Writing the Renaissance: "Best Blogs for Book Reviews" Honor

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

"Best Blogs for Book Reviews" Honor

On-Line College, "dedicated to bringing you the best online educational tools and resources," has included Writing the Renaissance in their 100 Best Blogs for Book Reviews in the Historical Fiction category! I'm grateful for the recognition and happy to find WTR listed among so many worthy blogs.

4 comments:

Anita Davison said...: Congratulations Julianne, quite an achievement and well deserved.; September 16, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Julianne Douglas said...: Thank you, Anita!; September 17, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Shauna Roberts said...: Congratulations!; September 23, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Julianne Douglas said...: Thanks, Shauna!; September 23, 2009 at 5:49 PM

Favorite Historical Novels

Accidents of Providence by Stacia Brown
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
Forever by Pete Hamill
Gardener to the King by Frederic Richaud
The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Half Wives by Stacia Pelletier
The House of Niccolo by Dorothy Dunnett
Kristin Lavransdattir by Sigrid Undset
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
The Promise by Ann Weisgarber
Pure by Andrew Miller
Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Sisters of Shiloh by Kathy and Becky Hepinstall
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by Enid Shomer
West by Carys Davies
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Books Read in 2024

24. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
23. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
22. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
21. North Woods by Daniel Mason
20. Hiroshima by John Hershey
19. The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
18. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
17. Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare
16. Absolution by Alice McDermott
15. Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
14. Samurai William by Giles Milton
13. Baumgartner by Paul Auster
12. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
11. Dayswork by Chris Bacheleder and Jennifer Habel
10. Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
9. Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukagawa
8. Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class by Rob Henderson
7. A True Account: Hannah Masury's Soujourn Amongst the Pyrates by Katherine Howe
6. The Prospectors by Ariel Djanikian
5. The Beasts of Paris by Stef Penney
3. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
4. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
2. A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
1. Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie

Books Read in 2023

25. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
24. Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Ondau
23. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
22. The Lost Wife by Susannah Moore
21. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
20. The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
19. The Poetics of Passion by Delphine Ross
18. Enter the Body by Joy McCullogh
17. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
16. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
15. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
14. The Chateau by Jaclyn Goldis
13. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
12. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley
11. Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
10. Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
9. Fires of Edo by Susan Spann
8. Bellewether by Susannah Kearsley
7. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
6. Twenty-One Nights in Paris by Leonie Mack
5. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
4. Requiem by Frances Itani
3. Natural History by Andrea Barrett
2. Chemistry by Weike Wang
1. Joan by Katherine Chen

Books Read in 2022

Books Read in 2021

35. The Insomniacs by Marit Weisenberg
34. The Armada Boy by Kate Ellis
33. The Silk Vendetta by Victoria Holt
32. The Merchant's House by Kate Ellis
31. To Capture What We Cannot Keep by Beatrice Colin
30. The Shadow of the Lynx by Victoria Holt
29. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. The Performance by Claire Thomas
27. Outlawed by Anna North
26. Freedom by Sebastian Junger
25. The Paris Hours by Alex George
24. The Professor's House by Willa Cather
23. Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo
22. In Another Life by Julie Christine Johnson
21. Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan
20. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
19. Three O'Clock in the Morning by Gianrico Carofiglio
18. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
17. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
16. The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
15. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by M. Shaffer and A. Barrows
14. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
13. Zorrie by Laird Hunt
12. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
11. Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar
10. Weather by Jenny Offill
9. The Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
8. Climb by Susan Spann
7. The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister
6. The Glassblowers by Daphne DuMaurier
5. The Steel Beneath the Silk by Patricia Bracewell
4. The Walworth Beauty by Michele Roberts
3. The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
2. Mariana by Susanna Kearsley
1. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Books Read in 2020

44. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
43. The Silence by Don DeLillo
42. How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
41. Revelations by Mary Sharratt
40. In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
39. The Matrimonial Advertisement by Mimi Matthews
38. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
37. A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews
36. Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonyous
35. Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
34. The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
33. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
32. Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
31. Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe
30. A Trace of Deceit by Karen Odden
29. To Calais, In Ordinary Time by James Meek
28. The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell
27. Marguerite by Marina Kemp
26. Beheld by TaraShea Nesbit
25. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
24. String of Pearls: On the News Beat in New York and Paris by Priscilla L. Buckley
23. Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
22. Call Upon the Water by Stella Tillyard
21. Light Changes Everything by Nancy Turner
20. The Eight by Katherine Neville
19. East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
18. The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber
17.The Giant by Laura Morelli
16. Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith
15. Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
14. A Dangerous Duet by Karen Odden
13. Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer
12. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
11. Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell
10. Sugar Money by Jane Harris
9. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
8. The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
7. The Vanishing Point by Mary Sharratt
6. Varina by Charles Frazier
5. Parrot & Olivier in America by Peter Carey
4. The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
3. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Gowar
2. Drowning With Others by Linda Keir
1. Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau

Books Read in 2019

36. The Choice by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
35. Ribbons of Scarlet by K. Quinn, S. Dray, L. Kamoie, S. Perinot, H. Webb, and E. Knight
34. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
33. Circe by Madeline Miller
32. The Night Tiger by Yangtze Choo
31. The Ghost Clause by Howard Norman
30. Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
29. Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan
28. The Warehouse by Rob Hart
27. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
26. Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
25. Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
24. Beautiful Boy by David Scheff
23. Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
22. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
21. Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain
20. Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
19. The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm by John Connell
18. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
17. Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison
16. Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
15. The Huntress by Kate Quinn
14. The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
13. Unplanned by Abby Johnson
12. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
11. Educated by Tara Westover
10. The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
9. Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis
8. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
7. The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber
6. The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
5. Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
4. West by Carys Davies
3. Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
2. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
1. The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley

