10 Best historical books like The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

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The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

By: Tom Lin

3.72

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a Cal…

"Remembrance is the burden of the body, not of the mind. True memory is not to be recollected. It is a rite to be performed."

-Tom Lin, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

"Remembrance is the burden of the body, not of the mind. True memory is not to be recollected. It is a rite to be performed."

-Tom Lin, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

If you liked the historical plot in The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero

By: Larry Sloman , William Kalush

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Hardcover

Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar. Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houd… read more

Similar categories in Larry Sloman's The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero book and Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • historical
  • audiobook

2. Twilight

By: William Gay

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

A Southern gothic novel about an undertaker who won't let the dead rest. Suspecting that something … read more

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3. Lucky Supreme (Darby Holland #1)

By: Jeff Johnson

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Best Crime Novel of the Year--Joy Ride through the Tattoo Underworld of Portland's Old Town. The ni… read more

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4. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (The Passenger #1) book and Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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5. 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 Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

By: James M Zimmerman

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they pai… read more

Similar categories in James M Zimmerman's The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China book and Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • historical
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's Red Rabbit book and Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. The Bullet Swallower

By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Gonzalez James's The Bullet Swallower book and Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • magical realism
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. How Much of These Hills Is Gold

By: C Pam Zhang

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Burial is just another recipe"

-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

"Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars."

-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

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10. Butcher Pen Road (Bill Maytubby & Hannah Bond Mystery, #3)

By: Kris Lackey

3.88

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

On Oklahoma's Big Rock Prairie, a deaf boy finds a body in Pennington Creek. Johnston County Deputy… read more

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11. Whiskey When We're Dry

By: John Larison

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her f… read more

Similar categories in John Larison's Whiskey When We're Dry book and Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Tea has a manner of setting the world right."

-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry

"Ain't nothing more natural than a girl on a pony."

-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry

"...they think a man is made real by the violence he wields."

-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry

"If you got a ma looking out for you, all you got to do is grow up."

-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry

Cover of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom  Lin

12. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

By: Tom Lin

3.72

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a Cal… read more

Similar categories in Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu book and Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • magical realism
  • adventure
  • westerns
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Remembrance is the burden of the body, not of the mind. True memory is not to be recollected. It is a rite to be performed."

-Tom Lin, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

Cover of God's Country by Percival Everett

13. God's Country

By: Percival Everett

4.08

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

This ‘comic and fierce’ novel spoofs the classic Western format with the dark, incisive humor we’ve… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's God's Country book and Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS by Azad Cudi

14. Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS

By: Azad Cudi

4.41

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter … read more

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Cover of The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) by Ha Jin

15. The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)

By: Ha Jin

3.99

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting a narratively driven, deeply human biography… read more

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16. Karma of the Sun

By: Brandon Ying Kit Boey

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Six suns, six blasts in the sky; a seventh one, and the earth will die. In the isolation of th… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Ying Kit Boey's Karma of the Sun book and Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. What Is Written on the Tongue

By: Anne Lazurko

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carrie… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lazurko's What Is Written on the Tongue book and Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Ten-Acre Rock (The Chickasaw Nation Mysteries Book 4)

By: Kris Lackey

4.24

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

Tribal policeman Bill Maytubby and Deputy Hannah Bond partner again to solve a grisly murder that i… read more

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19. Under the Skin

By: James Carlos Blake

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers… read more

Similar categories in James Carlos Blake's Under the Skin book and Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Walden

By: Amy Berryman

4.29

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

It’s ridiculous – we’re investing in this place light years away that we don’t even know if our spe… read more

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21. Mythos Nationalgericht. Die erfundenen Traditionen der italienischen Küche: Warum Parmesan politisch ist | Ein spannender wie unterhaltsamer Einblick in ... Italiens (German Edition)

By: Alberto Grandi

3.95

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Warum Parmesan politisch ist – das Skandalbuch aus Italien Weltweit gilt die italienische Küche al… read more

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3.58

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4.54

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Alex Grecian

4.18

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Elizabeth Gonzalez James

3.79

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

Mitchell Zuckoff

3.44

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Sean Parnell , John R. Bruning , Sean Parnell

4.40

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Serhii Plokhy

4.30

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