10 must-read historical books like The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

By: Louise Erdrich

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Father Damien Modeste, priest to his beloved people, the Ojibwe. Modeste, near…

If you liked the historical plot in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Grass Dancer

By: Susan Power , Mona Susan Power

3.97

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

From the lore of her people, the Sioux, Susan Power presents an extraordinary debut novel rich in d… read more

Similar categories in Susan Power's The Grass Dancer book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • historical
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers On Community by Heid E. Erdrich, None, Laura Tohe

2. Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers On Community

By: Heid E. Erdrich , None , Laura Tohe

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

This anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native Ame… read more

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3. The Hidden Hand: Or, Capitola the Madcap

By: E.D.E.N. Southworth , Joanne Dobson

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

E.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century and … read more

Similar categories in E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand: Or, Capitola the Madcap book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. House Made of Dawn

By: N. Scott Momaday

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native Americ… read more

Similar categories in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

By: Louise Erdrich

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Father Damien Modeste, priest to his beloved people, the Ojibwe. Modeste, near… read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • book club

6. Sleeping on Jupiter

By: Anuradha Roy

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Hardcover

A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a d… read more

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7. Fools Crow

By: James Welch

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Set in Montana shortly after the Civil War, this novel tells of White Man's Dog (later known as Foo… read more

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8. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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9. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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10. There There

By: Tommy Orange

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's There There book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

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11. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
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13. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

Similar categories in Paul Harding's This Other Eden book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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14. 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 Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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

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15. The Thanksgiving Play

By: Larissa FastHorse

3.87

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A mismatched but well-meaning foursome sets out to devise a politically correct school play that ca… read more

Similar categories in Larissa FastHorse's The Thanksgiving Play book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • fiction
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16. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

Cover of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson

17. Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

By: Crystal Wilkinson

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful … read more

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18. This Is the Honey

By: Kwame Alexander

4.47

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising… read more

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19. Ocean's Godori

By: Elaine U. Cho

3.67

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Ocean Yoon has never felt like much of a Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haeny… read more

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  • fiction
"She asks, "Do you ever want to go back to Mars?" "It's a weird little place," he replies. "Stuck in its ways. I feel more like a Martian when I'm not there, if that makes sense."

-Elaine U. Cho, Ocean's Godori

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20. The Widow Spy

By: Megan Campisi

3.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The author of the “magnificent…complex, vivid” (New York Journal of Books) Sin Eater returns with a… read more

Similar categories in Megan Campisi's The Widow Spy book and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The Silence

By: Mary McGarry Morris

3.46

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

There was the moment eight-year-old Ruth Corrigan ran away from playing in the woods with her best … read more

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7 Best novels books like The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

Transform Your Habits

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday

3.45

Transform Your Habits

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Louise Erdrich

3.91

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

There There

Tommy Orange

3.98

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Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

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North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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