21 Top historical fiction books like The Bright Unknown by Elizabeth Byler Younts

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The Bright Unknown

By: Elizabeth Byler Younts

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two young friends embark upon an epic journey across 1940s middle America in search of answers, a f…

"Of course, we don't say words like insane or mad in the progressive 1990s. We say mentally ill. Mad means something different now too. Words are veils and masks, and there's always something more on the other side of them than we want to believe."

-Elizabeth Byler Younts, The Bright Unknown

"Of course, we don't say words like insane or mad in the progressive 1990s. We say mentally ill. Mad means something different now too. Words are veils and masks, and there's always something more on the other side of them than we want to believe."

-Elizabeth Byler Younts, The Bright Unknown

"Of course, we don't say words like insane or mad in the progressive 1990s. We say mentally ill. Mad means something different now too. Words are veils and masks, and there's always something more on the other side of them than we want to believe."

-Elizabeth Byler Younts, The Bright Unknown

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Bright Unknown by Elizabeth Byler Younts , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Burning Sky

By: Lori Benton

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Abducted by Mohawk Indians at fourteen and renamed Burning Sky, Willa Obenchain is driven to return… read more

Similar categories in Lori Benton's Burning Sky book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • historical
  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Wings of Poppy Pendleton

By: Melanie Dobson

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family's castle in th… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Dobson's The Wings of Poppy Pendleton book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. All My Secrets

By: Lynn Austin

4.45

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Lynn Austin returns with a luminous work of historical fiction set amid the opul… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Austin's All My Secrets book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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4. A Million Little Choices

By: Tamera Alexander

4.44

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes secrets just won’t stay hidden . . . From USA Today bestselling author and Christy Award… read more

Similar categories in Tamera Alexander's A Million Little Choices book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. A Winter by the Sea (On Devonshire Shores, #2)

By: Julie Klassen

4.21

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

Royalty comes to Sidmouth, bringing unexpected danger and the sweet possibility of romance. . . . … read more

Similar categories in Julie Klassen's A Winter by the Sea (On Devonshire Shores, #2) book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Take two chickens and dress them very neatly. - Mrs Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy"

-Julie Klassen, A Winter by the Sea (On Devonshire Shores, #2)

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6. Loyally, Luke

By: Pepper Basham

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Sometimes love means embracing the good, the bad . . . and even the impossible. Dear Reader, … read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's Loyally, Luke book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Where the Grass Grows Blue

By: Hope Gibbs

4.20

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

2023 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award Winner: Summer Beach Read, Romance, and New Fiction … read more

Similar categories in Hope Gibbs's Where the Grass Grows Blue book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Indigo Isle

By: T.I. Lowe

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"Storms show up and there ain't a thing we can do to stop them."Sonny Bates left South Carolina fif… read more

Similar categories in T.I. Lowe's Indigo Isle book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • audiobook
  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. He Should Have Told the Bees

By: Amanda Cox

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until hi… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's He Should Have Told the Bees book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • inspirational
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. A Beautiful Disguise (The Imposters, #1)

By: Roseanna M. White

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Left with an estate on the brink of bankruptcy after their father's death, Lady Marigold Fairfax an… read more

Similar categories in Roseanna M. White's A Beautiful Disguise (The Imposters, #1) book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I think the truth always changes us. I think it always should."

-Roseanna M. White, A Beautiful Disguise (The Imposters, #1)

"The truth isn't always pretty. But I like to think it's always beautiful."

-Roseanna M. White, A Beautiful Disguise (The Imposters, #1)

"The truth isn’t always pretty. But I like to think it’s always beautiful."

-Roseanna M. White, A Beautiful Disguise (The Imposters, #1)

"How very boring he'd painted his faceless future spouse. No wonder he'd never been inspired to search for her."

-Roseanna M. White, A Beautiful Disguise (The Imposters, #1)

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11. A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

By: Angela Bell

4.02

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, En… read more

Similar categories in Angela Bell's A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • historical
  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You are "

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"You are a maker. Not the Maker."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"Dearest Clara, I would rather be absurd with you than normal with anyone else."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"Heaven knows you're precious and worth protecting even when men don't, and heaven will defend you even when men fail."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

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12. The Heart of the Mountains

By: Pepper Basham

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

To escape a forced marriage, Cora Taylor travels from England to the Blue Ridge Mountains in search… read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's The Heart of the Mountains book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Love’s worth being brave, ain’t it? Brave again and again and again."

-Pepper Basham, The Heart of the Mountains

"Mama’s always said that God uses prayin’ to change us more than us changin’ anything else."

-Pepper Basham, The Heart of the Mountains

"But I reckon God wouldn’t have given tears to us if He didn’t mean for us to use them now and again."

-Pepper Basham, The Heart of the Mountains

"She looked at him in a way that made him feel like he hadn’t lost half of himself in the trenches of Europe."

-Pepper Basham, The Heart of the Mountains

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13. Whose Waves These Are

By: Amanda Dykes

4.36

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for h… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Dykes's Whose Waves These Are book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
"And Bob knows too well, when you've been without air so long you can't remember another way of life, even a single breath of fresh air is a lifeline."

