95 ratings | 11 reviews | avg rating:5.00

Finola’s Year In Books

Finola’s 2025 Year in Books

Take a look at Finola’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.

Go to Finola’s 2025 Year in Books

Finola Austin’s Followers (201)

Finola’s Bookshelves

to-read (551)
currently-reading (1)
read (901)
did-not-finish (0)
my-novels (1)

Finola’s Friends (181)

George Gonzaga Deoso

579 books | 248 friends

Uri Baruchin

1,495 books | 289 friends

Densie

862 books | 561 friends

Rachaelbookhunter

4,321 books | 660 friends

G.M. Nair

369 books | 66 friends

Molly Greeley

586 books | 28 friends

Conny Godefroy

1,337 books | 62 friends

Caroline

744 books | 50 friends

More friends…

2026 Reading Challenge

2026

READING

CHALLENGE

Finola Austin has read 25 of 50 books.

50%

Finola Austin

Goodreads Author

Born

in The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.finolaaustin.com

Twitter

SVictorianist

Genre

Historical Fiction

Member Since

November 2019

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/finolaaustin

edit data

Finola Austin, also known as the Secret Victorianist on her award-winning blog, is an England-born, Northern Ireland-raised, Brooklyn-based historical novelist and lover of the 19th century. By day, she works in digital advertising.

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Finola Austin questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Finola Austin’s books

Average rating: 3.57 · 1,192 ratings · 338 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Finola Austin (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 136,676 ratings — published 1848 — 2078 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brontë’s Mistress 3.57 avg rating — 1,187 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

177 posts
Finola Austin's Blog: The Secret Victorianist

Neo-Victorian Voices: The Wisdom of Bones, Kitty Aldridge (2019)

Welcome back to my Neo-Victorian Voices series in which I review novels written in the twenty-first century but set in the nineteenth. Today I’m reviewing Kitty Aldridge’s The Wisdom of Bones, which centers on Percy “Unusual” George, a Victorian showman who acquires the skeleton of an eighteenth-century French dwarf. Writing in a journal in his colorful idiolect, Percy introduces us to the

View more on Finola Austin's website »

Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on June 28, 2026 09:53

View all 177 posts »

Finola is Currently Reading

Finola Austin is currently reading

Plagues and Peoples

by William H. McNeill

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jul 12, 2026 05:43PM

rss
Finola’s Recent Updates

Finola Austin entered a giveaway The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand (Goodreads Author) 15 copies available, ends on August 10, 2026 Enter to win »
5 hours, 10 min ago · like · see giveaway · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Finola Austin entered a giveaway The Night Hunter by Natalie Moss (Goodreads Author) 34 copies available, ends on July 27, 2026 Enter to win »
Jul 17, 2026 03:38AM · like · see giveaway
Finola Austin is currently reading Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 12, 2026 05:43PM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Finola Austin finished reading The Pilgrimage by John Broderick	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 12, 2026 05:35PM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Pilgrimage by John Broderick. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Pilgrimage by John Broderick <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Finola Austin wants to read The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 09, 2026 03:45PM · like
Finola Austin wants to read The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 09, 2026 03:41PM · like
Finola Austin wants to read Hocus Pocus by Brinda Charry (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 09, 2026 03:37PM · like
Finola Austin is currently reading The Pilgrimage by John Broderick	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 07, 2026 07:51PM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Pilgrimage by John Broderick. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Pilgrimage by John Broderick <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Finola Austin finished reading Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 07, 2026 04:45PM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Finola Austin is currently reading Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 01, 2026 03:44AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">

More of Finola's books…

Quotes by Finola Austin (?)

“It was just as well dying was not easy. If it were, women and men would choose it oh so often, in each blinding rush of fresh pain. Instead we soldier through, thralls to that irrational master who bids us 'live,' clinging to the hope of waking to a brighter dawn.

[Lydia Gisborne Robinson]”
― Finola Austin, Brontë’s Mistress

tags: dying

0 likes