My 2012 YA Historical fiction challenge post

I completed this challenge last year and really enjoyed it (since historical fiction is my favorite genre), so I am glad YA Bliss is hosting it again. You can read more about the challenge and sign up here.

Once again, I am going for level 3, which is to read at least 15 YA & MG historical fiction books. This year, I think I read around 40, maybe I'll get 50 next year! Here is my list of books read as well as a tenative list of some of the books I hope to read, I split it into books I already have a copy of, and upcoming releases I am looking forward to. It's a long list but I hope to read a lot of these. Most of these are historical fiction, but a few are historical fantasy.

1. Dragonswood by Janet Lee Carey
2. The Pirate Captain's Daughter by Eve Bunting
3. My Story: No Way Back by Valerie Wilding
4. A Temptation of Angels by Michelle Zink
5. Gilt by Katherine Longshore
6. Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
7. Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skypruch
8. Dear Canada: Torn Apart by Susan Aihoshi
9. Our Australian Girl: Meet Nellie by Penny Matthews
10. The Last Song by Eva Wiseman
11. The Gathering Storm by Robin Bridges
12. The Hidden Gold: A Marie-Grace Mystery by Sarah Masters Buckey
13. My Story: Wartime Princess by Valerie Wilding
14. Forget Me Not by Sue Reid
15. Sisters of Glass by Stephanie Hemphill


And the books I hope to read:

Books I already have:
Beautiful Days by Anna Godbersen
The Wild Queen by Carolyn Meyer
The Springsweet by Saundra Mitchell
Ladies in Waiting by Laura Sullivan
Farmer Boy Goes West by Heather Williams
A Forest of Gold by Courtney Maika
Vice and Virtue by Veronica Bennett
The Wicked and the Just by J. Anderson Coates
The Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
Just a Girl by Jane Caro
Promise the Night by Michaela MacColl
Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
The Traitor's Kiss by Pauline Francis
The Rogue's Princess by Eve Edwards
Lights on the Nile by Donna Jo Napoli
River of Time series by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Velvet by Mary Hooper
Bracelet of Bones by Kevin Crossley Holland
The Faerie Ring by Tiki Hamilton
Cleopatra's Moon by Vicky Alvear Shecter
Wrapped by Jennifer Bradbury
The Lost Crown by Sarah Miller
Crusade by Linda Press Wulf
Cleopatra Confesses by Carolyn Meyer
Secret Letters by Leah Scheier
Scarlet by AC Gaughen
The Mastermind Plot by Angie Frazier
The Academie by Susanne Dunlap
Daughters of the Sea: Lucy by Kathryn Lasky
The Girl in the Mask by Marie-Louise Jensen
Courtship and Curses by Marissa Doyle
My Story: Berlin Olympics by Vince Cross
Pendragon Legacy: Sword of Light by Katherine Roberts
All Fall Down by Sally Nicholls
Violins of Autumn by Amy McAuley

Upcoming releases:
Victoria Rebels by Carolyn Meyer
Witchstruck by Victoria Lamb
Changeling by Philippa Gregory YA novel
Seeking Eden by Ann Turnbull
The Lucky Ones by Anna Godbersen
Odette's Secrets by Maryann MacDonald
Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl
My Story: Lady Jane Grey by Sue Reid
My Story: Nowhere to Run by Carol Drinkwater
Wentworth Hall by Abby Grahame
Spy for the Queen of Scots by Theresa Breslin
Venom by Fiona Paul
Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
Voyage of the Sea Wolf by Eve Bunting