10 best-selling historical books like True North by Andrew J. Graff

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True North

By: Andrew J. Graff

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Raft of Stars comes a heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting, follow…

If you liked the historical plot in True North by Andrew J. Graff , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. 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 Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. 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 Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. 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 Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

Similar categories in 's The Last Ranger book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

Similar categories in Roxana Robinson's Leaving book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • marriage
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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8. 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 Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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9. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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10. Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more

Similar categories in Kate Christensen's Welcome Home, Stranger book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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12. 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 Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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13. 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 Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • 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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14. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Dixon, Descending

By: Karen Outen

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, heartrending debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibilities to one anot… read more

Similar categories in Karen Outen's Dixon, Descending book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • adventure
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • outdoors
  • audiobook
"This was the feel at the top of the world. He waited. For something... But the mountain dismissed him like an unwanted suitor. There was nothing here that cared for him. He was king of small purchase…"

-Karen Outen, Dixon, Descending

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16. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • marriage
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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17. Northwoods

By: Amy Pease

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w… read more

Similar categories in Amy Pease's Northwoods book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward…"

-Amy Pease, Northwoods

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18. 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 Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Float Up, Sing Down

By: Laird Hunt

3.45

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Laird Hunt's masterful story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where t… read more

Similar categories in Laird Hunt's Float Up, Sing Down book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Crow Talk

By: Eileen Garvin

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hop… read more

Similar categories in Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • nature
  • audiobook
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21. 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 Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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22. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • nature
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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23. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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24. True North

By: Andrew J. Graff

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Raft of Stars comes a heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting, follow… read more

Similar categories in Andrew J. Graff's True North book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • adventure
  • historical
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
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25. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • marriage
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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26. The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers

By: Sarah Tomlinson

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and Almost Famous , a gripping debut about the complicate… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Tomlinson's The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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27. The Nature of Disappearing

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating novel of suspense, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her … read more

Similar categories in Kimi Cunningham Grant's The Nature of Disappearing book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"All of them skated through life making choices that could be swept away and tidied up with incomprehensible ease simply because of who they were."

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

"This is the moment Emlyn will play over and over in her mind. The moment where her life swivels from its course and heads in an entirely different direction. Life is full of these moments. Little poi…"

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

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28. Summer After Summer

By: Lauren Bailey

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A woman returns to her family's Hamptons beach house for a final time—and a final chance at the lov… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Bailey's Summer After Summer book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • historical
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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30. 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 Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Andrew J. Graff's True North

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

31 Top fiction books like True North by Andrew J. Graff

Transform Your Habits

The Princess of Las Vegas

Chris Bohjalian

3.53

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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21 Top fiction books like Bear by Julia Phillips

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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