YAY for historical fiction recommendations! KZread is so full of YA and other genre recommendations and it is so great to see a video all about historical fiction! Thank you!

@RoisinsReading

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've got another top 10 historical fiction video if you'd like any more recommendations!

"The Poisonwood Bible" is such a good novel. It taught me a lot about what Congo suffered before and after the colonial era. I've read many other novels by Barbara Kingsolver since, but this is her best.

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

I've not read any of her others, although I've had The Lacuna on my bookshelves for a while!

@jimsbooksreadingandstuff

3 жыл бұрын

@@RoisinsReading I have The Lacuna unread on my shelves, too. I read The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven, enjoyable interesting reads but nowhere near as monumental as The Poisonwood Bible.

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff that's good to know, thank you!

@Manycoolpeople

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting- great read.

Love historical fiction! Was so glad to stumble across this video! Will listen to others you’ve made:)

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you found me too

I love historical fiction &these were such great recommendations to look into!

@RoisinsReading

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you like them!

New to your channel. You are brilliant! Reading an excerpt of each work brought them to full consciousness to me. You read like I do. Tasting; savoring, enjoying each word for the glorious treasure that they are! Brava!!!! 💕💕💕💕💕 Thank you! 🙏

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, that's so lovely to hear!

i have five of these books on my tbr, and now i'm super excited to get to them!! awesome video!!

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I hope you enjoy them

My favourite Historical Fiction Book is 'Forever Amber' by Kathleen Winsor, published in 1944. I've read it about four times and still love it. The film, that came out in 1950 staring Linda Darnell & Cornell Wilde, wasn't a patch on the book. Love your recommendation & bloggs, especially on books for children, with my grand-children in mind. Have you ever looked in on the website - Fantastic Fiction?

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

Oh I've not heard of that one, I'll have to look it up. Thank you! I hope you found something your grandchildren will like. I use fantastic fiction all the time at work! I work in a library and we use it for recommendations

Try Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell!!!! Loved! :)

The Regeneration trilogy was really interesting. We read it at a seminar. I have the Essex Serpent, but for some reason, I wasn´t too impressed. Don´t know why. I didn´t hate it, but I wasn´t blown away either. Atonement of course is a classic by now. I knew the movie before we read it, but I thought his style is really beautiful.

great suggestions!!! at the moment, I'm loving crime novels

Finally read The Posionwood Bible this year - loved it! It reminded me a little bit of Lily King's Euphoria.

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

I've never heard of that! I'll have to look it up

Thanks for this list! You seem open to novels that aren't strictly categorizable, so I'll suggest to you that you read some of Connie Willis's works, like "Blackout"/"All Clear", her dyad about life in Britain during the Blitz. Her historical novels are usually classed as science fiction, because she uses time travel as a device to get people from the future into the past, where they live as ordinary people except that they know (or think they know) what is going to happen. But they are immersive and thoroughly researched. "The Doomsday Book" is about travel to the Black Plague era in English history, and the lovely comic "To Say Nothing of the Dog" (an hommage to Jerome K. Jerome) visits Victorian England. Seriously, do yourself a favor and discover Willis. She writes comedy, tragedy, romance, speculation and hard fact, and every word of it is fun.

This was great! New subscriber here from Canada! 🙋‍♀️🇨🇦

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Hello Canada!

I’ve only read Lincoln in the Bardo from your list, and I think it’s a masterpiece. Thank you for the recommendations.

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

I love Lincoln in The Bardo so much! I hope you found something else to enjoy!

@zaras.448

3 жыл бұрын

@@RoisinsReading I have Atonement somewhere in my library. I think I’ll dig it out and give it a try. Thank you! :)

Such a great list - so many books I haven't heard of. Currently my favourite historical fiction is Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. The writing is immensely beautiful. I love the tiny references to Shakespeare's plays, I love that the bard himself is never referred to by name. You don't need to love Shakespeare to enjoy this novel - it's more about Hamnet his twin sister, Judith, and his mother Agnes (Anne). I cried and although I know the history, I was still hoping that Maggie is going to change the ending - you feel like it could change.

