9 Top historical books like Born a Colored Girl by Michael Edwin Q.

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Born a Colored Girl

By: Michael Edwin Q.

4.62

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Pappy Moses' Peanut Plantation and A Slave's Song - Two slaves, a mother and dau…

If you liked the historical plot in Born a Colored Girl by Michael Edwin Q. , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. Lula Mae

By: None

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

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2. Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

By: ReShonda Tate Billingsley

4.38

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this captivating family drama from award-winning, bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, … read more

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  • fiction
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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 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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5. 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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6. Scarlet Carnation

By: Laila Ibrahim

4.14

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two wo… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
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7. Golden Poppies (Freedman/Johnson, #3)

By: Laila Ibrahim

4.10

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus and Mustard Seed comes the empowering novel of two gen… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
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8. Where Wild Peaches Grow

By: Cade Bentley

3.95

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

In a deeply emotional novel of family, cultural heritage, and forgiveness, estranged sisters wrestl… read more

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  • fiction
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9. 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
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10. 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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11. 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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12. Black Girls Must Have It All (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, #3)

By: Jayne Allen

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this final installment in the acclaimed Black Girls Must Die Exhausted trilogy, Tabitha is jugg… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Lady of the Plantation

By: Adrian Heflin

4.51

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

'Lady of the Plantation' is the story of a mulatto girl surviving the brutality of slavery in Georg… read more

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14. The Baker's Bride (A Novella): A Historical Clean and Wholesome Inspirational Underground Railroad Romance Novella (The Romance Bride Series Book 1)

By: Cecelia Dowdy

4.52

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruth’s beau died - simply because he was a slave. She is determined to help other enslaved people … read more

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15. 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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16. 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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17. Doris: The Struggles of a Former Slave (The Darkness Saga Book 2)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.46

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of A Slave’s Story comes the continuing saga of Darkness Knox. After she obtained … read more

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18. Luke's Justice : The Darkness Saga

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.62

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Luke's Justice is the fourth book in the A Slave's Story saga. The Knox family soon discovers that… read more

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19. Doris: Return to the Slave Farm (The Darkness Saga Book 3)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.51

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

After their home in Davenport, Iowa, is burned to the ground, Luke and Doris move to a home gifted … read more

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20. The Dust Bowl Orphans

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.33

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

The dust cloud rolls in from nowhere, stinging our eyes and muddling our senses. I reach for my bab… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
Cover of White Oak River: A Story of Slavery's Secrets (White Oak series Book 1) by Ora  Smith

21. White Oak River: A Story of Slavery's Secrets (White Oak series Book 1)

By: Ora Smith

4.50

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

After giving birth to a son with dominant African traits, a white Southern enslaver must decide if … read more

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22. Born a Colored Girl

By: Michael Edwin Q.

4.62

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Pappy Moses' Peanut Plantation and A Slave's Song - Two slaves, a mother and dau… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
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23. 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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24. The Lilac Nurse

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.60

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Tommy, the Wilson slave, is injured as he daydreams about the beautiful woman he met at Sunday Serm… read more

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25. Mahala: The Darkness Saga

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.45

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

the Darkness Saga is the prequel to A Slave's Story and the sixth book in that series. The latest… read more

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26. God, Send Sunday

By: Jacqueline Freeman Wheelock

4.63

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Having watched her freeborn parents killed by a slave snatcher when she was six, Sunday has renounc… read more

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27. Timothy: A White Slave Boy Story

By: Josiah Thomas

4.40

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

AN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA ROMANCE NOVEL. Born aboard a slave ship the son of a captive African woma… read more

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28. A Most Precious Gift

By: Jacqueline Freeman Wheelock

4.40

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

Dinah Devereaux, New Orleans-born slave and seamstress, suddenly finds herself relegated to a swelt… read more

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29. Shadows of Slavery

By: Kate Juffs

4.24

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

Bristol 1820. Helena Winters, the twenty year old daughter of a wealthy attorney, is set for a life… read more

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30. Falling Wisteria (Yellow Crocus, #5)

By: Laila Ibrahim

4.16

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

As America enters WWII, two women on the home front strive to stay strong in a heartfelt novel abou… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
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31. The Stolen Daughter

By: Florence Olajide

4.18

Format: 314 pages, ebook

My heart races asgunfire startles me from my sleep, and my lungs fill with smoke as I realise my vi… read more

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11 Best fiction books like Born a Colored Girl by Michael Edwin Q.

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Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

ReShonda Tate Billingsley

4.38

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The Only Way Home

Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

Lonormi Manuel

4.47

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Threshing of Straw

Kim Catron

4.51

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I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.24

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Where Butterflies Wander

Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

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Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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Amy Fillion

4.25

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