15 must-read historical fiction books like sparrows by Rose Betit

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sparrows

By: Rose Betit

4.51

Format: None pages, ebook

It’s 1972 and Isabelle is four years old. She, her eight-year-old brother, and their mother are gra…

"We're *all* sparrows."

-Rose Betit, sparrows

"We're *all* sparrows."

-Rose Betit, sparrows

If you liked the historical fiction plot in sparrows by Rose Betit , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Then Like the Blind Man: Orbie's Story by Freddie Owens

1. Then Like the Blind Man: Orbie's Story

By: Freddie Owens

3.88

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Alt Cover: ISBN 1475084498 (ISBN13: 9781475084498) A storm is brewing in the all-but-forgotten b… read more

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  • historical fiction
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2. The Dry Grass of August

By: Anna Jean Mayhew

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in… read more

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  • historical fiction

3. Lula Mae

By: None

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

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4. The Road to Bittersweet

By: Donna Everhart

4.00

Format: 120 pages,

Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative acco… read more

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5. I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

By: Amy Fillion

4.24

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

"Beautifully written and so inspiring!" -Amazon reviewer"One of the most heartfelt, touching books … read more

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6. They Call Her Dirty Sally

By: Amy Matayo

4.42

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

Cover of The Promise ("The Promise" Saga Book 2) by Jean Hackensmith

7. The Promise ("The Promise" Saga Book 2)

By: Jean Hackensmith

4.46

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

“If you ever need anything, Rebecca, you just let me know and I'll be there." Those were the words … read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel by Lonormi Manuel

8. The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

By: Lonormi Manuel

4.47

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her … read more

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  • historical fiction
"It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle."

-Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

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9. Threshing of Straw

By: Kim Catron

4.51

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkabl… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of They Say He Flies at Night (Silver Bell Legends) by Amy Matayo

10. They Say He Flies at Night (Silver Bell Legends)

By: Amy Matayo

4.62

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone in Silver Bell, Arkansas has heard of Walter Lorry. Rumors have been circulating about the… read more

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11. Out of the Dust

By: Joyce E. Patterson

4.24

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Two of America’s worst economic disasters occurred during the same period. One was the crash of the… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of Where Courage Began: Velma's Story by G.L. Gooding

12. Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

By: G.L. Gooding

4.18

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and h… read more

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  • historical fiction
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13. Quilly

By: Jan Strickland

4.55

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

What was it like to be biracial in the early 1900’s in a small white southern town where the divisi… read more

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  • historical fiction
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14. Tobacco Rose

By: Florence Love Karsner

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

South Georgia 1955. Racial tensions lead to riots in the South. An old black woman named Rosie and … read more

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  • historical fiction
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15. Arkansas Summer

By: Anne Moose

4.51

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Arkansas Summer is a powerful novel about love and racial terror in the Jim Crow South. It's 1955, … read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Forgiving Kind by Donna Everhart

16. The Forgiving Kind

By: Donna Everhart

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this masterful new novel, set in 1950s North Carolina, the acclaimed author of The Road to Bitte… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Lost and Found of Green Tree by Bobbie Candas

17. The Lost and Found of Green Tree

By: Bobbie Candas

4.28

Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition

Two young women struggle to survive the daunting Great Depression; one uses ambition, guile, and th… read more

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  • historical fiction
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18. The Cicada Tree

By: Robert Gwaltney

4.09

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence Georgia, a natural event with super… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of From the Flood: A Memoir by Suzanne    Jones

19. From the Flood: A Memoir

By: Suzanne Jones

4.24

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

**GOLD Winner of the 2022 Nonfiction Authors Association Book Award** **2022 American Writers Awar… read more

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Cover of Gully Dirt: On Exposing the Klan, Raising a Hog, and Escaping the South by Robert Coram

20. Gully Dirt: On Exposing the Klan, Raising a Hog, and Escaping the South

By: Robert Coram

4.29

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

No part of America scars its children as does the south. In this incandescent memoir, Robert Coram … read more

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21. sparrows

By: Rose Betit

4.51

Format: None pages, ebook

It’s 1972 and Isabelle is four years old. She, her eight-year-old brother, and their mother are gra… read more

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  • historical fiction
"We're *all* sparrows."

-Rose Betit, sparrows

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4.47

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4.21

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