16 must-read historical books like The Longest Road: A Novel by Jeanne Williams

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The Longest Road: A Novel

By: Jeanne Williams

4.00

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

“An evocative and darkly beautiful story” of a young woman’s trek across America in the Dust Bowl y…

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1. The Hundred Secret Senses

By: Amy Tan

4.00

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the ident… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow."

-Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

"Kwan saw what she believed. I saw what I didn't want to believe."

-Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

"But to pretend that all was right with the world, I first had to know what was wrong."

-Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

"Too much happiness, said the man who returned, always overflows into tears of sorrow."

-Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

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2. The Heart Goes Last

By: Margaret Atwood

3.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Liar's Bench

By: Kim Michele Richardson

3.87

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

In 1972, on Mudas Summers' seventeenth birthday, her beloved Mama, Ella, is found hanging from the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Wildwater Walking Club

By: Claire Cook

3.66

Format: 341 pages,

#1 Amazon Bestseller in Walking! Walking Group Guide and Book Club Questions included. By the USA T… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Cat Who Saw Red (Cat Who... #4)

By: Lilian Jackson Braun

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Something is amiss at Maus Haus. Not just the mystery of an unsolved "suicide" which hangs over the… read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Source

By: James A. Michener

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

In the grand storytelling style that is his signature, James Michener sweeps us back through time t… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. After Her

By: Joyce Maynard

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The Good Daughters returns with a warm and h… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

8. The Client

By: John Grisham

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...El… read more

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9. Mary Coin

By: Marisa Silver

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover

*An NPR Best Book of 2013* *A BBC Best Book of 2013* In her first novel since The God of War,the cr… read more

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10. Saints at the River

By: Ron Rash

4.41

Format: None pages,

When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, th… read more

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11. Mercy Street

By: Jennifer Haigh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Stranded

By: Sarah Goodwin

4.16

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

You’ll want to stay. Until you can’t leave.... A group of strangers arrive on a beautiful but re… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Fortunately I have learned that there is no justice, aside from what we make for ourselves. There is only survival, and the victor tells the story."

-Sarah Goodwin, Stranded

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13. Last Night

By: Luanne Rice

4.06

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Box and Last Day comes a… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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
  • 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

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15. The Nurse's Secret

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.15

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

The unflinching, spellbinding new book from the acclaimed author of The Second Life of Mirielle Wes… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Within Arm's Reach

By: Ann Napolitano

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. All the Forgivenesses

By: Elizabeth Hardinger

4.27

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in Appalachia and the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century, this exquisite debut novel … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Eagles Over Britain (After Dunkirk #2)

By: Lee Jackson

4.46

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

The German Luftwaffe attacks Britain from the skies. With no allies, she stands alone. Her fate h… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. After Dunkirk (After Dunkirk #1)

By: Lee Jackson

4.37

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

In the tradition of grand World War II sagas Beneath a Scarlet Sky and Of Windmills and War, After … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Housekeepers

By: Alex Hay

3.34

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

On the night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women launches a daring revenge heist again… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Westering Women

By: Sandra Dallas

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the peri… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. Under an Outlaw Moon

By: Dietrich Kalteis

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Meet Depression-era newlyweds Bennie and Stella. He’s reckless, she’s naive. Longing for freedom fr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. Darling Rose Gold

By: Stephanie Wrobel

3.71

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was a… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It’s not my fault you have no friends and a dead-end job"

-Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

"It was easier to manipulate someone if they didn’t perceive you as a threat."

-Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

"The bond between a mother and daughter is sacred. You know better than anyone that no matter how awful they are, we still find it in our hearts to love them."

-Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

"The debt between a child and her mother could never be repaid, like running a foot race against someone fifteen miles ahead of you. What hope did you have of catching up?"

-Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

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24. The Last One

By: Will Dean

3.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

When Caz steps onboard the exclusive cruise liner RMS Atlantica, it’s the start of a vacation of a … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Les Sœurs du Titanic

By: Patricia Falvey

3.83

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Delia, jeune Irlandaise, vient de perdre sa sœur Nora dans le naufrage du Titanic. Sur un coup de … read more

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"Guilt, once it's imprinted deeply on your soul, is almost impossible to get rid of. It becomes as much a part of you as your heart or your reason, and you realize if you let go of it, you will lose a…"

-Patricia Falvey, Les Sœurs du Titanic

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26. The Tiffany Girls

By: Shelley Noble

4.09

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble wows with a gripping historical novel about the rea… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. Light Changes Everything

By: Nancy E. Turner

4.11

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

“I adored stepping back into to the world of the Prines through tough-as-rawhide Mary Pearl. Light … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to Keep the Truth Hidden

By: Michael Brodkorb

3.70

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

On the evening of April 19, 2013, Samantha and Gianna Rucki disappeared. Two of five children born … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Journey to Bongary Spring (Myths of Moraigh Trilogy #1) by Kasey Stockton

29. Journey to Bongary Spring (Myths of Moraigh Trilogy #1)

By: Kasey Stockton

4.15

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here He only has eyes for revenge, and s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis

30. The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt

By: Andrea Bobotis

3.62

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

Some bury their secrets close to home. Others scatter them to the wind and hope they land somewhere… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Longest Road: A Novel by Jeanne Williams

31. The Longest Road: A Novel

By: Jeanne Williams

4.00

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

“An evocative and darkly beautiful story” of a young woman’s trek across America in the Dust Bowl y… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

26 Top fiction books like The Longest Road: A Novel by Jeanne Williams

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Secret Senses

Amy Tan

4.00

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The Heart Goes Last

Margaret Atwood

3.40

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Liar's Bench

Kim Michele Richardson

3.87

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The Persian Pickle Club

Sandra Dallas

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Yankee Doodle Dixie (Dixie, #2)

Lisa Patton

3.94

The Quilter's Daughter (Daughters of Lancaster County, #2)

Wanda E. Brunstetter

4.00

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Four Hundred and Forty Steps to the Sea

Sara Alexander

3.88

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