14 best-selling fiction books like The Dust Bowl Orphans by Suzette D. Harrison

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The Dust Bowl Orphans

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.33

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

The dust cloud rolls in from nowhere, stinging our eyes and muddling our senses. I reach for my bab…

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1. The Dry Grass of August

By: Anna Jean Mayhew

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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

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  • fiction

3. Lula Mae

By: None

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

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4. The Road to Bittersweet

By: Donna Everhart

4.00

Format: 120 pages,

Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative acco… read more

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5. The Only Way Home

By: Jeanette Minniti

4.21

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2022 Colorado Authors League 1st Place Award in Historical Fiction! Desperate times.… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. They Call Her Dirty Sally

By: Amy Matayo

4.42

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
"Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

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7. October in the Earth

By: Olivia Hawker

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powe… read more

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  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
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8. The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

By: Lonormi Manuel

4.47

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle."

-Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

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9. 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

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Out of the Dust

By: Joyce E. Patterson

4.24

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Two of America’s worst economic disasters occurred during the same period. One was the crash of the… read more

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  • historical fiction
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11. 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

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  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

By: G.L. Gooding

4.18

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and h… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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13. 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

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  • historical fiction
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14. 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

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  • historical fiction
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15. 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

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
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16. 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

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  • historical fiction
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17. Mary Not Broken (The Bishop Women - prequel)

By: Deborah L. King

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Bookshelf Writing 2nd Place in New ReleasesIn 1930s Mississippi, Mary Johnson hates the oppressive… read more

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  • fiction
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18. 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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19. 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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20. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

By: Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

4.40

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

It belonged to her. Debra Nowden knew it, and she would walk through hell before she let anyone wal… read more

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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. The Dust Bowl Orphans

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.33

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

The dust cloud rolls in from nowhere, stinging our eyes and muddling our senses. I reach for my bab… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • survival
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
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26. 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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27. House of Fragile Dreams

By: Anne Moose

4.40

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

Still recovering from a divorce and the death of her parents, Rachel is living in the large house s… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Mahala: The Darkness Saga

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.45

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

the Darkness Saga is the prequel to A Slave's Story and the sixth book in that series. The latest… read more

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29. Runaway Soul

By: Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

4.57

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Jackie Macon has built a successful career for herself, first as a special-needs teacher, then as a… read more

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30. 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

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. Falling Wisteria (Yellow Crocus, #5)

By: Laila Ibrahim

4.16

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

As America enters WWII, two women on the home front strive to stay strong in a heartfelt novel abou… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11 must-read historical books like The Dust Bowl Orphans by Suzette D. Harrison

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The Dry Grass of August

Anna Jean Mayhew

3.56

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The Only Way Home

Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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They Call Her Dirty Sally

Amy Matayo

4.42

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October in the Earth

Olivia Hawker

4.21

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I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.24

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Where Butterflies Wander

Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

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The Only Way Home

Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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Amy Fillion

4.25

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