I love reading. I particularly love reading historical fiction
check back soon for reading recommendations but in the meantime here are some lists of historical fiction books aimed at teenagers that I love and would recommend for wider reading
also see this file for more detail about recommendations
Victorian
The Lie tree by Frances Hardringe
A Dark Trade by Mary Hooper
Following Ophelia by Sophia Bennett
My name is Victoria by Lucy Worsley
The Next together by Lauren James
The Beloved by Alison Rattle
The Madness by Alison Rattle
Witchfinder by Ruth Warburton
Frost Hollow Hall by Emma Carroll
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
The Quietness by Alison Rattle
Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper
Velvet by Mary Hooper
Past World by Ian Beck
Medical History
Sawbones by Catherine Johnson
Blade and Bone by Catherine Johnson
Poppy by Mary Hooper
Dusk by Eve Edwards
Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper
Rowan the Strange by Julie Hearn
World War One
Poppy by Mary Hooper
Dusk by Eve Edwards
Loyal Creatures by Morris Gleitzman
Valentine Joe by Rebecca Stevens
Stay where you are and then leave by John Boyne
Private Peaceful by Michael Murpurgo
Slave Trade
My Name's Not Friday by Jon Walter
American Civil Rights
The lies we tell ourselves by Robin Talley
Interwar Britain
Wild Lily by KM Peyton
Trouble on Cable Street by Joan Lingard
Post War Britain
V for Violet by Alison Rattle
The Cold War
Life an exploded diagram by Mal Peet
Going Over by Beth Kephart
The voices of silence by Bel Mooney
Girl on a plane by Miriam Moss
V for Violet by Alison Rattle
World War Two
Margot and Me by Juno Dawson
Letters from the lighthouse by Emma Carroll
Eloise undercover by Sarah Baker
Make more Noise by Various
Operation Blackout by Victor Watson
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Front Lines by Michael Grant
Girl with a white dog by Anne Booth
That Burning Summer by Lydia Syson
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Cross my Heart by Carmen Reid
Paradise Barn by Victor Watson
Dunkirk by James Holland
Run Rabbit Run by Barbara Mitchelhill
Between shades of grey by Ruta Sepetys
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Amazing story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo
Tudor and Stuart
Ring of Roses by Mary Hooper
The Ravenmaster's boy by Mary Hoffman
Eliza Rose by Lucy Worsley
VIII by HM Castor
Traitor's Kiss by Pauline Francis
The Other Countess by Eve Edwards
Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley
Suffragettes
Make more Noise by Various
Things a Bright Girl can do by Sally Nichols
Until we win by Linda Newbery
The Making of Mollie by Anna Carey
Mollie on the March by Anna Carey
Girls for the Vote by Linda Newbery
Star by star by Sheena Wilkinson
Russian History
The Rasputin Dagger by Theresa Breslin
Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
Medieval
Tilt by Mary Hoffman
The count painter's apprentice by Richard Knight
Crusade by Linda Press Wulf
Crusade by Elizabeth Laird
Georgian
Sawbones by Catherine Johnson
Evie's Ghost by Helen Peters
Darkmere by Helen Maslin
Holocaust
The Earth is singing by Vanessa Curtis
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Annexed by Sharon Dogar
Between shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys
French History
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross
Liberty's Fire by Lydia Syson
A little in love by Susan Fletcher
Edwardian
Twelve minutes to midnight by Christopher Edge (series of 3 books)
Wentworth Hall y Abby Grahame
Secrets and Sapphires by Lelia Rasheed (series of 3 books)
Murder most unladylike by Robin Stevens (series - currently 6 books)
The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow by Katherine Woodfine (series of 4 books)
Velvet by Mary Hooper
Spanish Civil War
A world between us by Lydia Syson
Abyssinia Crisis
White Raven Black Dove by Elizabeth Wein
