19 Best historical books like Winter's Reckoning: A Novel by Adele Holmes

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Winter's Reckoning: A Novel

By: Adele Holmes

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

William Faulkner Literary Competition, Honorable Mention  Forty-six-year-old Madeline Fairbanks has…

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Cover of Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn, George Vecsey

1. Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

By: Loretta Lynn , George Vecsey

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Born in 1935 into abject poverty, married at age thirteen, and a grandmother by age twenty-nine, Lo… read more

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2. Home

By: Toni Morrison

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

3. Whistling Past the Graveyard

By: Susan Crandall

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Hardcover

The summer of 1963 begins like any other for nine-year-old Starla Claudelle. Born to teenage parent… read more

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Cover of When the Jessamine Grows by Donna Everhart

4. 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
Cover of Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby

5. Godmersham Park

By: Gill Hornby

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of gover… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely."

-Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park

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6. The Children's Blizzard

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife reveals a little-known story of courage… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The Great Plains were immense enough to inspire the grandest, most foolish of dreams - but they were also vast enough that no one could ever explore every corner."

-Melanie Benjamin, The Children's Blizzard

"The blizzard, created when an enormous trough of cold air rushing in from the Arctic had met up with an equally enormous influx of warm, wet air from the gulf, gobbled up everything in its path. The …"

-Melanie Benjamin, The Children's Blizzard

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7. Cold Sassy Tree

By: Olive Ann Burns

4.02

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around--fast. On July … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Also, he set great store on a man doing right by his family."

-Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

"She's as dead as she'll every be, ain't she? Well, ain't she?"

-Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

"But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person."

-Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

"Grandpa had made the Lord seem so real, I wouldn't of been surprised if he'd said good night to Him. But after a long pause he just said a-men."

-Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

Cover of The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman

8. The Matchmaker's Gift

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, c… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A drop of love sometimes brings an ocean of tears."

-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift

"If you can’t decide what you want to fight for, love is as good a cause as any."

-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift

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9. The House Guest

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

3.29

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The House Guest is another diabolical cat-and-mouse thriller from Hank Phillippi Ryan—but which cha… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of All You Have to Do Is Call by Kerri Maher

10. All You Have to Do Is Call

By: Kerri Maher

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women w… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I wish you could understand what it's like to have to stop doing something you love, something important , just because your body is made to carry children. No one else can do this for me...."

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"No matter what you want to call it," Veronica said, steering clear of words like cells and fetus that might further inflame Patty, "it resides inside a fully grown woman with a life to lead. Jane hel…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"[She] hadn't given a lot of thought to the many reasons why women needed abortions, but there was such a wide range: maternal health, money, rape and incest, shocking cluelessness about how pregnancy…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

Cover of The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church

11. The Girls We Sent Away

By: Meagan Church

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“[A]n important and vital story. With exquisite writing, Church exposes a murky little pocket of hi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Boy in the Attic (Wartime Holland, #3) by Imogen Matthews

12. The Boy in the Attic (Wartime Holland, #3)

By: Imogen Matthews

4.31

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

Anna opened the letter with trembling hands. ‘My darling, if you’re reading this, I haven’t managed… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Scandalous Life of Nancy Randolph by Kate Braithwaite

13. The Scandalous Life of Nancy Randolph

By: Kate Braithwaite

4.30

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

A compelling historical retelling of the first great scandal to shake America. Victim? Temptress… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Fallen Woman's Daughter by Michelle  Cox

14. The Fallen Woman's Daughter

By: Michelle Cox

4.20

Format: 419 pages, Kindle Edition

When eight-year-old Nora arrives at the Park Ridge School for Girls in 1932, she is sure there’s be… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird by Louisa Morgan

15. The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird

By: Louisa Morgan

4.02

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s ability to see ghosts draws her into a journey of redemption and unexpected friendship in… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of My Name Is Ona Judge by Suzette D. Harrison

16. My Name Is Ona Judge

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.27

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

New Hampshire, 1796. “My name is Ona Judge,and I escaped from the household of the President of the… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"If freedom ever knocks on your door same as it did for Mathilda and Noble... open it !"

