6 best-selling historical books like The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine by Robin Clifford Wood

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The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine

By: Robin Clifford Wood

4.15

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award–winning novelist, a N…

If you liked the historical plot in The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine by Robin Clifford Wood , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Country of the Pointed Firs

By: Sarah Orne Jewett

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in a small, coastal town in Maine, this enduring sequence of intimate stories has assumed its r… read more

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2. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

By: Dorothy P. Lathrop , Rachel Field

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

Hitty is a doll of great charm and character. It is indeed a privilege to publish her memoirs, whic… read more

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3. All This, and Heaven Too

By: Mary Balogh , Rachel Field

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

This number-one bestselling novel is based on the true story of one of the most notorious murder ca… read more

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4. The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew, #3)

By: Carolyn Keene , Russell H. Tandy , P.M. Carlson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

While trying to help a friend out of a difficulty, Nancy has a perilous experience in and around a … read more

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5. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

By: Elizabeth Letts

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Letts's The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America book and Robin Clifford Wood's The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"

-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

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6. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

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  • historical
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7. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

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  • books about books
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

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8. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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  • historical
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9. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

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  • historical
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10. The Midcoast

By: Adam White

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted drea… read more

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11. The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

By: Terri-Lynne DeFino

3.77

Format: 336 pages, ebook

A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new sto… read more

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  • books about books
"It was no longer today, and not yet tomorrow. It was now and she was, for once, content."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

"There are many yesterdays. With any luck, many tomorrows. But there's only one today. Don't fuck it up."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

"Love is not passion, my dear. Love is sweet and good and righteous. Passion is wild and messy and dangerous."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

"Alfonse gave her his words, a mad jumble that didn't sound as lovely coming from his mouth as it would have flying out of the tips of his fingers."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

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12. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

By: James B. Stewart

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibilli… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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13. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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  • books about books
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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14. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

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"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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15. The Sweetness of Water

By: Nathan Harris

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, a profound debut about the unlikely … read more

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  • historical
"I can carry him, I've carried him my whole life."

-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

"Don't hide this pain either, I want you to carry what you've done."

-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

"Clementine looked at Prentiss a final time, not in shame but as if to say, "This is what I will do for you."

-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

"...it dawned on him [Landry] that there was less to fear than he'd once imagined, which was maybe a truth he'd long wished to believe--that all danger carried the faint trace of comfort, all wrongs t…"

-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

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16. The Sweet Taste of Muscadines

By: Pamela Terry

4.05

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A woman returns to her small southern hometown in the wake of her mother's sudden death--only to fi… read more

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"What an effort she made to change me, and when it was clear those surface alterations would never occur, she began to mistake my solitary nature for sullenness, my laughter for mockery, my silence fo…"

-Pamela Terry, The Sweet Taste of Muscadines

"I would never be happy till I managed to separate God from religion...God was infinitely bigger than I had ever imagined, infinitely more mysterious, and infinitely more kind. He was not to be held i…"

-Pamela Terry, The Sweet Taste of Muscadines

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17. Lucky Turtle

By: Bill Roorbach

3.81

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this love story, a teenage girl with a checkered past finds instant chemistry with a mysterious … read more

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18. Lungfish

By: Meghan Gilliss

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Jenny Offill, Marilynne Robinson, and Claire-Louise Bennett, Lungfish is the shimmer… read more

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Cover of Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America by Gigi Georges

19. Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America

By: Gigi Georges

3.58

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating and empathetic book, Gigi Georges follows five girls as they come of age in one… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine by Robin Clifford Wood

20. The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine

By: Robin Clifford Wood

4.15

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award–winning novelist, a N… read more

Similar categories in Robin Clifford Wood's The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine book and Robin Clifford Wood's The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine

  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • books about books
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21. And Now Tomorrow

By: Rachel Field

4.08

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to… read more

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"We none of us hear all we might."

-Rachel Field, And Now Tomorrow

"We are less indispensable than we think, even to those we love."

-Rachel Field, And Now Tomorrow

"I broke off, having said more than I had meant to, but if I had risen up with a hammer in one hand and a sickle in the other I could not have startled the group about the table more."

-Rachel Field, And Now Tomorrow

"In the adult world to which I suddenly realized we all belonged, I supposed a triangle would be substituted for the outline of a heart. Well, after all, what was a triangle but a heart with the grace…"

-Rachel Field, And Now Tomorrow

12 Top contemporary books like Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America by Gigi Georges

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The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

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The Midcoast

Adam White

3.51

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)

Shannon Bowring

4.04

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Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)

Michael Bennett

3.94

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