22 must-read historical fiction books like Answer Creek by Ashley E. Sweeney

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Answer Creek

By: Ashley E. Sweeney

4.22

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Starvation. Desperation. Madness. Shadowing the Donner Party as they trek west on the Oregon–Califo…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Answer Creek by Ashley E. Sweeney , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. When the Wolf Loves (Madeleine Book 1)

By: Sadie Conall

4.49

Format: None pages,

After his father’s death in London in 1796, Ryder Benedict travels to the New World to find answers… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
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2. Thieving Forest

By: Martha Conway

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a humid morning in 1806, seventeen-year-old Susanna Quiner watches helplessly from behind a tree… read more

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  • american history
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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3. Jubilee Trail

By: Gwen Bristow , Nancy E. Turner , Sandra Dallas

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The history of California in the mid-19th century comes alive in this captivating historical novel.… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. A Thousand Voices (Tending Roses #5)

By: Lisa Wingate

4.26

Format: 112 pages,

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5. Follow the River

By: James Alexander Thom

3.76

Format: 208 pages,

Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virg… read more

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6. The Fire and the Ore

By: Olivia Hawker

4.07

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. A compelling novel of family, sisterh… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
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7. Where the Lost Wander

By: Amy Harmon

4.41

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
"The pain. It's worth it. The more you love, the more it hurts. It's the only thing that is."

-Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

"We spend our lives complicating what we would do better to accept. Because in acceptance, we put our energies into transcendence."

-Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

"I don’t cry either; I can’t...grief is draining. I am hoarding my strength and my stamina for life, and I will not spend it on death"

-Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

"I spent the first fifteen years of my life fighting everything and everyone. But . . . endurance . . . is a whole different kind of battle. It’s a hell of a lot harder."

-Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

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8. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's The Water Outlaws book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Charlotte

By: J.S. Anthony

4.39

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

When the least likely person in your life becomes the one who means the most. Charlotte’s father… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. 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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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • book club
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11. Sarah Mayfield

By: J.S. Anthony

4.39

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

An unexpected journey of the heart. The war is over and Sarah Mayfield has put the sorrows of he… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • historical fiction
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12. One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

By: Olivia Hawker

4.19

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of surviv… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Beyond the borders of the land that was his lay the wilderness that was its own. The upthrust stone, the shoulders of the Bighorns, reddish gray where they stood near to the homestead and blue where …"

-Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

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13. Westering Women

By: Sandra Dallas

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the peri… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Where Coyotes Howl

By: Sandra Dallas

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Sweet Mountain Magic

By: Rosanne Bittner

4.40

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Tame the Wild Wind delivers a western historical romance of a lonely trap… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • historical fiction
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16. Under a Gilded Sky

By: Imogen Martin

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

In this epic and unforgettable love story, set in the wilds of Missouri and the glamour of high soc… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Martin's Under a Gilded Sky book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Ridgeline

By: Michael Punke

4.28

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant. … read more

Similar categories in Michael Punke's Ridgeline book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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18. The Outlaw Noble Salt

By: Amy Harmon

4.46

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Amy Harmon comes a sweepingly romantic tale of risk, redempt… read more

Similar categories in Amy Harmon's The Outlaw Noble Salt book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. When the Wolf Dreams (Madeleine Book 4)

By: Sadie Conall

4.61

Format: None pages, None

Madeleiné has reached St Louis but has lingered for four months waiting on news of Ryder, hoping th… read more

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20. The Islanders

By: Caroline Mitchell

4.05

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

She thinks the island will keep her safe—she is wrong. Traumatised by the death of a child in her … read more

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  • fiction
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21. Settling the Wind

By: Kari August

4.20

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

The harsh and rugged Colorado frontier of 1875 is not the type of place most would consider suitabl… read more

Similar categories in Kari August's Settling the Wind book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • historical fiction
Cover of Answer Creek by Ashley E. Sweeney

22. Answer Creek

By: Ashley E. Sweeney

4.22

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Starvation. Desperation. Madness. Shadowing the Donner Party as they trek west on the Oregon–Califo… read more

Similar categories in Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • american history
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • book club
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23. The Rise of Light

By: Olivia Hawker

4.13

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful novel about the expectations of family—and the risks and liberation of defying them—by t… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Hawker's The Rise of Light book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
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24. The Cabin at Jackson Hole

By: Kari August

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2021 Global Book Awards Gold Medal for Westerns With the passing of her beloved fa… read more

Similar categories in Kari August's The Cabin at Jackson Hole book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • historical fiction
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25. Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness

By: Robert Specht

4.32

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this … read more

Similar categories in Robert Specht's Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • historical
"It was like traveling through a stage setting, the air clear and tingling, the moonlight sparkling off bushes laced with frost."

-Robert Specht, Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness

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26. The Botanist's Daughter

By: Kayte Nunn

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondr… read more

Similar categories in Kayte Nunn's The Botanist's Daughter book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You just have to keep walking through the fire. And then you'll bloom."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"The truth had been hiding in plain sight: a margeurite was a type of daisy."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers. - Sonnet XVII, Pablo Neruda "

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"Elizabeth had lent her an aquamarine dress, originally made for Georgiana, with elbow-length sleeves and intricate embroidery of butterflies and bees. It set Daisy's red hair ablaze. 'Fire on water,'…"

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

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27. Hardland

By: Ashley Sweeney

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

“One of the top standalone Westerns in 2022.”  — True West magazine   Arizona Territory, 1899. Rub… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Sweeney's Hardland book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. When the Wolf Breathes (Madeleine Book 5)

By: Sadie Conall

4.66

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s now the spring of 1805 but before they head west to the Snake River Plain, Madeleine, Ryder an… read more

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29. When the Wolf Bites (Madeleine Book 3)

By: Sadie Conall

4.64

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

Separated by the hatred of the Benedict family, Madeleine seeks revenge, vowing to destroy those re… read more

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30. The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander

By: Denny S. Bryce

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a real-life scandal that was shocking even for the tumultuous Roaring Twenties, this ca… read more

Similar categories in Denny S. Bryce's The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander book and Ashley E. Sweeney's Answer Creek

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. Waiting for the Thunder: A vivid Australian saga of strength and survival

By: Patricia Shaw

4.20

Format: 493 pages, Kindle Edition

Trouble is brewing in Australia's Northern Territory... Patricia Shaw returns to the austere and b… read more

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4.07

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Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

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Jenni Keer

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