The Historical Fiction Reading Journal

Travel through time: log every era, place and story you visit. The Historical Fiction Reading Journal has 5 sections: plan, log, reviews, extras and year.

Choose your format below. Each format is an instant download, and every format comes with the Recommended Resources for Authors PDF.

• Goodnotes & PDF: 35-page digital planner with clickable tabs, contents and back links; two designs: Classic and the colourful Pop design; printable US Letter versions of both designs.
• Microsoft Word: Editable Word document (.docx) with clickable contents; worked examples showing how each page is used; prints on A4 or US Letter.
• Notion template: Notion template you duplicate into your own workspace; linked dashboard and pages, with built-in databases and tracker tables; works on the free Notion plan, on desktop, tablet and phone.
• E-ink edition: Hyperlinked PDF made for e-ink tablets; larger text and high-contrast pages.

What's inside

5 sections, 35 pages in the PDF: Plan, Log, Reviews, Extras and Year.

Every era you visited

• Eras & Places Visited: every time and place you travelled to
• Note the era, the place, the book and what you learned
• Favourite quotes, with the book and page number
• Book club notes: your questions and what others said

Pick your next era

• Set your reading goals for the year
• 24 prompts, from a Tudor novel to a family saga
• Tick each prompt off and note the book you read for it
• A to-be-read list to tick off as you go

Review every journey

• Log every book you finish, with the date and your rating
• Series tracker: books read, next up and whether it's out yet
• Review space for 24 books, two to a page
• Note the era, the place and an immersion rating out of five

Your year in history

• Rank your ten favourite books of the year, in order
• Say why each one earned its place
• Year in review: books read, your favourite book and why
• Bookshops and libraries you visited, and what you found there

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