23 must-read historical fiction books like Darkness Falling by Patrick MacDonald

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Darkness Falling

By: Patrick MacDonald

4.04

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1845. In Ireland the potato crop has failed ushering in a six year period of famine and disea…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Darkness Falling by Patrick MacDonald , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. In Praise of the Bees

By: Kristin Gleeson

4.18

Format: 306 pages,

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  • ireland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

2. A Night of Long Knives (Hannah Vogel, #2)

By: Rebecca Cantrell

3.48

Format: 208 pages,

Journalist Hannah Vogel has vowed to never again set foot in her homeland of Germany while the Nazi… read more

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3. A Game of Lies (Hannah Vogel, #3)

By: Rebecca Cantrell

4.09

Format: 256 pages,

Journalist Hannah Vogel returns in A Game of Lies by award-winning author Rebecca Cantrell In prepa… read more

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4. Deadly Trio: 3 English Mysteries: Ice Blue, Blue Murder, Something Blue (Lord and Lady Hetheridge Mystery Series)

By: Emma Jameson

2.60

Format: 256 pages,

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5. Christmas Child

By: Carol Rivers

4.40

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

London 1880 A dying Irish girl clutching her new-born baby drags herself to the sanctuary of an Eas… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Trust No One (Mac Davis, #1)

By: L.J. Breedlove

4.43

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Howard Parker wants to be Secretary of Homeland Security, and he's not letting some punk Marines st… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Thirteenth Child: A World War 2 historical novel based upon an enthralling and heart-wrenching true story

By: Mark deMeza

4.26

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by the true story of the author’s ancestors, this enthralling WWII novel tells of the Kisc… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Thistlewood Manor: Murder at the Hedgerow (Eliza Montagu #1)

By: Fiona Grace

3.93

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

THISTLEWOOD Manor MURDER AT THE HEDGEROW (AN ELIZA MONTAGU COZY MYSTERY—BOOK 1) is the debut novel… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Snowfall in Virginia (Chris Hamilton #2)

By: Jim Davidson

4.19

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Chris Hamilton's life was perfect...for a while. He has a magnificent home in the country, his own … read more

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10. All on a Summer's Day

By: Judy Gardiner

4.39

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Liverpool, 1930s. Miranda Whittaker is a lonely teenage girl who makes a dear friend in Natalie … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Murder on the White Cliffs (Posie Parker Mystery #8)

By: L.B. Hathaway

4.28

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

You can hunt. But do you really want to find?Bonfire Night, November 1924 Posie Parker once failed… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Art Collector's Daughter

By: Derville Murphy

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Love, art, and obsession, set between Nazi occupied Paris and rural Ireland. As the Germans adva… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Close Your Eyes

By: Chris Tomasini

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Set in early 1400s Europe, Close Your Eyes is a sincere, yet light-hearted and lustful, ode to love… read more

Similar categories in Chris Tomasini's Close Your Eyes book and Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Painting with Fire (Bold Women of the 17th Century, #3)

By: Amanda Hughes

4.38

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Québec 1690—Penniless and covered with burns, Véronique Barbeau sells sex to sailors and voyageurs … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. L'Agent Double: Spies and Martyrs in World War 1 (Women Spies #3)

By: Kit Sergeant

4.16

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

Three Women. Two Sides. One War to End all Wars. When a war like no one has even seen rages thro… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Come Find Me (Caitlin Dare, #2)

By: Molly Black

4.05

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

FBI BAU Special Agent Caitlin Dare teams up with the rail police to confront the rash of serial kil… read more

Similar categories in Molly Black's Come Find Me (Caitlin Dare, #2) book and Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling

  • fiction
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17. The Tears of Autumn

By: David Wiltshire

4.29

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

AN EMOTIONAL AND GRIPPING WARTIME ROMANCE 1938, Italy. Biff and Rosemary are honeymooning in Sor… read more

Similar categories in David Wiltshire's The Tears of Autumn book and Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. War Bonds

