16 must-read fiction books like Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé

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Black Cloud Rising

By: David Wright Faladé

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical no…

"Her silences spoke louder than her words, and the one that followed merely reprised what I already knew without providing any connecting bits to help me make a song of the scattered verses. [RICHARD ETHERIDGE, referring to his mother]"

-David Wright Faladé, Black Cloud Rising

"Her silences spoke louder than her words, and the one that followed merely reprised what I already knew without providing any connecting bits to help me make a song of the scattered verses. [RICHARD ETHERIDGE, referring to his mother]"

-David Wright Faladé, Black Cloud Rising

If you liked the fiction plot in Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. Gettysburg

By: Stephen W. Sears

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A masterful, single-volume history of the Civil War's greatest campaign. Drawing on original sourc… read more

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2. Trust

By: Hernan Diaz

3.83

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more

Similar categories in Hernan Diaz's Trust book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

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3. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

Similar categories in Robert Harris's Act of Oblivion book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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4. The End of Drum-Time

By: Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more

Similar categories in Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Night Watch book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more

Similar categories in Charles Frazier's The Trackers book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

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7. A Dangerous Business

By: Jane Smiley

3.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set … read more

Similar categories in Jane Smiley's A Dangerous Business book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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9. 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 David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

Similar categories in Paul Harding's This Other Eden book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

Similar categories in Maylis de Kerangal's Eastbound book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

Similar categories in Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

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13. Murder by Degrees

By: Ritu Mukerji

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th century Philadelphia, following a pioneering… read more

Similar categories in Ritu Mukerji's Murder by Degrees book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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15. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

Similar categories in Ilyon Woo's Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • historical
  • race
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution

By: Ryan Grim

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting insider account of the progressive movement in Congress centering A.O.C., Rashida Tlaib,… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Grim's The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • audiobook
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17. The Return of Faraz Ali

By: Aamina Ahmad

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in… read more

Similar categories in Aamina Ahmad's The Return of Faraz Ali book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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18. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

Similar categories in Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • civil war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Black Cloud Rising

By: David Wright Faladé

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical no… read more

Similar categories in David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • social justice
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Her silences spoke louder than her words, and the one that followed merely reprised what I already knew without providing any connecting bits to help me make a song of the scattered verses. [RICHARD …"

-David Wright Faladé, Black Cloud Rising

Cover of Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Civil War America) by Kevin M. Levin

20. Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Civil War America)

By: Kevin M. Levin

4.31

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations… read more

Similar categories in Kevin M. Levin's Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Civil War America) book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • civil war
  • race
  • war
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21. The Red Balcony

By: Jonathan Wilson

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A gripping historical novel of sex, love, and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandate Palestine… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Wilson's The Red Balcony book and David Wright Faladé's Black Cloud Rising

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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3.83

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3.71

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3.17

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3.75

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