15 must-read historical books like Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal

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Dollbaby

By: Laura Lane McNeal

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Top Ten Finalist for Best Historical Novel, Goodreads Choice Awards, and a LibraryReads and Okra …

If you liked the historical plot in Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

1. Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.30

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

The latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Grissom's Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Pan, I said. "Do you know who can help?" He shook his head. "I will," I said. "What can you do?" he asked. "I don't know yet. This is new to me."

-Kathleen Grissom, Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House

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2. Dollbaby

By: Laura Lane McNeal

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Top Ten Finalist for Best Historical Novel, Goodreads Choice Awards, and a LibraryReads and Okra … read more

Similar categories in Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • young adult
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Pecan Man by Cassie Dandridge Selleck

3. The Pecan Man

By: Cassie Dandridge Selleck

3.70

Format: 264 pages,

The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the First Place winner of the 2… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Dandridge Selleck's The Pecan Man book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

By: Jenna Lamia , Beth Hoffman

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Audio CD

Twelve-year-old CeeCee is in trouble. For years she's been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, C… read more

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5. Breakfast at Sally's: One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey

By: Richard LeMieux

3.95

Format: 620 pages, Hardcover

One day, Richard LeMieux had a happy marriage, a palatial home, and took $40,000 Greek vacations. T… read more

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6. Whistling Past the Graveyard

By: Susan Crandall

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Hardcover

The summer of 1963 begins like any other for nine-year-old Starla Claudelle. Born to teenage parent… read more

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7. The Kitchen House

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that ex… read more

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8. A Fall of Marigolds

By: Susan Meissner

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weigh… read more

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9. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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10. The Princess of Las Vegas

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's The Princess of Las Vegas book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. 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 Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Go as a River

By: Shelley Read

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more

Similar categories in Shelley Read's Go as a River book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Women endure. That’s what we do."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

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14. Only the Beautiful

By: Susan Meissner

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more

Similar categories in Susan Meissner's Only the Beautiful book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of When the Jessamine Grows by Donna Everhart

15. When the Jessamine Grows

By: Donna Everhart

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more

Similar categories in Donna Everhart's When the Jessamine Grows book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Crow Mary

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.33

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Grissom's Crow Mary book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of All the Little Hopes by Leah Weiss

17. All the Little Hopes

By: Leah Weiss

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A Southern story of friendship forged by books and bees, when the timeless troubles of growing up m… read more

Similar categories in Leah Weiss's All the Little Hopes book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • coming of age
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Last Carolina Girl by Meagan Church

18. The Last Carolina Girl

By: Meagan Church

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"Unforgettable, this a powerful debut to savor." — Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselli… read more

Similar categories in Meagan Church's The Last Carolina Girl book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes the strength you need comes in silence."

-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

"Sometimes tears are the only words worth sharing."

-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

"Sometimes yuh gotta love even when it don't make sense."

-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

"Sometimes family's not who you've been given. It's who you choose."

-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

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19. The Girls in the Stilt House

By: Kelly Mustian

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two t… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Mustian's The Girls in the Stilt House book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Kinfolk by Sean Dietrich

20. Kinfolk

By: Sean Dietrich

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it’s the most unlikely meetings that give us life’s greatest gifts. 1970s, Southern Alaba… read more

Similar categories in Sean Dietrich's Kinfolk book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"But then, life was full of overlooked miracles. And miracles never happened the way you expect them to. They are softer than a baby's breath. They are, at times, as noticeable as a ladybug. A miracle…"

-Sean Dietrich, Kinfolk

Cover of Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray

21. Becoming Madam Secretary

By: Stephanie Dray

4.45

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestse… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Dray's Becoming Madam Secretary book and Laura Lane McNeal's Dollbaby

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

16 Top fiction books like Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal

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Kathleen Grissom

4.30

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Dollbaby

Laura Lane McNeal

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The Pecan Man

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

3.70

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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4.25

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