16 Best fiction books like Veda by Ellen Gardner

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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…

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1. Appalachian Daughter

By: Mary Jane Salyers

4.03

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

“Appalachian Daughter grabbed me Friday afternoon, and except for the time for sleeping and necessa… read more

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  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Whisper Mountain

By: Vivian Higginbotham Nichols

3.91

Format: 192 pages,

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3. Cahas Mountain

By: Linda Simmons

4.13

Format: 334 pages,

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4. Lula Mae

By: None

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

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5. Pearl: Lost Girl of White Oak Mountain

By: Bill Yates

3.61

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

In the Fall of 1923, three-year-old Pearl Turner disappeared from her home in the mountains of West… read more

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  • historical
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6. Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

By: Teresa Van Woy

4.56

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Abducted by her mentally unstable mother, one girl forages her way to the top. "A gripping account… read more

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7. I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

By: Amy Fillion

4.24

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

"Beautifully written and so inspiring!" -Amazon reviewer"One of the most heartfelt, touching books … read more

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  • fiction
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8. 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
  • historical fiction
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9. 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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10. 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
  • 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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11. 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
  • historical fiction
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12. All the Forgivenesses

By: Elizabeth Hardinger

4.27

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in Appalachia and the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century, this exquisite debut novel … read more

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  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. 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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14. Cordelia's Journey (Pierce Family Saga, #1)

By: Hazel Hart

4.40

Format: 348 pages, ebook

In this coming-of-age story set in Kansas Territory, 1855, thirteen-year-old Cordelia puts up with … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. 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
  • historical fiction
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16. 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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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Veda by Ellen   Gardner

20. 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

Similar categories in Ellen Gardner's Veda book and Ellen Gardner's Veda

  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The Forgiving Kind

By: Donna Everhart

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this masterful new novel, set in 1950s North Carolina, the acclaimed author of The Road to Bitte… read more

Similar categories in Donna Everhart's The Forgiving Kind book and Ellen Gardner's Veda

  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. 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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  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Fireball: The true story of a Tennessee plow girl who survived poverty, abuse, and eleven husbands with wit, wisdom, and tenacity. by Julia Walker

23. Fireball: The true story of a Tennessee plow girl who survived poverty, abuse, and eleven husbands with wit, wisdom, and tenacity.

By: Julia Walker

4.35

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

My name is Hazel Lamb…Lindsey, but my momma called me Fireball. I am 84 years old. I only had one y… read more

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24. Turn Back Time

By: Lisa Kay Hauser

4.22

Format: 520 pages, Kindle Edition

Through the hardships of the era, through birth and death, tragedy and triumph, a young woman seeks… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Kay Hauser's Turn Back Time book and Ellen Gardner's Veda

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. Above the Fog: Appalachian Fiction

By: Karen Lynn Nolan

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

When her abusive father swears an oath on her thirteenth birthday that could destroy her family, Co… read more

Similar categories in Karen Lynn Nolan's Above the Fog: Appalachian Fiction book and Ellen Gardner's Veda

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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26. Mary Dannie

By: Patricia Keil

4.15

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

Mary Dannie transports the reader into the lovely mountains of southeastern Kentucky. It is the sto… read more

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27. Sunshine and Shadow

By: Lisa Kay Hauser

4.53

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

A warmhearted story of a young widow with two small children and the brash bachelor with a checkere… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Kay Hauser's Sunshine and Shadow book and Ellen Gardner's Veda

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. Uphill All the Way: A Memoir of a Depression Era Family, their trials, tribulations and triumphs.

By: James Sloter

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

“It was near the end of February 1944. A light snow was falling as our family of six and a dog star… read more

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29. Glad Farm

By: Catherine Marenghi

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Raised in a primitive one-room farmhouse with no indoor plumbing, the fourth of five children, Cath… read more

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30. 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

Similar categories in Robert Gwaltney's The Cicada Tree book and Ellen Gardner's Veda

  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. 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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13 Top historical books like Veda by Ellen Gardner

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Mary Jane Salyers

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Pearl: Lost Girl of White Oak Mountain

Bill Yates

3.61

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The Only Way Home

Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

Lonormi Manuel

4.47

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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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