15 best-selling historical books like The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

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The Red Tent

By: Anita Diamant

2.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within th…

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Cover of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

1. The Kite Runner

By: Khaled Hosseini

4.35

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and … read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Bareh tu hazar dafa!"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"It hurts to say that,"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Sad stories make good books"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"For you, a thousand times over"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Cover of Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

2. Memoirs of a Geisha

By: Arthur Golden

4.34

Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel presents with seamless auth… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

3. The Red Tent

By: Anita Diamant

2.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within th… read more

Similar categories in Anita Diamant's The Red Tent book and Anita Diamant's The Red Tent

  • historical
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • book club
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4. Orphan Train

By: Christina Baker Kline

2.55

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The author of Bird in Handand The Way Life Should Bedelivers her most ambitious and powerful novel … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
Cover of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

5. A Thousand Splendid Suns

By: Khaled Hosseini

4.02

Format: 424 pages,

At once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of fami… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) by Ken Follett, Rosalía Vázquez

6. The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)

By: Ken Follett , Rosalía Vázquez

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bes… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Help

By: Kathryn Stockett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women: Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home a… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Alice Network

By: Kate Quinn

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Nightingale

By: Kristin Hannah

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isab… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Cutting for Stone

By: Abraham Verghese

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimac… read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11. Gone with the Wind

By: Margaret Mitchell

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gone with the Windis a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is se… read more

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12. The Secret Life of Bees

By: Sue Monk Kidd

4.22

Format: 224 pages,

Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Beestells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has… read more

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13. All the Light We Cannot See

By: Anthony Doerr

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths c… read more

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14. The Dovekeepers

By: Alice Hoffman

4.11

Format: 40 pages,

Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing n… read more

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15. Girl with a Pearl Earring

By: Tracy Chevalier

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the … read more

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16. The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

By: Philippa Gregory

4.09

Format: 315 pages,

Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: The love of a king When Mary Boleyn comes to court as… read more

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17. Eat, Pray, Love

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

4.14

Format: None pages,

A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure… read more

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18. Water for Elephants

By: Sara Gruen

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa … read more

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19. The Poisonwood Bible

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evan… read more

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20. The Time Traveler's Wife

By: Audrey Niffenegger

3.83

Format: 35 pages, ebook

A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slip… read more

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21. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

By: Rebecca Wells

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed i… read more

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22. Sarah's Key

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation an… read more

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23. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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  • historical
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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24. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
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25. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
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26. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • adult
  • book club
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Cover of The Covenant of Water by Abraham   Verghese

27. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

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  • historical
  • book club
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

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  • adult
  • book club
  • fiction
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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29. Demon Copperhead

By: Barbara Kingsolver

4.50

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Anita Diamant's The Red Tent

  • adult
  • book club
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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30. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By: Mary Ann Shaffer

4.19

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ON NETFLIX - A remarkable tale of the is… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
"Moses: God or crowd control?!?"

-Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

"Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books."

-Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

"Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)"

-Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

"Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life."

-Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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31. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

By: Lisa See

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seve… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

19 Best fiction books like The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

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The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

4.35

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Arthur Golden

4.34

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Anita Diamant

2.60

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Orphan Train

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13 Top fiction books like The Help by Kathryn Stockett

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Khaled Hosseini

4.35

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Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)

E.L. James

3.66

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Arthur Golden

4.34

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