17 must-read historical fiction books like Tell Me About My Father: Wasyl's Story (Rocked in the Cradle of Coal #2) by Jayne M. Booth

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Tell Me About My Father: Wasyl's Story (Rocked in the Cradle of Coal #2)

By: Jayne M. Booth

4.28

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1917 and the United States is recovering from the costly first World War. Inflation hits hard…

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1. Lula Mae

By: None

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

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2. 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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3. The Only Way Home

By: Jeanette Minniti

4.21

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2022 Colorado Authors League 1st Place Award in Historical Fiction! Desperate times.… read more

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  • historical fiction
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4. 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
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5. 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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6. 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
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7. I Know an Old Lady

By: Margaret Standafer

4.52

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the summer of 1972, and Kansas wheat fields are baking under the relentless sun. Teenagers are… read more

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  • historical fiction
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8. The Ration Book Baby (A Village at War, #1)

By: Ellie Curzon

4.35

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

England, 1940. Opening the box with trembling hands, she couldn’t believe it – a tiny baby lay insi… read more

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  • historical fiction
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9. 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
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10. Lone Tree Claim (On the Dakota Frontier, #2)

By: CK Van Dam

4.32

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

Like many Americans, Civil War widow Katie Rose Kelly was determined to make a new life for herself… read more

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11. 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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12. The Road to Resilience: Velma’s Story (Velma's Story Book 2)

By: G.L. Gooding

4.42

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on the life of author G. L. Gooding's mother, Velma Steele, The Road to Resilience continues … 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. Tomorrow's Bread

By: Anna Jean Mayhew

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Sout… read more

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  • historical fiction
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16. The Family

By: S.E. Green

4.14

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing’s more important than family... Leah When Leah’s daughter, Nyla, unexpectedly appears at … read more

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17. 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
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18. High Cotton: Memoir of a young woman growing up on a New Mexico cotton farm in the post Depression Era

By: Susan Reynaud Price

4.25

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

A coming of age story of a young woman growing up on a cotton farm during the post-depression years… read more

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19. 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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20. Darkness: A Slave's Story (The Darkness Saga Book 1)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.37

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

A Slave’s Story is a fictionalized account of not just one slave’s life, but the tribulations and … read more

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21. Bitter Honey

By: Sharon Mierke

4.53

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

In the early 1800s (1830s – 1860s) it has been estimated that as many as 300,000 men and women may … read more

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22. Proving Her Claim (On the Dakota Frontier, #1)

By: CK Van Dam

4.33

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

The Civil War created countless spinsters and widows. Anna Olson was one of them. With no prospe… read more

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  • historical fiction
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23. The Red Road: Book One of the McGinn Family Saga

By: J.E. McCarthy

4.26

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

First Place Winner, Fall 2023 Historical FictionThere’s no greater duty than family…In the heart of… read more

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24. 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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25. More Than Grit

By: Gretchen A. Carlson

4.57

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

When do secrets become lies? When is grit not enough? A story of broken lives and deep friendships,… read more

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26. The Mothers McGinn: Book Two of the McGinn Family Saga

By: J.E. McCarthy

4.49

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

First Place Winner, Fall 2023 Book Fest Family SagaEvery wedding seems like the beginning of a fai… read more

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27. Tell Me About My Father: Wasyl's Story (Rocked in the Cradle of Coal #2)

By: Jayne M. Booth

4.28

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1917 and the United States is recovering from the costly first World War. Inflation hits hard… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of Forging Nails: A Family Saga of Revenge & Redemption by Randy Judd

28. Forging Nails: A Family Saga of Revenge & Redemption

By: Randy Judd

4.34

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

“Randy Judd has done it again! He has created a page-turner with an uplifting theme and you get to … read more

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29. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

By: Minu Cash

4.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more

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"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."

-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

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30. The Art of Straightening Nails: A Story of Triumph Over Adversity

By: Randy Judd

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Art of Straightening Nails is a story of hope, conquering self, and regaining lost love. This n… read more

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31. The Blood of My Mother: a powerful historical saga about family, race and overcoming adversity

By: Roccie Hill

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman fights for her life as a refugee, slave, mother, and farmer, in this "saga with many layers… read more

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  • historical fiction

11 Best fiction books like The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel by Lonormi Manuel

Transform Your Habits

I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.24

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Where Butterflies Wander

Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Only Way Home

Jeanette Minniti

4.21

Transform Your Habits

This Funny Life: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.25

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