17 must-read historical books like The Key to Everything by Valerie Fraser Luesse

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The Key to Everything

By: Valerie Fraser Luesse

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

After WWII and a family tragedy, Peyton Cabot seeks connection with his troubled veteran father by …

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1. The Promise of Jesse Woods

By: Chris Fabry

2.90

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The summer of 1972 was the most pivotal of Matt Plumley's childhood. While his beloved Pirates batt… read more

Similar categories in Chris Fabry's The Promise of Jesse Woods book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

2. Deadline (Ollie Chandler #1)

By: Randy Alcorn

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Deadline is the story of a politically correct journalist forced by tragic and mysterious circumsta… read more

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3. Appalachian Song

By: Michelle Shocklee

4.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Forever within the memories of my heart. Always remember, you are perfectly loved. Bertie Jenkins… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Shocklee's Appalachian Song book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Edge of Belonging

By: Amanda Cox

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale, she soon discovers that her grandm… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's The Edge of Belonging book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I guess the longer you hold a secret, the harder it is to let it go."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"You find a use for everything. Yet you discard yourself at every opportunity."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"It was freeing in a way, to have a family built on love by choice and not relational obligation."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"She’d memorized the verse about peace that passes all understanding, but all she felt was the weight of depression."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

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5. A Hundred Crickets Singing

By: Cathy Gohlke

4.30

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In wars eighty years apart, two young women living on the same Appalachian estate determine to aid … read more

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  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"No longer was it a hundred crickets screeching, but a choir, a hundred crickets singing a chorus of praise, just like the Scripture that she and Mis Lill had written in their letters for years. "The …"

-Cathy Gohlke, A Hundred Crickets Singing

"You can push all that past aside if you want to, but until you understand where people around here came from and why they think the way they do, you won't be able to help them get beyond it. You can'…"

-Cathy Gohlke, A Hundred Crickets Singing

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6. Night Bird Calling

By: Cathy Gohlke

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Cathy Gohlke, whose novels have been called “haunting” ( Library Journal … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Gohlke's Night Bird Calling book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I sighed. I don't know what to do. Velma Richards seems like a woman who will carry out her threat". "No Doubt It's a crusade for her. " Moments passed. "Not much Christian about it is there?" I felt…"

-Cathy Gohlke, Night Bird Calling

"Jesus called Jews of every social rank. He called women and children and people from Samaria and tax collectors and prostitutes and the down and out to himself. He called unlearned fishermen for the …"

-Cathy Gohlke, Night Bird Calling

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7. The Way It Should Be

By: Christina Suzann Nelson

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

After years of estrangement, the lives of Zara Mahoney and her twin sister, Eve, are suddenly and c… read more

Similar categories in Christina Suzann Nelson's The Way It Should Be book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
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8. One Wrong Move (Jeopardy Falls #1)

By: Dani Pettrey

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Taunting riddles. A deadly string of heists. Two broken hearts trapped in a killer's game. Ch… read more

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  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
"She straightened. "Sorry. I didn't mean to chill you." Chilling him was the last thing she was doing."

-Dani Pettrey, One Wrong Move (Jeopardy Falls #1)

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9. Ladies of the Lake

By: Cathy Gohlke

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

After two young women’s deep bond is torn apart, what will it take to bring them together again? In… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Gohlke's Ladies of the Lake book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Count the Nights by Stars

By: Michelle Shocklee

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A 2023 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award-winner! Count your nights by stars, not shadows… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Shocklee's Count the Nights by Stars book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Loyally, Luke

By: Pepper Basham

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Sometimes love means embracing the good, the bad . . . and even the impossible. Dear Reader, … read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's Loyally, Luke book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • fiction
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12. Where the Blue Sky Begins

By: Katie Powner

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

*2023 Christy Award winner and Selah Award finalist* Sometimes the hardest road of all is the ro… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
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13. The Divine Proverb of Streusel

By: Sara Brunsvold

4.29

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Shaken by her parents' divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious… read more

Similar categories in Sara Brunsvold's The Divine Proverb of Streusel book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. A Flicker of Light

By: Katie Powner

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Twenty-one-year-old Bea never expected to move back to her hometown in Montana, especially not as a… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
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15. He Should Have Told the Bees

By: Amanda Cox

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until hi… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's He Should Have Told the Bees book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
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16. The Juliet Code (A Freddie and Grace Mystery, #3)

