I enjoyed this video so much. I feel that WWII fiction has taken over and there are so many other interesting eras to read about in HF, so I appreciated your highlighting other books.
Yes! I do have lots of WWII fiction I want to read too, but I had fun highlighting some lesser known/talked about books. I just love historical fiction books so much!
I love love that you did this Krista! I have been wanting to discover historical fiction that isn’t WW2, feels like if you go to the bookstore and they have a table dedicated to historical fiction, it’s completely full of WW2 and I’m like there has to be more
The market is definitely saturated (the word I was trying to think of while filming. haha) with WWII books. I love them, but there are SO many nonwwii books to enjoy too! Hope you found a couple on this list that you want to read!
This video is so wonderful! This is definitely my favorite genre, and although I do love a good WWII HF it does seem like they’re easier to find. I love The Kitchen House which I read in 2019 and I also loved Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas which is set in 1936 in a Colorado mining town (one of my favorite settings is women living in the mountains during difficult times...not sure why since I’ve always lived in Michigan lol). My favorite book of all time is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and another in my top ten in Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman. Thanks for all the recs Krista!
Thanks so much, Dawn. I haven't heard of Prayers for Sale but I do have another Sandra Dallas on my shelves I'd like to read this year. I actually didn't care for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I know I have a very unpopular opinion on that one.
Thank you for this video Krista! My favorite genre is historical fiction! The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek really hits home for me! My mother was born in 1932 in Southeastern Kentucky, left Kentucky in 1949 when she moved to Rhode Island. She thought she was just going to visit but ended up meeting my Dad and they were married for over 67 years and stayed in R.I only going back to Kentucky for visits. She passed away in 2018. She loved to tell us about growing up there. She was a coal miner’s daughter. Extreme poverty but a lot of love. I loved the Kitchen House but it was heartbreaking. Didn’t realize there was a sequel. I will have to check it out. Homegoing and Orphan Train look very good.
Oh wow. You should definitely read Book Woman and Giver of Stars since they both take place in that area of Kentucky. I love having personal connections to books like that. Sorry to hear of your mom's passing. There's never an easy age to lose a parent. Sending you love!
KRISTA ! KRISTA! KRISTA......I LOVE THIS VIDEO SOOOO MUCH! Okay first of all I love Historical Fiction. I saw three that I jumped on Amazon and ordered...Homegoing, The Kitchen House, and Glory over everything. I also want to read I Was Anastasia, Before We Were Yours, and Iscariot!!!! Thank you so much for sharing.........have a great weekend.........hugs.....Alisha
Aw thanks, Alisha! I think you'll love Homegoing. It was among my favorites of 2018 for sure. So so good. I loved all of these, but that one is special. It reads almost like short stories, as each chapter moves to the next generation. Put a tab on the family tree at the front of the book when you read it because you'll flip there often (at least I did) to keep everyone straight. Hope you enjoy!
Yes! That's one of the reasons I think I gravitate toward historical fiction. I read mainly for enjoyment, but if I can learn about something new and still enjoy my reading time it's a win-win!
A lot of your fave historical fiction is also mine. We have the same taste. Loved The Girl Who Came Home and went down the Google hole with that one. LOL. Did you know the movie rights have been bought for Before We Were Yours? Hopefully the movie will do the book justice. Also did the Google black hole with that one.
My mom just bought it for me for Valentines Day and I can’t wait to read it! Just trying to finish up some of the books I have already in progress before I pick it up!
Just found your channel and I’m so happy to find someone else who loves historical fiction! I just subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos.
This was a timely video, Krista, because you probably know by now a couple of booktubers are hosting a Historathon in February. This video made me want to re-read Homegoing and The Kitchen House.. By the way, I Was Anastasia was one of my favorite reads in 2019. Like you, I googled everything I could to find out more about the Romanovs.
I know! I wish I knew about it when I filmed this because I would have mentioned it. I should add the info/links to the description. I can't wait for Historathon! Should be fun. After filming this I'm most interested in rereading Orphan Train and Iscariot! I think those are the ones I read the longest time ago.
