5 must-read history books like The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81 by Cindy Wilson

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The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81

By: Cindy Wilson

3.70

Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition

The Beautiful Snow placed gold in the 2021 IPPY awards, and was a finalist in the 2020 National Ind…

If you liked the history plot in The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81 by Cindy Wilson , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Reliquary (Pendergast, #2) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

1. Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by … read more

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2. Skating Shoes (Shoes, #7)

By: Noel Streatfeild

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A skating champion. An unlikely friendship. A fateful pair of white boots. Read the classic that ha… read more

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"Stick to your dreams, don’t let anyone put you off what you want to do."

-Noel Streatfeild, Skating Shoes (Shoes, #7)

"Twelve shillings for your sister's skates, and two shillings for your dreams."

-Noel Streatfeild, Skating Shoes (Shoes, #7)

"During the last six months the little girl Harriet, without her noticing it, had disappeared and a new Harriet had taken her place. A Harriet who looked much the same outside, but was more of a perso…"

-Noel Streatfeild, Skating Shoes (Shoes, #7)

Cover of The Ugly Duchess (Fairy Tales, #4) by Eloisa James

3. The Ugly Duchess (Fairy Tales, #4)

By: Eloisa James

4.50

Format: 532 pages, Mass Market Paperback

How can she dare to imagine he loves her... when all London calls her The Ugly Duchess? Theodora Sa… read more

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4. The Astronaut Wives Club

By: Lily Koppel

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras f… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By: Caroline Fraser

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Lit… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Who Am I? Identity in Christ

By: Jerry Bridges

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

In Who am I? Jerry Bridges unpacks Scripture to give Christians eight clear, interlocking, illumina… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah  Miller

7. Caroline: Little House, Revisited

By: Sarah Miller

3.63

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, har… read more

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Cover of Death on the Prairie (Chloe Ellefson Mystery, #6) by Kathleen Ernst

8. Death on the Prairie (Chloe Ellefson Mystery, #6)

By: Kathleen Ernst

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Chloe Ellefson and her sister, Kari, have long dreamed of visiting each historic site dedicated to … read more

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9. West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 (Little House #11)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Roger Lea MacBride , None

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In 1915, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled by train from her home in Missouri to San Francisco. Laura's… read more

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10. Paradise Valley (Daughters of Caleb Bender, #1)

By: Dale Cramer

4.31

Format: 32 pages,

An Amish settlement in Ohio has run afoul of a law requiring their children to attend public school… read more

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11. I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality

By: Jerold J. Kreisman , Hal Straus

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

"AM I LOSING MY MIND?" People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frig… read more

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12. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more

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"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

13. Apple Turnover Murder (Hannah Swensen, #13)

By: Joanne Fluke

4.23

Format: 187 pages,

Early summer brings plenty of work for baker Hannah Swensen, even before Mayor Bascomb's wife drops… read more

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14. A Wicked Snow

By: Gregg Olsen

3.93

Format: None pages,

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15. The Novice's Tale (Sister Frevisse, #1)

By: Margaret Frazer

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It is the year of Our Lord's grace 1431, and the nuns of England's St. Frideswide sweetly chant the… read more

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16. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

By: Alison Arngrim

4.21

Format: 539 pages,

For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on o… read more

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17. Belgravia

By: Julian Fellowes

3.77

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY The New York Times bestselling novel about scandalous secrets and… read more

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"I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart."

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

"Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an invest…"

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

"She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible unti…"

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

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18. Life, Loss, and Puffins

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.42

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

An exhilarating and emotional novel about grief, hope, friendship, and taking life one beautiful an… read more

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19. Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It

By: Benjamin Bikman

4.12

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A scientist reveals the groundbreaking evidence linking many major diseases, including cancer, diab… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery, #2) by Dianne Freeman

20. A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery, #2)

By: Dianne Freeman

3.92

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

The adventurous Countess Harleigh finds out just how far some will go to safeguard a secret in Dian… read more

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Cover of Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

21. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine by Robert H. Lustig

22. Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

By: Robert H. Lustig

4.28

Format: 416 pages, ebook

An urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neur… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Marmee

By: Sarah Miller

4.25

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott's beloved Little Women, fro… read more

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"Waking up every day and remembering Papa's gone to the front is like biting into a bonbon with nothing in the center."

-Sarah Miller, Marmee

"I have been wrong to hide my temper so completely. All this time I have been inadvertently teaching my girls that goodness is the absence of faults. An unattainable goal that can only lead to a lifet…"

-Sarah Miller, Marmee

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24. Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

By: Melissa Gilbert

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilari… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Everyone across America had the same idea at the same time. Chickens became the toilet paper of the spring."

-Melissa Gilbert, Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

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25. Docia's Diary: A Novel

By: Elizabeth Fairweather

4.34

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Docia Ingalls was more than just the little sister of Charles "Pa" Ingalls from the Little House bo… read more

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26. Long Black Stockings: A turn-of-the-century memoir

By: Ethel Benson Soper

4.10

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

“Long Black Stockings by Ethel Soper is one of the most delightful and rewarding memoirs I have rea… read more

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27. Tennessee Wildcat: On the Trail of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Mr. Edwards

By: Robynne Elizabeth Miller

3.82

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Mr. Edwards … that colorful Tennessee Wildcat Laura Ingalls Wilder so deeply loved. He helped Pa bu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Lighten the Load (Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail Book 2)

By: David Fitz-Gerald

4.52

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

After a devastating tragedy, Dorcas Moon faces brutal choices in the unforgiving wilderness. An … read more

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29. Days of Sunshine Days of Shadow

By: Krista Traer

3.62

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

This book is a chronological timeline of the historical events in Laura’s life, as well as her imme… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. The Three Faces of Nellie: The Real Story Behind Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Nellie Oleson"

By: Robynne Elizabeth Miller

3.79

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

Whether you love her, hate her, or love to hate her, Nellie Oleson is one of most recognizable lite… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81

By: Cindy Wilson

3.70

Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition

The Beautiful Snow placed gold in the 2021 IPPY awards, and was a finalist in the 2020 National Ind… read more

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11 best-selling nonfiction books like The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81 by Cindy Wilson

Transform Your Habits

The Astronaut Wives Club

Lily Koppel

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Caroline Fraser

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Who Am I? Identity in Christ

Jerry Bridges

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It

Benjamin Bikman

4.12

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Transform Your Habits

A Moment in Time (Lone Star Brides, #2)

Tracie Peterson

4.10

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Beloved Hope (Heart of the Frontier Book #2)

Tracie Peterson

3.67

Transform Your Habits

A Matter of Heart (Lone Star Brides, #3)

Tracie Peterson

3.36

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The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Cara Robertson

3.40

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