By: Pepper Basham

4.41

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

Newlyweds Lord and Lady Astley Finally Reach Their Honeymoon Destination Only to Encounter a New My… read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's The Juliet Code (A Freddie and Grace Mystery, #3) book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Foxhole Victory Tour

By: Amy Lynn Green

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

In World War II, worlds collide when performers across the United States unite to tour North Africa… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lynn Green's The Foxhole Victory Tour book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Sandcastle Inn (Hope Harbor, #10)

By: Irene Hannon

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Vienna Price never intended to return for more than a passing visit to Oregon and all the bad memor… read more

Similar categories in Irene Hannon's Sandcastle Inn (Hope Harbor, #10) book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • fiction
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19. What Happens Next

By: Christina Suzann Nelson

4.22

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne has made a name for herself telling stories of greatn… read more

Similar categories in Christina Suzann Nelson's What Happens Next book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
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20. Stories That Bind Us

By: Susie Finkbeiner

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Betty Sweet is still recovering from the loss of her husband when she becomes the temporary guardia… read more

Similar categories in Susie Finkbeiner's Stories That Bind Us book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The All-American

By: Susie Finkbeiner

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

2024 Michigan Notable Book It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows… read more

Similar categories in Susie Finkbeiner's The All-American book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. We Hope for Better Things

By: Erin Bartels

4.22

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

When Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request--that she l… read more

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  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I’d always had mixed feelings about maples. While others pointed them out as happy harbingers of the cozy season to come, they had always seemed to me to be reckless—the first small flames of fall, e…"

-Erin Bartels, We Hope for Better Things

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23. Love in Tandem

By: Becca Kinzer

3.90

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

She’s perfectly content leading a quiet life in her small hometown. He’s an adventurer with unquenc… read more

Similar categories in Becca Kinzer's Love in Tandem book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • fiction
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24. When the Meadow Blooms

By: Ann H. Gabhart

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Widow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live… read more

Similar categories in Ann H. Gabhart's When the Meadow Blooms book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. The Song of Sourwood Mountain

By: Ann H. Gabhart

4.41

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

While the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mo… read more

Similar categories in Ann H. Gabhart's The Song of Sourwood Mountain book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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26. The Right Kind of Fool

By: Sarah Loudin Thomas

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Loudin Thomas's The Right Kind of Fool book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • historical
  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. The Tangled Tale of the Woolgathering Castoffs

By: Sharon J. Mondragón

4.48

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

A humorous, heartwarming tale of love, loss, and the power of communityFair Meadows Retirement Comm… read more

Similar categories in Sharon J. Mondragón's The Tangled Tale of the Woolgathering Castoffs book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
Cover of The Wind Blows in Sleeping Grass by Katie Powner

28. The Wind Blows in Sleeping Grass

By: Katie Powner

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

After years of drifting, fifty-year-old Pete Ryman has settled down with his potbellied pig, Pearl,… read more

Similar categories in Katie Powner's The Wind Blows in Sleeping Grass book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
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29. The Key to Everything

By: Valerie Fraser Luesse

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

After WWII and a family tragedy, Peyton Cabot seeks connection with his troubled veteran father by … read more

Similar categories in Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • adventure
  • historical
  • war
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. The Sowing Season

By: Katie Powner

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

After he's forced to sell the family farm he's labored on his whole life, 63-year-old Gerrit Laning… read more

Similar categories in Katie Powner's The Sowing Season book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. Born of Gilded Mountains

By: Amanda Dykes

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When newcomer Mercy Windsor arrives in Mercy Peak in 1948 after a scandal shatters her gilded world… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Dykes's Born of Gilded Mountains book and Valerie Fraser Luesse's The Key to Everything

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Spatts is strong. - Rusty"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"I sometimes think, when our dreams seem impossible to us, perhaps we just haven't seen yet how God will chase after our hearts with those very dreams, in the unlikeliest ways."

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"Sunsets here were more an experience than a sight. They marked the soul. Pierced it, rearranged things with all that shifting color and light, and sealed it up again, a little more whole than it was …"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"On a stage of earth, beneath a canopy of stars, with a score of scattered laughter, Mercy watched a story unfold more enchanting than any the Dream Factory of Hollywood could have produced. Even the …"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

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The Promise of Jesse Woods

Chris Fabry

2.90

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Michelle Shocklee

4.49

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4.45

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4.30

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Nicole Deese

4.39

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Michelle Shocklee

4.49

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Lynn Austin

4.45

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Gabrielle Meyer

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