If you like reading novels set in times gone by you might find something interesting on this list. Also included are some war books (many and varied wars! Including the American Civil War, World War II, the Iraq War). Obviously some are more historical than others!
King of Ithaka, Tracy Barrett
- What I Saw and How I Lied, Judy Blundell
- Zora and Me, Victoria Bond and T R Simon
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne
- A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
Queen of Hearts, Martha Brooks
- VIII, H M Castor
- Postcards from No Man’s Land, Aidan Chambers
- A Voice of Her Own, Barbara Dana
- Lost, Jacqueline Davies
- A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelly
- Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly
Phantoms in the Snow, by Kathleen Benner Duble
- The Sorcerer of Sainte Felice, Ann Finnin
- Dead End in Norvelt, Jack Gantos
- The Merrybegot, Julie Hearn
- Fallen Grace, Mary Hooper
- Montacute House, Lucy Jago
- Folly, Marthe Jocelyn
The Raging Quiet, Sherryl Jordan
- Winter’s End, Jean-Claude Mourlevat
- Henderson’s Boys series, Robert Muchamore
- Sunrise Over Fallujah, Walter Dean Myers
- Tamar, Mal Peet
- Falling, Anne Provoost
- Here Lies Arthur, Philip Reeve
- The Bride’s Farewell, Meg Rosoff
Yellow Star, Jennifer Roy
- Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys
- Flygirl, Sherri L Smith
- Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli
- Toads and Diamonds, Heather Tomlinson
- Red Moon at Sharpsburg, Rosemary Wells
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
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