I’ve always enjoyed reading books written or set in different eras, but somehow I never seem to read enough of them. The 2015 When Are You Reading? Challenge hosted by Sam is the perfect excuse to start reading more books that travel to different eras. Make sure to check out her post and sign up if you are interested!
To complete the challenge you have to read books from the twelve eras mentioned. They can be either written or set in the era, so I don’t think it will be that difficult to complete this challenge before the end of 2015… I will be using this post to update my process monthly. I’ve made a TimeToast timeline as well; also to be updated monthly (most likely).
I will divide my reads into two categories: books by publish date and books by setting. When the setting is not specified or is roughly the same as the publish date, I will use this color.
>>> Last updated December 13th 2015 <<<
- Pre 1500
# The Time Keeper – by Mitch Albom (6000 years ago / now)
# My Name Is Memory – by Ann Brashares (541 –> 2009)
- 1500-1599
# My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century – by Rachel Harris (1505)
- 1600-1699
# Hamlet – by William Shakespeare (1602)
- 1700-1799
# Masquerade – by Kylie Fornasier (1750)
- 1800-1899
# Frankenstein – by Mary Shelley (1818)
# Beautiful Creatures – by Kami Garcia (1864 / 2009)
# Clockwork Princess – by Cassandra Clare (1878)
# Clockwork Prince – by Cassandra Clare (1878)
# Treasure Island – by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
# The Valentine Circle – by Reinaldo DelValle (1885)
# The Cold Wife – by Ruth Ann Nordin (1894)
# The Night Circus – by Erin Morgenstern (late 19th century)
- 1900-1919
# The Paper Magician – by Charlie N. Holmberg (1901)
# The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared – by Jonas Jonasson (1905-2005)
# The Secret Garden – by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1910)
# The Metamorphosis – by Franz Kafka (1915)
- 1920-1939
# The Diviners – by Libba Bray (1926)
# And Then There Were None – by Agatha Christie (1939)
- 1940-1959
# Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children – by Ransom Riggs (1940)
# The Storyteller – by Jodi Picoult (1939-1945)
# You Are My Sunshine – by Roberta Kagan (1937-1945)
# Between Shades Of Gray – by Ruta Sepetys (1941)
# I, Robot – by Isaac Asimov (1950)
# Don’t Tell Mummy – Toni Maguire (1950s)
# The Catcher In The Rye – by J.D. Salinger (1951)
# And The Mountains Echoed – by Khaled Hosseini (1949 /1952 /1974 /2003 /2009 /2010)
# I Am Legend – by Richard Matheson (1954)
- 1960-1979
# The Kings Of Cool – by Don Winslow (1960s-1970s)
# Charlie And The Chocolate Factory – by Roald Dahl (1964)
# Beautiful Ruins – by Jess Walter (1962)
# Joyland – by Stephen King (1973)
# I Am Legend – by Richard Matheson (1976)
# The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – by Douglas Adams (1979)
- 1980-1999
# A Twist In The Tale – by Jeffrey Archer (1988)
# Into The Wild – by Jon Krakauer (1990-1992)
# The Perfect Storm – by Sebastian Junger (1991)
# Flux – by Orson Scott Card (1992)
# The Perks Of Being A Wallflower – by Stephen Chbosky (1991-1992)
# Naked In Death – by J.D. Robb (1995)
# Reel To Real: The Video Store Murders – by Joyce Nance (1996)
# 314 – by A.R. Wise (1996)
# Ella Enchanted – by Gail Carson Levine (1997)
# The Perfect Storm – by Sebastian Junger (1997)
# Into The Wild – by Jon Krakauer (1997)
# The Perks Of Being A Wallflower – by Stephen Chbosky (1999)
- 2000-Present
# Tucker Peak – by Archer Mayor (2001)
# Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix – by J.K. Rowling (2003)
# Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince – by J.K. Rowling (2005)
