There is a great website called Fantastic Fiction that I often use in my writing and my job. You can search an author’s name and pull up a list of everything they have written, by year. It’s especially useful for finding the titles and order of books in a series. You can also search the site by genres - Historical being one of the options.
When I last did a column on historical fiction, I listed the guidelines books in this category must follow, and I gave titles from different time periods. Today I’m sharing titles that take place in the 20th century,
in a variety of decades and locations. It’s by no means an exhaustive list, but these authors are among the most popular who write modern historical novels.
Kate Alcott - a graduate of the University of Oregon
The Hollywood Daughter
Marie Benedict - a pseudonym for lawyer Heather Terrell
The Queens of Crime
Melanie Benjamin - Lives with her family in the Chicago area
Barbara Kingsolver - award-winning writer with a new novel out this fall
Ariel Lawhon - hosts an online book club called She Reads
When We Had Wings
Paula McLain - has an MFA in Poetry
Susan Meissner - nominated twice for Christy awards
Michael Ondaatje - best known for the award-winning novel “The English Patient”
Warlight
Lisa See - bestselling Chinese American author has written both fiction and nonfiction
Beatriz Williams - bestselling author born in Seattle, WA
-Blog post by Senior Collection Development Librarian Beth Wood. This article was originally published as part of her weekly column, Check It Out, in The Columbian.
New at the Library
This is just a small sampling of the many new titles added each week to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District collection. Visit the district’s 15 locations, our website at www.fvrl.org, or call (360) 906-
5000 to reserve titles or find additional listings.
FICTION
If You'll Have Me
Mists Over the Channel Islands
NONFICTION
The Unfinished Business of 1776
CHILDREN
Welcome to the Rabbit Residence
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