6 Top historical books like In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow

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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…

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1. The Yearling

By: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

4.03

Format: 513 pages, Paperback

No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts … read more

Similar categories in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's The Yearling book and Ellen Glasgow's In This Our Life

  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Words began fights and words ended them."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

"I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

"He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

"Well, son, you cain’t go thru life chunkin’ things at all the ugly women you meet."

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

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2. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
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3. The Late George Apley

By: John P. Marquand

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A modern classic restored to print -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that charts the diminishing … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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4. 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

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  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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5. The Caine Mutiny

By: Herman Wouk

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutinyand the hit Broadway play The Caine Mu… read more

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  • 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

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Tales of the South Pacific

By: James A. Michener

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the… read more

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  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. 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

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow

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 Ellen Glasgow's In This Our Life

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
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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

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11. 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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12. The Store

By: T.S. Stribling

3.50

Format: None pages,

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1933, The Store is the second novel of Stribling's monumental trilogy… 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. Lamb in His Bosom

By: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese , Caroline Miller

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

In 1934, Caroline Miller's novel Lamb in His Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. It was th… 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. Andersonville

By: MacKinlay Kantor

4.23

Format: 690 pages, Paperback

The 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration … read more

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18. 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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19. 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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20. Dragon's Teeth (World's End Lanny Budd, #3)

By: Upton Sinclair

4.05

Format: 836 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize Winner: An American in Germany fights against the rising tide of Nazi terror in this… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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21. Guard of Honor

By: James Gould Cozzens

3.48

Format: 614 pages, Hardcover

James Gould Cozzens was one of America's most famous writers after the Second World War. His Pulitz… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels

12 Best fiction books like In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow

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The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

4.03

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Years of Grace

Margaret Ayer Barnes

3.70

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The Late George Apley

John P. Marquand

0.00

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The Town

Conrad Richter

3.75

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The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

4.07

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The Fixer

Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Safran Foer

3.98

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The Way West (The Big Sky, #2)

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

3.96

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The Town

Conrad Richter

3.75

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