Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish!
This week’s prompt: Top Ten Historical Settings You Love / Top Ten Historical Settings You’d Love To See or Top Ten Futuristic Books You Love/Ten Futuristic Societies I’d Love To Read in Books — basically this week is all about the past or the future….spin it however you choose!
My Spin: My top 5 historical fiction books that I love & My top 5 futuristic books that I love!
Historical Fiction:
As a history major, these all basically give me heart eyes. I ADORE historical fiction, although I realize I haven’t picked very much up recently! These are general set is historic time periods, but might not be historically factual or accurate!
- Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1) by Cassandra Clare
- The Diviners by Libba Bray
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein
- An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi (MG)
Futuristic Settings:
I am also a big fan of futuristic settings in books! Here are some that I completely loved:
- Iluminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
- The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Spinning Starlight by R. C. Lewis
SAME! I adore historical fiction but I tend to not read very much anymore?!? I read TONS growing up though, so maybe I flooded my brain out. XD hehe, And omgggg I loved Illuminae SO SO MUCH. Easily my favourite book of last year. <3 It makes me need to read more sci-fi!
Here’s my TTT!
Yeah, it’s crazy how that happens! I am hoping to be more intentional about reading historical YA because I know I used to love it!! Maybe it’s been long enough that you could start picking up Historical YA again!! 🙂 omg right?! Illuminae was definitely one of the best of the year! <3
LOVE these choices. I love historical fiction but actually don’t read that much of it… Haha. TID was a great series. Cinder was pretty good, although I wasn’t totally blown away… But I’m really looking forward to Scarlet! 😀 I still have not read Illuminae yet, it’s crazy. Great post! <3
Me too! It seems to be a trend, I wonder why that is?! haha yesss I think I even liked TID more than TMI 😮 Ah yeah I just read your Cinder review, I totally get where you’re coming from, but I hope your love grows as you read more of the series like mine did!! Iluminae is SO worth the read, check it out when you have time! 🙂
I’m embarrassed by how little historical fiction I’ve read. I’ve been really getting into history in the past couple of years (I wish I’d cared about it back in school!), and there’s a history podcast that I LOVE, but I always struggle to get into books! I think I need to start with MG so I’m not so intimidated 😂
haha it’s okay!! History is so interesting to me, and I love the rich settings they create for books (and movies, for that matter). What is the podcast you listen to??
The Diviners and Clockwork Angel are such excellent historical fiction books with a mix of fantasy. Have you checked out Libba Bray’s Gemma Doyle trilogy? I love those as well. Illuminae was freaking amazing and I love The Lunar Chronicles. There’s just so many great books out there!
YES I totally agree. I own that series, but haven’t read it yet! It’s good to know you enjoyed it!