20 must-read fiction books like The Unlocked Path by Janis Robinson Daly

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The Unlocked Path

By: Janis Robinson Daly

4.27

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

The Unlocked Path presents and embraces a "New Woman" of the early 20th century: educated, career-m…

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1. Homefires

By: Emily Sue Harvey

3.36

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

Emily Sue Harvey’s first novel, Song of Renewal, was praised by New York Times bestselling author J… read more

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  • fiction

2. Death Below Stairs (Kat Holloway, #1)

By: Jennifer Ashley

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Victorian class lines are crossed when cook Kat Holloway is drawn into a murder that reaches all th… read more

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3. Glimpse of Splendor

By: Kay Moser

3.33

Format: 194 pages, ebook

After enduring a major trauma, Rachel D'evereau returns to her ancestral plantation to lead a quiet… read more

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4. The Flower Sisters

By: Michelle Collins Anderson

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Drawing on the little-known true story of a tragic event that took place in the author’s Missouri h… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes I think spring lasts about fifteen minutes around here and then we're all sitting on Hell's front porch."

-Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

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5. No Job for a Woman (Hearts and Sails, #2)

By: Alina Rubin

4.43

Format: 431 pages, ebook

She sailed against the current. Ella Parker’s male alias was a star pupil in medical school. But… read more

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  • historical fiction
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6. Mrs. Winchester's Biographer

By: Deanna Lynn Sletten

4.42

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Was Sarah Winchester a woman of mystery or simply a strong woman who lived her life on her own term… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. 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

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

By: Noelle Salazar

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The discovery of a hidden label on a famous gown unearths the story of a talented young seamstress … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life would always throw challenges, but it was up to me to consider each and every one and make a choice about how I would take it on. And I was up to the task."

-Noelle Salazar, The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

"No other person should ever get credit for being the best part of who you are. They may have helped shape you, lent you ides, shown you other possibilities, but you are you. Simple as that. Know your…"

-Noelle Salazar, The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

"Art, I understood now, was so much more than the sum of its brush strokes, curved clay appendages, or intricate stitching. There were stories woven, kneaded, and scratches into each piece. Blood, swe…"

-Noelle Salazar, The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

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9. To Slip the Bonds of Earth (Katharine Wright, #1)

By: Amanda Flower

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, K… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Last Happy Summer: A Emotional Family Drama set in Boston during World War Two (The Days of War Series Book 1)

By: Jonathan Cullen

4.22

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

“…Cullen delivers a novel that's fast-moving, fresh, and imbued with the best of old-fashioned stor… read more

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  • historical fiction
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11. A Girl with A Knife (Hearts and Sails #1)

By: Alina Rubin

4.33

Format: 363 pages, ebook

Women could not be surgeons. She did it anyway. After the heartbreaking loss of her mother and a… read more

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  • historical
  • amazon
  • historical fiction
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12. By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

By: Piper Huguley

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The incredible untold story of Ann Lowe, Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress designer, a Black woman who… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It took one person. One lady with a good heart to see who I was and what I could do in this world."

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

"It has been many years since I let a man kiss me... When our lips met, parts of me that I had forgotten existed, thawed out from neglect and rose back to life like when Jesus was resurrected."

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

"The way she had seen me and treated me, was the way we should all see and treat one another. For to be able to see someone, to see them as a human being, to see them for what they can contribute in t…"

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

"For all of my life, ever since I was a little girl, I thought what I wanted was to be at one of these lovely dinner dances. Well. Now that I'm here, It's been marvelous, but I know that the main thin…"

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

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13. Good Town

By: Mary Louise Wells

4.60

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

In Nazi Germany, a pious man makes a decision to protect his family, but at what cost? Josef Hau… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Whispering River: A dual timeline mystery with long buried secrets (Foley Family Mysteries Book 2)

By: Suzanne Winterly

4.40

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

A Victorian era murder. A modern-day family researcher. Can she unravel a governess's entanglement … read more

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  • historical fiction
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15. 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

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Landscape of a Marriage: Central Park Was Only the Beginning

By: Gail Ward Olmsted

4.27

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

A marriage of convenience leads to a life of passion and purpose. A shared vision transforms the Am… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Serabelle: Where the Wealthy Come to Play

By: Tavi Taylor Black

3.93

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

An island sheltered from modern progress. Strict lines between servants and masters. Will crossing … read more

Similar categories in Tavi Taylor Black's Serabelle: Where the Wealthy Come to Play book and Janis Robinson Daly's The Unlocked Path

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. American Daughters

By: Piper Huguley

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In the vein of America’s First Daughter , Piper Huguley’s historical novel delves into the remarkab… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Daughter of the King (Defying the Crown, #1)

By: Kerry Chaput

4.24

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

La Rochelle France, 1661. Fierce Protestant Isabelle is desperate to escape persecution by the Cath… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Physician's Daughter

By: Martha Conway

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Underground River comes this compelling new novel of female perseverance. Se… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Arms of Grace (Arms of Grace, #1)

By: Eleanor Chance

4.38

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A mysterious abandoned baby. A lonely, troubled nurse. What will she risk to save him? Grace War… read more

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22. Waltraud: A True Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany

By: Tammy Borden

4.56

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

A true story of love, loss, strength, and resistance through the eyes of an ordinary German girl tu… read more

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  • historical fiction
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23. Island Queen

By: Vanessa Riley

3.91

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan T… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Keepers

By: Cheryl Burman

4.13

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Chill with a Book Premier Reader’s Award Readers' Favourite 5 stars 'A treat to savour' Dis… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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25. The Unlocked Path

By: Janis Robinson Daly

4.27

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

The Unlocked Path presents and embraces a "New Woman" of the early 20th century: educated, career-m… read more

Similar categories in Janis Robinson Daly's The Unlocked Path book and Janis Robinson Daly's The Unlocked Path

  • historical
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of Shades of Brilliance (The Master's Protégé Trilogy, #1) by Eleanor  Chance

26. Shades of Brilliance (The Master's Protégé Trilogy, #1)

By: Eleanor Chance

4.33

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

When a young woman from a disgraced aristocratic family in Venice and a Florentine master artist an… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip

By: Gail Ward Olmsted

4.41

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

"Kate makes me want to take a road trip. She's lovable and charming, and her voice... SO GOOD." -Ke… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Secrets of Palmerston House (River's End #3) by Phillipa Nefri Clark

28. The Secrets of Palmerston House (River's End #3)

By: Phillipa Nefri Clark

4.45

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here Could an historic house hold the ke… read more

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  • fiction
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29. The Booklover's Library

By: Madeline Martin

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of the books that… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. Daughter of the Shadows (Defying the Crown #2)

By: Kerry Chaput

4.40

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

1667 Quebec. Committed to a double life to save her fellow Protestants, Isabelle turns spy against … read more

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  • historical fiction
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31. Like Family

By: Michele M. Feeney

4.45

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

“In Like Family, Feeney not only brings us back to the terrifying time when the Spanish flu had its… read more

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  • historical fiction

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Michelle Collins Anderson

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Stephanie Dray

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Amanda Flower

3.98

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Beverly Jenkins

4.20

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3.32

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