16 Top historical books like The Great Pretenders by Laura Kalpakian

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The Great Pretenders

By: Laura Kalpakian

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Roxanne Granville is used to getting what she wants--even if she…

If you liked the historical plot in The Great Pretenders by Laura Kalpakian , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Traveling Light

By: Lynne Branard

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Driving from North Carolina to New Mexico with her three-legged dog, a strange man's ashes, and a w… read more

Similar categories in Lynne Branard's Traveling Light book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. The Ghost and Mrs. Mewer (Paws and Claws Mystery, #2)

By: Krista Davis

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Wagtail, Virginia, the top pet-friendly getaway in the United States, is gearing up for a howling g… read more

Similar categories in Krista Davis's The Ghost and Mrs. Mewer (Paws and Claws Mystery, #2) book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • fiction
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3. Kiss Carlo

By: Adriana Trigiani

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Adriana Trigiani explores the vibrant, complex Italian-American experience in this dazzling novel t… read more

Similar categories in Adriana Trigiani's Kiss Carlo book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. White Collar Girl

By: Renée Rosen

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The latest novel from the bestselling author of Dollface and What the Lady Wants takes us deep into… read more

Similar categories in Renée Rosen's White Collar Girl book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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5. Murder Most Howl (Paws and Claws Mystery, #3)

By: Krista Davis

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Mass Market Paperback

TheNew York Timesbestselling author of The Ghost and Mrs. Mewer and The Diva Steals a Chocolate Kis… read more

Similar categories in Krista Davis's Murder Most Howl (Paws and Claws Mystery, #3) book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • fiction
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6. The Unfinished Child

By: Theresa Shea

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Finalist for the Alberta Fiction Award and the Alberta Readers' Choice Award. A word-of-mouth bests… read more

Similar categories in Theresa Shea's The Unfinished Child book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • fiction
  • contemporary

7. Dead Bolt (Haunted Home Renovation Mystery, #2)

By: Juliet Blackwell

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Turner Construction's latest restoration project is a historic Queen Anne Victorian in San Francisc… read more

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8. The Coincidence of Coconut Cake

By: Amy E. Reichert

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

YOU'VE GOT MAIL meets HOW TO EAT A CUPCAKE in this delightful novel about a talented chef and the f… read more

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9. The Second Time Around

By: Mary Higgins Clark

2.88

Format: None pages,

In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark deliv… read more

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10. Murder, She Barked (Paws and Claws Mystery, #1)

By: Krista Davis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Sugar Maple Inn in Wagtail, Virginia, is the country's premiere vacation hot spot for pet owner… read more

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11. All the Stars in the Heavens

By: Adriana Trigiani

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Adriana Trigiani, the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker's Wif… read more

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12. The Whole Way Home

By: Sarah Creech

4.00

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious talent on the brink of making it big in Nashville must confront her small town past and… read more

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13. Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante (Maggie Hope Mystery, #5)

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

December 1941. Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C.… read more

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14. Manhattan Beach

By: Jennifer Egan

3.50

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she glean… read more

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15. The Winemaker's Wife

By: Kristin Harmel

4.22

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The author of the engrossing international bestseller The Room on Rue Amélie returns with a moving … read more

Similar categories in Kristin Harmel's The Winemaker's Wife book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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16. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

Similar categories in John Stamos's If You Would Have Told Me book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • adult
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17. Girls They Write Songs About

By: Carlene Bauer

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A power ballad to female friendship, Girls They Write Songs About is a thrumming, searching novel a… read more

Similar categories in Carlene Bauer's Girls They Write Songs About book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The last thing I remember: nestling up close to him, as close as I could get, the front of my knees locked into the back of his, burying my face in his shoulder blades, thinking that his skin smelled…"

-Carlene Bauer, Girls They Write Songs About

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18. Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas

By: Gill Paul

4.15

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a tale of love, sacrifice and … read more

Similar categories in Gill Paul's Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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19. The Excitements

By: C.J. Wray

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A brilliant and witty drama about two elderly female World War II veterans with a secret past who e… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Wray's The Excitements book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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20. All You Have to Do Is Call

By: Kerri Maher

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women w… read more

Similar categories in Kerri Maher's All You Have to Do Is Call book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"I wish you could understand what it's like to have to stop doing something you love, something important , just because your body is made to carry children. No one else can do this for me...."

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"No matter what you want to call it," Veronica said, steering clear of words like cells and fetus that might further inflame Patty, "it resides inside a fully grown woman with a life to lead. Jane hel…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"[She] hadn't given a lot of thought to the many reasons why women needed abortions, but there was such a wide range: maternal health, money, rape and incest, shocking cluelessness about how pregnancy…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

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21. Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

By: Naomi Hirahara

3.63

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1) book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. What Wild Women Do

By: Karma Brown

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two women's lives unexpectedly intertwine in this intriguing dual timeline novel from the #1 intern… read more

Similar categories in Karma Brown's What Wild Women Do book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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23. The Paragon Hotel

By: Lyndsay Faye

3.74

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The new and exciting historial thriller by Lyndsay Faye, author of Edgar-nominated Jane Steele and … read more

Similar categories in Lyndsay Faye's The Paragon Hotel book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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24. A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden

By: Gill Paul

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this stunning new novel, bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the unknown history of cosmetic ti… read more

Similar categories in Gill Paul's A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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25. Not Our Kind

By: Kitty Zeldis

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

With echoes of The Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel … read more

Similar categories in Kitty Zeldis's Not Our Kind book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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26. Her Last Flight

By: Beatriz Williams

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on th… read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Her Last Flight book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"But while a photograph may tell a thousand words, it doesn't tell the full story"

-Beatriz Williams, Her Last Flight

"I consider delivering some nonsense about how the cat’s had a pretty long run, wouldn’t you say, I mean I’ve never heard of a cat living nineteen years. But that’s the last thing you want to hear abo…"

-Beatriz Williams, Her Last Flight

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27. Winterland

By: Rae Meadows

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Perfection has a cost . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me and Julia Phillips’s Disa… read more

Similar categories in Rae Meadows's Winterland book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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28. Eighty Days to Elsewhere (ExLibris Adventure #1)

By: K.C. Dyer

3.39

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

"The Amazing Race" meets Around the World in 80 Days as a woman desperate to save her family bookst… read more

Similar categories in K.C. Dyer's Eighty Days to Elsewhere (ExLibris Adventure #1) book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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29. The Great Pretenders

By: Laura Kalpakian

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Roxanne Granville is used to getting what she wants--even if she… read more

Similar categories in Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
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30. The Thirteenth Husband

By: Greer Macallister

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Tearing through millions of dollars, four continents, and a hearty collection of husbands, real-lif… read more

Similar categories in Greer Macallister's The Thirteenth Husband book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. Campaign Widows

By: Aimee Agresti

3.48

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's an election season gone wild in this "irresistible" (Cosmopolitan) and "whip-smart" (Us Weekly… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Agresti's Campaign Widows book and Laura Kalpakian's The Great Pretenders

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult

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