18 must-read historical fiction books like The Prospectors by Ariel Djanikian

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The Prospectors

By: Ariel Djanikian

3.67

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family tr…

"How easy it was to adjust to extravagance."

-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors

"How easy it was to adjust to extravagance."

-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors

"Secrets have a way of nudging against their enclosures and bumping playfully against the walls."

-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors

"Secrets have a way of nudging against their enclosures and bumping playfully against the walls."

-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Prospectors by Ariel Djanikian , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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2. 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 Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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6. 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

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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8. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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9. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

10. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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12. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

Similar categories in Paulette Jiles's Chenneville book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Henríquez's The Great Divide book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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15. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

Similar categories in Leif Enger's I Cheerfully Refuse book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adventure
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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16. Wild and Distant Seas

By: Tara Karr Roberts

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to cha… read more

Similar categories in Tara Karr Roberts's Wild and Distant Seas book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Madstone by Elizabeth   Crook

17. The Madstone

By: Elizabeth Crook

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Crook's The Madstone book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Your mother leaned her head on my shoulder. I hardly breathed for having it there. I had certainly never felt so alive and cozy whilst nearly frozen to death."

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"We had one horse, one mule, and a wagon. We had Horhay with his limp arm and his long past, and Dickie with his hopes for the necklace now dashed and turned to dread of its curse, and me with my ache…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Had we been in town amongst people, then we might have been merely interested at the news of having a cursed item in our possession. But out in the midst of no place, shielded by only a scanty wall o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

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18. Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more

Similar categories in Amy Jo Burns's Mercury book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Wildest Sun

By: Asha Lemmie

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain , Asha Lemmie's next sweeping a… read more

Similar categories in Asha Lemmie's The Wildest Sun book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Prospectors by Ariel Djanikian

20. The Prospectors

By: Ariel Djanikian

3.67

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family tr… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • canada
  • the united states of america
  • adventure
  • historical
  • native american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"How easy it was to adjust to extravagance."

-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors

"Secrets have a way of nudging against their enclosures and bumping playfully against the walls."

-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors

Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz    Moore

21. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Ariel Djanikian's The Prospectors

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

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Amy Tintera

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Rufi Thorpe

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