14 best-selling historical books like The Sisters Sweet by Elizabeth Weiss

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The Sisters Sweet

By: Elizabeth Weiss

3.56

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

All Harriet Szász has ever known is life onstage with her sister, Josie. As “The Sisters Sweet,” th…

If you liked the historical plot in The Sisters Sweet by Elizabeth Weiss , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Tumbling Turner Sisters

By: Juliette Fay

3.33

Format: None pages, ebook

For fans of Orphan Trainand Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, a compelling historical novel from "o… read more

Similar categories in Juliette Fay's The Tumbling Turner Sisters book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

2. The Illusionist's Apprentice

By: Kristy Cambron

3.94

Format: 128 pages,

Harry Houdini's one-time apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the w… read more

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3. The Flight of Gemma Hardy

By: Margot Livesey

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

When her widower father drowns at sea, Gemma Hardy is taken from her native Iceland to Scotland to … read more

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4. The Princess of Las Vegas

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's The Princess of Las Vegas book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Mercy Street

By: Jennifer Haigh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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7. French Braid

By: Anne Tyler

3.64

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more

Similar categories in Anne Tyler's French Braid book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson by Ellen Baker

8. The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson

By: Ellen Baker

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Orphan Train meets Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in this compelling multigeneratio… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Baker's The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Lioness

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.72

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting … read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

"Too often you couldn't mine the recollections that might keep you sane, but instead held close the memories that someday would kill you."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

"We all look forward- at least, I suppose, until you get to be my age - but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday. And it was only yesterday, wasn't it? Was…"

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

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10. Little Souls

By: Sandra Dallas

3.93

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now a Denver Post bestseller Finalist, 2023 Colorado Book Awards Sandra Dallas's Little Souls… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Dallas's Little Souls book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Patron Saint of Second Chances

By: Christine Simon

3.59

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the… read more

Similar categories in Christine Simon's The Patron Saint of Second Chances book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am just saying, no one can be here forever. And that is why it matters what you choose to do if God gives you the chance."

-Christine Simon, The Patron Saint of Second Chances

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12. The Last Dance of the Debutante

By: Julia Kelly

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A group of young women are swept up in a life-changing journey as they become three of the last deb… read more

Similar categories in Julia Kelly's The Last Dance of the Debutante book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Ballerinas

By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Why is it that trauma is written so easily on women's bodies?"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

"Walking through an airport is the only way to be somewhere and nowhere at the same time. [Delphine Léger]"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

"I just knew I never wanted to live in a world where you weren't my friend. [Lindsay Price, to Delphine Léger]"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

"Sometimes... I think the real tragedy of life is that we're always the people we were, and it's only our outsides that change."

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

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14. The Limits

By: Nell Freudenberger

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost a… read more

Similar categories in Nell Freudenberger's The Limits book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Liz Taylor Ring

By: Brenda Janowitz

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"Brenda Janowitz writes with extraordinary humor and heart." —JANE GREEN, New York Times bestsellin… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Janowitz's The Liz Taylor Ring book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Tobacco Wives

By: Adele Myers

3.81

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

For the audience of Fiona Davis and Lisa Wingate, a vibrant historical debut set in 1946 North Caro… read more

Similar categories in Adele Myers's The Tobacco Wives book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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17. The Magnolia Palace

By: Fiona Davis

3.88

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantali… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Davis's The Magnolia Palace book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Finder of Forgotten Things by Sarah Loudin Thomas

18. The Finder of Forgotten Things

By: Sarah Loudin Thomas

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's 1932 and Sullivan Harris is on the run. He promised the people of Kline, West Virginia, that h… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Loudin Thomas's The Finder of Forgotten Things book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Small World

By: Jonathan Evison

4.08

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Jonathan Evison's Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the Ca… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Evison's Small World book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...Walter [Bergen] reckoned that in a world that was forever changing, we were only as sure, and only as good, as our next step."

-Jonathan Evison, Small World

"But always, since age three and a half, he [Malik Flowers] had known he wanted to ball, every minute of every day. Because hoops had it all: architecture, poetry, drama. Hoops was a dance, and a batt…"

-Jonathan Evison, Small World

"Honey, sometimes there's no real why in this world,' Cora said. 'There just ain't one, not one that makes any sense, and not one that's any comfort to a soul. Most of the time in this world it's just…"

-Jonathan Evison, Small World

"It was not a woman's destiny to be kept, nor to be traded according to a man's will. Where would men even be without women to forever serve their needs? Yet they apparently had no conception of their…"

-Jonathan Evison, Small World

Cover of The Sisters Sweet by Elizabeth  Weiss

20. The Sisters Sweet

By: Elizabeth Weiss

3.56

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

All Harriet Szász has ever known is life onstage with her sister, Josie. As “The Sisters Sweet,” th… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • coming of age
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Crow Valley Karaoke Championships by Ali Bryan

21. The Crow Valley Karaoke Championships

By: Ali Bryan

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A prison escape, a bear on the loose, botched lyrics. What more could go wrong with Crow Valley’s m… read more

Similar categories in Ali Bryan's The Crow Valley Karaoke Championships book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu

22. Win Me Something

By: Kyle Lucia Wu

3.55

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post , Shondaland , NPR Books, … read more

Similar categories in Kyle Lucia Wu's Win Me Something book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. The Catch

By: Alison Fairbrother

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young woman searches for the truth about her father and the secrets of her family in this electri… read more

Similar categories in Alison Fairbrother's The Catch book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • coming of age
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis  Natera

24. Neruda on the Park

By: Cleyvis Natera

3.68

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radic… read more

Similar categories in Cleyvis Natera's Neruda on the Park book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

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26. The Lucky One

By: Lori Rader-Day

3.31

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

As a child, Alice was stolen from her backyard in a tiny Indiana community, but against the odds, h… read more

Similar categories in Lori Rader-Day's The Lucky One book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Last Dance on the Starlight Pier by Sarah Bird

27. Last Dance on the Starlight Pier

By: Sarah Bird

3.73

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Humor Me by Cat Shook

28. Humor Me

By: Cat Shook

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A love letter to the New York City stand-up scene, as told by a charmingly jaded assistant at a lat… read more

Similar categories in Cat Shook's Humor Me book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Shades of Mercy (Porter Beck, #2) by Bruce Borgos

29. Shades of Mercy (Porter Beck, #2)

By: Bruce Borgos

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the usually quiet high desert of Nevada, Sheriff Porter Beck faces one of his greatest challenge… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Borgos's Shades of Mercy (Porter Beck, #2) book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Fashion Orphans by Randy Susan Meyers

30. The Fashion Orphans

By: Randy Susan Meyers

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Two estranged sisters find that forgiveness never goes out of style when they inherit their mother’… read more

Similar categories in Randy Susan Meyers's The Fashion Orphans book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft

31. We Love the Nightlife

By: Rachel Koller Croft

3.59

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Locked in a toxic female friendship, two vampires careen toward catastrophe in this dark and dazzli… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Koller Croft's We Love the Nightlife book and Elizabeth Weiss's The Sisters Sweet

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Juliette Fay

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3.53

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