I’ve been dividing my favorite history books into three sections for you: 1) ancient history, 2) medieval and renaissance history, and 3) 1700-and-later. More or less. 😉 You know I’m not always very precise…
So here’s the 1700+ History Favorites randomly within each category:
Young Adult Mysteries
The Case of the Baskerville Irregulars series, by Robert Newman
Enola Holmes series, by Nancy Springer
The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, by Theodora Goss
The Agency series, by Y.S. Lee
Cat Royal series, by Julia Golding
Young Adult Romance (more or less)
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables series, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Quaker trilogy, by Ann Turnbull
Red Moon at Sharpsburg, by Rosemary Wells
The Bracelet series, by Jennie Hansen
Dark Mirror series, by M. J. Putney
The Raging Quiet, by Sherryl Jordan
Boston Jane series, by Jennifer L. Holm
Watch for a Tall White Sail, by Margaret E. Bell
A Death-Struck Year, by Makiia Lucier (also a fine example of what a YA romance ought to be)
Water Song, by Suzanne Weyn
Other Young Adult
Gideon the Cut-Purse trilogy, by Linda Buckley-Archer
A True and Faithful Narrative, by Katherine Sturtevant
The Secret Garden, and A Little Princess, by Frances Hodson Burnett
Peter Raven Under Fire, by Michael Molloy
Montmorency series, by Eleanor Updale
Blossom Culp series, by Richard Peck
Stealing Freedom, by Elisa Carbone (biography)
Treasures of the Snow, by Patricia St. John
Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
Stranje House series, by Kathleen Baldwin
The Little House series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Under a Painted Sky, by Lee Stacey
Charlotte’s Rose, by Ann Edwards Cannon
The Great Brain series, by John D. Fitzgerald
I Am David, by Anne Holm
The Silent Bells, by William MacKellar
The War That Saved My Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
A Long Way from Chicago, by Richard Peck
The Little White Horse, by Elizabeth Goudge
The House of Sixty Fathers, by Meindert DeJong
King of the Wind, by Marguerite Henry
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls (it took three of us to finish it, because we cried too hard to talk)
A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park (biography)
Mabel Riley, by Marthe Jocelyn
Her Own Song, by Ellen Howard
Charlie Bucket series, by Roald Dahl (yes, it’s a series!)
The Gawgon and the Boy, by Lloyd Alexander
Shanghai Shadows, by Lois Ruby
Adult (I’m skipping romances, since they have their own post)
Seven Miracles that Saved America, by Chris Stewart (non-fiction)
The 5000 Year Leap, by Cleon W. Skousen (non-fiction)
The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Emmuska Orczy
Daughters in my Kingdom, by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (non-fiction)
The Work and the Glory series, by Gerald N. Lund
The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, by Steven Johnson
Throstleford, by Susan Evans McCloud
Mary Russell series, by Laurie R. King (Sherlock Holmes when older)
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Sherlock Holmes series, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Night of Blacker Darkness, by Dan Wells
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why, by Amanda Ripley (non-fiction)
Lost Off the Grand-Banks, by Arthur Catherall
The Boys in the Boat, by Gregory Mone (biography)
Charlie’s Monument, by Blaine M. Yorgason
The Diddakoi, by Rumer Godden
Lady Astronaut series, by Mary Robinette Kowal
White Fang, by Jack London
Whew! And if that doesn’t keep you busy for a few days, you must read faster than I do!
What favorite of yours isn’t on this list?
Happy reading,
M. C. Lee
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