Historical Fiction list
~ titles available in the RCSS library fiction section, sorted on the shelf by author’s last name ~
Gothic Literature
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Dracula – Stoker
Frankenstein – Shelley
Wuthering Heights - Bronte
Victorian Fiction
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anything by Jane Austen
anything by Charles Dickens
Canadian Historical Fiction
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Deafening – Itani
Electrical Field, The - Sakamoto
Latitudes of Melt – Clark
Peace Shall Destroy Many - Wiebe
Foreign Historical Literature
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Artist of the Floating World – Ishiguro
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Sijie
Kite Runner / Thousand Splendid Suns – Hosseini
Memoirs of a Geisha – Golden
Sunday at the Pool in Kigali – Courtemanche
American Historical Literature
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Diviners, The – Bray (YA)
Life, An Exploded Diagram – Peet (YA)
Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The – Edwards
My Name is Asher Lev – Potak
On the Road – Kerouac
Out of the Easy – Sepetys (YA)
Outlander – Adamson
Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood – Saenz (YA)
Scarlett Letter, The - Hawthorne
Sun Also Rises, The – Hemmingway
Historical Fiction list
~ titles available in the RCSS library fiction section, sorted on the shelf by author’s last name ~
History of Slavery/American Civil Rights/Black History
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain
Beloved / Bluest Eye – Morrison
Book of Negros – Hill
Breath, Eyes, Memory – Danticat
Color Purple – Walker
Emancipation Day – Grady
Half-Blood Blues – Edugyan
Help, The - Stockett
Secret Life of Bees – Kidd
Summer of Kings – Nolan (YA)
Twelve Tribes of Hattie – Mathis
War Literature
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All Quiet on the Western Front – Remarque
Between Shades of Gray – Sepetys (YA)
Book Thief – Zusak (YA)
Catch-22 – Heller
Cellist of Sarajevo – Galloway
City of Thieves – Benioff
Coal Black Horse – Olmstead
Code Name Verity / Rose Under Fire – Wein (YA)
Coventry – Humphreys
English Patient, The – Ondaatje
How I Live Now – Rosoff (YA)
Leviathan – Westerfeld (YA)
Paco’s Story – Heineman
Passchendaele – Gross
Sarah’s Key – De Rosnay
A Separate Peace – Knowles
Tamar – Peet (YA)
Historical Fiction list
~ titles available in the RCSS library fiction section, sorted on the shelf by author’s last name ~
Dystopian Fiction
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1984 – Orwell
Chrysalids – Wyndham
Ender’s Game – Card
Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
Never Let Me Go – Ishiguro
Miscellaneous Time Periods
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Age of Innocence – Wharton
Atonement – McEwan
Bloodline – Moran (YA)
Cat’s Table, The – Ondaatje
Finnie Walsh – Galloway
Ishmael – Quinn
Midwinter Blood – Sedwick (YA)
Painted Girls, The – Buchanan
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce
Revolution – Donnelly (YA)
Skystone – Whyte
Threads and Flames – Friesner (YA)
Troy – Griffin
Watch that Ends the Night, The – Wolf (YA)
Water for Elephants – Gruen