Books Read in 2018

39. The Lake House by Kate Morton
38. The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar
37. The Mistletoe Promise by Richard Paul Evans
36. Little by Edward Carey
35. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
34. The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau
33. The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
32. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
31. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
30. Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
29. The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
28. Room by Emma Donoghue
27. Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi
26. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
25. 13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro
24. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
23. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
22. Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
21. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
20. Longbourn by Jo Baker
19. The Verdun Affair by Nick Dybek
18. The Underground River by Martha Conway
17. Trial on Mount Koya by Susan Spann
16. The Balcony by Jane Delury
15. Versailles by Kathryn Davis
14. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
13. Ecstasy by Mary Sharratt
12. The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
11. News of the World by Paulette Jiles
10. Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
9. The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay
8. As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
7. The Portrait by Antoine Laurain
6. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
5. Pure by Andrew Miller
4. The Phantom's Apprentice by Heather Webb
3. The Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr
2. H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
1. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

Books Read in 2017

21. The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
20. The Brethren by Robert Merle
19. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
18. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
16. Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
15. The Half Wives by Stacia Pelletier
14. My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
13. The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
12. Lilli de Jong by Janet Benton
11. Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
10. The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence by Alyssa Palombo
9. March by Geraldine Brooks
8. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
7. My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
6. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
5. The Floating City by Pamela Ball
4. Duty to the Crown by Aimie K. Runyan
3. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
2. The Penalty Area by Alain Gillot, trans. by Howard Curtis
1. The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood

Books Read in 2016

20. Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
19. The Dark Lady's Mask by Mary Sharratt
18. Time and Regret by M.K. Tod
17. The Ninja's Daughter by Susan Spann
16. The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
15. Mata Hari's Last Dance by Michelle Moran
14. Redeployment by Phil Klay
13. Paris Is Always A Good Idea by Nicolas Barreau
12. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
11. Finding Fontainebleau by Thad Carhart
10. Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
9. At the Edge of Summer by Jessica Brockmole
8. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
7. The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright
6. Promised to the Crown by Aimie K. Runyan
5. The Serpent's Crown by Hana Samek Norton
4. Fall of Poppies by Heather Webb et al.
3. The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O'Melveny
2. The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Cline
1. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

Books Read in 2015

33. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
32. Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
31. Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas by John Baxter
30. Médicis Daughter by Sophie Perinot
29. Twain's End by Lynn Cullen
28. The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
27. House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure
26. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
25. The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
24. The Remains of the Day by Kazoo Ishiguro
23. The Crazed by Ha Jin
22. Flask of the Drunken Master by Susan Spann
21. Enchantress of Paris by Marci Jefferson
20. Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
19. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
18. 1906 by James Dalessandro
17. The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock
16. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
15. The Trembling Hills by Phyllis Whitney
14. The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
13. Sisters of Shiloh by Kathy and Becky Hepinstall
12. The Thing about December by Donal Ryan
11. The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
10. Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran
9. West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan
8. The Story of Land and Sea by Katy Simpson Smith
7. Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner
6. Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown
5. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
4. The Tapestry by Nancy Bilyeau
3. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
2. The Price of Blood by Patricia Bracewell
1. Rodin's Lover by Heather Webb

Books Read in 2014

27. Neverhome by Laird Hunt
26. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
25. The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
24. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
23. Oleanna by Julie K. Rose
22. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
21. Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
20. My Wish List by Grégoire Delacourt
19. The Tudor Vendetta by C.W. Gortner
18. Letters to a Young Artist by Anna Deavere Smith
17. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
16. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
15. The Traitor's Wife by Allison Pataki
14. Blade of the Samurai by Susan Spann
13. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
12. Pilgrimage by Lucy Pick
11. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
10. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
9. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
8. The Accident by Chris Pavone
7. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
6. Longbourn by Jo Baker
5. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
4. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
3. Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen
2. The Fountain of St. James Court by Sena Jeter Naslund
1. Girl on the Golden Coin by Marci Jefferson

Books Read in 2013

26. Becoming Josephine by Heather Webb
25. Fever by Mary Beth Keane
24. Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III
23. An Unexpected Guest by Anna Korkeakivi
22. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
21. The Orphanmaster by Jean Zimmerman
20. Illuminations by Mary Sharratt
19. The Study of Murder by Susan McDuffie
18. The Cleaner of Chartres by Sally Vickers
17. Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer
16. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
15. The Promise by Ann Weisgarber
14. Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
13. Song of the Scaffold by Gertrud von le Fort
12. Claws of the Cat by Susan Spann
11. The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
10. The Tudor Conspiracy by CW Gortner
9. The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
8. The Chalice by Nancy Bilyeau
7. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
6. A Corner in the Marais: Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood by Alex Karmel
5. Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
4. House of the Hunted by Mark Mills
3. The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks
2. The Malice of Fortune by Michael Ennis
1. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Books Read in 2012

25. Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall
24. The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by Enid Shomer
23. Spirit of Lost Angels by Liza Perrat
22. Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell
21. The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall
20. The Second Empress by Michelle Moran
19. The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
18. The Expats by Chris Pavone
17. The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life by Dinty W. Moore
16. The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
15. 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans by Karl Pillemer, Ph.D.
14. North River by Pete Hamill
13. When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
12. How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
11. Cascade by Maryanne O'Hara
10. The Odds by Stewart O'Nan
9. Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
8. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
7. My Antonia by Willa Cather
6. The Sister Queens by Sophie Perinot
5. The Flower Reader by Elizabeth Loupas
4. The Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
3. Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinor Pruitt Stewart
2. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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"Best Blogs for Book Reviews" Honor

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10 Reasons to Read Historical Fiction Set in Renaissance France

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