# Don’t Tell Mummy – by Toni Maguire (2006)
# An Abundance Of Katherines – by John Green (2006)
# On The Jellicoe Road – by Melina Marchetta (2006)
# The Husband’s Secret – by Liane Moriarty (2007)
# Vampire Academy – by Richelle Mead (2007)
# Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – by J.K. Rowling (2007)
# Unwind – by Neal Shusterman (2007)
# Thirteen Reasons Why – by Jay Asher (2007)
# Paper Towns – by John Green (2008)
# City Of Ashes – by Cassandra Clare (2008)
# The Knife Of Never Letting Go – by Patrick Ness (2008)
# The Tales Of Beedle The Bard – by J.K. Rowling (2008)
# Takeover – by Lisa Black (2008)
# The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared – by Jonas Jonasson (2009)
# Beautiful Creatures – by Kami Garcia (2009)
# Shiver – by Maggie Stiefvater (2009)
# I Am Not A Serial Killer – by Dan Wells (2009)
# The Cold Wife – by Ruth Ann Nordin (2010)
# The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend – by Kody Keplinger (2010)
# Warm Bodies – by Isaac Marion (2010)
# Linger – by Maggie Stiefvater (2010)
# The Scorch Trials – by James Dashner (2010)
# Dash & Lily’s Book Of Dares – by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (2010)
# The Mind Readers – by Lori Brighton (2010)
# My Name Is Memory – by Ann Brashares (2010)
# Clockwork Prince – by Cassandra Clare (2011)
# Angelfall – by Susan Ee (2011)
# Glitches – by Marissa Meyer (2011)
# Everblue – by Brenda Pandos (2011)
# Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children – by Ransom Riggs (2011)
# Forever – by Maggie Stiefvater (2011)
# The Death Cure – by James Dashner (2011)
# Legend – by Marie Lu (2011)
# The Night Circus – by Erin Morgenstern (2011)
#The Girl Of Fire And Thorns – by Rae Carson (2011)
# Anna Dressed In Blood – by Kendare Blake (2011)
# Between Shades Of Gray – by Ruta Sepetys (2011)
# Gone Girl – by Gillian Flynn (2012)
# Beautiful Ruins – by Jess Walter (2012)
# Backfire – by Catherine Coulter (2012)
# Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore – by Robin Sloan (2012)
# Hide ‘N Seek – by Yvonne Harriott (2012)
# A Midsummer’s Nightmare – by Kody Keplinger (2012)
# The Diviners – by Libba Bray (2012)
# Cinder – by Marissa Meyer (2012)
# The Queen’s Army – by Marissa Meyer (2012)
# I Hunt Killers – by Barry Lyga (2012)
# Wonder – by R.J. Palacio (2012)
# 314 – by A.R. Wise (2012)
# The Kings of Cool – by Don Winslow (2012)
# Rarity From The Hollow – by Robert Eggleton (2012)
# Me And Earl And The Dying Girl – by Jesse Andrews (2012)
# The Kill Order – by James Dashner (2012)
# The Time Keeper – by Mitch Albom (2012)
# The Night She Disappeared – by April Henry (2012)
# Girl Of Nightmares – by Kendare Blake (2012)
# Where’d You Go, Bernadette – by Maria Semple (2012)
# My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century – by Rachel Harris (2012)
# And The Mountains Echoed – by Khaled Hosseini (2013)
# Clockwork Princess – by Cassandra Clare (2013)
# Allegiant – by Veronica Roth (2013)
# The Ocean At The End Of The Lane – by Neil Gaiman (2013)
# Doctor Sleep – by Stephen King (2013)
# Crown Of Midnight – by Sarah J. Maas (2013)
# Inferno – by Dan Brown (2013)
# Siege And Storm – by Leigh Bardugo (2013)
# The Shock Of The Fall – by Nathan Filer (2013)
# The Storyteller – by Jodi Picoult (2013)
# Fangirl – by Rainbow Rowell (2013)
# World After – by Susan Ee (2013)
# No Place Like Oz – by Danielle Paige (2013)
# The 100 – by Kass Morgan (2013)
# Scarlet – by Marissa Meyer (2013)
# The 5th Wave – by Rick Yancey (2013)
# Game – by Barry Lyga (2013)
# Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock – by Matthew Quick (2013)
