City of Lir, Village of Long Ford, World’s End, Sea of Grass (open steppe) Time period: Prehistory – Neolithic time period Plot summary: When Rhian is…
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Miss Peregrines’s Home for Peculiar Children
By Ransom Riggs Place: Publisher & Year: Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2011 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, time travel fantasy, historical fantasy, mystery, paranormal, historical fiction Series: The author’s blog (8/9/2011) states that there will be a sequel to this book. ISBN: 9781594744761 Audience: Young adult Number of pages: 352 Setting: Englewood, Florida & Cairnholm, Wales Time…
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The Listener
By David Lester Place: Publisher & Year: Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2011 Genres: General fiction, historical fiction Format: Graphic novel ISBN: 9781894037488 Audience: Adults Number of pages: 312 Settings: Vancouver, BC, Canada, Lippe, Germany & other locations in Europe Time periods: Contemporary and 1928-1933 Plot summary: Hitler’s rise to power is described to the main…
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Things Fall Apart
By Chinua Achebe Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Anchor Books, c1959, 1994 Genre: General fiction, historical fiction ISBN: 9780385474542 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 209 Setting: Umuofia & Mbanta, Africa (now Nigeria) Time period: Not stated – the transitional period between traditional village life and colonization (1890’s) Plot summary: Okonkwo tries to live a…
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The Exile: an Outlander Graphic Novel
By Diana Gabaldon; illustrated by Hoang Nguyen Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Del Rey, 2010 Genre: Historical fiction, fantasy, adventure, time travel fantasy, historical fantasy, romance Format: Graphic novel Series: Outlander Graphic Novels; 1 ISBN: 9780345505385 Audience: Adult Number of pages: Unpaginated Setting: Scotland Time period: 1743 Plot summary: Young Jaime Fraser returns to…
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The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Alfred A Knopf, c2005, 2006 Genre: Historical fiction ISBN: 9780375831003 Audience: Adult, young adult -“Somebody’s favorite book” Number of pages: 552 Setting: Molching, Germany (outside of Munich) Time period: 1939- 1945 Plot summary: In January 1939, nine year old, Liesel Meminger, steals her first book while…
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Shutter Island
By Dennis Lehane Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Harper, c2003, 2009 Genres: Suspense, psychological suspense, mystery, historical fiction ISBN: 9780061703526 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 369 (385 including excerpts from other works) Setting: Shutter Island, MA (off the coast from Boston) Time period: 1954 Plot summary: In 1954, US Marshal, Teddy Daniels, and…
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