18 Top historical fiction books like Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2) by Marta Molnar

Cover of Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2) by Marta Molnar

Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2)

By: Marta Molnar

4.35

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she’s been a horse walker, a milliner’s assistant, a …

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2) by Marta Molnar , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Marta Molnar's Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2)

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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2. 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

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

3. 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

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Flower Sisters by Michelle Collins Anderson

4. The Flower Sisters

By: Michelle Collins Anderson

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Drawing on the little-known true story of a tragic event that took place in the author’s Missouri h… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes I think spring lasts about fifteen minutes around here and then we're all sitting on Hell's front porch."

-Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

Cover of James by Percival Everett

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

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of When the Jessamine Grows by Donna Everhart

6. When the Jessamine Grows

By: Donna Everhart

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Where Butterflies Wander by Suzanne Redfearn

7. Where Butterflies Wander

By: Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of In an Instant comes the moving story of a family grappling with grie… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Lost Bookshop by Evie  Woods

8. The Lost Bookshop

By: Evie Woods

4.09

Format: 448 pages, ebook

The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of myster… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Consequence of Anna by Kate Birkin

9. The Consequence of Anna

By: Kate Birkin

4.16

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

The Instant #1 BESTSELLER, reminiscent of The Thorn Birds, The Light Between Oceans, and Lady Chatt… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The whole world is a hungry stomach with teeth."

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

"A face with no freckles is like a flower with no bloom."

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

"What is a moment in a day but a grain of sand . . . until that moment means everything in the world?"

-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

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10. The Map Colorist

By: Rebecca D’Harlingue

3.91

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

In 1660, Amsterdam is the trading and map-printing capital of the world. Anneke van Brug is one of … read more

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  • art
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Royal Librarian

By: Daisy Wood

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations… Windsor, 1940: Sec… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The room smelt exactly as a library should: of old paper, leather and sweet, sticky glue, overlaid with furniture polish and the smoke from a thousand dead fires."

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

"She loved the calm regularity of librarianship; each book a treasure trove of information or experience that would be categorised, labelled and stored in its rightful place. And she could think of no…"

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

"Most walls of the family's apartment were lined with bookshelves, and more volumes were stacked in boxes under every bed and table. Her mother often threatened to throw them out with the rubbish, and…"

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

Cover of Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2) by Marta Molnar

12. Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2)

By: Marta Molnar

4.35

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she’s been a horse walker, a milliner’s assistant, a … read more

Similar categories in Marta Molnar's Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2) book and Marta Molnar's Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2)

  • art
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Beauty Doctor by Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard

13. The Beauty Doctor

By: Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard

3.98

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

"Beauty is power," Dr. Rome told her. "And with enough power, one can achieve anything." Straigh… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) by William Kent Krueger

14. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Hundred Sweet Promises by Sepehr Haddad

15. A Hundred Sweet Promises

By: Sepehr Haddad

3.92

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a story his grandmother told him shortly before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, A … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier

16. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

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  • art
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

Cover of Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine  Hewitt

17. Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

By: Catherine Hewitt

3.90

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provinc… read more

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  • art
"For many country folk, the railway was Paris. Its gleaming tracks brought tales of success, prosperity and realised dreams to the provinces, qualities with which the capital was increasingly seen as …"

-Catherine Hewitt, Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

"Then, at last, Madeleine’s luck turned. She came across Montmartre. With its windmills, its clear air and the old-fashioned, village feel of its higgledy-piggledy houses perched on a slope, few place…"

-Catherine Hewitt, Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

"Like alcohol and coffee, song had been cast as the faithful servant of political opposition when Louis-Napoleon came to power. Singing in cafés was consequently one of the first forms of expression o…"

-Catherine Hewitt, Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

"Increasingly, a new generation of artists were finding the creative projects which so excited them systematically rebuffed by the official art bodies. It was exasperating. Did the jury of the Salon, …"

-Catherine Hewitt, Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

Cover of The Caroline Paintings: An Art Novel by Arthur D. Hittner

18. The Caroline Paintings: An Art Novel

By: Arthur D. Hittner

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A Florida retiree, dabbling in the art market, acquires the contents of a storage locker in a forec… read more

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19. The Moonflowers

By: Abigail Rose-Marie

4.39

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

In a powerful and poignant novel, an artist unravels her mysterious family history and its generati… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen

20. The Rose Arbor

By: Rhys Bowen

4.30

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a ha… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Van Gogh Woman by Debby Beece

21. The Van Gogh Woman

By: Debby Beece

4.41

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1887 in Amsterdam and Johanna Bonger wants to do something different with her life than teach… read more

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  • art
  • historical fiction

18 best-selling fiction books like Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2) by Marta Molnar

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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The Flower Sisters

Michelle Collins Anderson

4.08

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John Grisham

4.26

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First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20)

Craig Johnson

4.37

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By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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