Great list! I added some to my TBR. :) I'd also recommend: Pillars of the Earth (middle ages), Water for Elephants (1930s), Sky Burial (1950s China/Tibet), True Grit (1870s Western), It Ain't So Awful, Falafel (1970s USA - middle grade).
I loved Pillars of the Earth, but feel like I've talked about that a lot on my channel. It's a good one for sure. I plan on reading Water for Elephants this year (hopefully). I will have to look into the other ones. Thanks for the recs!
Yes - Pillars of the Earth was magnificent.. such a layered description of variety of characters living in a Medieval English village/town! All those power struggles and scheming! I'm interested in Sky Burial - which author, I found so many Sky Burials on goodreads?? Xinran? :)
I loved this video. Thanks for it! I just read Orphan Train last month and I loved it. It was engrossing. I would recommend One of Ours by Willa Cather. It’s about a Nebraskan man’s life and WW1. There aren’t many world war 1 historical fiction books. It also won the Pulitzer in 1920. Willa Cather was an amazing writer.
I’m going extremely interested in the Titanic. I even collect both fiction and non fiction books about the ship. I just recently came across The girl who came home and was wondering if I should add it to my collection.Thanks to you I will be putting it on my list to look for.
Krista, Thank you for taking video about books. It was enjoyable to finally find someone my age, reading things I have read. Do you book journal? A book journal is a must for my own review of what I have read. What audio app do you use? Will use many of your recommendations in 2020. My 2019 list was very similar to yours! I see Educated by Tara Westover and the Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes as different reads from my list.
Hi Barbara. Thanks for watching. I do not book journal. I keep track on Goodreads and this year I'm keeping a spreadsheet of my reading as well. I tried a book journal once, but didn't stick with it long. For audiobooks I use Hoopla and sometimes Libby. Both are free and connected to my library. At this time I can't do a pay service like librofm or scribd or audible, but I know those are all popular ones. I read Educated and loved it. Giver of Stars I do plan on reading this year. It's always fun to find some book twins!
BooksAndJams I have a library in my home. I have been accumulating books basically since before I was born since I have my mom’s complete collection of Nancy Drew. I have to curtail my booktube watching and read more! Lol
I just started reading Bookwomen. It’s not grabbing me yet. Should I keep trying? Loved kitchen house. I need to reread so I can read Glor. I’d love more Civil War fiction. Lea Mechem is awesome too
I don't remember if Book Woman took me a minute to get into it. I listened to it on audio and just remember loving it. Hope it does get better for you. I've heard good things about Leila Meachem, but her books are so huge so I've never picked one up.
Great video, I read about 2 of them and put some of the others on my tbr list. I read Before we were Yours and have the non-fiction one, but did not read it yet. I also read the Orphan Train. I have 2 of them already on my good reads want to read list before you did this video. I am Anastasia and Homegoing. Now I have some more to put on my list to read.
Lots of good recommendations. Before We Were Yours was a awesome yet heart breaking book. I’m still haunted today by what happened in that book. Did you know that there is a non-fiction book by Lisa Wingate and Julie Christie called Before and After that goes into some of the real life stories of those who were taken by the Tennessee Children’s Home?
Great vid!!! I’ve picked up The Kitchen House so many times but have never read it. That seems like a travesty. I would be curious what the next most popular historical fiction category is (since WWII seems to be the most popular) but I’d guess it would be Great Depression era or Roaring 20s. Or maybe that’s my bias because I would look for those events most.
Maybe Civil War for next most common? I know there's quite a few. I think war in general is a popular (easy) backdrop for HF books. I'd like to read more books set in the 20s too. Have you read Rules of Civility? It's set in the 30s mainly, but has the feel of the 20s. Maybe that because I don't know much about those eras in general.
