Mod post: theme suggestions

[damned_colonial]

Please suggest themes you'd like to see covered here! Cut and paste the following into a comment:

ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!

Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:


What does it mean to run the theme?

1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.

You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.

Comments

French Revolution

[damned_colonial]

Theme: French Revolution
Prepared to run it: would prefer someone else volunteered!
Books:

A Tale of Two Cities
Scarlet Pimpernel

... not sure what else, but see http://www.historicalnovels.info/Eighteenth-Century.html#18Cont for ideas.

Re: French Revolution

[wychwood]

Marge Piercy's City of Darkness, City of Light isn't too bad, and it's modern.

Re: French Revolution

[kinetikatrue]

An interesting reworking of Scarlet Pimpernel: C. Guy Clayton's Daughter of the Revolution, which is a bit in the Flashman line, published in the 80s, etc.

Re: French Revolution

[adelheid]

Haven't read it yet, but Michelle de Kretser's The Rose Grower ( *think* I've got the title right) is a French Revolution novel.