Historical Fictionistas discussion

Here's my Bingo Card for this challenge! I can't wait to start. :)

B1- Set in Asia
B2- Adapted to movie--> Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
B3- Historical Mystery (Real History)--> City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris by Holly Tucker
B4- DNF- do over--> Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir. DNFed because I hated the writing, the depictions of the characters, and Alison Weir herself.
B5- Set during wartime--> Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell

I1- BCE Timeline
I2- Coming of Age
I3- Written by a female writer--> A Rose for the Crown: A Novel by Anne Easter Smith
I4- Book over 500 pages--> In a Dark Wood Wandering by Hella s. Haasse. Book sits at 574 pages
I5- Titular Woman with her own identity--> Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers

N1- Written year of birth--> The Skystone by Jack Whyte (Published in 1992)
N2- Real historical figure (fiction)--> Before Versailles by Karleen Koen. Louis XIV and his contemporaries, including the historical d'Artagnan as POVs...
N3- FREE SPACE
N4- Judge a book by its cover--> City of Crows by Chris Womersley
N5- Award Winner

G1- Historical Mystery (genre)--> The Butcher of St. Peter's by Michael Jecks
G2- POC Author--> The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
G3- Oldest book on TBR--> Sunrise in the West by Edith Pargeter
G4- Historical non-fiction or Biography--> The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre (Translated by R.R. Palmer)
G5- Received as a gift--> For the King by Catherine Delors

O1- Set in Egypt| Africa| Middle East
O2- New to you author--> The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
O3- Historical fantasy
O4- Mythology--> Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. Greek Mythology based on The Iliad by Homer.
O5- Published between 2010-2020--> Honour and the Sword by A.L. Berridge

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Tiffany wrote: "G2- POC Author--> The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill"

Great choice!

Becky wrote: "Tiffany wrote: "G2- POC Author--> The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill"

Great choice!"

Picking a historical fiction with a POC author was hard because there are so many of them. And a lot of them have works housed on my shelves. I think you also chose the same prompt? Have you made a decision for what book you want to read?

Tiffany wrote: "Picking a historical fiction with a POC author was hard because there are so many of them. And a lot of them have works housed on my shelves. I think you also chose the same prompt? Have you made a decision for what book you want to read?"

It doesn't have to be HF, it can be any genre, so you're not limited if you wanted to go a different way and branch out. The book you selected is great, but there are SO many great books by POC authors! I recently read The Deep by Rivers Solomon and it was really unique and interesting, so I'll also be reading one of their other books An Unkindness of Ghosts as part of this Bingo challenge.

But for this POC Author task, I'll be reading Invisible Man (which is a buddy read with a few friends that conveniently syncs up with our challenge start date... through 100% coincidence of course. :P)

That's great to know that it can also include genres outside of HF. The books you picked sound really interesting and I hope you enjoy them! :)

Scoring:
G1--> The Butcher of St Peter's. 1 pt