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Historical fiction book club ideas


Where the Crawdads Sing

Best selling novel Where the Crawdads Sing table setting.  Use  seashells, vintage botanical postcards and your favorite quotes from the book to celebrate our heroine Kya and her love for her home - the marsh on Amazon.com
Where the Crawdads Sing book club ideas

Raise your glass for The Nightingale! 

Book club wine and drinks The Nightingale
Make your own wine book labels The Nightingale
Impress your book club friends with easy to create book beverage labels. Use Avery wine labels 22826 or 22809 and go to Avery.com for free templates to design amazing labels that are all about the book. Bring a cheese plate with your drinks and learn how to put the perfect platter together on PrettyMayhem.com
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Templates on Avery.com will help you create your own labels with book quotes, scenery, characters or download your own images.  Let your book pick inspire you!
Make your own book club book wine labels!
Place your book labels over the wine label or peel off under warm water. Dry thoroughly before sticking on
Book club table setting with tag quote on Go Beyond Book Club
Beautiful table setting with spring flowers and a quote from The Nightingale.
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Tag can be used as a bookmark tags available on Amazon


The Wild Wild West

Book review of 'News of the World' on the Book Club Blogger!
Book club fun with News of the World and chocolate!
Captain Jefferson Kidd's posted notices of his upcoming readings.  DIY by wrapping each chocolate bar with Captain Kidd's handbills and give one to each book friend
What you will need: 
Laser Vellum Inkjet Paper, 8.5"x11"
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and a variety of chocolate bars
Book club fun with News of the World and chocolate!
A Texas Sheet Cake for a book set in 1870 Texas 
Recipe on
 thepioneerwoman.com

A Gentlemen in Moscow

A Gentleman in Moscow available on Amazon.com
Russian Tea Cookies for A Gentleman in Moscow book club
Russian Tea Cakes in keeping with old-World elegance.  Bookish fun, easy to bake and восхитительный! (delectable in Russian)

1 cup of butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

6 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar for decoration
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a medium bowl, cream butter and vanilla until smooth. Combine the 6 tablespoons confectioners' sugar and flour; stir into the butter mixture until just blended. Mix in the chopped walnuts. Roll dough into 1 inch balls, and place them 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven. When cool, roll in remaining confectioners' sugar. I also like to roll mine in the sugar a second time
*recipe found on Allrecipes.com

The Perfume Collector Memory Game

The Perfume Collector book club game
Play a game that was written in The Perfume Collector. Main character, Grace, had a photographic memory.  To play this book club game, collect as many items that are on the trays in the book as possible and place them on your own tray. Bring out the covered items, a timer and pieces of paper and something to write with for each person

​Uncover the items, set your timer for a minute or so and let everyone try and memorize as many objects in detail as they can before you cover it back up. Give three minutes or less for everyone to jot down as many detailed items as possible. Whoever has the most guesses of items wins! Don't forget a prize or two for first place and runner up


My Name is Resolute by Nancy Turner

Bookmarks for book club on Go Beyond Book Club
It's all about celebrating that book so no matter what novel your group is reading surprise them with these easy and creative character bookmarks. No laminating machine necessary when you use these self adhesive laminating sheets.  For each character write a quote that inspired you or the character's name and it's meaning in the story. This is an amazing read so don't miss out!

My Name is Resolute on Amazon.com​

Bookmark gifts on Go Beyond Book Club
Scrapbook paper for the bookmark is unique to the character and charms are for the ribbon or string. The charms (connected with the character) give the bookmark an extra special touch!
Bookmark gifts on Go Beyond Book Club
Bookmark gifts on Go Beyond Book Club
Bookmarks for book club on Go Beyond Book Club
Using printable sticker project paper (first print your names and or quotes) aged with a wet tea bag apply to your bookmarks before laminating. Give the sticker paper an extra aged look by carefully using a lighter to burn around the edges
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Colonial apple pie inspired by the novel My Name is Resolute
​Get in the book food spirit!  Part of the novel in 'My Name is Resolute' takes place in 1700's Boston before the American Revolution. Make a dish that pays homage to the story you are reading.  This early American Apple-Almond Crumb Pie was oh so delicious and you can find this recipe and all things colonial on colonialsense.com


​Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression...
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Paulette Jiles novel News of the World (see above) was a winner by our reading club and is a must read if you are not familiar with this authors work. Her other work,  Stormy Weather begins in the era of the Great Depression with the Stoddard family as they struggle to hang onto their farm and land while finding time for love and new friendships
Stormy Weather by Paulette Jiles March book club read
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Stormy Weather word scramble game for book club
'Stormy Weather' Word Scramble game
This will work for any novel that you are reading in book club. How to play:  Find words that have meaning to the story (make sure you choose easy to hard words) type up and print out.  Pass out one word scramble sheet to each book friend. Set the timer for 3 minutes or less and see who can unscramble the most words. 
*Don't forget to give a prize to the one who unscrambles the most!
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