oh fuck oh god this is probably the thing ive procrastinated the most in answering, and thats coming from someone that did a problem that was due for a month in two hours out of sheer panic.
regardless, i LOVE historical novels, but I also love FANTASY and YA because guess what?? im a teenager, go figure.
REGARDLESS, books i highly recommend?? will follow
The Valiant trilogy by Lesley Livingston | A historical fiction/fantasy type story. It takes place in the middle of Caesar's Rome and focuses around the Ludus Achillea, which is an order of Gladiatrices.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak | Historical fiction taking place in the middle of Nazi Germany in which an orphaned girl is adopted by a German couple, it more or less is a coming of age story with a sprinkle of happiness and an overdose of tragedy.
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan | Another... fictional story, it follows the lives of four mothers, whom each have a daughter. The whole book is following the struggle of understanding between the mothers, who each come from a traditional Chinese upbringing, though all from different classes, and the daughters, who were brought up living in America.
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri | Another immigrant type fictional story, this one is about the life of an family that moved to America from India before the birth of their first child. The whole story is the life of the son, Gogol Ganguli, and his struggle to balance out a relationship with his parents - who are very traditional in their beliefs - and his own culture since he always lived in the United States.
