10 best-selling historical fiction books like The Girl at the Back of the Bus by Suzette D. Harrison

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The Girl at the Back of the Bus

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.43

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

I watched in awe as Miz Rosa stopped those men on the bus with her clear, calm “no” and I thought a…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Girl at the Back of the Bus by Suzette D. Harrison , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Perfect Peace

By: Daniel Black

4.32

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family’s attempt to grapple with their mother… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Black's Perfect Peace book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up."

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

"You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you"

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

"Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer."

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

"Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you."

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

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2. Unthinkable Sins

By: Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

A family's darkest secrets are about to be revealed. Jerome Durham is an up-and-coming black politi… read more

Similar categories in Tiffani Quarles-Sanders's Unthinkable Sins book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • african american
  • fiction

3. Lula Mae

By: None

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

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Similar categories in None's Lula Mae book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

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4. 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

Similar categories in Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Trust

By: Daines L. Reed

4.08

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you free your family when you're not sure how to free yourself? For Ruthena Gentry and her … read more

Similar categories in Daines L. Reed's Trust book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • african american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Where Wild Peaches Grow

By: Cade Bentley

3.95

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

In a deeply emotional novel of family, cultural heritage, and forgiveness, estranged sisters wrestl… read more

Similar categories in Cade Bentley's Where Wild Peaches Grow book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Jan Strickland's Quilly book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • historical fiction
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8. 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

Similar categories in Florence Love Karsner's Tobacco Rose book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • historical fiction
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9. 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

Similar categories in Anna Jean Mayhew's Tomorrow's Bread book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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10. Arkansas Summer

By: Anne Moose

4.51

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Arkansas Summer is a powerful novel about love and racial terror in the Jim Crow South. It's 1955, … read more

Similar categories in Anne Moose's Arkansas Summer book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • historical fiction
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11. Darkness: A Slave's Story (The Darkness Saga Book 1)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.37

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

A Slave’s Story is a fictionalized account of not just one slave’s life, but the tribulations and … read more

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12. Doris: The Struggles of a Former Slave (The Darkness Saga Book 2)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.46

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of A Slave’s Story comes the continuing saga of Darkness Knox. After she obtained … read more

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Cover of The Girl at the Back of the Bus by Suzette D. Harrison

13. The Girl at the Back of the Bus

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.43

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

I watched in awe as Miz Rosa stopped those men on the bus with her clear, calm “no” and I thought a… read more

Similar categories in Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • literary fiction
  • womens fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Good Morning Beautiful (Trust Book 2) by Daines L.  Reed

14. Good Morning Beautiful (Trust Book 2)

By: Daines L. Reed

4.53

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

What causes a perfectly rational, mature woman to lose herself in a perfectly irrational, immature … read more

Similar categories in Daines L. Reed's Good Morning Beautiful (Trust Book 2) book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • fiction
Cover of The Enslavement of Mary: The Darkness Saga by Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

15. The Enslavement of Mary: The Darkness Saga

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.57

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of A Slave’s Story comes the fifth sequel, The Enslavement of Mary. Mary, the Nati… read more

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16. Luke's Justice : The Darkness Saga

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.62

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Luke's Justice is the fourth book in the A Slave's Story saga. The Knox family soon discovers that… read more

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17. Doris: Return to the Slave Farm (The Darkness Saga Book 3)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.51

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

After their home in Davenport, Iowa, is burned to the ground, Luke and Doris move to a home gifted … read more

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18. From the Flood: A Memoir

By: Suzanne Jones

4.24

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

**GOLD Winner of the 2022 Nonfiction Authors Association Book Award** **2022 American Writers Awar… read more

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19. Sisters

By: Michael Edwin Q.

4.24

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

All her life, Winnie passed for White, using it to her advantage, and climbing the social ladder. W… read more

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20. Child Bride

By: Jennifer Smith Turner

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Smith Turner's Child Bride book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Blood of My Mother: a powerful historical saga about family, race and overcoming adversity by Roccie Hill

21. The Blood of My Mother: a powerful historical saga about family, race and overcoming adversity

By: Roccie Hill

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman fights for her life as a refugee, slave, mother, and farmer, in this "saga with many layers… read more

Similar categories in Roccie Hill's The Blood of My Mother: a powerful historical saga about family, race and overcoming adversity book and Suzette D. Harrison's The Girl at the Back of the Bus

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

10 must-read fiction books like The Girl at the Back of the Bus by Suzette D. Harrison

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Perfect Peace

Daniel Black

4.32

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Unthinkable Sins

Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

4.09

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Threshing of Straw

Kim Catron

4.51

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Trust

Daines L. Reed

4.08

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I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.24

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The Only Way Home

Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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This Funny Life: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.25

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October in the Earth

Olivia Hawker

4.21

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