Monday, June 22, 2015

If you Like Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander"...

With the recent finale of the first season of the popular Outlander television series on STARZ, a number of fans have stopped by the library to request the book, Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon. Many are surprised (and pleased) to learn that there is an entire series of eight Outlander titles, beginning with Outlander.

This time travel adventure series includes plenty of historical detail, a strong female character and some steamy romance. The first series title is set in 18th century Scotland.

If you have already made your way through the Outlander series or are just looking for more books that have a similar feel to Outlander, you might consider a few of the titles below.

Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
Elizabeth Middleton, a spinster school teacher, leaves England in 1792 to join her father and brother in a remote, mountainous village in upstate New York. There she falls in love with Nathaniel Bonner, a man torn between white and Native American culture. Book 1 in The Wilderness series.

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Discovering a magical manuscript in Oxford's library, scholar Diana Bishop, a descendant of witches who has rejected her heritage, inadvertently unleashes a fantastical underworld of daemons, witches and vampires whose activities center around an enchanted treasure. Book 1 in the All Souls trilogy.

A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley
Hired by a once-famous historian to crack codes in a 300-year old journal that once belonged to a Jacobite exile, Sara Thomas encounters complications in the form of the journal's reclusive owner, a charming Parisian neighbor and the the journal's own writer.

The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway
Waking up in a modern London hospital 200 years after meeting his death on a Napoleonic battlefield, Nick Falcott is indoctrinated into a time-traveling society and returned to the side of a woman he love to reclaim a vital talisman.

Overseas by Beatriz Williams
A cynical Wall Street analyst fall uncharacteristically in love with a billionaire with a mysterious past in a romance with mystical ties to a relationship between a World War I British officer and a beautiful young American who held vital information about a fateful reconnaissance mission.

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Stranded in the 14th century--a time of superstition and fear--time traveler Kivrin becomes an unlikely angel of hope during history's darkest hour and awaits rescue by her comrades. Oxford Time Travel novels, 2.






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