17 must-read historical books like The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart

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The Saints of Swallow Hill

By: Donna Everhart

4.12

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

It takes courage to save yourself... In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners l…

If you liked the historical plot in The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Appalachian Daughter

By: Mary Jane Salyers

4.03

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

“Appalachian Daughter grabbed me Friday afternoon, and except for the time for sleeping and necessa… read more

Similar categories in Mary Jane Salyers's Appalachian Daughter book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Dry Grass of August

By: Anna Jean Mayhew

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in… read more

Similar categories in Anna Jean Mayhew's The Dry Grass of August book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

3. The Life She Was Given

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

From acclaimed author Ellen Marie Wiseman comes a vivid, daring novel about the devastating power o… read more

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4. If The Creek Don't Rise

By: Leah Weiss

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

A strikingly sincere portrait of a town and its buried secrets from an outstanding new voice in sou… read more

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5. The Orphan Collector

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

4.24

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Marie Wiseman's The Orphan Collector book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"May God forgive you for what you’ve done."

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector

"Obey the laws and wear the gauze, protect your jaws from septic paws."

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector

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6. The Seamstress of New Orleans

By: Diane C. McPhail

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of the first all-female Mardi Gras krewe at the turn-of-the-century, the a… read more

Similar categories in Diane C. McPhail's The Seamstress of New Orleans book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Now, do you want a poppy?"

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

"Isn’t that momentous? Women! A krewe of women. Turning the tide on men! We are making history here. Yes, this moment! Making history."

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

"She picked up the wide sleeve and studied the beading: imitation pearls and small rhinestones interspersed with a few of glistening colors: watery blue and aqua, palest rose and coral."

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

"Beauty had emerged from her mother’s fingertips, her nimble use of needle and bright-colored thread. Beauty had lain in what sort of stitch could marry two scraps on a quilt and what other stitch mir…"

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

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7. Where Butterflies Wander

By: Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of In an Instant comes the moving story of a family grappling with grie… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Redfearn's Where Butterflies Wander book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Only Way Home

By: Jeanette Minniti

4.21

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2022 Colorado Authors League 1st Place Award in Historical Fiction! Desperate times.… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Minniti's The Only Way Home book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

3.92

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Fact, fiction, and urban legend blend in this haunting story about a young woman mistakenly impriso… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Marie Wiseman's The Lost Girls of Willowbrook book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Chết tiệt, động vật còn được đối xử tốt hơn cư dân ở đây"

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

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10. They Call Her Dirty Sally

By: Amy Matayo

4.42

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the… read more

Similar categories in Amy Matayo's They Call Her Dirty Sally book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

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11. The Nurse's Secret

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.15

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

The unflinching, spellbinding new book from the acclaimed author of The Second Life of Mirielle Wes… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Skenandore's The Nurse's Secret book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. October in the Earth

By: Olivia Hawker

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powe… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Hawker's October in the Earth book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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13. The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

By: Lonormi Manuel

4.47

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her … read more

Similar categories in Lonormi Manuel's The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle."

-Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

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14. The Second Life of Mirielle West

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In an intoxicating story of resilience, repulsion, and the Roaring 20’s, the glamorous world of a s… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Skenandore's The Second Life of Mirielle West book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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15. Threshing of Straw

By: Kim Catron

4.51

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkabl… read more

Similar categories in Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. All the Forgivenesses

By: Elizabeth Hardinger

4.27

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in Appalachia and the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century, this exquisite debut novel … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hardinger's All the Forgivenesses book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. A Girl Called Samson

By: Amy Harmon

4.50

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Amy Harmon comes the saga of a young woman who dares to char… read more

Similar categories in Amy Harmon's A Girl Called Samson book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Between Earth and Sky

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.34

Format: 336 pages, ebook

On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her p… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Skenandore's Between Earth and Sky book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Undertaker's Assistant by Amanda Skenandore

19. The Undertaker's Assistant

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An enthralling novel of historical fiction for fans of Lisa Wingate and Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Un… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Skenandore's The Undertaker's Assistant book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • romance
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"No one to mourn you in death meant no one to hurt you in life."

-Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

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20. The Saints of Swallow Hill

By: Donna Everhart

4.12

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

It takes courage to save yourself... In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners l… read more

Similar categories in Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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21. Out of the Dust

By: Joyce E. Patterson

4.24

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Two of America’s worst economic disasters occurred during the same period. One was the crash of the… read more

Similar categories in Joyce E. Patterson's Out of the Dust book and Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill

  • historical fiction

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