20 best-selling historical books like The Tubman Command by Elizabeth Cobbs

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The Tubman Command

By: Elizabeth Cobbs

3.95

Format: None pages, MP3 CD

By the bestselling author of The Hamilton Affair, the Tubman Command is an impeccably researched hi…

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1. On Wings of Eagles

By: Ken Follett

3.98

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The #1 International Bestseller now in trade paperback—with 16 pages of photos.Number-one bestselli… read more

Similar categories in Ken Follett's On Wings of Eagles book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
"Perot's father did not know what civil rights were: this was how you treated other human beings."

-Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

"...if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all."

-Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

"...if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all." Ross Perot"

-Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

"Besides, even that much money would not buy them the right to leave the country. They would probably be kept under house arrest in Tehran—white the mobs took over. Bail sometimes seemed more like a t…"

-Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

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2. The Enemy (The Enemy, #1)

By: Charlie Higson

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Charlie Higson's The Enemyis the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone o… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Higson's The Enemy (The Enemy, #1) book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • fiction

3. To Capture What We Cannot Keep

By: Beatrice Colin

3.49

Format: 16 pages, Hardcover

Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a youn… read more

Similar categories in Beatrice Colin's To Capture What We Cannot Keep book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, novelist Jennifer Chiaverini presents a stunning account of the frien… read more

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  • historical
  • civil war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

5. The Shadow Land

By: Elizabeth Kostova

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historiancomes an engrossing novel that spans the past and th… read more

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6. The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

By: Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

79-year-old Martha Anderson dreams of escaping her care home and robbing a bank. She has no intenti… read more

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7. 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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8. Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America

By: Ivan Doig

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through t… read more

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9. The Lost Carousel of Provence

By: Juliet Blackwell

3.94

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

An artist lost to history, a family abandoned to its secrets, and the woman whose search for meanin… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Blackwell's The Lost Carousel of Provence book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • american history
  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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11. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • audiobook
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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12. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Cover of The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) by Jacqueline Winspear

13. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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14. Where Waters Meet

By: Zhang Ling

3.86

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother’s secret life in an emotional and … read more

Similar categories in Zhang Ling's Where Waters Meet book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

By: H.G. Parry

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The ultimate book-lover's fantasy, featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary chara… read more

Similar categories in H.G. Parry's The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We’ve read our own myths into the world."

-H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

"Where the light was strongest, there were no buildings."

-H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

"There is not a poem on earth that doesn't make sense to anyone."

-H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

"Things in writing exist. They are not always true. But they exist."

-H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

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16. Conjure Women

By: Afia Atakora

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the h… read more

Similar categories in Afia Atakora's Conjure Women book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It was an honor to lift this burden and so the burden was light."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"It was folly to think that she was the only one that had ever had any secrets."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"Ain't every woman's daughter made from the death of the mama, somehow or another?"

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"In death he looked himself a celebration - though surely his life had never been. But here it was, close up: freedom. He'd reached finally what he'd been running toward."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

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17. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

By: Sarah Bessey

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more

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  • audiobook
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"

-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

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18. Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

By: Annabel Abbs

3.92

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, … read more

Similar categories in Annabel Abbs's Miss Eliza's English Kitchen book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"God, I think blasphemously, is in a sip of coffee."

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"I can feel Mother's furious eyes upon me, but the tug of the kitchen is stronger: my new books, the fresh perch gleaming in the larder, the trugs of field mushrooms and damsons and pippin apples stil…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"The smell of bruised apples reaches me of a sudden. And in that moment I am back in Miss Eliza's kitchen, rich with cooking odors: the nutty smell of roasting coffee berries, the syrupy scent of frui…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"But then, one bright morning, I walked out through woods of pine and birch. Foxgloves and wild clematis and briar roses were bursting from the earth. Birdsong shook the air. Swifts snipped at the sky…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

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19. Midlife Vampire Hunter (Forty Proof #9)

By: Shannon Mayer

4.71

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

I had her in my arms, only to lose her moments later. Frantic doesn't even begin to describe my sta… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Mayer's Midlife Vampire Hunter (Forty Proof #9) book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • fiction
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20. Surviving Savannah

