I hope to read these recommended books sometime this year:

Fire by Bill Bright and Jack Cavanaugh.

Storm by Bill Bright and Jack Cavanaugh. The Yale Revival of 1798-1800.

Spider in a Tree by Susan Stinson. About Jonathan Edwards and his family.

Waverley by Sir Walter Scott. A young English dreamer and soldier, Edward Waverley, is sent to Scotland in 1745, into the heart of the Jacobite uprising.

The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale.

Demelza: A Novel of Cornwall, 1788-1790 by Winston Graham.

Jeremy Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791 by Winston Graham.

Warleggan: A Novel of Cornwall, 1792-1793 by Winston Graham.

The Black Moon: A Novel of Cornwall, 1794-1795 by Winston Graham.

Thorn in My Heart (Lowlands of Scotland Series #1) by Liz Curtis Higgs. “In the autumn of 1788, amid the moors and glens of the Scottish Lowlands, two brothers and two sisters each embark on a painful journey of discovery.” (Amazon)

Ashes by Laurie Halse Anderson. Third and final book in the Seeds of America Trilogy.

Scandalmonger by William Safire. James Callender, was a Scots immigrant who became an American journalist in the 1790s before his suspicious death in 1804: he drowned in three feet of James River swamp water. Callender interacted with and influenced all the great names of the day: Aaron Burr, Madison, Monroe, Jefferson, and of course, Alexander Hamilton, and the late great Safire includes them all in his sweeping novel.

I’m also interested in Gore Vidal’s Burr, A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss, Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott, The Lost Ones by Norah Lofts (about Princess Caroline Matilda, younger sister of George III), Devil’s Cub and The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer, and Bonnie Prince Charlie by G.A. Henry—-if I can get the first twelve read, then maybe I’ll look at these.

Other suggestions?