15 best-selling historical fiction books like Refuge by Dot Jackson

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Refuge

By: Dot Jackson

4.25

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

“An intensely readable novel of the complexity of family ties . . . Dot Jackson is a true Southern …

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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

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  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

2. The Angry Wife

By: Pearl S. Buck

3.78

Format: None pages,

Indonesian edition Dua kakak-beradik, dua istri, dua dunia... Tom dan Pierce Delaney sama-sama ikut… read more

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3. Section 132

By: Helga Zeiner

3.88

Format: 96 pages,

Lillian grows up in an American fundamentalist Mormon sect which still practices polygamy. At thirt… read more

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4. The Road to Bittersweet

By: Donna Everhart

4.00

Format: 120 pages,

Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative acco… read more

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5. 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

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. 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

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  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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

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  • 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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8. 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

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. 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

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  • historical
  • southern
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Medicine Creek Claim (On the Dakota Frontier, #3)

By: CK Van Dam

4.42

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The Civil War ripped the state of Missouri in half – just as it ripped apart the nation.After their… read more

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11. Refuge

By: Dot Jackson

4.25

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

“An intensely readable novel of the complexity of family ties . . . Dot Jackson is a true Southern … read more

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  • love
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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

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  • historical fiction
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13. Lone Tree Claim (On the Dakota Frontier, #2)

By: CK Van Dam

4.32

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

Like many Americans, Civil War widow Katie Rose Kelly was determined to make a new life for herself… read more

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14. Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

By: G.L. Gooding

4.18

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and h… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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15. The Forgiving Kind

By: Donna Everhart

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this masterful new novel, set in 1950s North Carolina, the acclaimed author of The Road to Bitte… read more

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  • historical
  • southern
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Above the Fog: Appalachian Fiction

By: Karen Lynn Nolan

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

When her abusive father swears an oath on her thirteenth birthday that could destroy her family, Co… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Stay with the Wagons (Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail Book 3) by David Fitz-Gerald

17. Stay with the Wagons (Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail Book 3)

By: David Fitz-Gerald

4.43

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

Venture deep into the uncharted wilderness and crest the continental divide. Stay with the Wagon… read more

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  • historical fiction
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18. Lighten the Load (Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail Book 2)

By: David Fitz-Gerald

4.52

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

After a devastating tragedy, Dorcas Moon faces brutal choices in the unforgiving wilderness. An … read more

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  • historical fiction
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19. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

By: Minu Cash

4.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more

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"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."

-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

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20. The Butcher on Colfax

By: J.T. Tierney

4.14

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

On an autumn day in 1890, eighteen-year-old Alice Butler and her sister Nora step out the massive d… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Blood of My Mother: a powerful historical saga about family, race and overcoming adversity by Roccie Hill

21. The Blood of My Mother: a powerful historical saga about family, race and overcoming adversity

By: Roccie Hill

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman fights for her life as a refugee, slave, mother, and farmer, in this "saga with many layers… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Mary Jane Salyers

4.03

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Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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Olivia Hawker

4.21

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Lonormi Manuel

4.47

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Amy Fillion

4.24

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Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

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Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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4.25

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