14 best-selling historical fiction books like The Leopard Is Loose by Stephen Harrigan

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The Leopard Is Loose

By: Stephen Harrigan

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a five-year-old boy's world explodes one summer day when a…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Leopard Is Loose by Stephen Harrigan , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man (Ruddy McCann #1)

By: W. Bruce Cameron

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

 “The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man introduces my favorite kind of flawed cynical protagonist in Ru… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. Show Them Jesus: Teaching the Gospel to Kids

By: Jack Klumpenhower

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Millions of church kids are growing up and deciding to leave the church. They listened attentively … read more

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3. Shoeless Joe

By: W.P. Kinsella

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfi… read more

Similar categories in W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe book and Stephen Harrigan's The Leopard Is Loose

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"Any game becomes important when you know and love the players."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

4. Wish You Were Here

By: Stewart O'Nan

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Award-winning writer Stewart O'Nan has been acclaimed by critics as one of the most accomplished no… read more

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5. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

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  • fiction
  • adult
  • family
  • audiobook
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6. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • 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

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Secret Book of Flora Lea

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.07

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

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11. Little Souls

By: Sandra Dallas

3.93

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now a Denver Post bestseller Finalist, 2023 Colorado Book Awards Sandra Dallas's Little Souls… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Mr. Texas

By: Lawrence Wright

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

A sharply drawn, page-turning send up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-sel… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Madstone

By: Elizabeth Crook

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Your mother leaned her head on my shoulder. I hardly breathed for having it there. I had certainly never felt so alive and cozy whilst nearly frozen to death."

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"We had one horse, one mule, and a wagon. We had Horhay with his limp arm and his long past, and Dickie with his hopes for the necklace now dashed and turned to dread of its curse, and me with my ache…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Had we been in town amongst people, then we might have been merely interested at the news of having a cursed item in our possession. But out in the midst of no place, shielded by only a scanty wall o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

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14. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

By: William Alexander

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journe… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth   Crook

15. The Which Way Tree

By: Elizabeth Crook

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The poignant odyssey of a tenacious young girl who braves the dangers of the Texas frontier to aven… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Invisible Woman

By: Erika Robuck

4.22

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In the depths of war, she would defy the odds to help liberate a nation...a gripping historical nov… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. When the Ground Is Hard

By: Malla Nunn

4.15

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning and heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school, two girls of different c… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Jane is stuck in the space between things."

-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard

"Books are better than gossip, though Delia doesn't think so."

-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard

"A dark wind lifts dirt into the air. The land absorbs the sobs of the women and the flinty silence of the gravediggers. The long fields and tall hills swallow us all."

-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard

"Where would Jane be without that inheritance from her long-lost uncle? If she was in Swaziland, I'll tell you where she'd be: living in a grass hut with nothing to eat but porridge. A blind and cripp…"

-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard

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18. The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

By: Jack Emerson Davis

3.75

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Amer… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Net Beneath Us by Carol Dunbar

19. The Net Beneath Us

By: Carol Dunbar

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her debut novel, Carol Dunbar draws from her own lived experiences, vividly describing the wonde… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Last Dance on the Starlight Pier

By: Sarah Bird

3.73

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Leopard Is Loose by Stephen Harrigan

21. The Leopard Is Loose

By: Stephen Harrigan

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a five-year-old boy's world explodes one summer day when a… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Harrigan's The Leopard Is Loose book and Stephen Harrigan's The Leopard Is Loose

  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

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W. Bruce Cameron

4.02

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W.P. Kinsella

3.97

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Percival Everett

4.54

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4.12

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Saul Bellow

3.26

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