19 must-read historical books like Long Gone, Come Home by Monica Chenault-Kilgore

Cover of Long Gone, Come Home by Monica Chenault-Kilgore

Long Gone, Come Home

By: Monica Chenault-Kilgore

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Spanning from the joyous peak of the 1930s jazz era to the Great Depression and civil rights moveme…

If you liked the historical plot in Long Gone, Come Home by Monica Chenault-Kilgore , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Hotel Laguna by Nicola  Harrison

1. Hotel Laguna

By: Nicola Harrison

3.80

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, Hazel Francis left Wichita, Kansas for California, determined to do her part for the war e… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Harrison's Hotel Laguna book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The American Queen

By: Vanessa Miller

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Miller's The American Queen book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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3. Coleman Hill

By: Kim Coleman Foote

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in t… read more

Similar categories in Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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4. Perish

By: LaToya Watkins

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, explori… read more

Similar categories in LaToya Watkins's Perish book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Everybody wants to say bye, show the dying that they here and they somehow living on in spite of everything."

-LaToya Watkins, Perish

"Sometimes we don't get to understand things. People. We just got to try to be better than the things that spit us out. I don't know why my momma like she is, but I love her and got to keep on with it…"

-LaToya Watkins, Perish

Cover of The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel by ReShonda  Tate

5. The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

By: ReShonda Tate

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one … read more

Similar categories in ReShonda Tate's The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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6. All We Were Promised

By: Ashton Lattimore

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an e… read more

Similar categories in Ashton Lattimore's All We Were Promised book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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7. Fallen Grace (Blaze Collection)

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.22

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

A single mother in segregated Virginia pushes back on societal prejudice and her own family’s judgm… read more

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's Fallen Grace (Blaze Collection) book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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8. Queens of London

By: Heather Webb

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"Looting, lying, and the letter of the  Queens of London delivers a rollicking ride through the cri… read more

Similar categories in Heather Webb's Queens of London book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Stephanie Marie Thornton

9. Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

By: Stephanie Marie Thornton

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein , a tale of two literary legends—a mother… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Marie Thornton's Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Wildest Sun

By: Asha Lemmie

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain , Asha Lemmie's next sweeping a… read more

Similar categories in Asha Lemmie's The Wildest Sun book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. One Blood

By: Denene Millner

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Homegoing meets The Mothers where three women are tied together by blood, love, and family secrets … read more

Similar categories in Denene Millner's One Blood book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of American Daughters by Piper Huguley

12. American Daughters

By: Piper Huguley

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In the vein of America’s First Daughter , Piper Huguley’s historical novel delves into the remarkab… read more

Similar categories in Piper Huguley's American Daughters book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway

13. What the Mountains Remember

By: Joy Callaway

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

At this wondrous resort, secrets can easily be hidden in plain sight when the eye is trained on bea… read more

Similar categories in Joy Callaway's What the Mountains Remember book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Gone, Come Home by Monica Chenault-Kilgore

14. Long Gone, Come Home

By: Monica Chenault-Kilgore

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Spanning from the joyous peak of the 1930s jazz era to the Great Depression and civil rights moveme… read more

Similar categories in Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • music
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. Morris

15. What You Leave Behind

By: Wanda M. Morris

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who… read more

Similar categories in Wanda M. Morris's What You Leave Behind book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • audiobook
  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Women of the Post by Joshunda Sanders

16. Women of the Post

By: Joshunda Sanders

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An emotional story, based on true events, about the all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps w… read more

Similar categories in Joshunda Sanders's Women of the Post book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Support units are the spine of the war effort. Because we do a job that is invisible and does not take place on the battlefield does not mean what we do isn't difficult or dangerous."

-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post

"It is the fight of his life - of our lives - to defend our country and maybe it will show white people that we can also belong to and defend this place. We built it too, after all. It is as much our …"

-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post

"We all found ways to mirror her contributions to America, even when our country never gave us back all that we gave it. It's a shame that it takes going to other places to help us see how to transfor…"

-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post

"The most important thing is those letters... They keep soldiers connected to the most significant people in their lives. Their families, their children, their wives and mothers. That keeps them motiv…"

-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post

Cover of The Other Princess by Denny S.  Bryce

17. The Other Princess

By: Denny S. Bryce

3.99

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in… read more

Similar categories in Denny S. Bryce's The Other Princess book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Gardins of Edin by Rosey Lee

18. The Gardins of Edin

By: Rosey Lee

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When the bonds in their family begin to fray, four Black women fight to preserve their legacy, heal… read more

Similar categories in Rosey Lee's The Gardins of Edin book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • fiction
  • family
"I pray for Your guidance, and I ask that the small morsel of courage I feel right now grows and remains greater than any fear that may arise."

-Rosey Lee, The Gardins of Edin

Cover of The Secret Keeper of Main Street by Trisha R. Thomas

19. The Secret Keeper of Main Street

By: Trisha R. Thomas

3.77

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed author Trisha R. Thomas delivers a masterful new tale of scandal and intuition. In 1950s … read more

Similar categories in Trisha R. Thomas's The Secret Keeper of Main Street book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Twelve Miles by Erika Robuck

20. The Last Twelve Miles

By: Erika Robuck

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two real, brilliant women on opposite sides of the law, in a deadly game of cat and mouse… 1926.… read more

Similar categories in Erika Robuck's The Last Twelve Miles book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Elizabeth’s heart feels a pang of jealousy, followed by a burst of love at seeing her happy family. It’s both freeing and agonizing not to be needed. That is the nature of motherhood, she thinks"

-Erika Robuck, The Last Twelve Miles

Cover of Homeward by Angela Jackson-Brown

21. Homeward

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and no one—will eve… read more

Similar categories in Angela Jackson-Brown's Homeward book and Monica Chenault-Kilgore's Long Gone, Come Home

  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

21 must-read fiction books like Long Gone, Come Home by Monica Chenault-Kilgore

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Nicola Harrison

3.80

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The American Queen

Vanessa Miller

4.14

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Coleman Hill

Kim Coleman Foote

3.83

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Perish

LaToya Watkins

3.74

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31 Best fiction books like Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Stephanie Marie Thornton

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The Golden Doves

Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

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The First Ladies

Marie Benedict

4.04

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Unsinkable

Jenni L. Walsh

3.86

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Finding Margaret Fuller

Allison Pataki

4.11

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