20 Top historical fiction books like The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor

Cover of The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor

The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

By: Hazel Gaynor

4.09

Format: 416 pages, ebook

“They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woma…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E. Pendziwol

1. The Lightkeeper's Daughters

By: Jean E. Pendziwol

4.00

Format: 45 pages, ebook

Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth's eyes have failed. No longer able to linger over her bel… read more

Similar categories in Jean E. Pendziwol's The Lightkeeper's Daughters book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Women by Kristin Hannah

2. 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

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Berry Pickers by Amanda    Peters

3. 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

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly

4. The Golden Doves

By: Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Naz… read more

Similar categories in Martha Hall Kelly's The Golden Doves book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel

5. The Paris Daughter

By: Kristin Harmel

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two m… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Harmel's The Paris Daughter book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chanc…"

-Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

Cover of The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

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

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Go as a River by Shelley Read

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

Similar categories in Shelley Read's Go as a River book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • romance
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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

Cover of The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman

8. 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 Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • 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

Cover of The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

9. 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

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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

Cover of Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner

10. 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

Similar categories in Susan Meissner's Only the Beautiful book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

11. The Secret Book of Flora Lea

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.07

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more

Similar categories in Patti Callahan Henry's The Secret Book of Flora Lea book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • adult fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

Cover of The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore

12. The Medicine Woman of Galveston

By: Amanda Skenandore

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Caught in the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a female doctor who’s joined a traveling medicine … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Skenandore's The Medicine Woman of Galveston book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray

13. Becoming Madam Secretary

By: Stephanie Dray

4.45

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestse… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Dray's Becoming Madam Secretary book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Roaring Days of Zora Lily by Noelle Salazar

14. The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

By: Noelle Salazar

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The discovery of a hidden label on a famous gown unearths the story of a talented young seamstress … read more

Similar categories in Noelle Salazar's The Roaring Days of Zora Lily book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Life would always throw challenges, but it was up to me to consider each and every one and make a choice about how I would take it on. And I was up to the task."

-Noelle Salazar, The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

"No other person should ever get credit for being the best part of who you are. They may have helped shape you, lent you ides, shown you other possibilities, but you are you. Simple as that. Know your…"

-Noelle Salazar, The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

"Art, I understood now, was so much more than the sum of its brush strokes, curved clay appendages, or intricate stitching. There were stories woven, kneaded, and scratches into each piece. Blood, swe…"

-Noelle Salazar, The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

Cover of The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor

15. The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

By: Hazel Gaynor

4.09

Format: 416 pages, ebook

“They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woma… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline  Martin

16. The Keeper of Hidden Books

By: Madeline Martin

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming story about the power of books to bring us together, inspired by the true story of t… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Martin's The Keeper of Hidden Books book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn

17. The Phoenix Crown

By: Kate Quinn

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about … read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Phoenix Crown book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Next Ship Home by Heather  Webb

18. The Next Ship Home

By: Heather Webb

4.17

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Ellis Island, 1902: Two women band together to hold America to its promise: "Give me your tired, yo… read more

Similar categories in Heather Webb's The Next Ship Home book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"They laughed heartily and shouted over one another, the Sicilian dialect she hadn't heard in a while enveloping her. To the untrained eye, the group might have been arguing, but Francesca knew better…"

-Heather Webb, The Next Ship Home

Cover of Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate

19. 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

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

20. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Briar Club book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

Cover of Laatste lente aan de Seine (Dutch Edition) by Jeroen Kuypers

21. Laatste lente aan de Seine (Dutch Edition)

By: Jeroen Kuypers

3.50

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Parijs, juli 1943. De Joodse Elise Calmann waant zich in die gruwelijke oorlogsdagen redelijk veili… read more

Similar categories in Jeroen Kuypers's Laatste lente aan de Seine (Dutch Edition) book and Hazel Gaynor's The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

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Transform Your Habits

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Jean E. Pendziwol

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Golden Doves

Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ashley Elston

4.05

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