14 Best historical fiction books like Above the Fog: Appalachian Fiction by Karen Lynn Nolan

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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…

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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

Similar categories in Mary Jane Salyers's Appalachian Daughter book and Karen Lynn Nolan's Above the Fog: Appalachian Fiction

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Whisper Mountain

By: Vivian Higginbotham Nichols

3.91

Format: 192 pages,

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3. Cahas Mountain

By: Linda Simmons

4.13

Format: 334 pages,

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4. The Road to Bittersweet

By: Donna Everhart

4.00

Format: 120 pages,

Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative acco… read more

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5. 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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6. They Call Her Dirty Sally

By: Amy Matayo

4.42

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

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7. The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

By: Lonormi Manuel

4.47

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle."

-Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

Cover of Threshing of Straw by Kim Catron

8. 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
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9. Refuge

By: Dot Jackson

4.25

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

“An intensely readable novel of the complexity of family ties . . . Dot Jackson is a true Southern … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Kitchen Canary by Joanne C. Parsons

10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. Tomorrow's Bread

By: Anna Jean Mayhew

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Sout… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. 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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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. 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

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  • 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

16. 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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17. 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

18. 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

Similar categories in Karen Lynn Nolan's Above the Fog: Appalachian Fiction book and Karen Lynn Nolan's Above the Fog: Appalachian Fiction

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. 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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20. 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
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21. 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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Mary Jane Salyers

4.03

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Amy Matayo

4.42

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The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

Lonormi Manuel

4.47

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Kim Catron

4.51

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I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.24

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Where Butterflies Wander

Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

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Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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Amy Fillion

4.25

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