This week’s Top Ten Tuesday hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl focuses on books set in another time. Here are some of my favorites, all of which are set in the 20th century:
- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (fiction, WWII)
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (fiction, 1985 (I keep trying to say this is set in the 1950s, because this was most certainly not my experience of the mid-’80s))
- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (novel in verse, 1920s Dust Bowl)
- Maus: A Survivor’s History by Art Spiegelman (graphic nonfiction, WWII)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (fiction, 1940s)
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker (fiction, early 20th century)
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (graphic novel, 1931)
- Crazy ’08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Best Year in Baseball by Cait Murphy (nonfiction, 1908)
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (fiction, 1941)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (fiction, 1940s and ’50s)
How about you? What are some of your favorite reads set in other times?
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We share a good number on this list! But I have added a few to my TBR list (including Maus: A Survivor’s History… how have I never read that!!)
I just finished Alice Hoffman’s When WE Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary… it was so delightful!
Thank you for sharing this list!
Comment by Kat 02.25.25 @ 7:00 amI read and loved The Book Thief, but always seem to forget about it with such topics like these.
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2025/02/25/top-ten-tuesday-books-set-in-another-time/
Comment by Laurie 02.25.25 @ 11:41 amI’d like to read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
Comment by Poinsettia 02.25.25 @ 2:56 pmThe Book Thief is such a modern classic! And I have The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society on my TTT list this week too 🙂
Comment by Hamlette (Rachel) 02.25.25 @ 5:16 pmI’ve read four of the books on your list. I love historical fiction!
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
I loved The Invention of Hugo Cabret – and I loved how it was adapted as well. )
Comment by Lauren @ Always Me 02.25.25 @ 10:30 pmOne of my favorite historical fiction series is the Clorinda Cathcart series by L.A. Hall set in the 1900s. I also enjoy the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries by Carola Dunn and the Phryne Fisher mysteries by Kerry Greenwood.
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