The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

We're entering into WEEK EIGHT of our 2021 challenge! On the list, prompt #8 is "a book in the 900s of the Dewey Decimal system." While you don't have to complete the list in order, this prompt did get me thinking about history and time periods.

So, here's our question for the week -- what time period do you most enjoy reading about? (Fiction or non-fiction)

Definitely the Civil War! I even had family pics done at a Civil War battlefield a little over a year ago!

Hard to say since most of the 900 books I read are biographies. I just purchased “You Always Remember Your First” about George Washington. Love the title! I am considering using it for Prompt #8.
I have read Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow and My Dear Hamilton. All of these take place around the American Revolution. I am also very interested in the Civil War/ Reconstruction period with particular interest in Abraham Lincoln and the horrors of Jim Crow that still impact current times.

I like Victorian London, and Ancient Greece & Rome

I love WW2 stories, especially when they deal with women's accomplishments/exploits. Just finished The Paris Library. Excellent novel. My next read is Code Name: Elise.

World War I or II, although I haven’t read any this year yet.

I haven't read much about it lately, but Renaissance Italy is an era I find interesting.

I don't have one time period I enjoy the most.

This week I finished one that was actually speculative fiction when it was written in that it started at the present and moved on, so had a fictional president in the white house, etc plus a few other things.

It was published in 1930 so is set in a speculative 1930s.

23. An ending that surprises you Black No More by George S. Schuyler

Currently, I'm really into the period between World War 1 and World War 2. I also love reading about the Regency period.

I just read another one that is partly set in the 1930s, but is historical fiction. The other is set in the 1990s and early 2000s (up to the teens).

28. Includes a historical event you know little about
The Island by Victoria Hislop February (hadn't known much about this leper colony or how it was part of the testing for the cure for leprosy)

43. A character with a pet cat
Oksana, Behave! by Maria Kuznetsova February (protagonist has a pet cat in at least one phase of her life in this book)

ETA - finished Feb 22
38. **No listopia for this one!** Recommended on BookBub (Link to challenge guide if you need ideas.)
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones February

This last one is mostly set in the 1970s and 1980s, but does span wider than that.