11 best-selling historical fiction books like Cora Jean by Lawrence Gulley

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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…

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Cover of Appalachian Daughter by Mary Jane Salyers

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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  • 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. 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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4. Displaced: A Memoir

By: Esther Wiebe

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Displaced is a gripping true story of a young girl and her young siblings’ escape from a conservat… read more

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5. 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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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Cordelia's Journey (Pierce Family Saga, #1) by Hazel Hart

6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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

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  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Cora Jean by Lawrence Gulley

11. 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

Similar categories in Lawrence Gulley's Cora Jean book and Lawrence Gulley's Cora Jean

  • 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

12. 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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13. 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

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Above the Fog: Appalachian Fiction by Karen Lynn Nolan

14. 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

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. 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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16. 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

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

17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. Rise: A Memoir

By: Rise Myers

4.22

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

An Ability to Rise Risé was named after the opera star Risë Stevens. It was as if her mother knew t… read more

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Cover of The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth by Minu Cash

21. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

By: Minu Cash

4.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more

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"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."

-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

9 Top fiction books like Cora Jean by Lawrence Gulley

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Mary Jane Salyers

4.03

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Kim Catron

4.51

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Hazel Hart

4.40

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Joanne C. Parsons

4.11

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Appalachian Daughter

Mary Jane Salyers

4.03

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Amy Fillion

4.24

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Lonormi Manuel

4.47

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Kim Catron

4.51

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