16 must-read historical fiction books like Quilly by Jan Strickland

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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…

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1. Lula Mae

By: None

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

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2. 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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  • historical fiction
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3. They Call Her Dirty Sally

By: Amy Matayo

4.42

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

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4. 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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  • 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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5. 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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  • historical fiction
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6. Out of the Dust

By: Joyce E. Patterson

4.24

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Two of America’s worst economic disasters occurred during the same period. One was the crash of the… read more

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  • historical fiction
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7. 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
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8. 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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9. 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

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  • historical fiction
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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  • historical fiction
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13. 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
Cover of Darkness: A Slave's Story (The Darkness Saga Book 1) by Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

14. Darkness: A Slave's Story (The Darkness Saga Book 1)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.37

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

A Slave’s Story is a fictionalized account of not just one slave’s life, but the tribulations and … read more

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15. My Name Is Ona Judge

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.27

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

New Hampshire, 1796. “My name is Ona Judge,and I escaped from the household of the President of the… read more

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  • historical fiction
"If freedom ever knocks on your door same as it did for Mathilda and Noble... open it !"

-Suzette D. Harrison, My Name Is Ona Judge

"Finding Miss Ona's journal and reading her story was a lesson in dignity. She'd been a person owned by other persons. Yet when faced with the reality of being "gifted" to yet another master, she knew…"

-Suzette D. Harrison, My Name Is Ona Judge

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16. From the Flood: A Memoir

By: Suzanne Jones

4.24

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

**GOLD Winner of the 2022 Nonfiction Authors Association Book Award** **2022 American Writers Awar… read more

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17. The Dust Bowl Orphans

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.33

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

The dust cloud rolls in from nowhere, stinging our eyes and muddling our senses. I reach for my bab… read more

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  • historical fiction
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18. Sisters

By: Michael Edwin Q.

4.24

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

All her life, Winnie passed for White, using it to her advantage, and climbing the social ladder. W… read more

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19. 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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  • historical fiction
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20. House of Fragile Dreams

By: Anne Moose

4.40

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

Still recovering from a divorce and the death of her parents, Rachel is living in the large house s… read more

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21. The Blood of My Mother: a powerful historical saga about family, race and overcoming adversity

By: Roccie Hill

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman fights for her life as a refugee, slave, mother, and farmer, in this "saga with many layers… read more

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  • historical fiction

11 Best fiction books like The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel by Lonormi Manuel

Transform Your Habits

I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.24

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Where Butterflies Wander

Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

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Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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Amy Fillion

4.25

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