14 must-read history books like The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America by Rebecca Fraser

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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

By: Rebecca Fraser

3.55

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Rebecca Fraser's book about the Mayflower sheds new light on a family caught up in all the perils o…

If you liked the history plot in The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America by Rebecca Fraser , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Here Shall I Die Ashore: Stephen Hopkins - Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim by Caleb H. Johnson

1. Here Shall I Die Ashore: Stephen Hopkins - Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim

By: Caleb H. Johnson

4.14

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

In the spring of 1621, Plymouth Colony sent Stephen Hopkins to make the first visit to Wampanoag sa… read more

Similar categories in Caleb H. Johnson's Here Shall I Die Ashore: Stephen Hopkins - Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty by Adrian Wojnarowski

2. The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty

By: Adrian Wojnarowski

3.24

Format: None pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

3. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

By: Robert K. Massie

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and … read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis

3.75

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Visions of Glory: One Man's Astonishing Account of the Last Days by John Pontius

5. Visions of Glory: One Man's Astonishing Account of the Last Days

By: John Pontius

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In this true account of near-death experiences, we learn about the miracles of the millennium, the … read more

Similar categories in John Pontius's Visions of Glory: One Man's Astonishing Account of the Last Days book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper

6. Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

By: Lyndal Roper

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

This definitive biography reveals the complicated inner life of the founding father of the Protesta… read more

Similar categories in Lyndal Roper's Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

7. Polio: An American Story

By: David M. Oshinsky

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find … read more

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Cover of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick

8. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

3.88

Format: 461 pages, Hardcover

HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN? This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an … read more

Similar categories in Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • american history
  • history
  • 17th century
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"W"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything."

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

"Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

"For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that …"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

9. Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

By: Amanda Foreman

4.18

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderf… read more

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10. Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

By: H.W. Brands

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twe… read more

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11. Wideacre (The Wideacre Trilogy, #1)

By: Philippa Gregory

4.20

Format: 251 pages,

Beatrice Lacey, as strong-minded as she is beautiful, refuses to conform to the social customs of h… read more

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12. Any Means Necessary (Luke Stone #1)

By: Jack Mars

4.50

Format: None pages,

When nuclear waste is stolen by jihadists in the middle of the night from an unguarded New York Cit… read more

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13. The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

By: Henry Wiencek

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the la… read more

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Cover of The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough

14. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

By: David McCullough

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more

Similar categories in David McCullough's The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie

15. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

By: Robert Leckie

4.22

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more

Similar categories in Robert Leckie's Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

Cover of The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet

16. The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

By: John Wood Sweet

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its lo… read more

Similar categories in John Wood Sweet's The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History by William   Alexander

17. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

By: William Alexander

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journe… read more

Similar categories in William Alexander's Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America by Rebecca  Fraser

18. The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

By: Rebecca Fraser

3.55

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Rebecca Fraser's book about the Mayflower sheds new light on a family caught up in all the perils o… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • 17th century
  • historical
  • research
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants by H.W. Brands

19. Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants

By: H.W. Brands

4.13

Format: None pages, Audio CD

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteen… read more

Similar categories in H.W. Brands's Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose

20. D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

By: Sarah Rose

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose's D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"They were not hired for their looks or their sophistication; the most competent ones specialized in puzzles, music, and foreign languages."

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

"Where regular forces provide martial muscle, the special forces are surgical and skilled, trained to be “the most potent weapons one can use"

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

"She was very much ahead of her fellow students and, had she been with others as mentally mature as herself, she would have shown herself even more capable."

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

"Buck regarded his two agents, Andrée and Lise, certain he was dropping his two most competent, most capable. Each was a girl who kept her head when all about were losing theirs, as Kipling might have…"

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

Cover of The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail by Kristen Green

21. The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

By: Kristen Green

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Green's The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail book and Rebecca Fraser's The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At an 1854 Fourth of July abolitionist rally in Framinhmgham, Massachusetts, William Lloyd Garrison burned copies of both the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act and the court's decision to send Burns back to Vi…"

-Kristen Green, The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

8 Top audiobook books like The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America by Rebecca Fraser

Transform Your Habits

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Nathaniel Philbrick

3.88

Transform Your Habits

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

David McCullough

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

John Wood Sweet

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

William Alexander

3.98

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12 best-selling history books like Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper

Transform Your Habits

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

Thomas Cahill

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi

3.57

Muhammad

Karen Armstrong

2.50

Transform Your Habits

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark

3.79

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