I loved Homegoing too! It was such a fascinating book! Iscariot, The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours (the last two are available in my library - yay!) sound like a books I need to add on my GR shelf ..which has already exploded during the last two weeks. New year does that to my GR shelf.. all the great recommendations and "top of last year" videos.. And I love historical fiction so this video didn't help in getting the number down. :D But I am so excited to read!
Hi Krista I just borrowed The Girl Who Came Home from my library. That one sounds like it’ll be a good one. Also I will check out Troublesome Creek. Have you read The Giver of Stars? That’s has a similar story of pack librarians that I just read. You might want to check that one out since you liked Troublesome Creek. Thanks as always for the recommendations.
Yes, Susan Meissner has a few books that aren't WWII, but I haven't read them yet. I forgot about Fall of Marigolds, which would have been good for this video since it talks about 9/11. It's a more recent history but still would count I think.
I read a book by Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb earlier last year called 'Meet Me In Monaco'. It's a historical fiction set in the 1950s about Grace Kelly meeting and marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. It was really good.
Like you I read a lot of WW II historical fiction (currently reading Lady Clementine). I love all the books you suggested, have read a few but really want to read Iscariot as I just saw Jesus Christ Superstar on stage and have been thinking about Judas ever since. Thank you for making my morning a little brighter Krista!
Have a recommendation for you - The Midnight Watch by David Dyer. It’s another Titanic themed book, but focused on the SS Californian: the ship the didn’t come to the aid of the Titanic. Fascinating true story that I hadn’t known. I love google rabbit holes!
These are some of my favorite historical fiction: My Antonia by Willa Cather (pioneer days) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (China) Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker (1940's Montana wheat farmers) and my favorite of all time Les Miserables, unabridged by Victor Hugo (his prose is the best I have ever seen!) There are plenty of middle grade books that are awesome. I enjoy these because they are short but also packed with historical punch for those that don't have a lot of time to read: Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (medieval)👈this is amazing The Birchbark house by Louise Erdrich Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (The dust bowl 1930's)(I loved this one) A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Korea 12th century) The house of 60 fathers by Meindert DeJong (WWII) The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages (1940's creating atomic bomb) ***I could probably go on forever because this is my favorite genre😁***
So many recs! Thank you! The only ones I've read are Les Mis (but I don't own a copy) and Out of the Dust (which I read last middle grade march). I loved both of them. I am going through this list and adding some to my GR to read list right now!
there's still an issue with children being stolen and adopted out, they work under the guise of CPS. It came to my attention in 2015. I think I have Before We Were Yours. I'll have to try and get to it this year. All of your books sound like great reads.
@@BooksAndJams Amen! a volunteer with CASA saved the family I am connected to. When I'm finished raising my youngest, I want to look into volunteering for CASA as well. (my mom also did this when she lived in southern Cali.)
I also enjoyed The girl who came home. And my favorite historical fiction book is the trilogy ofPublio Cornelio Escipion written by Santiago Posteguillo
@@BooksAndJams I think that It has been translated since Santiago Posteguillo has commented that many people of Italy, ingland, USA have mde contact with him in order to comment aspects of the book. Moreover, It is preparing an adaptation into film of the series of Escipion
I have read so many of these books and loved them. I loved The House Girl, setting is between modern and slavery. Was a book I thought about after the read as people trace their DNA and get a few shocks.
Ok I know I said in my most recent video that I have an unfair bias about Christian fiction. BUT, I would actually LOVE to read biblical fiction. Because I totally agree with you that it would bring more empathy and insight into people that really did exist. Definitely adding Iscariot to my list (along with a million other books you mentioned, obviously 😂).
I went through a phase quite a few years ago now where all I read was Christian fiction. I still enjoy it because it's sometimes nice to read something that lines up with my values almost 100% and I can just relax into the story with ease. But I definitely don't read as much as I used to, which is also ok. It's been so long since I've read Iscariot and filming this makes me want to reread it.
Before we were yours, so agree with your comments. I received this straight from the author just before it was published. I too Googled it. What an appalling thing. It hit home more when I realised it was based on true events. Amazing book.
