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  • Best Contemporary Historical Fiction YA/Middle-Grade

    1. “The Disappeared” by Gloria Whelan Dial Books, 2008 (set in 1977, Buenos Aires, Argentina, YA) Here is what I thought about it: https://katiaraina.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/the-disappeared-by-gloria-whelan/ And here is my interview with the author: https://katiaraina.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/no-country-is-safe-from-totalitarianism-an-interview-with-author-gloria-whelan/ 2. “When You Reach Me,” by Rebecca Stead, this year’s Newberry! Wendy Lamb Books, Random House, 2009 (set in the 1970s New York City,…

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  • Best Contemporary Historical Fiction for Adult Readers

    In bookstores and on amazon.com we have so many categories. Romance, mystery, historical titles, contemporary ones, etc. But as of right now, there is no separate category for recent historical fiction. So I am creating one, right here on this little blog. After half a year of searching, sorting, reading and interviewing, I have put together a list of 17…

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  • The super-duper list of contemporary historical fiction: a work in progress!!!

    I had no idea it would take so much digging, so much research and so much guesswork to come up with the titles for this list. What I found out: there isn’t so much out there. Many, many books, but scattered all over the net, all over amazon, all over awards lists, etc., in categories…

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