7 must-read historical fiction books like The Borderland by Edwin Shrake

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The Borderland

By: Edwin Shrake

3.94

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

In this epic novel, veteran writer Edwin Shrake explores the feuds and alliances among Americans, M…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Borderland by Edwin Shrake , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Malinche by Laura Esquivel, Ernesto Mestre-Reed, Jordi Castells

1. Malinche

By: Laura Esquivel , Ernesto Mestre-Reed , Jordi Castells

3.33

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

This is an extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love between the conquistador Corte… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"«La memoria», le dijo «es ver desde dentro. Es dar forma y color a las palabras. Sin imágenes no hay memoria»."

-Laura Esquivel, Malinche

"«A memória», disse-lhe, «é para ver a partir de dentro. É dar forma e cor às palavras. Sem imagens não há memória.»"

-Laura Esquivel, Malinche

"Un instante de paz donde todo se comprendía, donde todo tenía sentido, aunque no pudiera explicarse con palabras, pues no había lenguaje que lo pueda nombrar."

-Laura Esquivel, Malinche

"At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled."

-Laura Esquivel, Malinche

Cover of Dust (Silo, #3) by Hugh Howey

2. Dust (Silo, #3)

By: Hugh Howey

3.97

Format: 250 pages,

The much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy. In the aftermath of the uprising, the pe… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook

3. Atlas Shrugged

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a des… read more

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4. The Sellout

By: Paul Beatty

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more

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5. Butcher's Crossing

By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more

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6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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7. All the Sinners Bleed

By: S.A. Cosby

4.24

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

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8. My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.54

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Some girls just don't know how to die."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Is it really winning if everybody dies?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"We all become history at some point or another, right?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

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9. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

By: Candice Millard

3.84

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more

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  • audiobook
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"

-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

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10. The Night Watchman

By: Louise Erdrich

4.10

Format: 464 pages, ebook

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"But every so often the government remembered about Indians and when they did they always tried to solve Indians, thought Thomas. They solve us by getting rid of us. And do they tell us when they plan…"

-Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman

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11. The Maze (John Corey, #8)

By: Nelson DeMille

3.76

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille returns with a “genuinely thrilling” ( The New … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Rabbit Hutch

By: Tess Gunty

3.52

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

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13. Heat 2

By: Michael Mann

4.26

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Lioness

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.72

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

"Too often you couldn't mine the recollections that might keep you sane, but instead held close the memories that someday would kill you."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

"We all look forward- at least, I suppose, until you get to be my age - but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday. And it was only yesterday, wasn't it? Was…"

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

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15. Hell of a Book

By: Jason Mott

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In Hell of a Book, an African-American author sets out on a cross-country book tour to promote his … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Because God needs the little people more than he needs anyone"

-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book

"The modern author is only as important as their search results."

-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book

"From his perspective, Daddy Henry was a nice enough collection of wrinkles."

-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book

"I know all the smells: humidity, pine trees, thinly veiled racism. It’s what home feels like for me."

-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book

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16. Mr. Texas

By: Lawrence Wright

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

A sharply drawn, page-turning send up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-sel… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Island

By: Adrian McKinty

3.77

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

It was just supposed to be a family vacation. A terrible accident changed everything. You don't k… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist."

-Adrian McKinty, The Island

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18. Drowning

By: T.J. Newman

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman—whose first book Falling was… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fair Warning (Jack McEvoy, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #34) by Michael    Connelly

19. Fair Warning (Jack McEvoy, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #34)

By: Michael Connelly

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselli… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Which Way Tree

By: Elizabeth Crook

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The poignant odyssey of a tenacious young girl who braves the dangers of the Texas frontier to aven… read more

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  • westerns
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Blacktop Wasteland

By: S.A. Cosby

4.08

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Beauregard "Bug" Montage: husband, father, honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The truth had a strange way of ending an argument."

-S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

Cover of The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith

22. The Unsinkable Greta James

By: Jennifer E. Smith

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Greta James's meteoric rise to ind… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The truth is, being a parent is mostly just reacting. Sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don't. You give what you can. And at the end of the day, most of it is just being there."

-Jennifer E. Smith, The Unsinkable Greta James

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23. The Leopard Is Loose

By: Stephen Harrigan

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a five-year-old boy's world explodes one summer day when a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Borderland by Edwin Shrake

24. The Borderland

By: Edwin Shrake

3.94

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

In this epic novel, veteran writer Edwin Shrake explores the feuds and alliances among Americans, M… read more

Similar categories in Edwin Shrake's The Borderland book and Edwin Shrake's The Borderland

  • westerns
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Good Long Drive: Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter (Charles N. Prothro Texana) by Bob Phillips

25. A Good Long Drive: Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter (Charles N. Prothro Texana)

By: Bob Phillips

4.57

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In 2021, Texas Country Reporter celebrates its fiftieth season on the air. Broadcast every week on … read more

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