BooksAndJams absolutely! I was gobsmacked. This book will stay with forever. Which reminds me, I need to look if she’s another book out or coming out soon. I like her writing
I enjoyed this video so much. I feel that WWII fiction has taken over and there are so many other interesting eras to read about in HF, so I appreciated your highlighting other books.
Yes! I do have lots of WWII fiction I want to read too, but I had fun highlighting some lesser known/talked about books. I just love historical fiction books so much!
I love love that you did this Krista! I have been wanting to discover historical fiction that isn’t WW2, feels like if you go to the bookstore and they have a table dedicated to historical fiction, it’s completely full of WW2 and I’m like there has to be more
The market is definitely saturated (the word I was trying to think of while filming. haha) with WWII books. I love them, but there are SO many nonwwii books to enjoy too! Hope you found a couple on this list that you want to read!
This video is so wonderful! This is definitely my favorite genre, and although I do love a good WWII HF it does seem like they’re easier to find. I love The Kitchen House which I read in 2019 and I also loved Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas which is set in 1936 in a Colorado mining town (one of my favorite settings is women living in the mountains during difficult times...not sure why since I’ve always lived in Michigan lol). My favorite book of all time is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and another in my top ten in Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman. Thanks for all the recs Krista!
Thanks so much, Dawn. I haven't heard of Prayers for Sale but I do have another Sandra Dallas on my shelves I'd like to read this year. I actually didn't care for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I know I have a very unpopular opinion on that one.
Thank you for this video Krista! My favorite genre is historical fiction! The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek really hits home for me! My mother was born in 1932 in Southeastern Kentucky, left Kentucky in 1949 when she moved to Rhode Island. She thought she was just going to visit but ended up meeting my Dad and they were married for over 67 years and stayed in R.I only going back to Kentucky for visits. She passed away in 2018. She loved to tell us about growing up there. She was a coal miner’s daughter. Extreme poverty but a lot of love. I loved the Kitchen House but it was heartbreaking. Didn’t realize there was a sequel. I will have to check it out. Homegoing and Orphan Train look very good.
Oh wow. You should definitely read Book Woman and Giver of Stars since they both take place in that area of Kentucky. I love having personal connections to books like that. Sorry to hear of your mom's passing. There's never an easy age to lose a parent. Sending you love!
KRISTA ! KRISTA! KRISTA......I LOVE THIS VIDEO SOOOO MUCH! Okay first of all I love Historical Fiction. I saw three that I jumped on Amazon and ordered...Homegoing, The Kitchen House, and Glory over everything. I also want to read I Was Anastasia, Before We Were Yours, and Iscariot!!!! Thank you so much for sharing.........have a great weekend.........hugs.....Alisha
Aw thanks, Alisha! I think you'll love Homegoing. It was among my favorites of 2018 for sure. So so good. I loved all of these, but that one is special. It reads almost like short stories, as each chapter moves to the next generation. Put a tab on the family tree at the front of the book when you read it because you'll flip there often (at least I did) to keep everyone straight. Hope you enjoy!
I read The Kitchen House several months ago and I am still thinking of it weekly. It is such a powerful story
Historical fiction is my favorite, as much as I love a good thriller. Great recommendations!!
Mine too! I do want to dive a bit more into thrillers this year, but HF will always be my go to.
Like you, I enjoy books that make me curious about something and then I research it. I've learned all sorts of trivia!
Yes! That's one of the reasons I think I gravitate toward historical fiction. I read mainly for enjoyment, but if I can learn about something new and still enjoy my reading time it's a win-win!
"I can cheat..because it's my channel!" :DDD
Haha. I mean....it's true!
Please read The Giver of Stars...you will love it as it is about the packhorse librarians as well!! LOVE Historical Fiction!!!
I'm definitely very interested in The Giver of Stars. It's waiting for me in my 2020 tbr cart!
