16 Best historical fiction books like Kitchen Canary by Joanne C. Parsons

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Kitchen Canary

By: Joanne C. Parsons

4.11

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

Kitchen Canary is the first in a series of two novels that follow the journeys of two young Irish i…

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1. The Dry Grass of August

By: Anna Jean Mayhew

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

2. Lula Mae

By: None

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

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3. The Only Way Home

By: Jeanette Minniti

4.21

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2022 Colorado Authors League 1st Place Award in Historical Fiction! Desperate times.… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. This Funny Life: A Novel

By: Amy Fillion

4.25

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

“We never know, do we? We never know how many days we’ll be given or how we’ll go. There are no gua… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Promise ("The Promise" Saga Book 2)

By: Jean Hackensmith

4.46

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

“If you ever need anything, Rebecca, you just let me know and I'll be there." Those were the words … read more

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  • historical fiction
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6. The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

By: Lonormi Manuel

4.47

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle."

-Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

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7. Threshing of Straw

By: Kim Catron

4.51

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkabl… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Eventide: A Novel of the Southern Appalachians

By: Terri Fabel

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Eventide is a story about the deep and abiding love two sister have for each other as they struggle… read more

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9. Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

By: G.L. Gooding

4.18

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and h… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Road to Resilience: Velma’s Story (Velma's Story Book 2) by G.L. Gooding

10. The Road to Resilience: Velma’s Story (Velma's Story Book 2)

By: G.L. Gooding

4.42

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on the life of author G. L. Gooding's mother, Velma Steele, The Road to Resilience continues … read more

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  • historical fiction
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11. Kitchen Canary

By: Joanne C. Parsons

4.11

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

Kitchen Canary is the first in a series of two novels that follow the journeys of two young Irish i… read more

Similar categories in Joanne C. Parsons's Kitchen Canary book and Joanne C. Parsons's Kitchen Canary

  • ireland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Quilly

By: Jan Strickland

4.55

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

What was it like to be biracial in the early 1900’s in a small white southern town where the divisi… read more

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  • historical fiction
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13. Tobacco Rose

By: Florence Love Karsner

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

South Georgia 1955. Racial tensions lead to riots in the South. An old black woman named Rosie and … read more

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  • historical fiction
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14. Tomorrow's Bread

By: Anna Jean Mayhew

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Sout… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Veda

By: Ellen Gardner

4.18

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

If Veda’s mama hadn’t pounded religion into her “the way she pounded the dirt out of Papa’s overall… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Arkansas Summer

By: Anne Moose

4.51

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Arkansas Summer is a powerful novel about love and racial terror in the Jim Crow South. It's 1955, … read more

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  • historical fiction
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17. Cora Jean

By: Lawrence Gulley

4.51

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Cora Jean is the story of a young girl from the American South, the daughter of a prostitute who is… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Cicada Tree

By: Robert Gwaltney

4.09

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence Georgia, a natural event with super… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Bitter Honey

By: Sharon Mierke

4.53

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

In the early 1800s (1830s – 1860s) it has been estimated that as many as 300,000 men and women may … read more

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Cover of Her Family's Secrets: "...a smooth and compelling read women will find thoroughly engrossing...an absorbing story of family connections..." Review by Diane ... Senior Reviewer Midwest Book Review by Joanne Parsons

20. Her Family's Secrets: "...a smooth and compelling read women will find thoroughly engrossing...an absorbing story of family connections..." Review by Diane ... Senior Reviewer Midwest Book Review

By: Joanne Parsons

4.28

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Andrea Birch Rossi inherits an old family homestead in a seaside town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Molly's Memoir

By: Deanna Edens

4.17

Format: 119 pages, ebook

“Mr. Minion pushed open the door of the cabin and immediately froze when he heard the shrilling sou… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Anna Jean Mayhew

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Jeanette Minniti

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4.25

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Lonormi Manuel

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I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.24

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Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

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