By: Pamela Norsworthy

4.68

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

1939: As Hitler's Panzers storm the Polish border, a small boy boards a train bound for the British… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Norsworthy's War Bonds book and Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Price of Compassion (The Golden City, #4)

By: A.B. Michaels

4.45

Format: 597 pages, Kindle Edition

The Golden City is in Peril ….and so is Tom Justice April 18, 1906. San Francisco has just been… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Michaels's The Price of Compassion (The Golden City, #4) book and Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Paradiso (Paradiso #1)

By: Francesca Scanacapra

4.17

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

Italy, 1937. In a tiny village in rural Lombardy, Graziella Ponti is born into a loving family. … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The Alchemist of Paris

By: M.C. Dulac

4.17

Format: 289 pages, ebook

‘I remembered a word I had heard the monks say, a word spoken with disapproval, a word as bad as a … read more

Similar categories in M.C. Dulac's The Alchemist of Paris book and Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Fade Up From Black: The Return of Harry James Denton (Harry James Denton, #9) by Steven Womack

22. Fade Up From Black: The Return of Harry James Denton (Harry James Denton, #9)

By: Steven Womack

4.30

Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition

He knew he was going to die... So he hired a P.I. to find his killer! An Edgar and Shamus Award… read more

Similar categories in Steven Womack's Fade Up From Black: The Return of Harry James Denton (Harry James Denton, #9) book and Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling

  • fiction
Cover of The View from Half Dome by Jill Caugherty

23. The View from Half Dome

By: Jill Caugherty

4.15

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

1934. Isabel longs to escape her squalid San Francisco neighborhood. While her mother struggles to … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The Banished

By: Alex MacLean

4.27

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on a true story. Annapolis Royal, 1755. When frontier tensions boil over, the people of Acad… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of What is Forgiven (The Anna Klein Trilogy #2) by C.F. Yetmen

25. What is Forgiven (The Anna Klein Trilogy #2)

By: C.F. Yetmen

4.56

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

"In What is Forgiven, C.F. Yetmen brings history to brilliant life. Her rich characters remind us t… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Intoxicating (Bold Women of the 20th Century, #3) by Amanda  Hughes

26. Intoxicating (Bold Women of the 20th Century, #3)

By: Amanda Hughes

4.38

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

A stand-alone novel from the bestselling author of the Bold Women Mist Windegaard, the 1920s is a … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. Under a Sunburnt Sky: An unforgettable story of heroism & love

By: Bronwen Pratley

4.52

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL FICTION CATEGORY OF THE 2023 BEST INDIE BOOK AWARD!Inspired by the true st… read more

Similar categories in Bronwen Pratley's Under a Sunburnt Sky: An unforgettable story of heroism & love book and Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Foxden Acres (Sisters of Wartime England #1) by Madalyn Morgan

28. Foxden Acres (Sisters of Wartime England #1)

By: Madalyn Morgan

4.16

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

On the eve of 1939, twenty-year-old Bess Dudley, trainee teacher and daughter of a groom, bumps int… read more

Similar categories in Madalyn Morgan's Foxden Acres (Sisters of Wartime England #1) book and Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Darkness Falling by Patrick  MacDonald

29. Darkness Falling

By: Patrick MacDonald

4.04

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1845. In Ireland the potato crop has failed ushering in a six year period of famine and disea… read more

Similar categories in Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling book and Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling

  • ireland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. No Room for Regret

By: Janeen Ann O'Connell

4.27

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

The movement of the ship seals his fate. He could be sailing anywhere, anytime, but he’s not, he’s … read more

Similar categories in Janeen Ann O'Connell's No Room for Regret book and Patrick MacDonald's Darkness Falling

  • historical fiction
Cover of What We Carry With Us (New Hope, #1) by Karen J. Hasley

31. What We Carry With Us (New Hope, #1)

By: Karen J. Hasley

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

The inhabitants of New Hope, Nebraska, have done their best to put the Civil War with all its turmo… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Kristin Gleeson

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4.43

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