A lot of your fave historical fiction is also mine. We have the same taste. Loved The Girl Who Came Home and went down the Google hole with that one. LOL. Did you know the movie rights have been bought for Before We Were Yours? Hopefully the movie will do the book justice. Also did the Google black hole with that one.
I didn't know Before We Were Yours was going to be a film. OH man. That makes me so excited! I'm hoping with you that it's done well.
Finally!! Someone has mentioned The Book Lady from Troublesome Creek!! My favorite.
I think it deserves quite a bit more attention than it received!
My mom just bought it for me for Valentines Day and I can’t wait to read it! Just trying to finish up some of the books I have already in progress before I pick it up!
Just found your channel and I’m so happy to find someone else who loves historical fiction! I just subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos.
I'm so glad you found me! :)
This was a timely video, Krista, because you probably know by now a couple of booktubers are hosting a Historathon in February.
This video made me want to re-read Homegoing and The Kitchen House.. By the way, I Was Anastasia was one of my favorite reads in 2019. Like you, I googled everything I could to find out more about the Romanovs.
I know! I wish I knew about it when I filmed this because I would have mentioned it. I should add the info/links to the description. I can't wait for Historathon! Should be fun. After filming this I'm most interested in rereading Orphan Train and Iscariot! I think those are the ones I read the longest time ago.
I loved this! You mentioned so many of my very favourite books. The kitchen house orphan train home going! So good
I now want to reread Orphan Train especially. It has been so long! There's so many good ones out there.
So many of these sound fantastic! I have a few on my tbr but I’m adding more to my goodreads list!
Mission accomplished! I think you'd really like all of these since we have such similar tastes.
Great list! I added some to my TBR. :) I'd also recommend: Pillars of the Earth (middle ages), Water for Elephants (1930s), Sky Burial (1950s China/Tibet), True Grit (1870s Western), It Ain't So Awful, Falafel (1970s USA - middle grade).
I loved Pillars of the Earth, but feel like I've talked about that a lot on my channel. It's a good one for sure. I plan on reading Water for Elephants this year (hopefully). I will have to look into the other ones. Thanks for the recs!
Yes - Pillars of the Earth was magnificent.. such a layered description of variety of characters living in a Medieval English village/town! All those power struggles and scheming! I'm interested in Sky Burial - which author, I found so many Sky Burials on goodreads?? Xinran? :)
Historical fiction is my favorite, so Thankyou!
I love historical fiction too!
I loved this video. Thanks for it!
I just read Orphan Train last month and I loved it. It was engrossing.
I would recommend One of Ours by Willa Cather. It’s about a Nebraskan man’s life and WW1. There aren’t many world war 1 historical fiction books. It also won the Pulitzer in 1920. Willa Cather was an amazing writer.
I don't think I've read anything by Willa Cather. Thank you for the recommendation.
I’m going extremely interested in the Titanic. I even collect both fiction and non fiction books about the ship. I just recently came across The girl who came home and was wondering if I should add it to my collection.Thanks to you I will be putting it on my list to look for.
I would love to read more about the Titanic. The Girl Who Came Home is definitely worth the read for Titanic history lovers!
Krista, Thank you for taking video about books. It was enjoyable to finally find someone my age, reading things I have read. Do you book journal? A book journal is a must for my own review of what I have read. What audio app do you use? Will use many of your recommendations in 2020. My 2019 list was very similar to yours! I see Educated by Tara Westover and the Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes as different reads from my list.
Hi Barbara. Thanks for watching. I do not book journal. I keep track on Goodreads and this year I'm keeping a spreadsheet of my reading as well. I tried a book journal once, but didn't stick with it long. For audiobooks I use Hoopla and sometimes Libby. Both are free and connected to my library. At this time I can't do a pay service like librofm or scribd or audible, but I know those are all popular ones. I read Educated and loved it. Giver of Stars I do plan on reading this year. It's always fun to find some book twins!
Loved loved The Kitchen House. I didn’t know there was a sequel. Now I have to find it 😳
I did like The Kitchen House better than Glory Over Everything, but it's still definitely worth reading.
