17 best-selling historical books like Dovetails in Tall Grass by Samantha Specks

Cover of Dovetails in Tall Grass by Samantha Specks

Dovetails in Tall Grass

By: Samantha Specks

4.31

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

As war overtakes the frontier, Emma’s family farmstead is attacked by Dakota-Sioux warriors; on tha…

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Cover of The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

1. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

By: Robert Alexander

4.12

Format: None pages,

Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1) by Betty MacDonald

2. The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)

By: Betty MacDonald

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in… read more

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3. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

By: James Forman Jr.

3.00

Format: None pages,

In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent… read more

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4. The Creator's Code The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

By: None

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Each of us has the capacity to spot opportunities, invent products, and build businesses--even $100… read more

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5. Little Wolves

By: Thomas Maltman

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A tragic act of violence echoes through a small Minnesota town Set on the Minnesota prairie in the … read more

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6. Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1)

By: Amy Stewart

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs. Cons… read more

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7. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

Cover of Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See

8. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

9. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

Cover of James by Percival Everett

10. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19) by William Kent Krueger

11. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.21

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Seed Keeper

By: Diane Wilson

4.30

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

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14. Little Souls

By: Sandra Dallas

3.93

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now a Denver Post bestseller Finalist, 2023 Colorado Book Awards Sandra Dallas's Little Souls… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Dallas's Little Souls book and Samantha Specks's Dovetails in Tall Grass

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1) by Marcie R. Rendon

15. Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Set in 1970s along Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping new mystery follows the life of a … read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1) book and Samantha Specks's Dovetails in Tall Grass

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Becoming Madam Secretary

By: Stephanie Dray

4.45

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestse… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire by Dan Martell

17. Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

By: Dan Martell

4.41

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Wall Street Journal Bestseller Learn to conquer the one real hurdle to scaling your company and gr… read more

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Cover of We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein

18. We Must Not Think of Ourselves

By: Lauren Grodstein

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

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19. The Outlaw Noble Salt

By: Amy Harmon

4.46

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Amy Harmon comes a sweepingly romantic tale of risk, redempt… read more

Similar categories in Amy Harmon's The Outlaw Noble Salt book and Samantha Specks's Dovetails in Tall Grass

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson

20. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

By: Helen Simonson

3.96

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Doorman Wanted by Glenn R.  Miller

21. Doorman Wanted

By: Glenn R. Miller

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Henry Franken has a problem with money-he has too much of it. When his unprincipled father dies, th… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Midlife Bites: Anyone Else Falling Apart, Or Is It Just Me? by Jen Mann

22. Midlife Bites: Anyone Else Falling Apart, Or Is It Just Me?

By: Jen Mann

3.95

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

A smart, personal, darkly funny examination of what it's like to be at the crossroads of a midlife … read more

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Cover of I Never Thought of It That Way by Monica Guzmán

23. I Never Thought of It That Way

By: Monica Guzmán

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions. Partisanship is up,… read more

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Cover of How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard

24. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of All I See is Violence by Angie Elita Newell

25. All I See is Violence

By: Angie Elita Newell

4.05

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman warrior, a ruthless general, and a single mother—three stories deftly braided into the lega… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Black and Blue by Frank F. Weber

26. Black and Blue

By: Frank F. Weber

4.26

Format: None pages, None

The true story of the search for 19-year-old Sadie Sullivan's killer. A chance meeting between Offi… read more

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Cover of The Alewives (The Alewives of Colmar, #1) by Elizabeth R. Andersen

27. The Alewives (The Alewives of Colmar, #1)

By: Elizabeth R. Andersen

3.99

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Colmar, 1353 CE Gritta, Appel, and Efi managed to survive the Black Death, only to find that the… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Dovetails in Tall Grass by Samantha Specks

28. Dovetails in Tall Grass

By: Samantha Specks

4.31

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

As war overtakes the frontier, Emma’s family farmstead is attacked by Dakota-Sioux warriors; on tha… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Specks's Dovetails in Tall Grass book and Samantha Specks's Dovetails in Tall Grass

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Reclaiming Mni Sota: An Alternate History of the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862 by Colin Mustful

29. Reclaiming Mni Sota: An Alternate History of the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862

By: Colin Mustful

4.11

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Two cultures met in Minnesota-one striving to maintain its homeland and traditions, another trying … read more

Similar categories in Colin Mustful's Reclaiming Mni Sota: An Alternate History of the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862 book and Samantha Specks's Dovetails in Tall Grass

  • historical fiction
Cover of Soulmate Dog by Michelle B. Slater

30. Soulmate Dog

By: Michelle B. Slater

4.00

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

Part love story of one woman’s extraordinary relationship with her animal companion, part philosoph… read more

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31. The Rhino Keeper

By: Jillian Forsberg

4.73

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Based on the true story of a Dutch sea captain who traveled with an Indian rhinoceros called Clara … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

20 must-read fiction books like Dovetails in Tall Grass by Samantha Specks

Transform Your Habits

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

Robert Alexander

4.12

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

Lisa See

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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Transform Your Habits

A Hard Ticket Home (Mac McKenzie, #1)

David Housewright

2.43

Transform Your Habits

Nail's Crossing (Bill Maytubby & Hannah Bond Mystery #1)

Kris Lackey

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Tin City (Mac McKenzie, #2)

David Housewright

3.86

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Shutter

Ramona Emerson

3.80

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