18 Top historical fiction books like THREADS: A Depression Era Tale by Charlotte Whitney

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THREADS: A Depression Era Tale

By: Charlotte Whitney

4.10

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

It's a boring, hardscrabble life for three sisters growing up on a Michigan farm in the throes of t…

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1. The Quilt Walk

By: Sandra Dallas

4.00

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

It’s 1863 and 10-year-old Emmy Blue Hatchett has been told by her father that soon their family wil… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Medicine Walk

By: Richard Wagamese

4.30

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the mos… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment."

-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk

"She's a tale spinner," he said. "She spins 'em right outta the air. Tells 'em whole so's you'd think yer readin' a book."

-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk

"There was a feeling in him like a bruise, a purple ache that set between his ribs. He tasted a cry building at the back of his throat. It was too familiar and made him fearful."

-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk

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3. The Pecan Man

By: Cassie Dandridge Selleck

3.70

Format: 264 pages,

The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the First Place winner of the 2… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. Rogue Lawyer

By: John Grisham

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works o… read more

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5. The Education of Dixie Dupree

By: Donna Everhart

3.46

Format: None pages, ebook

In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for he… read more

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6. Stones in the Road

By: E.B. Moore

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

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7. When the Jessamine Grows

By: Donna Everhart

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Daughters of Nantucket

By: Julie Gerstenblatt

3.73

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Set against Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three co… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes, you need tragedy to remind you of one of life's most important questions: what would you take from your home in a fire?"

-Julie Gerstenblatt, Daughters of Nantucket

"This is life we are speaking of, not a poem by Tennyson, and not one of Grimm's fables. Life is dangerous and - as we have just witnessed - it can change in an instant. An existence in which a true, …"

-Julie Gerstenblatt, Daughters of Nantucket

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9. The American Girl

By: Rachael English

4.17

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Boston 1968. Rose Moroney is seventeen, smart, spirited – and pregnant. She wants to marry her boyf… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Nurse's Secret

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.15

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

The unflinching, spellbinding new book from the acclaimed author of The Second Life of Mirielle Wes… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Moonshiner's Daughter

By: Donna Everhart

4.23

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner's Daughter ev… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. October in the Earth

By: Olivia Hawker

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powe… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Last Restaurant in Paris

By: Lily Graham

4.34

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Paris 1944. To save her people, she served the enemy. In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Medicine Woman of Galveston

By: Amanda Skenandore

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Caught in the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a female doctor who’s joined a traveling medicine … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. The Undertaker's Assistant

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An enthralling novel of historical fiction for fans of Lisa Wingate and Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Un… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"No one to mourn you in death meant no one to hurt you in life."

-Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

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16. Where Coyotes Howl

By: Sandra Dallas

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. If It Rains

By: Jennifer L. Wright

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A story of resilience and redemption set against one of America’s defining moments―the Dust Bowl. I… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Scarlet Carnation

By: Laila Ibrahim

4.14

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two wo… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The White Hare

By: Jane Johnson

3.94

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

For fans of Alice Hoffman and Kate Morton, The White Hare is a spellbinding novel about mothers and… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Story Collector

By: Evie Gaughan

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything… One hundre… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of THREADS: A Depression Era Tale by Charlotte Whitney

21. THREADS: A Depression Era Tale

By: Charlotte Whitney

4.10

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

It's a boring, hardscrabble life for three sisters growing up on a Michigan farm in the throes of t… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Whitney's THREADS: A Depression Era Tale book and Charlotte Whitney's THREADS: A Depression Era Tale

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

18 Best fiction books like THREADS: A Depression Era Tale by Charlotte Whitney

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The Quilt Walk

Sandra Dallas

4.00

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Medicine Walk

Richard Wagamese

4.30

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The Pecan Man

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

3.70

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When the Jessamine Grows

Donna Everhart

4.19

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21 best-selling fiction books like Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas

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The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

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The Paris Daughter

Kristin Harmel

4.25

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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