Open Books Challenge 2025: A Book Set in the Victorian Era (1837-1901)

Updated December 31, 2024
Rochester Public Library RPL Staff
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Open Books Challenge 2025: A Book Set in the Victorian Era (1837-1901)

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The little match girl strikes back
Carroll, Emma
Paper Book
It only takes one strike: A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, from bestselling and award-winning creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child. 'Superb.  About community and voices and standing up for yourself' Phil Earle, British Book...
The silence factory : a novel
Collins, Bridget
Paper Book
*PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF BRIDGET COLLINS' STUNNING NEW NOVEL, THE NAKED LIGHT* The Sunday Times bestseller, from the author of The Binding 'Utterly original... ensnared me from the very first page' EMILIA HART 'Storytelling at its most immersive' ERIN KELLY The whole...
The clockwork crow
Fisher, Catherine
Paper Book
When Seren Rhys is given a newspaper parcel by a stranger late at night in an empty train station, she has no idea what trouble it contains. Armed with a talking bird who might not be telling the truth, a magical snow globe and her own indomitable courage, Seren sets off on a journey into a...
Ana Mari?a and the fox
De la Rosa, Liana
Paper Book
Stalking Jack the Ripper
Maniscalco, Kerri
Audiobook
This #1 New York Times bestseller and deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion. Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege...
Our hideous progeny : a novel
McGill, C. E.
Paper Book
'Compelling and utterly absorbing... an artfully crafted debut' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN, author of PANDORA 'A gripping Gothic tale of grief and ambition, passion and intrigue' JESS KIDD, author of THE NIGHT SHIP 'A wonderful book; dark, passionate, multi-layered' JOANNE...
The London Séance Society
Penner, Sarah
Paper Book
Maude Horton's glorious revenge
Pook, Lizzie
Paper Book
The midnight hour
Read, Benjamin (Children's story writer)
Paper Book
  The first spellbinding adventure in Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder's magical Midnight Hourseries! 'A fantastic magical adventure featuring a cast of Ghibli-esque characters, a feisty heroine and a hedgehog. I loved it.'M.G. LEONARD, author of BEETLE BOY 'Fans...
The Five The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Rubenhold, Hallie.
Paper Book
THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES Top Ten Best True Crime book- 'Groundbreaking. Extraordinary' 'Terrific' Ian Rankin 'Gripping' NEW YORK TIMES 'At last, the Ripper's victims get a...
The library thief : a novel
Shenjé, Kuchenga
Paper Book
An extraordinary historical debut for any reader who loves gothic mysteries like Rebecca and Fingersmith, and fiction which shines a light on untold stories. 'Intriguingly and superbly plotted . . . Shenjé weaves race, identity, feminism, sexuality and class into...
The fraud
Smith, Zadie
Paper Book
Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be - or an imposter. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests- literature, justice, abolitionism,...
The case of the missing marquess : an Enola Holmes mystery
Springer, Nancy.
Paper Book
The dress diary : secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe
Strasdin, Kate
Paper Book
The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook. In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it to collect snippets of fabric, she created a record of her life and times. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the...
Where the dead wait
Wilkes, Ally
Paper Book
William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition to find the fabled Open Polar Sea, in which his men only survived by eating their comrades, he returned in disgrace. A cannibal. A murderer. Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, has...
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