9 must-read historical fiction books like South of Luck by Jim Guhl

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South of Luck

By: Jim Guhl

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the summer of 1945, and sixteen-year-old ruffian Milo Egerson has been shipped from his Minnea…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in South of Luck by Jim Guhl , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

By: Martin Short

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this engaging memoir, written with heart, wisdom, and a huge helping of hilarity, Martin Short s… read more

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"To my beloved friends, there’s simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I’d look for new friends and get them."

-Martin Short, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

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2. What We Keep

By: Elizabeth Berg

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Do you ever really know your mother, your daughter, the people in your family? In this rich and rew… read more

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  • historical fiction
"I was downstairs, reading." " Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared. "Yes, now," she said. "It's nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark and s…"

-Elizabeth Berg, What We Keep

"I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count freckles reaches out toward herself and that reflection has turned into …"

-Elizabeth Berg, What We Keep

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3. Dollbaby

By: Laura Lane McNeal

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Top Ten Finalist for Best Historical Novel, Goodreads Choice Awards, and a LibraryReads and Okra … read more

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  • historical fiction
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4. Monkeewrench (Monkeewrench, #1)

By: P.J. Tracy

4.12

Format: 421 pages, Mass Market Paperback

People are dying for the new computer game by the software company Monkeewrench. Literally. With Se… read more

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"We should have brought a flashlight.' 'Shut up. Where the f*** is the door?' 'You say 'f***' a lot when you're nervous.' 'Who's nervous?' There was a hollow thunk as Roadrunner collided with the stee…"

-P.J. Tracy, Monkeewrench (Monkeewrench, #1)

5. Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1)

By: Jane Smiley

3.52

Format: 257 pages,

On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pas… read more

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6. Someone

By: Alice McDermott

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

An ordinary life - its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confus… read more

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7. Tamarack County (Cork O'Connor, #13)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.85

Format: None pages, ebook

Violence and murder blow into Minnesota's sleepy Tamarack County as ex-sheriff Cork O'Connor return… read more

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8. Künstlers in Paradise

By: Cathleen Schine

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more

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  • historical fiction
"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"

-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

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9. Last Summer on State Street

By: Toya Wolfe

4.22

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, c… read more

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  • historical fiction
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10. All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

By: William Landay

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the chi… read more

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"When a writer goes quiet, nothing is blocking and nothing is being blocked. He is just empty."

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"In small letters, now a little blurry, it read Omnia mea mecum porto, Latin for “All that is mine I carry with me."

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"What about you, Mr. Glover. The smartest man in the room is usually the quietest. What do you think about all this?"

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"Who among you would stand up, step out of that jury box, and trade places with me? Who would be accused of a violent murder based on…nothing? How would you prove your innocence when there was never a…"

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

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11. The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County

By: Claire Swinarski

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious yo… read more

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"All these kids today thought you needed so much time. Time, time, time! As if another year would show you the kind of father a person could be, or how the nightmares about battlefields in Vietnam wou…"

-Claire Swinarski, The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County

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12. Yellow Wife

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.43

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Wench and Twelve Years a Slave, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman … read more

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  • historical fiction
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13. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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14. The Nigerwife

By: Vanessa Walters

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, an… read more

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"You have to go on with things, or things will get on without you."

-Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife

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15. Raft of Stars

By: Andrew J. Graff

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of … read more

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  • historical fiction
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16. The Ways We Hide

By: Kristina McMorris

3.98

Format: 536 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday comes a sweeping World War II tale … read more

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  • historical fiction
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17. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

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18. The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

4.50

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more

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  • historical fiction
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

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19. South of Luck

By: Jim Guhl

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the summer of 1945, and sixteen-year-old ruffian Milo Egerson has been shipped from his Minnea… read more

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  • historical fiction
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20. Thistles & Thorns

By: Jessica Lee Peterson

4.70

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Thistles & Thorns is a mother’s personal memoir of surviving murdered children, seeking justice, re… read more

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21. Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend

By: M.J. Wassmer

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

White Lotus meets Kevin Wilson in this whip-smart social satire about a man who finds himself trapp… read more

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Kelly Rimmer

4.13

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