6 Top historical fiction books like Drowning Ruth: A Novel by Christina Schwarz

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Drowning Ruth: A Novel

By: Christina Schwarz

3.66

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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If you liked the historical fiction plot in Drowning Ruth: A Novel by Christina Schwarz , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Fall on Your Knees

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

3.97

Format: 672 pages, Mass Market Paperback

They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach… read more

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"She is why purgatory was invented."

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

"To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain."

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

"Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

"My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all."

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

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2. Perfect Match

By: Jodi Picoult

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Picoult brings to life a female prosecutor whose cherished family is shattered when she learns that… read more

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"Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."

-Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

"You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back."

-Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

"If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made."

-Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

"Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury."

-Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

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3. Songs of the Humpback Whale

By: Jodi Picoult

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Sometimes finding your own voice is a matter of listening to the heart.... Jodi Picoult's powerful … read more

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4. Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey

By: Rachel Simon

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Rachel Simon's sister Beth is a spirited woman who lives intensely and often joyfully, despite her … read more

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Cover of Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson

5. Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

By: Kate Clifford Larson

3.30

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted a… read more

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6. Crash & Burn (Tessa Leoni, #3)

By: Lisa Gardner

3.45

Format: None pages, Hardcover

My name is Nicky Frank. Except, most likely, it isn't. Nicole Frank shouldn't have been able to su… read more

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7. The Pilot's Wife

By: Anita Shreve

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyon… read more

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8. The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers

By: Harry Bernstein

3.76

Format: 205 pages,

There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the N… read more

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9. Before You Know Kindness

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of Midwives, presents his most ambitious and multi-layered nove… read more

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10. Same Kind of Different as Me

By: Lynn Vincent , Ron Hall , Denver Moore

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escap… read more

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11. White Oleander

By: Janet Fitch

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleandertells the unforgettable story … read more

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12. The Sound of Glass

By: Karen White

0.00

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling author of A Long Time Gonenow explores a Southern family's buried his… read more

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13. Icy Sparks

By: Gwyn Hyman Rubio

3.78

Format: None pages,

Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl growing up in the mountains of E… read more

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14. The Widower's Wife

By: Cate Holahan

3.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ana Bacon, a beautiful young wife and mother, tumbled off a cruise ship into dark and deadly waters… read more

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15. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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  • historical fiction
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16. The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

By: Rene Denfeld

3.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi—the investigator with an uncanny ability for f… read more

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"What if we are all capable of lying to ourselves? But the story didn’t bother Naomi. Instead it reassured her confirming that the stories we tell ourselves have more meaning than the facts. That does…"

-Rene Denfeld, The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

"People had a drive to immortalize their past, even the evil stuff, like Abu Ghraib or the Holocaust. They liked to take pictures, keep journals, because they believed in what they were doing. No one,…"

-Rene Denfeld, The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

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17. Just Some Stupid Love Story

By: Katelyn Doyle

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A debut about a rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love and a divorce attorney who does, f… read more

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18. The Girl from Berlin (Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart, #5)

By: Ronald H. Balson

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An old friend calls Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart to his famous Italian restaurant to enlist … read more

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  • historical fiction
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19. After Oz

By: Gordon McAlpine

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Gripping and emotionally riveting, this whimsical tale is an empowering and timely retelling of The… read more

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Cover of Drowning Ruth: A Novel by Christina Schwarz

20. Drowning Ruth: A Novel

By: Christina Schwarz

3.66

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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Cover of The Book of Witching by C.J.  Cooke

21. The Book of Witching

By: C.J. Cooke

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and reve… read more

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  • historical fiction

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