Amazing selection! I have some of these but haven’t read any. I also found a couple to add to my huge TBR.
Not any! Oh boy, you have some great reading ahead of you!
BooksAndJams I have a library in my home. I have been accumulating books basically since before I was born since I have my mom’s complete collection of Nancy Drew. I have to curtail my booktube watching and read more! Lol
I just started reading Bookwomen. It’s not grabbing me yet. Should I keep trying? Loved kitchen house. I need to reread so I can read Glor. I’d love more Civil War fiction. Lea Mechem is awesome too
I don't remember if Book Woman took me a minute to get into it. I listened to it on audio and just remember loving it. Hope it does get better for you. I've heard good things about Leila Meachem, but her books are so huge so I've never picked one up.
Great video, I read about 2 of them and put some of the others on my tbr list.
I read Before we were Yours and have the non-fiction one, but did not read it yet.
I also read the Orphan Train. I have 2 of them already on my good reads want to read list before you did this video. I am Anastasia and Homegoing. Now I have some more to put on my list to read.
Glad to populate your TBR! :)
Lots of good recommendations. Before We Were Yours was a awesome yet heart breaking book. I’m still haunted today by what happened in that book. Did you know that there is a non-fiction book by Lisa Wingate and Julie Christie called Before and After that goes into some of the real life stories of those who were taken by the Tennessee Children’s Home?
Thanks! I have so many more I want to read, but was happy to highlight some old faves.
Great vid!!! I’ve picked up The Kitchen House so many times but have never read it. That seems like a travesty.
I would be curious what the next most popular historical fiction category is (since WWII seems to be the most popular) but I’d guess it would be Great Depression era or Roaring 20s. Or maybe that’s my bias because I would look for those events most.
Maybe Civil War for next most common? I know there's quite a few. I think war in general is a popular (easy) backdrop for HF books. I'd like to read more books set in the 20s too. Have you read Rules of Civility? It's set in the 30s mainly, but has the feel of the 20s. Maybe that because I don't know much about those eras in general.
I loved Homegoing too! It was such a fascinating book! Iscariot, The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours (the last two are available in my library - yay!) sound like a books I need to add on my GR shelf ..which has already exploded during the last two weeks. New year does that to my GR shelf.. all the great recommendations and "top of last year" videos.. And I love historical fiction so this video didn't help in getting the number down. :D But I am so excited to read!
I agree. Watching everyone's best of lists added a ton of books to my tbr too! That's the fun of it.
Love Susanna Kearsley!! Sigh, if only I could read some of her books for the first time again! ;)
I am thankful that I have quite a few still to read on my shelves! I love her too.
Hi Krista I just borrowed The Girl Who Came Home from my library. That one sounds like it’ll be a good one. Also I will check out Troublesome Creek. Have you read The Giver of Stars? That’s has a similar story of pack librarians that I just read. You might want to check that one out since you liked Troublesome Creek. Thanks as always for the recommendations.
I hope you do pick up Troublesome Creek. I have Giver of Stars but haven't read it yet. I'm sure I'll love it!
Those all look like some great books. I can't wait to try some of them. I loved As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner. I learned a lot from that book.
Yes, Susan Meissner has a few books that aren't WWII, but I haven't read them yet. I forgot about Fall of Marigolds, which would have been good for this video since it talks about 9/11. It's a more recent history but still would count I think.
I love historical fiction also. I’ve added some of these to my tbr list.
Sweet! Mission accomplished!
I read a book by Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb earlier last year called 'Meet Me In Monaco'. It's a historical fiction set in the 1950s about Grace Kelly meeting and marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. It was really good.
That's one I haven't read yet. Sounds like a good one. I think I'd read anything Hazel Gaynor writes. I do really like her.
Like you I read a lot of WW II historical fiction (currently reading Lady Clementine). I love all the books you suggested, have read a few but really want to read Iscariot as I just saw Jesus Christ Superstar on stage and have been thinking about Judas ever since. Thank you for making my morning a little brighter Krista!
