2021 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge wrap-up

The Historical Fiction Reading Challenge is hosted by The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader. Any sub-genre of historical fiction is accepted (Historical Romance, Historical Mystery, Historical Fantasy, Young Adult, History/Non-Fiction, etc.

I concentrated this challenge on non-mystery historical fiction as I had several mystery challenges going and many of the mystery series I read are historical fiction. So my goal for the year was Renaissance Reader: 10 books.

20th Century Reader – 2 books
Victorian Reader – 5 books
Renaissance Reader – 10 books
Medieval – 15 books
Ancient History – 25 books
Prehistoric – 50+ books

But I just hit Ancient History: 25 books, which is great & means lots of books cleaned off the shelves, so I’m calling the challenge for the year & feeling good. Here are the books I read for the challenge:

The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen Trilogy #1), Signe Pike
Lady Clementine, Marie Benedict
The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Tevis
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Love, Royalty, Whiskey, & Cigarettes, Georgie Blalock
The Gown, Jennifer Robson
We Are Not Free, Traci Chee
The Final Storm (World War II: 1939-1945, #4), Jeff Shaara
The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah
Carnegie’s Maid, Marie Benedict
The Frozen Hours, Jeff Shaara
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor, Jeff Shaara
Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan
The Eagle’s Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway, Jeff Shaara
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
Finding Dorothy, Elizabeth Letts
Child of the River, Irma Joubert
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriott (#1)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt, Karen Harper
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt, Stephanie Marie Thornton
The Vanished Days, Susanna Kearsley
Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska