11 Top fiction books like The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan

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The Painted Girls

By: Cathy Marie Buchanan

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Currency Lass by Tea Cooper

1. The Currency Lass

By: Tea Cooper

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

She can run but she can't hide... As her father's only heir, Catherine Cottingham expects to inh… read more

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  • historical fiction
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2. The Bird Sisters

By: Rebecca Rasmussen

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

When a bird flies into a window in Spring Green, Wisconsin, sisters Milly and Twiss get a visit. Tw… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Cleopatra's Daughter

By: Michelle Moran

3.60

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found ea… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Moran's Cleopatra's Daughter book and Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of 22 Britannia Road by Robin Sachs, Amanda Hodgkinson

4. 22 Britannia Road

By: Robin Sachs , Amanda Hodgkinson

2.64

Format: 110 pages,

A tour de force that echoes modern classics like Suite Francaise and The Postmistress. At the end o… read more

Similar categories in Robin Sachs's 22 Britannia Road book and Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan

5. The Painted Girls

By: Cathy Marie Buchanan

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls book and Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • art
  • canada
  • historical
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of El Paso by Winston Groom

6. El Paso

By: Winston Groom

5.00

Format: None pages,

Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth cent… read more

Similar categories in Winston Groom's El Paso book and Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

7. The White Bone

By: Barbara Gowdy

3.75

Format: None pages,

A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many re… read more

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8. The House I Loved

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Timesbestselling author ofSarah's Keyand A Secret Keptcomes an absorbing new nove… read more

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9. Rebel Queen

By: Michelle Moran

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the 1850s, it expects a quick and easy conquest… read more

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10. I Always Loved You

By: Robin Oliveira

4.08

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas's great romance from the New York Times bestselling author … read more

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11. Mary Coin

By: Marisa Silver

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover

*An NPR Best Book of 2013* *A BBC Best Book of 2013* In her first novel since The God of War,the cr… read more

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12. The House Girl

By: Tara Conklin

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped hous… 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 Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • 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

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14. 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

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"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

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15. The Virgins of Venice

By: Gina Buonaguro

4.26

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

2023 1st Place Chaucer Award Winner for Best Historical Fiction! In sixteenth-century Venice, on… read more

Similar categories in Gina Buonaguro's The Virgins of Venice book and Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Lice breeds lice, and sin breeds sin."

-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

"Venetians prefer being merchants to philosophers."

-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

"To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars."

-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

"Despite the convent walls, when I was writing, my mind was free."

-Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

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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 Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • 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 Red Clay, Running Waters by Leslie K. Simmons

17. Red Clay, Running Waters

By: Leslie K. Simmons

4.48

Format: 684 pages, Paperback

Red Clay, Running Waters is the little-known story of John Ridge, a Cherokee man dedicated to his p… read more

Similar categories in Leslie K. Simmons's Red Clay, Running Waters book and Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • historical
  • historical fiction
"He was her fire, had always been from the start, his burning, radiant spirit, a beacon worthy of following."

-Leslie K. Simmons, Red Clay, Running Waters

"I sometimes think with Moliere, Mr. Ridge, that ‘there is no folly equal to he who attempts to mend the world.’"

-Leslie K. Simmons, Red Clay, Running Waters

"Are you saying these Christians believe we will never be good enough to marry their daughters because of our race?"

-Leslie K. Simmons, Red Clay, Running Waters

"I led you here, only to bring you into something I would have spared you. Could I have known we would have what we dreamed of, only to watch it taken away?"

-Leslie K. Simmons, Red Clay, Running Waters

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18. Victor's Blessing

By: Barbara Sontheimer

4.34

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Sontheimer's Victor's Blessing book and Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Then wake up my sweet,  wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid.  Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her.  He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go.  "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me!  What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

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19. The Secret Keeper

By: Genevieve Graham

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War I… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Graham's The Secret Keeper book and Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret History of Audrey James by Heather     Marshall

20. The Secret History of Audrey James

By: Heather Marshall

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more

Similar categories in Heather Marshall's The Secret History of Audrey James book and Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl by Zarifa Adiba

21. Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl

By: Zarifa Adiba

4.27

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

A passionate musician growing up in the war-torn streets of Kabul takes her forbidden talents abroa… read more

Similar categories in Zarifa Adiba's Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl book and Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls

  • audiobook

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