@RoisinsReading

4 жыл бұрын

I've heard so much about Hannet recently, I can't wait to read it. I reserved it at the library so I'm going to have to wait until they reopen to read it! Glad to hear you liked it though.

@BeatrixOnyx

4 жыл бұрын

@@RoisinsReading I originally reserved it at the library too but I gave in and downloaded it. Best impulse purchase of the year haha. I hope you really enjoy it when you can get hold of it. :)

I love the English Patient. I actually met Michael Ondaatje a couple of years ago and made a fool of myself haha I never know what to say to authors. “The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society” and “The Essex Serpent” are also great. I know how much you loved “The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock” so it’s near the top of my TBR! As for other historical fiction recommendations, I’ve read a handful of Michael Ondajje’s other books and enjoyed all of them particularly his latest novel “War Light”. My sister’s favourite book to all time is “In the Skin of the Lion”

@RoisinsReading

4 жыл бұрын

That's so cool! I read warlight at the end of last year and didn't love it. I didn't hate it either but it wasn't quite up my street. I hope you can get to The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock soon!

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo is my favorite

In my case I love Lincoln and the bardo, a historical middle grade called: refugge by Alan Gratz; Escappe from aleppo by : N. H. Senzai. The van goght brother, lilac girls. There are a lot of amazing historical fiction books

@RoisinsReading

4 жыл бұрын

I've only heard of Lincoln in The Bardo out of those! Thank you for trmbe recommendations

Try The Kingsbridge Series (4) by Ken Follett! EPIC!!!

Just bought the poison wood bible on your recommendation. Hope its good. X

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

That's amazing! I hope you enjoy it

I've read Regeneration a few times I just need to finish the series. I studied the first book at A-level and thought it was brilliant.

@RoisinsReading

4 жыл бұрын

The whole series is just as good!

Have you read any by Phillipa Gregory? If yes, could you recommend a book from her? I’ve been meaning to read her books I just don’t know where to start! ☺️

@RoisinsReading

4 жыл бұрын

I have read one and I didn't like it! It's a bit too melodramatic for my taste. Thanks for asking though

@pompeystato

3 жыл бұрын

@@RoisinsReading Hi Jeja. If you start with 'The Lady of the Rivers' ; that's book 1 of 15 in the Plantagenet & Tudor series. That's what I did.

I recommend you Quo Vadis (Nero's Rome) by Henryk Sienkiewicz and For Whom The Bell Tolls ( Spanish Civil War) by Ernest Hemingway.

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

I tried to read For Whom The Bell Tolls abs couldn't get on with it, the writing style is too sparse for my taste. I will look out for Quo Vadis though, I have a classics degree so it's an era that interests me. Thank you!

@jorgelopez-pr6dr

3 жыл бұрын

@@RoisinsReading I like to read fiction settled in diverse historical moments. The Spanish Civil War is one of those. I also recommend One Million Dead by Jose Gironella ( there is a translation in English), which tells the story of the Alvear family which is torn in the conflict. As for Quo Vadis, settled in Nero's Rome, I call it almost miraculous because the author seems to have lived in it! He mentions streets, businesses, even gossip!

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

@@jorgelopez-pr6dr that sounds excellent, it's what I enjoy so much about books such as Wolf Hall, where its hard to believe the author isn't a time traveller!

@jorgelopez-pr6dr

3 жыл бұрын

@@RoisinsReading Oh, I forgot, it would be excellent for night reading during the quarantine the ghost stories of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Although it is not historical fiction per se, various stories take place during the 18th Century ( ironically the century of skeptics and libertins!). I have read various works by him: ' Squire Toby's Will' , Madam Crowl's Ghost' , 'The Willow Tree, ' and 'Mr. Justice Harbottle'. I recommend them to you if you are not familiar with them.

Intrigued by the name of your book tube

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

I have a chronic illness! I do have a video about it

I was really happy to see nothing by Ken Follet on here. He can barely put a sentence together and his books have no story. I don't get it.

@RoisinsReading

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I've never read them, but I'll know to avoid them now!