6 Top historical books like The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

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The Keepers of the House

By: Shirley Ann Grau

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the Houseis Shirley Ann Grau's masterwork, a m…

If you liked the historical plot in The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Fixer

By: Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Safran Foer

3.98

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Fixer (1966)… read more

Similar categories in Bernard Malamud's The Fixer book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Where to look if you've lost your mind?"

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

"In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams."

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

"I fix what's broken - except in the heart."

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

"Charity you can give even when you haven't got."

-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

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2. His Family

By: Ernest Poole

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this 1918 Pulitzer Prize winning story, widower Roger Gale struggles to deal with the way his ch… read more

Similar categories in Ernest Poole's His Family book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Years of Grace

By: Margaret Ayer Barnes

3.70

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

She fought the battle of the generations victoriously because she understood both the years of grac… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Ayer Barnes's Years of Grace book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent, #1) by Allen Drury

4. Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent, #1)

By: Allen Drury

4.11

Format: None pages,

ADVISE AND CONSENT is a study of political animals in their natural habitat and is universally reco… read more

Similar categories in Allen Drury's Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent, #1) book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Town

By: Conrad Richter

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1951 The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of … read more

Similar categories in Conrad Richter's The Town book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Scarlet Sister Mary

By: Julia Peterkin , A.J. Verdelle

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the Afri… read more

Similar categories in Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • race
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. A Bell for Adano

By: John Hersey

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople whe… read more

Similar categories in John Hersey's A Bell for Adano book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

8. The Keepers of the House

By: Shirley Ann Grau

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the Houseis Shirley Ann Grau's masterwork, a m… read more

Similar categories in Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • race
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. In This Our Life

By: Ellen Glasgow

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This novel is an analytical study of the feeling of kinship as it is manifested in the Timberlake f… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Glasgow's In This Our Life book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Reivers

By: William Faulkner

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car … read more

Similar categories in William Faulkner's The Reivers book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

By: Katherine Anne Porter

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Despite the enormous success--both critical and popular--of her novel Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Anne Porter's The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • southern
  • classics
  • fiction

12. A Fable

By: William Faulkner

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of… read more

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13. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

By: Robert Lewis Taylor

4.22

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Enjoyed by millions since its first publication in 1958 The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters is the liv… read more

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14. A Summons to Memphis

By: Peter Taylor

4.04

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphisintrod… read more

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15. Now in November

By: Nancy Hoffman , Josephine Winslow Johnson

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when J… read more

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16. Elbow Room

By: James Alan McPherson

3.37

Format: 414 pages,

A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive … read more

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17. Journey in the Dark

By: None

3.27

Format: 64 pages,

In a sensitive and full dimensioned portrayal of American life, Martin Flavin has created a memorab… read more

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18. Honey in the Horn

By: H.L. Davis

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Honey in the Horn is a novel about life in the homesteading days of Oregon, 1906-1908. It is about … read more

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19. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

By: Joyce Carol Oates , Jean Stafford

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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20. The Edge of Sadness

By: Edwin O'Connor , Amy Welborn , Ron Hansen

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A realistic Christian novel of hope in a non-Christian age."--New England Quarterly "A deeply felt… read more

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21. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Night Watch book and Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

12 Top fiction books like The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

Transform Your Habits

The Fixer

Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Safran Foer

3.98

Transform Your Habits

His Family

Ernest Poole

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Years of Grace

Margaret Ayer Barnes

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent, #1)

Allen Drury

4.11

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20 Best fiction books like Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

Transform Your Habits

Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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James

Percival Everett

4.54

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North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

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