20 best-selling historical fiction books like The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

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The Lincoln Highway

By: Amor Towles

4.23

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, soph…

"There are few things more beautiful to an author's eye, he concluded to Billy, than a well-read copy of one of his books"

-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

"There are few things more beautiful to an author's eye, he concluded to Billy, than a well-read copy of one of his books"

-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

"There are few things more beautiful to an author's eye, he concluded to Billy, than a well-read copy of one of his books"

-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

"There are few things more beautiful to an author's eye, he confessed to Billy, than a well-read copy of one of his books."

-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. 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 Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • 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

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2. Trust

By: Hernan Diaz

3.83

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more

Similar categories in Hernan Diaz's Trust book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

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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 Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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5. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more

Similar categories in Lisa See's Lady Tan’s Circle of Women book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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6. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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7. 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 Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • 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

Cover of The Covenant of Water by Abraham   Verghese

8. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • book club
  • audiobook
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9. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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10. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Horse

By: Geraldine Brooks

4.27

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more

Similar categories in Geraldine Brooks's Horse book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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13. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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14. Lessons in Chemistry

By: Bonnie Garmus

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to poi… read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon."

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"(On religion) "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; the ultimately, we're not to blame for t…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself b…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

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15. Hello Beautiful

By: Ann Napolitano

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

Cover of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

16. Demon Copperhead

By: Barbara Kingsolver

4.50

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Cover of West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

17. West With Giraffes

By: Lynda Rutledge

4.36

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headline… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Rutledge's West With Giraffes book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • adventure
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Destiny is a mobile thing — that every choice you make, along with every choice made around you, can cause it to spin this way and that, offering destinies galore."

-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

"Problem was, whenever I locked eyes with an animal I felt something more soulful than I ever felt from the humans I knew, and what I saw in that sprawled giraffe’s eye made me ache to the bone."

-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

"People look at you peculiar if you talk about the feeling you got for animals, saying animals have no souls, no sense of good or bad, no value up next to humans," he said. "I don't know about that. S…"

-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

Cover of The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

18. The Personal Librarian

By: Marie Benedict

4.06

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780593101537.The remarkable, little-known story of … read more

Similar categories in Marie Benedict's The Personal Librarian book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"They have no idea the fierceness that lurks within your petite frame."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

"I am searching for one thing—a connection, however fleeting, to anchor me."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

"And being a woman, I know that I must do my job twice as well as any man to be thought half as good."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

"I feel him, too. I suppose he was always larger than life, so we shouldn’t expect death to eradicate him from our existence."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

Cover of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

19. Cloud Cuckoo Land

By: Anthony Doerr

4.26

Format: 626 pages, Hardcover

When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive. How do we weather the end of things? Clo… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

20. The Diamond Eye

By: Kate Quinn

4.29

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Diamond Eye book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

21. The Lincoln Highway

By: Amor Towles

4.23

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, soph… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway book and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway

  • literary fiction
  • adventure
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"There are few things more beautiful to an author's eye, he concluded to Billy, than a well-read copy of one of his books"

-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

"There are few things more beautiful to an author's eye, he confessed to Billy, than a well-read copy of one of his books."

-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

"Making a fresh start isn't just a matter of having a new address in a new town. It isn't a matter of having a new job or a new phone number or even a new name.A fresh start requires a cleaning of the…"

-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

21 best-selling fiction books like The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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21 Top fiction books like West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

Transform Your Habits

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Go as a River

Shelley Read

4.28

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