Thanks! This is one of my favorite genres…especially if it’s about the history of something less common! I’ve gotten lots of recommendations from you…some I’ve enjoyed, some not as much. I love how everyone has their own reading style. I’ve read several on this list, and added more to my own now!

"Vienna Prelude" takes me back. It was the first book that opened my eyes to that genre as well and took me down the path of historical WWII fiction being my favorite. I recently found your videos and I've been enjoying all of them. I enjoy being able to watch someone who gives recommendations that I can trust. Thanks for the suggestions.

The speed with which I added this video to my Watch Later list! 👀🤩👀 I love seeing people love on Historical Fiction! I have so many favorites in this genre!

My favorite genre! Thanks for all the great reviews 💓

The Book Thief is one of the best books of all time. I could see it being a classic.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

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Absolutely!

Great list, many I've read and agree with, and many I am eager to try out next year and hope I love as well! In particular Joanna Davidson Politano and Susie Finkbeiner I would love to try.

I just found your channel. So excited for all the awesome book content. ❤

Historical fiction is one of my favorite genre. The Girl in His Shadow is a book I've wanted to read, I really like medical focused historical fiction books. Great book suggestions!

@ChantelReadsAllDay

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I hope you enjoy it!

I have The Last Bookshop in London on my Kindle ready to go. All from your recommendation! 👏🏻

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoy it!

Hi Chantel I have listen to The Book Thief as a Audio Book and I love listening to this one as well. I have not read the Physical Edition of this Book yet but I want to someday. I have also listen to The Last Bookshop in London. I love this Book. It is so good. I do want to read the Physical Edition of this. You have a lot of good Historical Fiction Books that you talk about in the Video. I am going have to write the other ones down so I can read them in the New Year. Merry Christmas Happy Reading Enjoy your Hot Cocoa - I will have a cup of Hot Cocoa later this afternoon. Happy Reading ❤️🤗🙏🎄🎅🏻☕️🔰❤️

My favorite Sepetys book is Fountains of silence. I love the style of writing and the hidden history!

Thank you for the recommendations! I would say Historical Fiction is my favorite genre. Many of these I have on my TBR, but the rest were quickly added to it. I agree that there is a lot of WWII Historical Fiction out there. I am trying to branch off into reading other time periods. When I went to Goodreads to add Vienna Prelude to my Want To Read list, I noticed the cover was different from yours and recognized right away. Our library had a book sale in October and I picked that book up while there. (among 3 other bags full of books for only $3 a bag. I love library book sales!)

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

Oh yay, so excited that you already own Vienna Prelude!

@crystalh28

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@@ChantelReadsAllDay me too! I think I will start it after Christmas or the New Year.

I have a bunch of these on my want to read list and I just added several more! Have you read Fountains of Silence? I really liked that Ruta as well! Yay for finding some Historical Fiction you have enjoyed!

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I have read Fountains of Silence! I'm pretty sure I've given all of her books five stars.

I LOVE Ruta Sepetys! I love historical fiction!

Love this video and your amazing channel please stay safe and enjoy your reading 📖 prayers and thoughts for you and your family love your family friend John and Aussie fan ❤❤❤

Historical fiction is my favorite genre! I need to try Susan Finkbeiner this next year. I saw you talk about her books and they sound very interesting. I had seen the bird book cover before and thought it was a book about birds and had no interest. 😂 That whole Thoene series is so, so good. I love her writing! Book Thief!❤

@ChantelReadsAllDay

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Yes, I think you'll enjoy Susie Finkbeiner! The bird one doesn't really have anything to do with birds, not really anyway.

Joanna Davidson Politano is foster becoming one if my favorite authors too. The Lost Melody was so good, and I already want to reread.

Sooo...I started reading Joanna Davidson Politano in July and accidently read ALL of her books already, lol!! I would add Midnight Dance to one of my favorites of hers!! The book by Amanda Dykes looks interesting...yep....added to my TBR. And......Nature of Small Things. (I've only read All Manner of Things by Finkbeiner, which was SO good!). If you liked Last Bookshop in London, you might enjoy The Paris Library, if you haven't read it already. Love all these wonderful videos!!! You have inspired my reading SO much this year!

@ChantelReadsAllDay

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Haha, nice! I try to space authors out and generally don't read more than one book by a particular author each month, otherwise I find myself mixing things up too much.

Joanna Davidson Politano! Yes!!! I just discovered her this year as well. Love her writing and her stories.

I read The Girl in His Shadow on your recommendation and it was one of my favorite books this year. The second book, The Surgeon's Daughter, is also very good! I hope the authors continue the series. Have you read any other historical fiction that has a medical emphasis? I really enjoy that sub-genre.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

I don't think I've ever read any other historical fiction with a medical emphasis other than The Girl in His Shadow and The Surgeon's Daughter but I would be curious to read more!

I absolutely love WWII Fiction! It always challenges me. Have you read “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah?

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I have read it! I really enjoyed it back when I read.

I read Whose waves these are a couple of years ago. I want to read All the lost places by Amanda Dykes. I'm really excited that it's set in Venice.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I can't wait to read that one!

I've been reading Christian Fiction for over 12 years, and Christian Hist Fic has been a source of frustration for me. A decade ago it was almost impossible to find anything which wasn't set in 19th century or 20th century America, or Biblical Fiction. Except Regencies there was almost nothing. Thankfully, things have been starting to change in the last few years, and its has (mostly) been a change for the better. I want to see more books set in different places and time periods, and we're gettimg more of that in the Christian market. Not enough, IMHO but more. I do read General Market historical fiction as well, because there's a lot of good stuff out there, and just not enough in the Christian genre.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

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I think there is still a lot of the traditional Christian historical fiction being published but there is also a rise of really good Christian historical fiction slowly coming up which makes me very excited!

