13 Top historical books like Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Cover of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier

3.98

Format: 350 pages,

Cold Mountainis a novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's…

If you liked the historical plot in Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2) by Michael Shaara

1. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

By: Michael Shaara

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more

Similar categories in Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2) book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • classics
  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Never let them see you run."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"Southern women like their men religious and a little mad."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

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2. The Red Tent

By: Anita Diamant

2.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within th… read more

Similar categories in Anita Diamant's The Red Tent book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. The Thorn Birds

By: Colleen McCullough

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Powered by the dreams and struggles of three generations, The Thorn Birdsis the epic saga of a fami… read more

Similar categories in Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • romance
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain by None, John Blofeld, Red Pine

4. The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain

By: None , John Blofeld , Red Pine

3.98

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A Zen-Taoist poetry classic, in a handsome Chinese-English format This definitive translation of Ha… read more

Similar categories in None's The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • classics
Cover of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

5. Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier

3.98

Format: 350 pages,

Cold Mountainis a novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's… read more

Similar categories in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • romance
  • classics
  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

6. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

Similar categories in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

7. Roots: The Saga of an American Family

By: Alex Haley

3.33

Format: None pages,

When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about th… read more

Similar categories in Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

8. Snow Falling on Cedars

By: David Guterson

3.91

Format: None pages,

Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric -a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken an… read more

Similar categories in David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more

Similar categories in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • romance
  • classics
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

10. Atonement

By: Ian McEwan

4.06

Format: 663 pages,

Ian McEwan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides a… read more

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11. The Cider House Rules

By: John Irving

3.76

Format: 180 pages,

Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine, Homer Wells has become the protege of Dr.… read more

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12. The Poisonwood Bible

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evan… read more

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13. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Korshak's Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Cover of Burned Out by Dean Mafako

14. Burned Out

By: Dean Mafako

4.30

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more

Similar categories in Dean Mafako's Burned Out book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • fiction
"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

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15. His Forefathers and Mick

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.36

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

"His forefathers and Mick", traces the riveting saga of the Kramer family across three tumultuous g… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's His Forefathers and Mick book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

"Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has  been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern."

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

Cover of Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  Ritz

16. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

By: K. Ritz

4.33

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more

Similar categories in K. Ritz's Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

Cover of A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One by Michael G. Kramer

17. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 470 pages, ebook

Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • war
"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

Cover of Magenta by John Payton Foden

18. Magenta

By: John Payton Foden

4.27

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human c… read more

Similar categories in John Payton Foden's Magenta book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There was a story out there, in a scary place, and she had to bear witness."

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

"She polished her words like smooth river rocks lying perfectly organized in brilliant rainbow shades under crystal clear, slow moving water."

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

"Stefan, please, get to work.  Take a picture of this. You want a photo? Of this? War in all its ugliness.  A Pulitzer Prize awaits. You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime? Yes.  I do. Yo…"

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

"Stefan with his camera at the ready photographed a church and mosque and synagogue reduced to a cross and a crescent and a star, solitary monuments to what people once believed.  They silently passed…"

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

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19. 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 Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

20. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

Similar categories in David Grann's The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • historical
Cover of The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1) by Jean M. Auel

21. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)

By: Jean M. Auel

4.09

Format: 516 pages, Kindle Edition

This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the bounda… read more

Similar categories in Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1) book and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Más vale ser un hombre viejo que un muchacho que se cree hombre."

-Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)

"The test is not just something hard to do, the test is knowing you can do it."

-Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)

"Ese aperitivo que es el hambre contribuía a que todo tuviera mejor sabor aún."

-Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)

"Ayla loved these moments of solitude. Basking in the sun, feeling relaxed and content, she thought about nothing in particular, except the beautiful day and how happy she was."

-Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)

14 Top fiction books like Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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Michael Shaara

4.33

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Anita Diamant

2.60

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Colleen McCullough

3.20

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Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

3.98

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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

4.14

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Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

4.75

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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

Hilary Mantel

4.00

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A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

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