7 Best historical books like Redwood Court by DeLana R.A. Dameron

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Redwood Court

By: DeLana R.A. Dameron

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo…

If you liked the historical plot in Redwood Court by DeLana R.A. Dameron , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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3. The Husbands

By: Holly Gramazio

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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5. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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6. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Henríquez's The Great Divide book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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7. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By: Tia Williams

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more

Similar categories in Tia Williams's A Love Song for Ricki Wilde book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

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8. Before We Were Innocent

By: Ella Berman

3.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this… read more

Similar categories in Ella Berman's Before We Were Innocent book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. How to End a Love Story

By: Yulin Kuang

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063310681. Two writers with a complicated history end up wor… read more

Similar categories in Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Waters

By: Bonnie Jo Campbell

3.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the sou… read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Jo Campbell's The Waters book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Maybe lions keep their promises not to eat your lambs just until they get hungry."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

"This is a dog town. A dog gets forgiven for his crimes here. A cat has to pay the price for every transgression. Meow."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

"Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

"Titus is going to come milk Delilah after seven." There was a long silence before Herself said grimly, "Don't tell me I raised the kind of girl who waits for a man to milk her cow."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

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11. Acts of Forgiveness

By: Maura Cheeks

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more

Similar categories in Maura Cheeks's Acts of Forgiveness book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

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12. Swift River

By: Essie J. Chambers

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more

Similar categories in Essie J. Chambers's Swift River book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • coming of age
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."

-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River

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13. Mother-Daughter Murder Night

By: Nina Simon

3.58

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. A lighthearted whodunnit about a gran… read more

Similar categories in Nina Simon's Mother-Daughter Murder Night book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Twelfth Knight

By: Alexene Farol Follmuth

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Reese's Book Club Summer YA Pick '24 "YA is a feeling. It's a warm summer day reading in the sun… read more

Similar categories in Alexene Farol Follmuth's Twelfth Knight book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By: Xóchitl González

3.82

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

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16. The Most Fun We Ever Had

By: Claire Lombardo

3.93

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

A multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in lov… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's The Most Fun We Ever Had book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You're ethereal. My intangible everything."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

"Sometimes it was enough just to listen to voices that weren't your own."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

"The best thing about the cold was the comfort that came from escaping it."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

"Life’s insistence on juxtaposing darkness and light would never cease to amaze him."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

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17. Maybe Next Time

By: Cesca Major

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063239920. One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming… read more

Similar categories in Cesca Major's Maybe Next Time book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Unwedding

By: Ally Condie

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Ally Condie's The Unwedding book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Interesting, her mind noted, that she would accept an increase in the risk of death over looking rude."

-Ally Condie, The Unwedding

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19. Slow Dance

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK! Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up to… read more

Similar categories in Rainbow Rowell's Slow Dance book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I want to remember this day, she whispered. But I also want to have so many good days that this one gets lost in the plethora."

-Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance

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20. Redwood Court

By: DeLana R.A. Dameron

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more

Similar categories in DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • african american
  • audiobook
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21. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

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