11 must-read historical books like The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen

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The Last Town on Earth

By: Thomas Mullen

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced-the 19…

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1. Palisades Park

By: Alan Brennert

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
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2. Lizzy and Jane

By: Katherine Reay

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Lizzy and Jane never saw eye to eye. But when illness brings them together, they discover they may … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
"I closed my eyes to hug him tighter and give him that elusive feeling of unconditional love and complete safety. The feeling we seek but, in this life and in this world, perhaps never quite find."

-Katherine Reay, Lizzy and Jane

"I took a deep breath and recalled every smell of my childhood: the cinnamon that dominated not only winter baking, but many of the tomato-based Italian dishes Mom loved; vanilla, always used as an un…"

-Katherine Reay, Lizzy and Jane

"My mind drifted to my last birthday. I had concealed the day away, hoping no one would find out. I realized as the sun flashed across the room that I had done that to escape disappointment. What if s…"

-Katherine Reay, Lizzy and Jane

"My knees almost buckled as I tasted blueberry honey, raspberry honey, wildflower honey, sunflower honey---I bought six jars without even thinking. "What are you going to do with all that?" Jane asked…"

-Katherine Reay, Lizzy and Jane

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3. The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7)

By: Ivan Doig

4.07

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekee… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
"Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul."

-Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7)

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4. Honolulu

By: Alan Brennert

4.08

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city. "In … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
"Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

"A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

"Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

"Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

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5. The Country of the Pointed Firs

By: Sarah Orne Jewett

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in a small, coastal town in Maine, this enduring sequence of intimate stories has assumed its r… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Carpentaria

By: Alexis Wright

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review, Carpentaria is the luminous awa… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Tuf Voyaging

By: George R.R. Martin

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From the multiple award-winning, best-selling author of The Song of Ice and Fire series: Haviland T… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Captain Blood

By: Rafael Sabatini

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Short Description: Peter Blood, an Irish physician and soldier in England in the 1680's, is wrongly… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Confessions of Max Tivoli

By: Andrew Sean Greer

4.16

Format: 76 pages,

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Double Comfort Safari Club (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, #11) by Alexander McCall Smith

10. The Double Comfort Safari Club (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, #11)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.79

Format: None pages,

Readers will agree that this touching and dramatic new installment in Alexander McCall Smith's belo… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Back Roads

By: Tawni O'Dell

3.50

Format: 218 pages,

Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed fro… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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12. The Oath (Dismas Hardy, #8)

By: John Lescroart

2.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

"People" magazine crowns him "a master." "The San Francisco Chronicle" calls his bestselling novels… read more

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  • fiction
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13. The Rapture of Canaan

By: Sheri Reynolds

3.37

Format: 120 pages,

Oprah Book Club(r) Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Alm… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Last Town on Earth

By: Thomas Mullen

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced-the 19… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mullen's The Last Town on Earth book and Thomas Mullen's The Last Town on Earth

  • adult fiction
  • world war i
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club

15. Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life

By: David Treuer

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horiz… read more

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16. As Good as Gone

By: Larry Watson

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

The American West is bestselling author Larry Watson's forte, and in this, his tenth novel, he has … read more

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17. Death Message (Tom Thorne, #7)

By: Mark Billingham

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Thorne looked at the picture, feeling the pulse quicken at the side of his neck. There were times w… read more

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18. Gap Creek

By: Robert Morgan

3.88

Format: None pages,

Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can st… read more

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19. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

By: Gail Tsukiyama

1.33

Format: 397 pages,

"Just remember," Yoshio said quietly to his grandsons. "Every day of your lives, you must always be… read more

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20. The Aviator's Wife

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in … read more

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21. The Orphan Collector

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

4.24

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
"May God forgive you for what you’ve done."

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector

"Obey the laws and wear the gauze, protect your jaws from septic paws."

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector

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22. Freiheitsgeld

By: Andreas Eschbach

3.62

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Europa in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft. Die Digitalisierung ist weit fortgeschritten, Maschinen erled… read more

Similar categories in Andreas Eschbach's Freiheitsgeld book and Thomas Mullen's The Last Town on Earth

  • fiction
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23. Half of Paradise

By: James Lee Burke

3.60

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the debut novel of James Lee Burke, before the creation of his now-famous Cajun detective,… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Angels of the Pacific by Elise Hooper

24. Angels of the Pacific

By: Elise Hooper

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Their survival would depend on sisterhood and service. Inspired by the extraordinary true storie… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"No one survives a war's front lines without ghosts clinging to them."

-Elise Hooper, Angels of the Pacific

Cover of Expulsion: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition by Sherry V. Ostroff

25. Expulsion: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition

By: Sherry V. Ostroff

4.45

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

Basseva Seneor has choices, but none are good. She can choose baptism to save herself from the brut… read more

Similar categories in Sherry V. Ostroff's Expulsion: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition book and Thomas Mullen's The Last Town on Earth

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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26. Distant Sons

By: Tim Johnston

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Last Thing You Surrender by Leonard Pitts Jr.

27. The Last Thing You Surrender

By: Leonard Pitts Jr.

4.65

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Leonard Pitts Jr.’s new historical page-… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Make sure your decency, your humanity, is the last thing you give up."

-Leonard Pitts Jr., The Last Thing You Surrender

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28. Daybreak

By: Matt Gallagher

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A disillusioned American veteran volunteers for the war in Ukraine to reconnect with a woman from h… read more

Similar categories in Matt Gallagher's Daybreak book and Thomas Mullen's The Last Town on Earth

  • war
  • fiction
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29. The End of the Day

By: Bill Clegg

3.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns w… read more

Similar categories in Bill Clegg's The End of the Day book and Thomas Mullen's The Last Town on Earth

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
"Life appeared no more than a long, bleak unraveling, a stripping away of layers, like the skins of an onion, one by one, peeled back to expose what? The truth? Did it always end in nothing? Was there…"

-Bill Clegg, The End of the Day

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30. Clover Blue

By: Eldonna Edwards

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of a 1970s commune in Northern California, Clover Blue is a compelling, be… read more

Similar categories in Eldonna Edwards's Clover Blue book and Thomas Mullen's The Last Town on Earth

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The soul cannot be stopped from searching for what it desires."

-Eldonna Edwards, Clover Blue

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31. The Godmother

By: Hannelore Cayre

3.74

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Inspiration for the major motion picture Mama Weed; translated from the international bestseller La… read more

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  • fiction

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3.79

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3.86

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4.07

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Peter Temple

3.72

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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4.29

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