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection fo… read more

Similar categories in Patti Callahan Henry's Surviving Savannah book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • american history
  • historical
  • civil war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Grief had been coiled quietly inside me since Papa's death 10 years ago-an absence that was as much a presence as any ghost."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

"I'd discovered that Savannah couldn't be fully explained to those who hadn't visited it. Photos, no matter how glorious, and movies, no matter how accurate, couldn't convey the way Savannah felt - se…"

-Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

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21. The Show Girl

By: Nicola Harrison

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It's 1927 when Olive McCormick moves from Minneapolis to New York City determined to become a star … read more

Similar categories in Nicola Harrison's The Show Girl book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. A Well-Behaved Woman

By: Therese Anne Fowler

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A novel of a family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, In 1883, the New York Times prints a leng… read more

Similar categories in Therese Anne Fowler's A Well-Behaved Woman book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • 19th century
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Yet she understood a truth she could never say aloud: this ideal life was still deficient. She was not wholly content. Perhaps she should be, but contentment, she had learned, lay beyond money's cons…"

-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman

"Alva did suffer when the next wave came, and again and again and again, but a short while later she brought into the Vanderbilt family a girl with tufts of dark hair and wide eyes and the sweetest li…"

-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman

"Consuelo was correct: marrying for money alone was not ideal. Alva hoped for status, too - though not for the reasons her mother had sought it, self-importance and admiration. Status gave a woman mor…"

-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman

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23. The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

3.79

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows h… read more

Similar categories in Balli Kaur Jaswal's The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Please enjoy your health while you have it. Because once your body betrays you, no comfort in the world will make up for your loss."

-Balli Kaur Jaswal, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

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24. The American Daughters

By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Carlos Ruffin's The American Daughters book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • 19th century
  • historical
  • civil war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. Marley

By: Jon Clinch

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“By some uncanny act of artistic appropriation, [Clinch] has, without imitating Dickens, entered in… read more

Similar categories in Jon Clinch's Marley book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • 19th century
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The situation is unendurable, and yet he endures."

-Jon Clinch, Marley

"The orchestra concludes to a merry burst of applause and the orchestra slides into a waltz—a much-needed chance for the dancers to catch their breath, perhaps even an opportunity for the whispering o…"

-Jon Clinch, Marley

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26. A Most Clever Girl

By: Stephanie Marie Thornton

3.81

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A Novel of an American Spy A thrilling tale of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incred… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Marie Thornton's A Most Clever Girl book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Sinners make the best saints."

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

"Nothing good lasts...Don't trust anyone who claims otherwise."

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

"No good ever comes from underestimating people...Take it from someone who knows."

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

"Let this be my first lesson to you: words matter. Use them carefully, like bullets.)"

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

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27. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

Cover of Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates by Katie  Barnes

28. Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates

By: Katie Barnes

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women’s sports and the controversy surroun… read more

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29. Trouble the Water

By: Rebecca Dwight Bruff

4.37

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a true story, Trouble the Water is about risking everything for freedom. Born a slave, … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Dwight Bruff's Trouble the Water book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • 19th century
  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The First Lady and the Rebel by Susan Higginbotham

30. The First Lady and the Rebel

By: Susan Higginbotham

3.91

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

From celebrated author Susan Higginbotham comes an incredible book about Abraham Lincoln's First La… read more

Similar categories in Susan Higginbotham's The First Lady and the Rebel book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • american history
  • historical
  • civil war
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. The Tubman Command

By: Elizabeth Cobbs

3.95

Format: None pages, MP3 CD

By the bestselling author of The Hamilton Affair, the Tubman Command is an impeccably researched hi… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command book and Elizabeth Cobbs's The Tubman Command

  • american history
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 best-selling fiction books like The Tubman Command by Elizabeth Cobbs

Transform Your Habits

The Enemy (The Enemy, #1)

Charlie Higson

3.59

To Capture What We Cannot Keep

Beatrice Colin

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

Jennifer Chiaverini

3.47

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Carousel of Provence

Juliet Blackwell

3.94

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21 best-selling fiction books like Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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