RUSA CODES Reading ListHistorical Fiction

Given by RUSA Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES)

Other Names: Reading List Award, RUSA Reading List
88 Works 0 Books
Established in 2007 by the CODES section of RUSA, The Reading List seeks to highlight outstanding genre fiction that merit special attention by general adult readers and the librarians who work show more with them. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (135), Read-alike to Winner (49), Shortlist (503)
Categories:
All, Adrenaline (87), Fantasy (84), Historical Fiction (88), Horror (88), Mystery (87), Relationship Fiction (31), Romance (82), Science Fiction (86), Women's Fiction (53), , No Category (1)
Years:
All, 2024 (8), 2023 (8), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (6), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (1)
Announced:
January 20: Winner2024 Recent
January 20: Shortlist2024 Recent
January 20: Read-alike to Winner2024 Recent

Winner 17

WorkYear
Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See2024
By Her Own Design by Piper Huguley2023
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris2022
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora2021
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott2020
Between Earth and Sky by Amanda Skenandore2019
The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker2018
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore2017
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans2016
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth2015
The Outcasts by Kathleen Kent2014
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel2013
Doc by Mary Doria Russell2012
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer2011
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell2010
The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara2009
The Religion by Tim Willocks2008

Read-alike to Winner 6

WorkYear
The Surgeon's Daughter by Audrey Blake
Read-alike to “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women: A Novel” by Lisa See
2024
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Read-alike to “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women: A Novel” by Lisa See
2024
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
Read-alike to “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women: A Novel” by Lisa See
2024
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
Read-alike to “By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register” by Piper Huguley
2023
The Gown by Jennifer Robson
Read-alike to “By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register” by Piper Huguley
2023
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Read-alike to “By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register” by Piper Huguley
2023

Shortlist 65

WorkYear
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones2024
Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall2024
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls2024
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams2024
The Forty Elephants by Erin Bledsoe2023
The Good Wife of Bath: A Novel by Karen Brooks2023
Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray2023
The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters2023
Leonora in the Morning Light by Michaela Carter2022
A Tip for the Hangman by Allison Epstein2022
Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood2022
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn2022
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue2021
Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon2021
The Land Beyond the Sea by Sharon Kay Penman2021
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter2021
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins2020
Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati2020
City of Flickering Light by Juliette Fay2020
The Song of the Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning2020
A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler2019
The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning2019
Circe by Madeline Miller2019
Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce2019
The Confessions of Young Nero by Margaret George2018
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee2018
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford2018
Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions by Amy Stewart2018
The Risen: A Novel of Spartacus by David Anthony Durham2017
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi2017
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey2017
News of the World by Paulette Jiles2017
Jam on the Vine: A Novel by LaShonda Katrice Barnett2016
The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows2016
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah2016
Paradise Sky by Joe R. Lansdale2016
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart2016
Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America by Amy Belding Brown2015
Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke2015
Hild by Nicola Griffith2015
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon2015
Longbourn by Jo Baker2014
Out of the Black Land by Kerry Greenwood2014
The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale2014
The Abominable by Dan Simmons2014
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville2013
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller2013
Sutton by J. R. Moehringer2013
The Cove by Ron Rash2013
Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman2012
The Sea Captain's Wife by Beth Powning2012
Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith2012
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles2012
A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer2011
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning2011
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon2011
A Battle Won by S. Thomas Russell2011
Etta by Gerald Kolpan2010
The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland2010
Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran2010
Grace Hammer by Sara Stockbridge2010
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane2009
The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss2009
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer2009

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