6 best-selling womens books like The First Lady and the Rebel by Susan Higginbotham

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The First Lady and the Rebel

By: Susan Higginbotham

3.91

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

From celebrated author Susan Higginbotham comes an incredible book about Abraham Lincoln's First La…

If you liked the womens plot in The First Lady and the Rebel by Susan Higginbotham , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America

By: Allison Pataki

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

A riveting historical novel about Peggy Shippen Arnold, the cunning wife of Benedict Arnold and mas… read more

Similar categories in Allison Pataki's The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • historical
  • american history
  • adult
  • historical fiction

2. Mrs. Hemingway

By: Naomi Wood

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

A riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangl… read more

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3. America's First Daughter

By: Stephanie Dray , Laura Kamoie

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources,… read more

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4. The Birth of Venus

By: Sarah Dunant

4.32

Format: 80 pages,

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young… read more

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5. I, Eliza Hamilton

By: Susan Holloway Scott

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this beautifully written novel of historical fiction, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott te… read more

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6. The President’s Wife

By: Tracey Enerson Wood

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of the First Lady who clandestinely assumed the presidency, from the USA Today… read more

Similar categories in Tracey Enerson Wood's The President’s Wife book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. A Hundred Crickets Singing

By: Cathy Gohlke

4.30

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In wars eighty years apart, two young women living on the same Appalachian estate determine to aid … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Gohlke's A Hundred Crickets Singing book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • historical
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No longer was it a hundred crickets screeching, but a choir, a hundred crickets singing a chorus of praise, just like the Scripture that she and Mis Lill had written in their letters for years. "The …"

-Cathy Gohlke, A Hundred Crickets Singing

"You can push all that past aside if you want to, but until you understand where people around here came from and why they think the way they do, you won't be able to help them get beyond it. You can'…"

-Cathy Gohlke, A Hundred Crickets Singing

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8. Mockingbird Summer

By: Lynda Rutledge

4.25

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Rutledge's Mockingbird Summer book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • family
  • historical fiction
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9. Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker returns to her most famous heroi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Chiaverini's Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • american history
  • historical
  • civil war
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Stephanie Dray's Becoming Madam Secretary book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • american history
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Porcelain Moon

By: Janie Chang

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs a… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The House of Lincoln

By: Nancy Horan

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with The Ho… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Horan's The House of Lincoln book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • historical
  • civil war
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Some day she [Ana Ferreira Evans] would write what she had learned about love in her widowhood. Love needs a place to go. Your heart doesn't stop making it when you lose the single adored person of y…"

-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln

"She [Ana Ferreira Evans] remembered a remark [Mrs.] Alsop had once made. Some people are willfully ignorant. They aren't stupid--they simply choose to be oblivious. That way they aren't responsible f…"

-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln

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13. The Nurse Behind the Gates

By: Shari J. Ryan

4.40

Format: 376 pages, ebook

Dachau, 1942. Emilie has been told she’s here to nurse evil men. But the first patient she sees in … read more

Similar categories in Shari J. Ryan's The Nurse Behind the Gates book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • historical
  • historical fiction
"The empty seats belong to the other Jewish kids who were in my class. I’m the only one left."

-Shari J. Ryan, The Nurse Behind the Gates

"If you had a secret - one that could destroy your life if shared, what would you do to protect it?"

-Shari J. Ryan, The Nurse Behind the Gates

"There’s no clearer definition of war than the sight of barbed wired fences surrounding dark fields muddied by the sky’s tears."

-Shari J. Ryan, The Nurse Behind the Gates

"You’re right to fight for everything you believe in, and I’ll do “the same, but only until it is too dangerous. I won’t risk our lives for a fight we won’t win."

-Shari J. Ryan, The Nurse Behind the Gates

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14. The American Adventuress

By: C.W. Gortner

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A big, juicy biopic novel by the author of Mademoiselle Chanel about the scandalous life of Jennie … read more

Similar categories in C.W. Gortner's The American Adventuress book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr: A Riveting Untold Story of the American Revolution

By: Susan Holloway Scott

4.23

Format: 501 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a woman and events forgotten by history, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott weaves… read more

Similar categories in Susan Holloway Scott's The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr: A Riveting Untold Story of the American Revolution book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • romance
  • american history
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Royal Librarian

By: Daisy Wood

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations… Windsor, 1940: Sec… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • womens
  • historical fiction
"The room smelt exactly as a library should: of old paper, leather and sweet, sticky glue, overlaid with furniture polish and the smoke from a thousand dead fires."

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

"She loved the calm regularity of librarianship; each book a treasure trove of information or experience that would be categorised, labelled and stored in its rightful place. And she could think of no…"

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

"Most walls of the family's apartment were lined with bookshelves, and more volumes were stacked in boxes under every bed and table. Her mother often threatened to throw them out with the rubbish, and…"

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

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17. Sisters of Fortune

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Based on the true story of the Fortune sisters, three young women each at a crossroads when they bo… read more

Similar categories in Anna Lee Huber's Sisters of Fortune book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • romance
  • historical
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. American Daughters

By: Piper Huguley

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In the vein of America’s First Daughter , Piper Huguley’s historical novel delves into the remarkab… read more

Similar categories in Piper Huguley's American Daughters book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • historical
  • american history
  • adult
  • historical fiction
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19. The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan

By: Eliza Knight

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the uni… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Knight's The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • historical
  • historical fiction
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20. The First Actress

By: C.W. Gortner

4.07

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

The tumultuous life of the legendary French star Sarah Bernhardt--the world's first modern actress … read more

Similar categories in C.W. Gortner's The First Actress book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of The First Lady and the Rebel by Susan Higginbotham

21. The First Lady and the Rebel

By: Susan Higginbotham

3.91

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

From celebrated author Susan Higginbotham comes an incredible book about Abraham Lincoln's First La… read more

Similar categories in Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel book and Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel

  • romance
  • american history
  • historical
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook

13 Top adult books like The First Lady and the Rebel by Susan Higginbotham

Transform Your Habits

The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America

Allison Pataki

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The President’s Wife

Tracey Enerson Wood

3.66

Transform Your Habits

A Hundred Crickets Singing

Cathy Gohlke

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

Jennifer Chiaverini

3.67

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21 must-read fiction books like The American Adventuress by C.W. Gortner

Transform Your Habits

Finding Margaret Fuller

Allison Pataki

4.11

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An American Beauty

Shana Abe

4.15

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Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl

Renée Rosen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Mitford Affair

Marie Benedict

3.70

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