@englishlady9797

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@@ChantelReadsAllDay A lot of Christian Historical Fiction tended to be romances as well, at least that's what I always found. I'm losing patience with romances. I love Joanna Davidson Politano though, because there is little romance or it tends to take the back seat to leave more more room for the actual story. Have you tried anything by Julie Klassen? She writes Regencies, but some of them are a lot like Middlemarch or Cranford. Regencies without too much romance.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

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@@englishlady9797 I read one of Julie Klassen's a few years ago and I'm currently reading a Christmas one by her!

I've read only two of these! One this year and one thirty-ish years ago. And I've never read some of these authors. Guess I should get reading! 😆

Trying to get into histrionical fiction more so thank you

@ChantelReadsAllDay

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Me too, Emily, me too.

@EmilysScrollmate

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Ya right

Amanda Dykes is awesome! I loved Yours is the Night

Have you read anything by Jean Grainger? The first one of hers that I read was The Star and the Shamrock and I was hooked. Recommend highly!!

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

No, I don't believe I have, I'll check her books out!

"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" was also made into a movie.

Lmao winter walk

What is the name of your podcast?

I just discovered Susan Meissner from Secrets of a Charmed Life! I find she does WWII historical fiction so well that even though the storyline was somewhat cliche, the story was just done so well that I didn't care.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

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Have you read her As Bright as Heaven? That's the best one I've read by her so far.

@wellreadcoffeeaddict

Жыл бұрын

@@ChantelReadsAllDay I have not, I only read the one. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check that one out next!

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Have you read any Susan Meissner? I think you would like her books.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I've read two or three, As Bright as Heaven ALMOST made this list!

I tried to read The Book Thief but gave up on it prematurely. Also, I didn't know that the narrator was death. Now I want to give it another try. I really enjoyed The Last Bookshop in London, but I felt like the character development was a little lacking - the jumps in time throughout the book left too much to the reader's imagination.

What age do you think Ruta Sepetys is appropriate for? My son is almost 13 and an avid reader but its hard for me to find books at his reading level that doesn't have (in my opinion) more adult content. He really enjoys historical fiction.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

I would say 15+. Jennifer A. Nielsen is better for his age I think.

Historical fiction is my favorite! Just yesterday I devoured "Brother's Keeper" by Julie Lee. It was phenomenal, and brought up the persecution of Christians in Korea leading up the Korean War.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

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I'll have to look that one up!

@RB-eb9mr

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@Chantel Reads All Day it's technically middle grade, though I would recommend vetting it before your kiddos of course, as there are allusions to some of the horrible war crimes that happened in there. It's her debut, and it was fantastic!

I read The Boy in Striped PJ’s earlier this year and unhauled it as quickly as possible. The ending made me angry, far more than it pained me. As a big fan of Historical fiction genre, having read many books set in WWII, this book made me want to tear the pages out. It is definitely not YA as there are many things which a person ought to know about the time to understand the book. The protagonist does not pronounce any names correctly, and any reader without the sufficient background knowledge will not really appreciate it. MAJOR SPOILER: . . . . . . . . A naive 9-yo boy who lives a very comfortable life dies accidentally at the end. He doesn’t even know what he’s getting himself into. The historical accuracy of whether this would’ve even happened in real life is questionable. The last chapter really made me angry. His father had no problem killing other young children and his mother so oblivious to the world around her, yet somehow I’m supposed to pity them for their ‘suffering after the child died?’ How? When millions of innocent people were killed right next door?! Am I truly expected to feel sorry for them or emphasise with their pain? What pain? What about the pain of Bruno who’s father is missing? We don’t see his pain? Him and people like him are going through the worst imaginable and yet we don’t get anything that would make us really empathise with those characters. I was just so mad that I was expected to feel anything remotely close to pain for characters who literally have no empathy for so many side characters throughout the book

Do you know the novel One Million Dead ( about a family torn by the Spanish Civil War)? By the way, during the Communist regimes family members betrayed between themselves, encouraged by the Communist Party, and this took place in China and the defunct URSS.Take care!

I know that this video came out a year ago. However, I have been looking for historical fiction videos and I've noticed something. Men who review historical fiction tend to read nonfiction history. They care whether the book is well researched. Women don't tend to read history so they don't care about that. I think we can step it up ladies. Please read history along with historical fiction at least some of the time.

You held your hand over the book covers where the author's names were.

Unpopular opinion: I did not like the book thief at all. I found it so boring and plotless. I even read it a second time thinking I must have missed something...nope... Sorry 😬 I still need to read Between Shades of Gray...I think I've read all her other books but my favorite is Fountains of Silence (also an unpopular opinion 😜)

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

Anne, you are trying to be so unpopular today! It's okay, we can still be friends. I hope you love Between Shades of Gray though!

Is it possible that 1989 is historical fiction? Not in my opinion.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Ай бұрын

Haha, not that I would want to admit it but technically it takes place in history.

Please tell easy to understand novel for beginners

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

I'm not really sure about novels to recommend when English isn't your first language, sorry!

@gunjansharma1269

Жыл бұрын

@@ChantelReadsAllDay Hi i would request you to please include some novels of lower age(6 to 8) in your videos. Because i really like your all recommendations, if possible please accept my request. :)

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

@@gunjansharma1269 sorry, those are not the books I read and enjoy, so I won't be doing videos for that age.

@gunjansharma1269

Жыл бұрын

@@ChantelReadsAllDay it's ok, but I wanted to read at least one book recommended by you.

1989 is not historical! Not that long ago! Making me feel ancient! 😜

@ChantelReadsAllDay

Жыл бұрын

🤣 I'm older than that, so just put me down as "historical"!