10 Top historical fiction books like House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

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House Made of Dawn

By: N. Scott Momaday

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native Americ…

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Cover of The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer

1. The Fixer

By: Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Safran Foer

3.98

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Fixer (1966)… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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"In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams."

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

"Where to look if you've lost your mind?"

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

"I fix what's broken - except in the heart."

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

"Charity you can give even when you haven't got."

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

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2. Winter in the Blood

By: James Welch

3.82

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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"He had followed the calendar, the years, time- Bird farted. And it came to me, as though it were riding one moment of the gusting wind, as though bird had had it in him all the time and had passed it…"

-James Welch, Winter in the Blood

Cover of Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent, #1) by Allen Drury

3. Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent, #1)

By: Allen Drury

4.11

Format: None pages,

ADVISE AND CONSENT is a study of political animals in their natural habitat and is universally reco… read more

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Cover of House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

4. House Made of Dawn

By: N. Scott Momaday

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native Americ… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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5. The Known World

By: Edward P. Jones

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known Worldis a daring and ambitious work by… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
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  • historical fiction
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6. Power

By: Linda Hogan

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

When sixteen-year-old Omishto, a member of the Taiga Tribe, witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther-a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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7. The Reivers

By: William Faulkner

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car … read more

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  • american
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  • historical fiction
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8. The Optimist's Daughter

By: Eudora Welty

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South a… read more

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  • american
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9. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

By: Katherine Anne Porter

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Despite the enormous success--both critical and popular--of her novel Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
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10. The Surrounded

By: D'Arcy McNickle , Lawrence W. Towner

3.68

Format: 593 pages, Paperback

As The Surrounded opens, Archilde Leon has just returned from the big city to his father's ranch on… read more

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  • historical fiction

11. A Fable

By: William Faulkner

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of… read more

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12. Now in November

By: Nancy Hoffman , Josephine Winslow Johnson

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when J… read more

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13. Fools Crow

By: James Welch

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Set in Montana shortly after the Civil War, this novel tells of White Man's Dog (later known as Foo… read more

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14. The Lives of Rocks

By: Rick Bass

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Rick Bass's new collection contains a broad range of characters and settings: the title story conce… read more

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15. Mean Spirit

By: Linda Hogan

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

SELECTED BY THE LITERARY GUILD "Extraordinary...If you take up no other novel this year, or next, t… read more

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16. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

By: Joyce Carol Oates , Jean Stafford

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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17. The Edge of Sadness

By: Edwin O'Connor , Amy Welborn , Ron Hansen

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A realistic Christian novel of hope in a non-Christian age."--New England Quarterly "A deeply felt… read more

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18. Ceremony

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more

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19. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
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  • historical fiction
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20. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
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  • historical fiction
  • novels
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21. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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