28 Top historical fiction books like The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding by Lydia Kang

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The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding

By: Lydia Kang

3.71

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Poison comes a spellbinding historical mystery about hid…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding by Lydia Kang , here is a list of 28 books like this:

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1. The Light on Farallon Island

By: Jen Wheeler

3.88

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

From debut author Jen Wheeler comes a spellbinding tale about the dangers a nineteenth-century woma… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker

2. The Fire and the Ore

By: Olivia Hawker

4.07

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. A compelling novel of family, sisterh… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Bootlegger's Daughter by Nadine Nettmann

3. The Bootlegger's Daughter

By: Nadine Nettmann

4.13

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

In Prohibition-era Los Angeles, two women on opposite sides of the law must take control of their l… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. The Lost Letters of Aisling

By: Cynthia Ellingsen

4.34

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman faces the past she fled in a heart-stirring novel about unforgettable love and indomitable … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Night Angels

By: Weina Dai Randel

4.22

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the Mass Book Awards 2024 From the author of The Last Rose of Shanghai comes a pr… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Sing, Wild Bird, Sing

By: Jacqueline O'Mahony

4.12

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

A courageous woman journeys from nineteenth-century Ireland to the American West in a powerful nove… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. When We Were Enemies

By: Emily Bleeker

3.97

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Camera-shy Elise Branson is different from the other women in her matriline. Her mother is an award… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Candid Life of Meena Dave

By: Namrata Patel

4.12

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in an engrossing novel about identity, famil… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding by Lydia Kang

9. The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding

By: Lydia Kang

3.71

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Poison comes a spellbinding historical mystery about hid… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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10. The Lobotomist's Wife

By: Samantha Greene Woodruff

4.04

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling historical novel of a compassionate and relentless woman, a cutting-edge breakthroug… read more

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  • historical
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. A Feather on the Water

By: Lindsay Jayne Ashford

4.35

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

For three women in postwar Germany, 1945 is a time of hope—lost and found—in this powerful novel by… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Scarlet Carnation

By: Laila Ibrahim

4.14

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two wo… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Last Lie Told (Finley O’Sullivan, #1) by Debra Webb

13. The Last Lie Told (Finley O’Sullivan, #1)

By: Debra Webb

4.06

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

From USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb comes the thrilling first installment in the Finley O’… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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14. Broadway Butterfly

By: Sara DiVello

3.98

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

New York in the Roaring Twenties—a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious un… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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15. The Life She Wanted

By: Anita Abriel

3.94

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

New York in the 1920s—a time when fortunes are made and a woman’s dreams are challenged against all… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Swan Light

By: Phoebe Rowe

4.21

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A sweeping, emotional tale of hope and perseverance, Swan Light weaves together the stories of two … read more

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  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"There were as many parts of a story as there were people who remembered it."

-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

"It was the story of the wrecks that hadn't happened, of the lives people got to keep living because of a light in the darkness ..."

-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

"But shipwrecks were rarely like that, she’d learned later, proud and upright, perched whimsically on the seafloor. Wrecks were wrecked, sure and violent. Shattered and flattened, rotting edges under …"

-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

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17. Light to the Hills

By: Bonnie Blaylock

4.32

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A richly rewarding novel about family bonds, the power of words, and the resilience of mothers and … read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Blaylock's Light to the Hills book and Lydia Kang's The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Last Summer Boys

By: Bill Rivers

4.41

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

In this rapturous coming-of-age debut, a naive-yet-determined Appalachian boy will go to any length… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Brighter the Light

By: Mary Ellen Taylor

4.16

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes an evocative dual-timeline novel detailing … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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20. Half in Shadow

By: Gemma Liviero

4.31

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of In a Field of Blue comes an unforgettable novel about courage, love,… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. A Castle in Brooklyn

By: Shirley Russak Wachtel

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning decades, an unforgettable novel about reckoning with the past, the true nature of friendsh… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Wild, Beautiful, and Free by Sophfronia Scott

22. Wild, Beautiful, and Free

By: Sophfronia Scott

4.31

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana plantation owner, Jeannette Bébinn is raised… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. Well Behaved Wives

By: Amy Sue Nathan

3.99

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect wives, imperfect lives, and upending the rules of behavior in 1960s America. Law school … read more

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  • historical
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. She's Up to No Good

By: Sara Goodman Confino

4.31

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

For two women generations apart, going home will change their lives in this funny, poignant, and li… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. My Evil Mother

By: Margaret Atwood

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of When the World Goes Quiet by Gian Sardar

26. When the World Goes Quiet

By: Gian Sardar

4.32

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist’s courageous journey is just beginning in a po… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Direction of the Wind by Mansi Shah

27. The Direction of the Wind

By: Mansi Shah

4.09

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A heartfelt story that spans continents and generations, about a young woman who searches for answe… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. A Harvest of Secrets

By: Roland Merullo

4.24

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of From These Broken Streets comes a sweeping novel of love, resistance… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. A Train to Moscow

By: Elena Gorokhova

3.99

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

In post–World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in th… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. Cleopatra's Dagger

By: Carole Lawrence

3.76

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist in nineteenth-century New York matches wits with a serial killer in a gripping thrille… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Man Burned by Winter (Rooker Lindström, #1) by Pete Zacharias

31. The Man Burned by Winter (Rooker Lindström, #1)

By: Pete Zacharias

4.10

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

An investigative journalist on the edge. A serial killer testing his limits. What they have in comm… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"He seemed ordinary. That was his gift. He didn't struggle to be social. He hadn't been a bed-wetting, animal-carving, Oedipus-complex youth. Sure, he'd been drawn to violence early on, but what boy w…"

-Pete Zacharias, The Man Burned by Winter (Rooker Lindström, #1)

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Christopher Reich

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