It's Historical Fiction Day!

Who knew?

Book Riot did and they created this awesome list of lists you can use to celebrate. These 10 lists cover a wide range of historical fiction titles with varied settings, encompassing other genres, and including own voices. These are the historical fiction titles you might not have considered on your own; titles you might not have included in your historical fiction displays without the help of a resource. [And remember, you do use resources to do RA, see Rule 7.]

One of the most important things to remember when working with historical fiction readers is that while they are looking for books set in the past and full of authentic details, they also have many other appeal considerations. Maybe they like a specific setting/time period or they like to add another genre with the history or they are looking for a specific type of character. Really you can combine anything with historical fiction and authors have and do. Lists like this remind us to stretch our minds and find some different options.

So get up your displays of historical fiction, today, tomorrow, really anytime of the year. These lists aren't going anywhere. They will live online for you to access later. And, since historical fiction is such a broad and popular genre that isn't otherwise pulled out or stickered at libraries, your patrons will be happy you helped them to more easily find a good read bu pulling it out and in interesting combination that they would not have thought of themselves.