Results of my First Book Giveaway

Thanks to everyone who participated in the lottery* to win a copy of Samuel Park's terrific historical novel, THIS BURNS MY HEART.

I put numbers in a hat and pulled out #8, Julie Musil. Congratulations! Please DM or email me your address.

I also asked commenters to list their favorite historical novels. Mine is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. (Have you seen my coming-of-age smackdown analysis of Scout vs Francie?)

Here's what others said, if you're into that sort of thing (bulking up your To-Read lists):

• BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY by Ruta Sepetys
• THE DOVERKEEPERS by Alice Hoffman
• HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET by Jamie Ford 
• THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett
• Anything by Phillipa Gregory (like THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL)
• ORCHID HOUSE by Lucinda Riley
• GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
• THE BOOK THIEF by Marcus Zusak (three votes)
• JOSEPHINE BONAPARTE series by Sandra Gulland
• FOREVER AMBER by Kathleen Winsor
• SHOGUN by James Clavell

*Whenever I see the word lottery now, I think of that gut-wrenching scene in Waiting for Superman.