10 must-read inspirational books like The Nature of Small Birds by Susie Finkbeiner

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The Nature of Small Birds

By: Susie Finkbeiner

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. Whe…

If you liked the inspirational plot in The Nature of Small Birds by Susie Finkbeiner , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Within These Walls of Sorrow: A Novel of World War II Poland by Amanda  Barratt

1. Within These Walls of Sorrow: A Novel of World War II Poland

By: Amanda Barratt

4.73

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

As superbly written as it is haunting in its truth. --Kate Breslin, best-selling author of For Such… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Barratt's Within These Walls of Sorrow: A Novel of World War II Poland book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3) by Gabrielle  Meyer

2. For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3)

By: Gabrielle Meyer

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Grace and Hope are identical twin sisters born with the ability to time-cross together between 1692… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Meyer's For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3) book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Edge of Belonging by Amanda  Cox

3. The Edge of Belonging

By: Amanda Cox

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale, she soon discovers that her grandm… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's The Edge of Belonging book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • adoption
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
"I guess the longer you hold a secret, the harder it is to let it go."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"You find a use for everything. Yet you discard yourself at every opportunity."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"It was freeing in a way, to have a family built on love by choice and not relational obligation."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"She’d memorized the verse about peace that passes all understanding, but all she felt was the weight of depression."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

Cover of The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip by Sara Brunsvold

4. The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

By: Sara Brunsvold

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Aidyn Kelley is talented, ambitious, and ready for a more serious assignment than the fluff pieces … read more

Similar categories in Sara Brunsvold's The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
"Ours is a God of new life~Mrs. Kip"

-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

"Keep the fight in your veins, honey. Never let it fade."

-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

"Hard things usually end in the biggest blessings. ~Mrs. Kip"

-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

"Lord, you are so good, and your love holds everything together."

-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

Cover of A Hundred Crickets Singing by Cathy Gohlke

5. A Hundred Crickets Singing

By: Cathy Gohlke

4.30

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In wars eighty years apart, two young women living on the same Appalachian estate determine to aid … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Gohlke's A Hundred Crickets Singing book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"No longer was it a hundred crickets screeching, but a choir, a hundred crickets singing a chorus of praise, just like the Scripture that she and Mis Lill had written in their letters for years. "The …"

-Cathy Gohlke, A Hundred Crickets Singing

"You can push all that past aside if you want to, but until you understand where people around here came from and why they think the way they do, you won't be able to help them get beyond it. You can'…"

-Cathy Gohlke, A Hundred Crickets Singing

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6. Night Bird Calling

By: Cathy Gohlke

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Cathy Gohlke, whose novels have been called “haunting” ( Library Journal … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Gohlke's Night Bird Calling book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I sighed. I don't know what to do. Velma Richards seems like a woman who will carry out her threat". "No Doubt It's a crusade for her. " Moments passed. "Not much Christian about it is there?" I felt…"

-Cathy Gohlke, Night Bird Calling

"Jesus called Jews of every social rank. He called women and children and people from Samaria and tax collectors and prostitutes and the down and out to himself. He called unlearned fishermen for the …"

-Cathy Gohlke, Night Bird Calling

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7. All the Lost Places

By: Amanda Dykes

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

De vondeling van Venetië van Amanda Dykes is een hartverwarmende historische roman over een man die… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Dykes's All the Lost Places book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The hundreds of bridges in Venice, they are not the only bridges here. … The artisans are living bridges."

-Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

"And understanding, I had learned, came more often through listening than only by seeing and drawing conclusions."

-Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

"This is a tapestry of every sunset and sunrise …It reminds me that if the sun comes up, the day has beautiful purpose. For God made it so, yes?"

-Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

"Friendship, he began to see, was something of a miracle. Built in the smallest of stitches, like Valentina’s lace. Each stitch a word, a look, the offering of a hand to help on unsteady ground. Small…"

-Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

Cover of The Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater by Jaime Jo Wright

8. The Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater

By: Jaime Jo Wright

4.28

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

Barlowe Theater stole the life of Greta Mercy's brother during its construction. Now in 1915, the c… read more

Similar categories in Jaime Jo Wright's The Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
Cover of Where the Blue Sky Begins by Katie Powner

9. Where the Blue Sky Begins

By: Katie Powner

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

*2023 Christy Award winner and Selah Award finalist* Sometimes the hardest road of all is the ro… read more

Similar categories in Katie Powner's Where the Blue Sky Begins book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Divine Proverb of Streusel by Sara Brunsvold

10. The Divine Proverb of Streusel

By: Sara Brunsvold

4.29

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Shaken by her parents' divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious… read more

Similar categories in Sara Brunsvold's The Divine Proverb of Streusel book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of A Flicker of Light by Katie Powner

11. A Flicker of Light

By: Katie Powner

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Twenty-one-year-old Bea never expected to move back to her hometown in Montana, especially not as a… read more

Similar categories in Katie Powner's A Flicker of Light book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of He Should Have Told the Bees by Amanda  Cox

12. He Should Have Told the Bees

By: Amanda Cox

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until hi… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's He Should Have Told the Bees book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • adult fiction
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of What Happens Next by Christina Suzann Nelson

13. What Happens Next

By: Christina Suzann Nelson

4.22

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne has made a name for herself telling stories of greatn… read more

Similar categories in Christina Suzann Nelson's What Happens Next book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery by Amanda  Cox

14. The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery

By: Amanda Cox

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Present Day. After tragedy plunges her into grief and unresolved anger, Sarah Ashby returns to her … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of The Nature of Small Birds by Susie Finkbeiner

15. The Nature of Small Birds

By: Susie Finkbeiner

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. Whe… read more

Similar categories in Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • adult fiction
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • adoption
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of These Tangled Threads: A Novel of Biltmore by Sarah Loudin Thomas

16. These Tangled Threads: A Novel of Biltmore

By: Sarah Loudin Thomas

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Seven years ago, a hidden betrayal scattered three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore E… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Loudin Thomas's These Tangled Threads: A Novel of Biltmore book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • adult fiction
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Come Down Somewhere by Jennifer L. Wright

17. Come Down Somewhere

By: Jennifer L. Wright

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

For fans of WWII fiction comes a powerful novel by Jennifer L. Wright about two young women coming … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Wright's Come Down Somewhere book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Set the Stars Alight by Amanda Dykes

18. Set the Stars Alight

By: Amanda Dykes

4.39

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucy Clairmont's family treasured the magic of the past, and her childhood fascination with stories… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Dykes's Set the Stars Alight book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • adult fiction
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
"Here they were. Two souls, buried alive beneath the earth beside the sea, in a place of nowhere - an empty cave that felt impossibly full as Juliette took flight where there was no sky."

-Amanda Dykes, Set the Stars Alight

"Everyone knows. I think even Clara knows, deep down, though she's convinced that advertising that the farm is wireless - for her meaning without Internet - adds to the draw of the place. So we all pr…"

-Amanda Dykes, Set the Stars Alight

"He is coming, and coming, and coming after you. In every sunset, in every snatch of birdsong In everything that stirs deep into you and makes you hungry for bigger things, eternal things. That is Him…"

-Amanda Dykes, Set the Stars Alight

"He is coming, and coming, and coming, and coming after you. In every sunset, in every snatch of birdsong In everything that stirs deep into you and makes you hungry for bigger things, eternal things.…"

-Amanda Dykes, Set the Stars Alight

Cover of When Stone Wings Fly: A Smoky Mountains Novel by Karen   Barnett

19. When Stone Wings Fly: A Smoky Mountains Novel

By: Karen Barnett

4.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Uncovering a long-lost family story is the only way to bring her grandmother peace Kieran Lucas's … read more

Similar categories in Karen Barnett's When Stone Wings Fly: A Smoky Mountains Novel book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Sowing Season by Katie Powner

20. The Sowing Season

By: Katie Powner

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

After he's forced to sell the family farm he's labored on his whole life, 63-year-old Gerrit Laning… read more

Similar categories in Katie Powner's The Sowing Season book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Between the Sound and Sea by Amanda  Cox

21. Between the Sound and Sea

By: Amanda Cox

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Every family has its secrets. Josephina Harris wouldn't mind if her family still had a few of their… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's Between the Sound and Sea book and Susie Finkbeiner's The Nature of Small Birds

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction

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