15 must-read historical books like The Truth About Grace (A Sequel to Pecan Man) by Cassie Dandridge Selleck

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The Truth About Grace (A Sequel to Pecan Man)

By: Cassie Dandridge Selleck

4.09

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

The Truth About Grace is the long-awaited sequel to The Pecan Man. In 1976, six-year-old Grace Lowe…

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1. Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.30

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

The latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen … read more

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  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Pan, I said. "Do you know who can help?" He shook his head. "I will," I said. "What can you do?" he asked. "I don't know yet. This is new to me."

-Kathleen Grissom, Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House

2. Whistling Past the Graveyard

By: Susan Crandall

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Hardcover

The summer of 1963 begins like any other for nine-year-old Starla Claudelle. Born to teenage parent… read more

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3. The Life We Bury

By: Allen Eskens

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English c… read more

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4. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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5. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Go as a River

By: Shelley Read

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Women endure. That’s what we do."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

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8. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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9. Only the Beautiful

By: Susan Meissner

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Little Liar

By: Mitch Albom

4.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Gree… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Dead men tell no lies, but their truths must be unearthed."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"But the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"The sad thing is, by the time you share what a loved one wants to hear, they no longer want to hear it."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"...a lie told once is easy to expose, but a lie told a thousand times can look like the truth. And destroy the world."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

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11. When the Jessamine Grows

By: Donna Everhart

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more

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  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Crow Mary

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.33

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When Winter Comes by V.A. Shannon

13. When Winter Comes

By: V.A. Shannon

3.89

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

In the voice of an unforgettable heroine, V.A. Shannon explores one of the most harrowing episodes … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Kinfolk

By: Sean Dietrich

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it’s the most unlikely meetings that give us life’s greatest gifts. 1970s, Southern Alaba… read more

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  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"But then, life was full of overlooked miracles. And miracles never happened the way you expect them to. They are softer than a baby's breath. They are, at times, as noticeable as a ladybug. A miracle…"

-Sean Dietrich, Kinfolk

Cover of The Truth About Grace (A Sequel to Pecan Man) by Cassie Dandridge Selleck

15. The Truth About Grace (A Sequel to Pecan Man)

By: Cassie Dandridge Selleck

4.09

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

The Truth About Grace is the long-awaited sequel to The Pecan Man. In 1976, six-year-old Grace Lowe… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Dandridge Selleck's The Truth About Grace (A Sequel to Pecan Man) book and Cassie Dandridge Selleck's The Truth About Grace (A Sequel to Pecan Man)

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Wide Plank Porches

By: Laura Frances

3.92

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

The Parker women of Riverton, North Carolina are known for three things: southern graces, storytell… read more

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  • southern
  • fiction
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17. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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18. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Kiss My Southern Grits

By: Phyllis F. McManus

4.49

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny and feel-good book about friendship and trust between six Southern women in the small town … read more

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20. The Cemetery Keeper's Wife

By: Maryann McFadden

4.13

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

What happens when the line between the past and the present begins to blur... Rachel Miller is o… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Story of a Southern Family (The Big House, #1) by J. Keck

21. Story of a Southern Family (The Big House, #1)

By: J. Keck

3.96

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

I don't know how Mama knew Daddy was going to hurt us," Minnie says. She yanked us out of the bed a… read more

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Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House

Kathleen Grissom

4.30

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Celeste Fletcher McHale

4.36

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Sarah Sadler

3.50

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Lauren K. Denton

3.98

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Amy Fillion

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