Historical Fiction

What is historical fiction? Generally it is a book that takes place in a historical setting and may involve some historical figures, but also can have fictional characters that were invented by the author to help fill in gaps missing in history. Sometimes the fictional character is someone who explains what they see during an important event in history.

Click on the link below for a pdf document that gives an overview of Historical Fiction.

Historical Fiction

This website

Historical Novels

lists many different historical fiction books that can be broken down by time period and location of the book. There is also a section for YA's as well that is similarly broken down. I have not had a whole lot of time to explore it, but look forward to picking a few books off the lists to add to my ever lengthening To Read list.

For my class (the purpose of this blog is a class assignment), we had to pick a specific genre that we wanted to focus on. I chose Historical Fiction, because I love history, and I know it is a genre that not many Young Adults are highly interested in reading. I am hoping that with the booktalks on this blog, YAs may see that Historical Fiction books can be action, adventure, mystery, horror, etc. and are not just names as dates (what most people associate with History).