Hi and welcome to another week of Top Ten Tuesday! I know I have been very absent on the blog this past week, but I have like 11 reviews to catch up on, from books I’ve read in both April and May. This is quite overwhelming, so I’m not sure whether I should just call it a day on some of them. Anyway, today it’s time to get into other business, a list to be exact. However, I’m going rogue once again. This week’s original topic is Ten Favorite Books by Ten Favorite Authors. However, this topic is suggested by Cathy @ WhatCathyReadNext and Cathy is an avid reader of historical fiction. So, I decided to honor this blog by listing ten historical fiction novels that are on my TBR. Some may be there for a while, others a bit shorter. Without further ado, let’s get confrontational with myself and find out what books I still need to read within this genre!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
- The Secret Book Society by Madeline Martin – This book has been on my TBR for a bit now, so it’s time to pick it up.
- The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons – Another one that has been sitting on my TBR for a longer while now.
- The Hidden Girl by Lucinda Riley – this is another author I have multiple books by on my TBR.
- Betty by Tiffany McDaniel – Another book that has been sitting on my TBR for years. This story is mainly taking place in the 1950s and 1960s, but I still call this historical fiction anyway.
- The Nights are Quiet in Tehran by Shira Bazyar – This is a quite newly published novel, so it hasn’t been on my TBR for that long. It starts in 1979, during the revolution in Iran.
- Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris – Do we count a novel set in the 1990s as historical fiction already? This one is about the Balkan war in 1992, which is truly an important event in history.
- The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay – This novel takes place in the 1960s and we all know what happened in Berlin back then. So this one definitely counts!
- Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui – I accidentally stumbled upon this book, but it intrigued me straight away. It tells the story of an important figure in Moroccan history, and we rarely come across fiction set in this country, or other Subsaharan countries such as Tunisia and Algeria.
- Maya and Natasha by Elyse Durrham – I’ve seen this book on multiple blogs in, I believe, 2025. However, I haven’t heard anything afterwards, it hardly received reviews as far as I’m concerned. However, the blurb intrigues me enough to want to pick it up.
- A Train to Moscow by Elena Gorokhova – I saw this novel set in post-WWWI Russia years ago, but never lived up to it. I really have to pick it up though.
Okay, this was harder than I’d thought! I have plenty of books about WWII on my TBR, but I always aim to provide a list as diverse as possible. I think I’ve succeeded in that by putting those books on it.
Do you enjoy reading historical fiction? Have you read any of these?
