13 best-selling historical fiction books like Beholden by Lesley Crewe

Cover of Beholden by Lesley Crewe

Beholden

By: Lesley Crewe

4.25

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The story begins with Nell, the “spinster on the hill” near St. Peter’s, Cape Breton. Scarred by he…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Beholden by Lesley Crewe , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Berry Pickers by Amanda    Peters

1. 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

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Rage the Night by Donna Morrissey

2. Rage the Night

By: Donna Morrissey

3.97

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

At once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting acco… read more

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  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?"

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

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3. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

By: Rick Mercer

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah

4. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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5. The Good Women of Safe Harbour

By: Bobbi French

4.39

Format: 304 pages, ebook

An unforgettable, life-affirming novel about a woman living on her own terms at last and reclaiming… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay

6. Snow Road Station

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Closer by Sea by Perry Chafe

7. Closer by Sea

By: Perry Chafe

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER CBC Books “86 Works of Canadian Fiction to Read in the First Half of 20… read more

Similar categories in Perry Chafe's Closer by Sea book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
Cover of Bluebird by Genevieve Graham

8. Bluebird

By: Genevieve Graham

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A dazzling novel set during the Great War and postwar Prohibition about a young nurse, a soldier, a… read more

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  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bittlemores by Jann Arden

9. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Looking for Jane by Heather     Marshall

10. Looking for Jane

By: Heather Marshall

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more

Similar categories in Heather Marshall's Looking for Jane book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Keeper by Genevieve Graham

11. The Secret Keeper

By: Genevieve Graham

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War I… read more

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  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Woman in the Attic by Emily Hepditch

12. The Woman in the Attic

By: Emily Hepditch

3.85

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

On the coast of rural Newfoundland, Hannah Fitzgerald's mother has lived her life in near total iso… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Circle by Katherena Vermette

13. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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14. The Inheritance

By: Joanna Goodman

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compu… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Peace by Chocolate by Jon Tattrie

15. Peace by Chocolate

By: Jon Tattrie

4.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Tareq Hadhad was worried about his father: Isam did not know what to do with his life. Before the w… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

16. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion by Tyler LeBlanc

17. Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

By: Tyler LeBlanc

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The untold story of one Acadian family: their experiences following their expulsion and their deter… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret History of Audrey James by Heather     Marshall

18. The Secret History of Audrey James

By: Heather Marshall

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more

Similar categories in Heather Marshall's The Secret History of Audrey James book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist by Donna Morrissey

19. Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

By: Donna Morrissey

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS’ EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWAR… read more

Similar categories in Donna Morrissey's Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Pride goes before common sense."

-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

"Our tales do more than dismantle social standings and generate camaraderie and entertainment. They create a space for one's past, touching its flesh through memory and shedding a light that illuminat…"

-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

"...friends can be the caregivers of our hearts. They fill the empty chambers and warm them with cheer. They revive the spirit through hope and transform pain into learning and learning into laughter.…"

-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

"She laughed. 'Ahh, Donna, luv, I've missed you.' She leaned forward. 'And you've no need to race anywhere; you've already won the biggest of all races--' 'What race? Aside from that screenplay compet…"

-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

Cover of Beholden by Lesley Crewe

20. Beholden

By: Lesley Crewe

4.25

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The story begins with Nell, the “spinster on the hill” near St. Peter’s, Cape Breton. Scarred by he… read more

Similar categories in Lesley Crewe's Beholden book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Alone on the Trail by Emily Hepditch

21. Alone on the Trail

By: Emily Hepditch

3.94

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

From the #1 bestselling author of The Woman in the Attic Four best friends. One wrong turn. One … read more

Similar categories in Emily Hepditch's Alone on the Trail book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Birth Road by Michelle Wamboldt

22. Birth Road

By: Michelle Wamboldt

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Told in startling vignettes and with bold, impeccable prose, Birth Road is a story of love, lost in… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Wamboldt's Birth Road book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • historical
  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
"My mother always said, if we all threw our troubles in a pile and were given the choice to pick out whichever ones we wanted, we would always choose our own."

-Michelle Wamboldt, Birth Road

Cover of Mommy Don’t From Mother to Murderer: The True Story of Penny and Karissa Boudreau  by Sherri Aikenhead

23. Mommy Don’t From Mother to Murderer: The True Story of Penny and Karissa Boudreau 

By: Sherri Aikenhead

4.23

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

On January 29, 2008, just days after a bitter winter storm, Nova Scotians watched with breaking hea… read more

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  • canada
Cover of Crow by Amy Spurway

24. Crow

By: Amy Spurway

4.05

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three highly unpredictable — and inoperable — brain tumours, … read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"I come from a long line of lunatics and criminals. Crazies on the one side of the family tree, crooks on the other, although the odd crazy has a touch of crook, and vice versa"

-Amy Spurway, Crow

Cover of Fishnets & Fantasies: A Novel by Jane Doucet

25. Fishnets & Fantasies: A Novel

By: Jane Doucet

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Wendy Hebb has been a fisherman’s wife for forty years. She has also been a mother, a yoga instruct… read more

Similar categories in Jane Doucet's Fishnets & Fantasies: A Novel book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

26. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

Cover of Catching the Light by Susan  Sinnott

27. Catching the Light

By: Susan Sinnott

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This was the line between here and there. No landwash, no vague intertidal zone, no undecided. She … read more

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  • canada
Cover of Lost & Found in Lunenburg by Jane Doucet

28. Lost & Found in Lunenburg

By: Jane Doucet

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A quirky, tender work of contemporary fiction about grief, love, and starting again at middle-age s… read more

Similar categories in Jane Doucet's Lost & Found in Lunenburg book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann by Gill Paul

29. Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann

By: Gill Paul

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Mad Men  meets the world of publishing in international bestselling author Gill Paul’s new novel ab… read more

Similar categories in Gill Paul's Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of When the World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward

30. When the World Fell Silent

By: Donna Jones Alward

4.39

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

A story of loss, hope and redemption against the most impossible odds. 1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia. … read more

Similar categories in Donna Jones Alward's When the World Fell Silent book and Lesley Crewe's Beholden

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Jude and Diana by Sharon Robart-Johnson

31. Jude and Diana

By: Sharon Robart-Johnson

4.11

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

The only mention of Jude in Nova Scotia’s official history is of her death. In 1801 a slave-owning… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

Rick Mercer

4.45

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Hotline

Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

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My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

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Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Chris Hadfield

4.02

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