After a little debate with myself about which audiobook to start next, I went with High Rhulain which is another of my favorite Redwall books. For the first time in a while though I’m going slower on my morning audiobook than I am on my physical book; I’ve finally started my reread of The Dragon’s Tooth. I’m enjoying it, though just like last time I reread I struggled a bit in the first third of the book and still can’t put my finger on why.

@valiantarcher I definitely agree about Lancelot and Elaine!
Also The Mysterious Affair at Styles is probably going to be my next Christie, so that’s fun!

I’ve got two ebooks going, which is less usual for me but one’s a nonfiction: The Reformation as Renewal: retrieving the One Holy, Catholic and Apostalic Church by Matthew Barrett. The title intrigued me and I liked what I saw in the intro. I need some church history refreshers.

The other is Both Sides the Border by G. A. Henty, which is a reread. And speaking of Henty, @silverlily, I definitely agree about his portrayal of race, and I’d extend it to class as well. I had stuck almost entirely with the ones of his that are set in Europe, (where you will still often see classism but it reads differently when it’s not also race-based) but one I did read and absolutely hated was With Lee in Virginia for the same reasons you list and then some. I’ve read multiple biographies of Robert E. Lee, and know that his character is worthy of some respect (but that’s a topic for another discussion, I think) and believe that a young man who served under him could be a good candidate for an adventure story, but like you say a son of slave owners who has not repudiated that system (especially when, if I remember right, Lee himself was not uncritical of the system) doesn’t read as a heroic character to me. I also happen to think it’s not even a well done portrayal of Lee. Too generically “great leader” and less about why he is/was regarded as great, which had at least as much to do with his principles as his tactics. All that to say, I became more critical of his books after that even if I still often liked the ones in a European setting. I tend to think of the point of historical fiction being not just enjoyment but to spark an interest in the historical period, and Henty did that at times for me and some of my siblings. The best results of course were when the interest was enough to get us reading more than just historical fiction about that time period and give us a broader view of it than one author’s opinions. Not all historical fiction is created alike though. I would much more readily recommend Henty’s In Freedom’s Cause than Jane Porter’s The Scottish Chiefs because when I did research Scotland’s wars for independence I found much more factually correct in the former than the latter.
On the other hand my little brother decided he didn’t like them because he wanted them to be 100% accurate, and if you’re including a fictional character who both interacts with the historical figure and affects the plot they can’t be: they cease to be historical fiction at that point.
Tl;dr: I have recommended certain Henty books before, and in some cases still will, but I’m picky about which ones I like, let alone the ones I’d recommend, and maybe depending on the reader it should be with the understanding that the author has a strong bias towards the English. (I picked up on it without having it pointed out to me, but I was in my later teens when I read them. That may have slipped past me if I’d been a lot younger.) Also my expectation when going into them was lower because I actually expected less history and more fiction. 

@narnian-in-the-north I do think Henty’s battle scenes were the thing I liked most. His background as a war corresponded likely played a part in how well he did those. I agree that his books can be pretty formulaic though there are a handful that differ more widely from that formula. The reason I’m rereading Both Sides the Border is mostly what I call atmospheric research for a story I’m writing, and it does differ at least a little by having sympathetic characters on both sides of the conflict. But then, Henty’s pro-English bias didn’t often seem to come against Scotland.

@narnian78 I read Ivanhoe and liked it, but it has been some time. I do remember thinking some things could be trimmed, which is unusual for me. Rebecca was my favorite character.

@lady-merian That's really interesting about In Freedom's Cause vs. The Scottish Chiefs, the former was one of my favorite of Henty's books and I couldn't finish the latter. I guess you could say I wouldn't not recommend a few of Henty's titles (all European based and generally before the "New World" was "discovered") that I vaguely remember but I wouldn't recommend a steady diet of them, if that makes sense.

@narnian78 I have read Waverley and Guy Mannering and enjoyed them enough to add a few other of Scott's novels to my library, including Ivanhoe, but have yet to read them.