-Amanda Dykes, Whose Waves These Are

"He slides his palm over the gentle strength of those rocks and remembers the faces from the photos tucked into boxes with those rocks, the stories penned with care on tear-splotched pages, arriving f…"

-Amanda Dykes, Whose Waves These Are

"He would never forget the impression of that voice on his heart. It was the voice of the man, who, king of the universe, stooped to wash his own disciples' earth crusted feet. Who rubbed spit into di…"

-Amanda Dykes, Whose Waves These Are

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14. Stories That Bind Us

By: Susie Finkbeiner

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Betty Sweet is still recovering from the loss of her husband when she becomes the temporary guardia… read more

Similar categories in Susie Finkbeiner's Stories That Bind Us book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Wedding at Sea (Muir Harbor, Book #3)

By: Melissa Tagg

4.67

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

Lilian doesn’t remember anything about her life before the day Maggie Muir found her on her front p… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Tagg's Wedding at Sea (Muir Harbor, Book #3) book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Her Every Move

By: Kelly Irvin

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

He’s a cop trying to stop a serial bomber. And she’ll stop at nothing to clear her own name.  Wh… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Irvin's Her Every Move book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Medallion

By: Cathy Gohlke

4.55

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Seemingly overnight, the German blitzkrieg of Warsaw in 1939 turns its streets to a war zone and sh… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Gohlke's The Medallion book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • christian historical fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Seamstress of Acadie

By: Laura Frantz

4.41

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

As 1754 is drawing to a close, tensions between the French and the British on Canada's Acadian shor… read more

Similar categories in Laura Frantz's The Seamstress of Acadie book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. These Tangled Threads: A Novel of Biltmore

By: Sarah Loudin Thomas

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Seven years ago, a hidden betrayal scattered three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore E… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Loudin Thomas's These Tangled Threads: A Novel of Biltmore book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wind Blows in Sleeping Grass by Katie Powner

20. The Wind Blows in Sleeping Grass

By: Katie Powner

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

After years of drifting, fifty-year-old Pete Ryman has settled down with his potbellied pig, Pearl,… read more

Similar categories in Katie Powner's The Wind Blows in Sleeping Grass book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • inspirational
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. High-Wire Heartbreak (Doors to the Past)

By: Anna Schmidt

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1936--A party at the Ringling mansion Ca d’Zan in Sarasota, Florida, leads to a robbery--and pos… read more

Similar categories in Anna Schmidt's High-Wire Heartbreak (Doors to the Past) book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • christian historical fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
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22. What We Hide (Tupelo Grove #1)

By: Colleen Coble

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Savannah Webster is trying to find her way forward. She and her husband, Hez, have been separated s… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Coble's What We Hide (Tupelo Grove #1) book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • audiobook
  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Potiphar's Wife (The Egyptian Chronicles, #1)

By: Mesu Andrews

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The drama of the Old Testament comes to life as one of the Bible's most infamous women longs for Jo… read more

Similar categories in Mesu Andrews's Potiphar's Wife (The Egyptian Chronicles, #1) book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • audiobook
  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Behind Love's Wall (Doors to the Past)

By: Carrie Fancett Pagels

3.82

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

The Grand Hotel Slowly Reveals Her Secrets  Walk through Doors to the Past via a new series of hist… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Fancett Pagels's Behind Love's Wall (Doors to the Past) book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • christian historical fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Bridge of Gold (Doors to the Past)

By: Kimberley Woodhouse

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Repairs on the Golden Gate Bridge Uncover a Century-Old Murder   Walk through Doors to the Past via… read more

Similar categories in Kimberley Woodhouse's Bridge of Gold (Doors to the Past) book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • christian historical fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
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26. Love's Fortress (Doors to the Past)

By: Jennifer Uhlarik

4.31

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A Love Story from the Past Brings Closure to Dani’s Fractured FamilyWalk through Doors to the Past … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Uhlarik's Love's Fortress (Doors to the Past) book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • christian historical fiction
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
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27. Ambush in the Mountains

By: Mary Alford

4.68

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

Innocent lives at stake… Can a former soldier and canine save them? Helping a pregnant woman … read more

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28. The Bright Unknown

By: Elizabeth Byler Younts

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two young friends embark upon an epic journey across 1940s middle America in search of answers, a f… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • christian historical fiction
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Of course, we don't say words like insane or mad in the progressive 1990s. We say mentally ill. Mad means something different now too. Words are veils and masks, and there's always something more on …"

-Elizabeth Byler Younts, The Bright Unknown

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29. Beyond Ivy Walls

By: Rachel Fordham

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Reminiscent of Beauty and the Beast, a recluse and a young woman discover that the scars of life ar… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Fordham's Beyond Ivy Walls book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Saved by the Matchmaker (A Shanahan Match, #2) by Jody Hedlund

30. Saved by the Matchmaker (A Shanahan Match, #2)

By: Jody Hedlund

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

After her annulment is finalized, Enya Shanahan finds herself caught in a web of scandal and obliga… read more

Similar categories in Jody Hedlund's Saved by the Matchmaker (A Shanahan Match, #2) book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

  • christian fiction
  • inspirational
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"You don’t have to let the scars of your past determine your future."

-Jody Hedlund, Saved by the Matchmaker (A Shanahan Match, #2)

"If you go into the match with your eyes wide open, Enya, you might eventually find love."

-Jody Hedlund, Saved by the Matchmaker (A Shanahan Match, #2)

"Because the truth was, he couldn’t stop loving her any more than he could stop the Mississippi from flowing."

-Jody Hedlund, Saved by the Matchmaker (A Shanahan Match, #2)

"He'd keep on fulfilling his marriage vows, that's what he'd do Because marriage vows didn't come with a time limit or an end date. They were forever And he'd spend that forever trying to win her."

-Jody Hedlund, Saved by the Matchmaker (A Shanahan Match, #2)

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31. Showdown in the Rockies (Love Inspired Suspense)

By: Kathleen Tailer

4.35

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Coming soon! Showdown in the Rockies by Kathleen Tailer will be available Jul 23, 2024. read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Tailer's Showdown in the Rockies (Love Inspired Suspense) book and Elizabeth Byler Younts's The Bright Unknown

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