Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is “Top Ten Historical Settings You Love/ Ten Historical Settings You’d Love To See or Top Futuristic Books You Love/Ten Futuristic Societies I’d Love To Read in Books — basically this week is all about the past or the future….spin it however you choose!”
ONE. Regency England
- The works of Jane Austen
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
TWO. Victorian England
- The works of Charles Dickens
- The Woman in White and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope
- The works of Oscar Wilde
- The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
THREE. American Civil War
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
FOUR. Edwardian England
- The works of E. M. Forster
- The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert
FIVE. 1920s
- The early works of Agatha Christie
- The early works of Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Daisy Dalrymple mysteries by Carola Dunn
SIX. 1930s
- The works of Dashiell Hammett
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Her Royal Spyness mysteries by Rhys Bowen
- The Grace & Favor mysteries by Jill Churchill
SEVEN. WWII
- The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
EIGHT. 1990s
- Attachments and Landline by Rainbow Rowell
- Someday, Someday Maybe by Lauren Graham
- The Glenbrooke series by Robin Jones Gunn
YES to all of these but particularly Regency, Victorian and the 1920s!
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I think you’d enjoy the Daisy Dalrymple series. 🙂
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Love WWII based books!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/top-ten-tuesday-42/
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It’s a popular time period. There was so much going on in the world. Most of my favorites are memoirs from the time.
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these are some of my very faves too! My TTT
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🙂
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Great job compiling the list, Selah!
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Thanks! This was a fun one!
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Cyndi Lauper is so much cooler than Cher!! We do have a lot of the same time periods and I love the examples you provide! I really like the Victorian era/turn of the century and didn’t even think about Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sherlock Holmes. It may be my all around favorite era for books.
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Thanks! The Victorian Era was really long so there are a lot of authors to choose from. 🙂 Technically, Thackarey was a Victorian author too, but Vanity Fair is historical fiction, so I put it in the Regency era, lol.
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