21 must-read fiction books like The Sky Club by Terry Roberts

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The Sky Club

By: Terry Roberts

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

“When I’m dead and buried...you get the hell out of here...Make a life somewhere else...a life that…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Sky Club by Terry Roberts , here is a list of 21 books like this:

1. The French Broad (Rivers of America, #50)

By: Douglas W. Gorsline , Wilma Dykeman

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Wilma Dykeman spent six months in the early 1950's, driving with her husband through the mountains … read more

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2. Guests on Earth

By: Lee Smith

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

"Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again o… read more

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3. History of the Rain

By: Niall Williams

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling… read more

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4. Oral History

By: Lee Smith

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When Jennifer, a college student, returns to her childhood home of Hoot Owl Holler with a tape reco… read more

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5. Fair and Tender Ladies

By: Lee Smith

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From Ivy Rowe's birth on Blue Star Mountain, her life is full of passion and longing as she writes … read more

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6. When Ghosts Come Home

By: Wiley Cash

3.69

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

A tender and haunting story of a father and daughter, crime and forgiveness, race and memory. Wh… read more

Similar categories in Wiley Cash's When Ghosts Come Home book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Caretaker book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

Similar categories in Paulette Jiles's Chenneville book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Under a Gilded Moon

By: Joy Jordan-Lake

3.81

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of A Tangled Mercy comes an enthralling novel of secrets, a tumultuous … read more

Similar categories in Joy Jordan-Lake's Under a Gilded Moon book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. 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

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

Similar categories in Téa Obreht's The Morningside book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • novels
  • fiction
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13. The Berlin Letters

By: Katherine Reay

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childho… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time

By: Ryan McGee

4.36

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a f… read more

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15. The Beach at Summerly

By: Beatriz Williams

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Beatriz Williams returns with a ravishing summer read, taking readers bac… read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's The Beach at Summerly book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Even As We Breathe

By: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Even As We Breathe introduces the reader to twenty-year-old Cowney Sequoyah and the mountains of we… read more

Similar categories in Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle's Even As We Breathe book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. 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 Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Flat Broke with Two Goats

By: Jennifer McGaha

3.26

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and na… read more

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"When I was growing up, my parents had created for my brother and me the perfect upper middle-class lifestyle. We had everything we needed, and most things we wanted. We took piano lessons. We went to…"

-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats

"I realized that if someone told me right then that I could go back 10 years, have my old life back exactly as it was, a life where I never saw my husband, where our lives were always about becoming i…"

-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats

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20. Flores and Miss Paula

By: Melissa Rivero

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • novels
  • fiction
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21. The Garden

By: Clare Beams

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically th… read more

Similar categories in Clare Beams's The Garden book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. The Book of Thorns

By: Hester Fox

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Betrayal, loss, love, redemption, and justice collide in this masterpiece of a novel. You won’t wa… read more

Similar categories in Hester Fox's The Book of Thorns book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. 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 Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Picture in the Sand

By: Peter Blauner

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandf… read more

Similar categories in Peter Blauner's Picture in the Sand book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South by Margaret Renkl

25. Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

By: Margaret Renkl

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2022 Southern Book Prize Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art o… read more

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26. The Sky Club

By: Terry Roberts

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

“When I’m dead and buried...you get the hell out of here...Make a life somewhere else...a life that… read more

Similar categories in Terry Roberts's The Sky Club book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Constable's The Instrumentalist book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. Red Clay Suzie

By: Jeffrey Dale Lofton

4.25

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize A novel inspired by true events The … read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Dale Lofton's Red Clay Suzie book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • fiction
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30. Into the Cauldron (After Dunkirk #7)

By: Lee Jackson

4.47

Format: 569 pages, Kindle Edition

In the vast theater of World War II, the fate of one family weaves into the larger tapestry of the … read more

Similar categories in Lee Jackson's Into the Cauldron (After Dunkirk #7) book and Terry Roberts's The Sky Club

  • historical fiction

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