10 Top historical books like Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War by Ava Dianne Day

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Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War

By: Ava Dianne Day

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by recently discovered information on Clara Barton, Ava Dianne Day reimagines the legendar…

"He had learned how reading a book can take you away from anywhere, and make you feel like you're somewhere else, and someone else.. Even if only for a little while."

-Ava Dianne Day, Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War

"He had learned how reading a book can take you away from anywhere, and make you feel like you're somewhere else, and someone else.. Even if only for a little while."

-Ava Dianne Day, Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War

If you liked the historical plot in Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War by Ava Dianne Day , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3) by Deanna Raybourn

1. A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)

By: Deanna Raybourn

4.16

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

London, 1888. As colorful and unfettered as the butterflies she collects, Victorian adventuress Ver… read more

Similar categories in Deanna Raybourn's A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3) book and Ava Dianne Day's Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"She drew in a deep breath, mastering herself. “Forgive me. My nerves are worked to pieces."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)

"You rise from your bed every day on two strong legs and can think only to complain that someone once spoke harshly to you."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)

"...life is not about achievement. It is about the effort. If one takes pleasure in every step, one enjoys the whole journey."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)

"Have you ever looked a starving beggar in the eye and thought that the privileges you enjoy are nothing more than a whim of the cosmos?"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)

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2. Fire and Fog (Fremont Jones, #2)

By: Dianne Day

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"With her independent spirit and youthful determination, Miss Jones is virtually invincible," raved… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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3. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7)

By: Alan Bradley

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hard on the heels of the return of her mother's body from the frozen reaches of the Himalayas, Flav… read more

Similar categories in Alan Bradley's As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7) book and Ava Dianne Day's Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3)

By: Alan Bradley

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously cle… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)

By: Alan Bradley

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1950s English bucolic Bishop's Lacy, narrator Flavia de Luce 11, has a passion for chemistry and… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

6. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

By: Alan Bradley

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns… read more

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7. Murder in an Irish Village (An Irish Village Mystery Book 1)

By: Carlene O'Connor

4.57

Format: 270 pages,

A little slice of Heaven on the Emerald Isle... In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Irela… read more

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8. A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1)

By: Deanna Raybourn

3.67

Format: 348 pages,

In her thrilling new series, Deanna Raybourn, the New York Timesbestselling author of the Lady Juli… read more

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9. Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

By: Alan Bradley

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, wh… read more

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10. The Strange Files of Fremont Jones (Fremont Jones, #1)

By: Dianne Day

4.08

Format: 432 pages,

Brave, resourceful, adventurous Fremont (nee Caroline) Jones is a woman ahead of her time. Hungry f… read more

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11. Beacon Street Mourning (Fremont Jones, #6)

By: Dianne Day

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Five years ago Caroline Fremont Jones fled the proper world of her native Boston for the independen… read more

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12. A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell, #4)

By: Deanna Raybourn

4.29

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is whisked off to a remote island off the tip of Cornwall … read more

Similar categories in Deanna Raybourn's A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell, #4) book and Ava Dianne Day's Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"Lord Templeton-Vane bared his teeth in what a stupid person might have mistaken for a smile."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell, #4)

"It’s the cleverest thing I have ever seen,’ she pronounced. ‘At first glance, you look like any other countrywoman, but you can move like a man in it.’ ‘I can move like a scientist,’ I corrected. ‘An…"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell, #4)

"His lips twisted. ‘Met. So tame a word for it. It was not a meeting, Veronica. I was introduced to her and it was like finding a part of myself that had been somehow walking the earth without me. She…"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell, #4)

"A rush of pleasure surged through me. This was how it had so often been between us, repartee serving as the language of the heart for us. Where others might whisper little poetries, Stoker and I enga…"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell, #4)

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13. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

By: Alan Bradley

3.82

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiri… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Simple pleasures are best."

-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

"It was as black in the closet as old blood."

-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

"...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities."

-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

"Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend."

-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

Cover of A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell, #8) by Deanna Raybourn

14. A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell, #8)

By: Deanna Raybourn

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in t… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6) by Alan Bradley

15. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

By: Alan Bradley

4.18

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"If stupidity were theoretical physics, then I would be Albert Einstein."

-Alan Bradley, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

"It’s things like this that really shake me: sudden terrifying glimpses into the world of being an adult, and they are sometimes things that I am not sure I really want to know."

-Alan Bradley, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

"I suddenly realized that there's something about singing hymns with a large group of people that sharpens the senses remarkably. I stored this observation away for later use; it was a jolly good thin…"

-Alan Bradley, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

"Although it seems shocking to say so, grief is a funny thing. On the one hand, you're numb, yet on the other, something inside is trying desperately to claw its way back to normal: to pull a funny fa…"

-Alan Bradley, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

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16. Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War

By: Ava Dianne Day

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by recently discovered information on Clara Barton, Ava Dianne Day reimagines the legendar… read more

Similar categories in Ava Dianne Day's Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War book and Ava Dianne Day's Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"He had learned how reading a book can take you away from anywhere, and make you feel like you're somewhere else, and someone else.. Even if only for a little while."

-Ava Dianne Day, Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War

10 Best fiction books like Cut to the Heart: Clara Barton and the Darkness of Love and War by Ava Dianne Day

Transform Your Habits

A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)

Deanna Raybourn

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Fire and Fog (Fremont Jones, #2)

Dianne Day

3.59

Transform Your Habits

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7)

Alan Bradley

4.25

Transform Your Habits

A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3)

Alan Bradley

4.47

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29 Top fiction books like The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1) by Alan Bradley

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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)

Jacqueline Winspear

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Magpie Murders

Anthony Horowitz

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)

Louise Penny

3.42

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)

Alexander McCall Smith

5.00

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