I want to try some Marie Benedict. I have Mr. Churchill's Secretary on my cart to read this year.
Have a recommendation for you - The Midnight Watch by David Dyer. It’s another Titanic themed book, but focused on the SS Californian: the ship the didn’t come to the aid of the Titanic. Fascinating true story that I hadn’t known. I love google rabbit holes!
Oooo. I haven't heard of that. Definitely adding it to my to read shelf on goodreads.
Love this video! I would recommend anything by Laura Frantz!
Thanks for the recommendation!
These are some of my favorite historical fiction:
My Antonia by Willa Cather (pioneer days)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (China)
Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker (1940's Montana wheat farmers)
and my favorite of all time
Les Miserables, unabridged by Victor Hugo (his prose is the best I have ever seen!)
There are plenty of middle grade books that are awesome. I enjoy these because they are short but also packed with historical punch for those that don't have a lot of time to read:
Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (medieval)👈this is amazing
The Birchbark house by Louise Erdrich
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (The dust bowl 1930's)(I loved this one)
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Korea 12th century)
The house of 60 fathers by Meindert DeJong (WWII)
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages (1940's creating atomic bomb)
***I could probably go on forever because this is my favorite genre😁***
So many recs! Thank you! The only ones I've read are Les Mis (but I don't own a copy) and Out of the Dust (which I read last middle grade march). I loved both of them. I am going through this list and adding some to my GR to read list right now!
i loved "mornings in jenin"
I had never heard of it, but added it to my GR after looking it up. Thanks for the rec!
there's still an issue with children being stolen and adopted out, they work under the guise of CPS. It came to my attention in 2015. I think I have Before We Were Yours. I'll have to try and get to it this year. All of your books sound like great reads.
It's so disheartening that we are still not doing our best for children. Makes me angry and breaks my heart.
@@BooksAndJams Amen! a volunteer with CASA saved the family I am connected to. When I'm finished raising my youngest, I want to look into volunteering for CASA as well. (my mom also did this when she lived in southern Cali.)
I'd reccomend The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes!
I am very interested in that one! It's sitting in my 2020 TBR cart ready to go!
I also enjoyed The girl who came home. And my favorite historical fiction book is the trilogy ofPublio Cornelio Escipion written by Santiago Posteguillo
Sweet. Do you know if that's translated at all? I couldn't tell on GR.
@@BooksAndJams I think that It has been translated since Santiago Posteguillo has commented that many people of Italy, ingland, USA have mde contact with him in order to comment aspects of the book. Moreover, It is preparing an adaptation into film of the series of Escipion
I have read so many of these books and loved them. I loved The House Girl, setting is between modern and slavery. Was a book I thought about after the read as people trace their DNA and get a few shocks.
I feel like I've heard some mixed things about The House Girl, so I'm glad to hear you liked it.
Ok I know I said in my most recent video that I have an unfair bias about Christian fiction. BUT, I would actually LOVE to read biblical fiction. Because I totally agree with you that it would bring more empathy and insight into people that really did exist. Definitely adding Iscariot to my list (along with a million other books you mentioned, obviously 😂).
I went through a phase quite a few years ago now where all I read was Christian fiction. I still enjoy it because it's sometimes nice to read something that lines up with my values almost 100% and I can just relax into the story with ease. But I definitely don't read as much as I used to, which is also ok. It's been so long since I've read Iscariot and filming this makes me want to reread it.
Before we were yours, so agree with your comments. I received this straight from the author just before it was published. I too Googled it. What an appalling thing. It hit home more when I realised it was based on true events. Amazing book.
I was shocked and appalled when I learned that Georgia Tan was a real woman who did these horrible things. Ugh. Made me so angry and sad.
BooksAndJams absolutely! I was gobsmacked. This book will stay with forever. Which reminds me, I need to look if she’s another book out or coming out soon. I like her writing