# Dangerous Girls – by Abigail Haas (2013)
# Joyland – by Stephen King (2013)
# The Girl On The Train – by Paula Hawkins (2012-2013)
# The Goldfinch – by Donna Tartt (2013)
# Asylum – by Madeleine Roux (2013)
# Firebolt – by Adrienne Woods (2013)
# Under Dark Skies – by A.J. Scudiere (2014)
# Heir Of Fire – by Sarah J. Maas (2014)
# We Were Liars – by E. Lockhart (2014)
# Ruin and Rising – by Leigh Bardugo (2014)
# Evensong – by Krista Walsh (2014)
# I’ll Give You The Sun – by Jandy Nelson (2014)
# Dorothy Must Die – by Danielle Paige (2014)
# Reel To Real: The Video Store Murders – by Joyce Nance (2014)
# The Story Of Awkward – by R.K. Ryals (2014)
# Falling Into Place – by Amy Zhang (2014)
# Tease – by Amanda Maciel (2014)
# A Thousand Pieces Of You – by Claudia Gray (2014)
# The Witch Must Burn – by Danielle Paige (2014)
# The Assassin’s Blade – by Sarah J. Maas (2014)
# Trust Me, I’m Lying – by Mary Elizabeth Summer (2014)
# The Little Android – by Marissa Meyer (2014)
# Claudia Must Die – by T.B. Markinson (2014)
# Four – by Veronica Roth (2014)
# The Truth About Alice – by Jennifer Mathieu (2014)
# Lucky Day – by Barry Lyga (2014)
# Masquerade – by Kylie Fornasier (2014)
# Cress – by Marissa Meyer (2014)
# Blood Of My Blood – by Barry Lyga (2014)
# You Are My Sunshine – by Roberta Kagan (2014)
# Landline – by Rainbow Rowell (2014)
# The Martian – by Andy Weir (2014)
# The Geography Of You And Me – by Jennifer E. Smith (2014)
# Anatomy Of A Misfit – by Andrea Portes (2014)
# Five Weeks In The Amazon – by Sean Michael Hayes (2014)
# The Winner’s Curse – by Marie Rutkoski (2014)
# Through The Woods – by Emily Carroll (2014)
# The Murder Complex – by Lindsay Cummings (2014)
# The Paper Magician – by Charlie N. Holmberg (2014)
# The Fear Trials – by Lindsay Cummings (2014)
# The Infinite Sea – by Rick Yancey (2014)
# The Valentine Circle – by Reinaldo DelValle (2014)
# The One Plus One – by Jojo Moyes (2014)
# Love And Other Foreign Words – by Erin McCahan (2014)
# Funereal – by Giacomo Lee (2015)
# Red Queen – by Victoria Aveyard (2015)
# The Last Time We Say Goodbye – by Cynthia Hand (2015)
# The Wicked Will Rise – by Danielle Paige (2015)
# A Court Of Thorns And Roses – by Sarah J. Maas (2015)
# All The Bright Places – by Jennifer Niven (2015)
# The Wizard Returns – by Danielle Paige (2015)
# The Death Of Danny Daggers – by Haydn Wilks (2015)
# What Lies Within – by James Morris (2015)
# Made You Up – by Francesca Zappia (2015)
# Americosis Vol. 1 – by Haydn Wilks (2015)
# Magonia – by Maria Dahvana Headley (2015)
# Seriously Wicked – by Tina Connolly (2015)
# The Wrath And The Dawn – by Renee Ahdieh (2015)
# Never Never – by Colleen Hoover (2015)
# My Heart And Other Black Holes – by Jasmine Warga (2015)
# Fairest – by Marissa Meyer (2015)
# Never Never Part Two – by Colleen Hoover (2015)
# All Fall Down – by Ally Carter (2015)
# The Girl On The Train – by Paula Hawkins (2015)
# I Was Here – by Gayle Forman (2015)
# None Of The Above – by I.W. Gregorio (2015)
# End Of Days – by Susan Ee (2015)
# Breakfast At Cannibal Joe’s – by Jay Spencer Green (2015)
# Queen Of Shadows – by Sarah J. Maas (2015)
# Americosis Vol. 2 – by Haydn Wilks (2015)
# Ochoco Reach – by Jim Stewart (2015)
# Vanishing Girls – by Lauren Oliver (2015)
# Carry On – by Rainbow Rowell (2015)
# Why Not Me? – by Mindy Kaling (2015)
# Six Of Crows – by Leigh Bardugo (2015)
# George – by Alex Gino (2015)
# Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda – by Becky Albertalli (2015)
# Winter – by Marissa Meyer (2015)
# Liars, Inc. – by Paula Stokes (2015)
# Melophobia – by James Morris (2015)
# Paperweight – by Meg Haston (2015)
# November 9 – by Colleen Hoover (2015)
- The Future
# I, Robot – by Isaac Asimov (2057)
# Naked In Death – by J.D. Robb (2058)
