5 best-selling history books like Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Cover of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By: Caroline Fraser

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Lit…

If you liked the history plot in Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House) by Renée Graef, William   Anderson

1. Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House)

By: Renée Graef , William Anderson

4.06

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Laura Ingalls Wilder's fans know her best as "half-pint," America's spirited pioneer girl who wrote… read more

Similar categories in Renée Graef's Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House) book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

2. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the pra… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4) book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • historical
  • audiobook
"Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand to still."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"When gloomy clouds across the sky Cast shadows o'er the land, Bright rays of hope illumine my path, For Jesus holds my hand."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"All day the storm lasted. The windows were white and the wind never stopped howling and screaming. It was pleasant in the warm house. Laura and Mary did their lessons, then Pa played the fiddle while…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

Cover of The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books by Marta McDowell

3. The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books

By: Marta McDowell

4.02

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

A must-read companion to the Little House books 2017 is the 150th anniversary of Laura Ingalls Wild… read more

Similar categories in Marta McDowell's The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence by Howard Means

4. 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence

By: Howard Means

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

At midday on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio Nati… read more

Similar categories in Howard Means's 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

5. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By: Caroline Fraser

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Lit… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

6. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • historical
Cover of These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

7. These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim s… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8) book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • historical
Cover of Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah  Miller

8. Caroline: Little House, Revisited

By: Sarah Miller

3.63

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, har… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Miller's Caroline: Little House, Revisited book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

9. Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Laura Ingalls . . . . . . the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books. P… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2) book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • historical

10. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie

By: Wendy McClure

3.50

Format: None pages,

Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura I… read more

Similar categories in Wendy McClure's The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

11. West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 (Little House #11)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Roger Lea MacBride , None

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In 1915, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled by train from her home in Missouri to San Francisco. Laura's… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 (Little House #11) book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

12. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5) book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Cover of The Long Winter (Little House, #6) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

13. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Long Winter (Little House, #6) book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • historical
  • audiobook
"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

14. Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Pamela Smith Hill

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Hardcover

Pioneer Girlfollows the Ingalls family's journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Io… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

15. Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing--his very own… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Farmer Boy (Little House, #3) book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

16. Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The long winter is finally over, and with spring comes a new job for Laura, town parties, and more … read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7) book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

17. The First Four Years (Little House, #9)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. La… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's The First Four Years (Little House, #9) book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

18. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

By: Alison Arngrim

4.21

Format: 539 pages,

For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on o… read more

Similar categories in Alison Arngrim's Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

19. Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years

By: Cynthia Rylant , Jim LaMarche

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote nine Little House books about her childhood growing upon the western fro… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Rylant's Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Cover of Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too by Cindy Rollins

20. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

Similar categories in Cindy Rollins's Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • nonfiction
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

Cover of Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up In the Royal Family: From the Plantagenets to the Cambridges by Tom Quinn

21. Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up In the Royal Family: From the Plantagenets to the Cambridges

By: Tom Quinn

3.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantag… read more

Similar categories in Tom Quinn's Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up In the Royal Family: From the Plantagenets to the Cambridges book and Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • history
  • nonfiction

5 Top audiobook books like Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Transform Your Habits

On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books

Marta McDowell

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Caroline Fraser

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Caroline: Little House, Revisited

Sarah Miller

3.63

View all the books

14 Top fiction books like Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

Transform Your Habits

Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

L.M. Montgomery

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo , Chris Sheban

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Little House on Rocky Ridge (Little House: The Rocky Ridge Years, #1)

Roger Lea MacBride , David Gilleece

4.00

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.