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Summer Reading 2019: Historic Fiction

Historic Thrillers, Mysteries, & Suspense

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Call Number: FIC DON
ISBN: 9780756936143
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
Call Number: FIC FAY
ISBN: 9780735210752
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
Call Number: FIC SED
ISBN: 9781596435926
Publication Date: 2010-04-13
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
Call Number: FIC JEN
ISBN: 9780778308614
Publication Date: 2019-01-29
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Call Number: FIC WEI
ISBN: 9781423152194
Publication Date: 2012-05-15
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Call Number: FIC ATK
ISBN: 9780316176637
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
Call Number: FIC HAR
ISBN: 9781419725722
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Call Number: FIC BLU
ISBN: 9780439903462
Publication Date: 2008-11-01
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
Call Number: FIC SEP
ISBN: 9780399256929
Publication Date: 2013-02-12
The Diviners by Libba Bray
Call Number: FIC BRA
ISBN: 9780316126113
Publication Date: 2012-09-18

Sagas & Adventures

And I Darken by Kiersten White
Call Number: FIC WHI
ISBN: 9780553522310
Publication Date: 2016-06-28
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Call Number: FIC EDU
ISBN: 9780525521426
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison
Call Number: FIC LAR
ISBN: 9780735220447
Publication Date: 2018-08-21
The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker
Call Number: FIC HAR
ISBN: 9780062563699
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
Call Number: FIC CAR
ISBN: 9780062242914
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Call Number: FIC GYA
ISBN: 9781101947135
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
Dream Country by Shannon Gibney
Call Number: FIC GIB
ISBN: 9780735231672
Publication Date: 2018-09-11
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Call Number: FIC SEP
ISBN: 9780399160301
Publication Date: 2016-02-02
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Call Number: FIC MCM
ISBN: 9781439195260
Publication Date: 2010-06-15
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Call Number: FIC LEE
ISBN: 9780062382801
Publication Date: 2017-06-27

Plain Old Historic Fiction

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Call Number: FIC SEE
ISBN: 9781501154850
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Up from Freedom by Wayne Grady
Call Number: FIC GRA
ISBN: 9780385685115
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
The War Outside by Monica Hesse
Call Number: FIC HES
ISBN: 9780316316699
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
Little by Edward Carey
Call Number: FIC CAR
ISBN: 9780525534327
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Call Number: FIC SMI
ISBN: 0312181108
Publication Date: 1998-03-15
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
Call Number: FIC MCC
ISBN: 9780735232112
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
Call Number: FIC STA
ISBN: 9781524700386
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
Call Number: FIC MED
ISBN: 9780763674670
Publication Date: 2016-03-08
Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden
Call Number: FIC BOL
ISBN: 9781681198071
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Voices by David Elliott
Call Number: FIC ELL
ISBN: 9781328987594
Publication Date: 2019-03-26