“The best time for
planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
Most Popular Historical
Fiction in 2017 & Today
Welcome
to my blog everyone! Let’s jump right into this week’s subject: Most Popular Historical
Fiction Novels, 2017 & Today.
BARNES
& NOBLE – Today’s Top 15 Selling
Fiction
(including historical fiction)
#12
The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate
Morton – mystery/love story set in 1862 England & present day
#15
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather
Morris Harper -- WWII love story based on true story.
NEW
YORK TIMES – Today’s Top 10 Combined
E-Book & Print Fiction (including historical fiction)
#
5 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia
Owens – 1969 North Carolina murder mystery and love story
#10
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather
Morris Harper -- WWII love story based on true story.
GOODREADS
- Winner of Goodreads’ Best Historical Fiction of 2017:
Before We Were
Yours,
by Lisa Wingate -- Heart-rending novel based on the true-life story of child stealing by a Memphis
adoption agency in the late 1930s to 1950.
BOOKBUB:
A listing of 22 of the Biggest Historical Fiction of 2017:
(https://www.bookbub.com/blog/2017/12/04/best-historical-fiction-2017)
The
list focuses on eBooks and includes a spectrum of historical fiction genres:
thrillers; mysteries; family sagas; adventures; dramas; spies and war stories.
I ran up an Excel sheet using Bookbub’s
list to see what the list had to say about authors, genre, protagonists, era and
location. What struck me is the number
of wartime era novels (10) -- especially WW II. Eighteen books were written by
female authors who mostly chose females or children as their protagonists. Half
were set in the US followed by Europe and Asia.
Interestingly, three of the novels were
about real people and how the authors visualized their life and/or death:
Willie Lincoln (a
supernatural novel)
Lizzie Borden
(can’t wait to read this one)
Christina Olson
(subject of Andrew Wyeth’s painting, “Christine.”)
My Excel sheet was time-consuming but
well worth it. It gives me plenty to think about regarding the ‘who,’ ‘what’
and ‘where’ of writing.
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Do
you have a favorite historical fiction genre or book? Please comment below. I’d
love to read what you have to say, and your fellow readers would too.
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November 1st.
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See you November 1st with a chat about Short Story Contests…the Good, the Bad and
the Ugly. AND, I'll be talking about my book release.
Once again, thank you many times over for
taking time to read my blog.
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