Windsor Library Reading Challenge discussion

This is the only category that we specify fiction over nonfiction. There's no limit on how back you can go for time period either! How current is the time period that would still be considered "historical fiction"? Is a book set in the 1980s "historical"?

The book Days to the Gallows by Katherine Spada Basto is interesting because it's about the Hartford witch panic so it's close to home for us. Also I liked a Murder at Fenway Park by Troy Soos because it's a murder mystery but has a lot of baseball and just general history to it. I'm not sure what I'll read this time yet. I think a book set in the 80s could be historical if it was rooted enough in that time that you learned something about it or it was specific to it.

I LOVE historical fiction! Its my jam. The time period is just as important if not more important than the plot. 1980s totally counts. I tend to like things further back but as long as you are learning something about a time and place different than now, it counts.

I'm currently reading The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, YA historical fiction about a girl who wants to be a doctor. I also have The Library Book on my list which falls into that 1980s category!

I saw The Great Alone on the Historical Fiction table and I managed to get it from Overdrive. I think Danielle also recommended it. Then I found out that Amy Stewart's Kopp Sisters series is based on a real character and real events so I am adding Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit

Great challenge categories this year!

Caren wrote: "I saw The Great Alone on the Historical Fiction table and I managed to get it from Overdrive. I think Danielle also recommended it. Then I found out that Amy Stewart's Kopp Sisters fiction series is based on a real gal and real events so I am adding Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit.

I read some really great historical fiction this year and look forward to more in 2020! Such a great topic. If you are looking for something pretty cool - Lauren Willig, Karen White, and Beatriz William's have written two books together and their third comes out in January. Great tie in to the 2020 challenge.