-Suzette D. Harrison, My Name Is Ona Judge

"Finding Miss Ona's journal and reading her story was a lesson in dignity. She'd been a person owned by other persons. Yet when faced with the reality of being "gifted" to yet another master, she knew…"

-Suzette D. Harrison, My Name Is Ona Judge

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17. The Madwomen of Paris

By: Jennifer Cody Epstein

3.55

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris’s notorious wome… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury by Kinley Bryan

18. Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury

By: Kinley Bryan

4.17

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

Three sisters. Two Great Lakes. One furious storm. It's 1913 and Great Lakes galley cook Sunny C… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Things Past Telling by Sheila    Williams

19. Things Past Telling

By: Sheila Williams

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The author of The Secret Woman tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Erne… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Attribution by Linda  Moore

20. Attribution

By: Linda Moore

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Art historian Cate Adamson, still grieving the death of her brother and desperate to succeed, leave… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Tomboy (Jane Benjamin, #2) by Shelley Blanton-Stroud

21. Tomboy (Jane Benjamin, #2)

By: Shelley Blanton-Stroud

4.44

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

It’s 1939. On the brink of World War II, Jane Benjamin wants to have it all. By day she hustles as … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Daughter of Snow and Secrets (Defying the Crown, #3) by Kerry Chaput

22. Daughter of Snow and Secrets (Defying the Crown, #3)

By: Kerry Chaput

4.55

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

"It is rare that the third book in a trilogy is as captivating and page-turning as the first two, b… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Killer's Wife by Susan Furlong

23. The Killer's Wife

By: Susan Furlong

3.85

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

A serial killer, a woman on the run, and an obsessive parole officer tangle in a psychological net … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of What We Carry With Us (New Hope, #1) by Karen J. Hasley

24. What We Carry With Us (New Hope, #1)

By: Karen J. Hasley

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

The inhabitants of New Hope, Nebraska, have done their best to put the Civil War with all its turmo… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Spying Eye (Henrietta and Inspector Howard, #6) by Michelle  Cox

25. A Spying Eye (Henrietta and Inspector Howard, #6)

By: Michelle Cox

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this sixth book of the series, Clive and Henrietta return to Europe in an attempt to resurrect t… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Hunt by Kelly J. Ford

26. The Hunt

By: Kelly J. Ford

3.29

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

For seventeen years, a serial murderer has used the Presley, Arkansas, Annual Hunt for the Golden E… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Rebecca of Salerno: A Novel of Rogue Crusaders, a Jewish Female Physician, and a Murder by Esther Erman

27. Rebecca of Salerno: A Novel of Rogue Crusaders, a Jewish Female Physician, and a Murder

By: Esther Erman

4.18

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

This book continues the story of Rebecca from Walter Scott’s 1820 novel Ivanhoe. The Ivanhoe bac… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Path Beneath Her Feet: A Novel by Janis Robinson Daly

28. The Path Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

By: Janis Robinson Daly

4.79

Format: 357 pages, Paperback

Steeped in rich historical detail, the emotionally charged sequel to The Unlocked Path finds Dr. El… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Winter's Reckoning: A Novel by Adele Holmes

29. Winter's Reckoning: A Novel

By: Adele Holmes

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

William Faulkner Literary Competition, Honorable Mention  Forty-six-year-old Madeline Fairbanks has… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Darker the Skies (Earth United, #2) by Bryan K. Prosek

30. The Darker the Skies (Earth United, #2)

By: Bryan K. Prosek

4.28

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

It only takes one to make a difference. Just days before Jake Saunders plans on proposing to the… read more

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Cover of The Notebooks of Honora Gorman: Fairytales, Whimsy, and Wonder by Linda Mahkovec

31. The Notebooks of Honora Gorman: Fairytales, Whimsy, and Wonder

By: Linda Mahkovec

4.37

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Not a love story—and yet a story of love. Love for a city, the artist’s way, and dreams. When the … read more

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