10 Top historical books like Buffalo Coat by Carol Ryrie Brink

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Buffalo Coat

By: Carol Ryrie Brink

4.02

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1944, Buffalo Coat spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller lis…

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Cover of Six Impossible Things (Waynes of Wood Mount #3) by Elizabeth Cadell, None

1. Six Impossible Things (Waynes of Wood Mount #3)

By: Elizabeth Cadell , None

4.11

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

First time on Kindle! The Village of Greenhurst, headquarters for the Wayne family, is aflutter wit… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

2. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By: John Steinbeck

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more

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Cover of The Blue Sky of Spring (Waynes of Wood Mount #2) by Elizabeth Cadell, Aparna Bera

3. The Blue Sky of Spring (Waynes of Wood Mount #2)

By: Elizabeth Cadell , Aparna Bera

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. Beautiful Ruins

By: Jess Walter

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Giants in the Earth

By: O.E. Rølvaag

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Giants in the Earth(Norwegian: Verdens Grode) is a novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Ro… read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Homer Price

By: Robert McCloskey

4.09

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; wh… read more

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  • fiction
"By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stac…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

"Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

7. The Chosen

By: Chaim Potok

3.89

Format: 384 pages,

Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, thei… read more

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8. Letters from Yellowstone

By: None

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1898, A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram--a spirited young woman with a love for botany--i… read more

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9. Housekeeping

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.94

Format: 450 pages,

A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more

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10. Painted Horses

By: Malcolm Brooks

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to t… read more

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11. The Lark Shall Sing (Waynes of Wood Mount, #1)

By: Elizabeth Cadell

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

The six Waynes, with no parents to guide them, are six violent individualists ranging in age from n… read more

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12. Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1)

By: Amy Stewart

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs. Cons… read more

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13. Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

By: William Kittredge

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

William Kittredge's stunning memoir is at once autobiography, a family chronicle, and a Westerner's… read more

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Cover of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

14. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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  • historical
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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15. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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16. The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.41

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3) by Shaun Bythell

17. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)

By: Shaun Bythell

4.11

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more

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18. When All Is Said

By: Anne Griffin

4.02

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

A tale of a single night. The story of a lifetime. If you had to pick five people to sum up your… read more

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  • fiction
"I tried to order the words jumbling about in my head. But they scurried about like a pack of frightened sheep, not one of them brave enough to take the lead."

-Anne Griffin, When All Is Said

"When I met your mother, it felt like she'd filled a small piece of the hole that Tony'd left behind. Certainly, her love took the edges off his loss a bit. It was like bubble wrap in a way. Keeping h…"

-Anne Griffin, When All Is Said

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19. The Last Chance Library

By: Freya Sampson

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts a… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2) by Jessie Burton

20. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."

-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

Cover of The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2) by Elly Griffiths

21. The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.93

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

22. Miss Benson's Beetle

By: Rachel Joyce

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and M… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"But there were moments of joy. Even at its worst, life will offer such moments."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"History is not made up by events alone, but also by what lies between the lines."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

Cover of The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf (Detective Varg, #4) by Alexander McCall Smith

23. The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf (Detective Varg, #4)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.15

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

In the new Detective Varg novel, Ulf Varg's future with the Department of Sensitive Crimes is put t… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Wild and Distant Seas by Tara Karr Roberts

24. Wild and Distant Seas

By: Tara Karr Roberts

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to cha… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. The Warsaw Orphan

By: Kelly Rimmer

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond t… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia

26. Nowhere for Very Long

By: Brianna Madia

4.11

Format: 304 pages, ebook

In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more

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"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."

-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long

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27. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

By: Annie Lyons

4.31

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

It's never too late to start living. Infused with the emotional power of Me Before You and the i… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life is precious and as long as we have a reason to continue, we should follow that path."

-Annie Lyons, The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

"Why is life so sad sometimes?"..."Perhaps it's the universe's way of making you appreciate the happier times"

-Annie Lyons, The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

"I always used to think it was silly when people said life was short, but I completely get that now. We're here for such a limited time. The least we can do is try to be kind to the people around us. …"

-Annie Lyons, The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

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28. The Color of Air

By: Gail Tsukiyama

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden comes a go… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. The Twilight Garden

By: Sara Nisha Adams

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There's life all around you, if you just take the time to look for it... In a small pocket of th… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild by Nate Schweber

30. This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild

By: Nate Schweber

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the High Plains Book Award | Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of Ameri… read more

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  • historical
Cover of Buffalo Coat by Carol Ryrie Brink

31. Buffalo Coat

By: Carol Ryrie Brink

4.02

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1944, Buffalo Coat spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller lis… read more

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  • novels
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  • historical fiction

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4.11

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3.79

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