19 must-read audiobook books like Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles

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Simon the Fiddler

By: Paulette Jiles

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This story is set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of m…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier

By: Scott Zesch

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Trade… read more

Similar categories in Scott Zesch's The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • westerns
  • historical
  • audiobook

2. Nightwoods

By: Charles Frazier

4.23

Format: 400 pages,

The extraordinary author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moonsreturns with a dazzling new novel of su… read more

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3. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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6. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more

Similar categories in Charles Frazier's The Trackers book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • adult fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

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8. 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

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) by James Lee Burke

9. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. 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 Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Simon the Fiddler

By: Paulette Jiles

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This story is set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of m… read more

Similar categories in Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • music
  • westerns
  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's Table for Two book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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15. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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16. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

Similar categories in Leif Enger's I Cheerfully Refuse book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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18. The Madstone

By: Elizabeth Crook

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Crook's The Madstone book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • adult fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • civil war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Your mother leaned her head on my shoulder. I hardly breathed for having it there. I had certainly never felt so alive and cozy whilst nearly frozen to death."

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"We had one horse, one mule, and a wagon. We had Horhay with his limp arm and his long past, and Dickie with his hopes for the necklace now dashed and turned to dread of its curse, and me with my ache…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Had we been in town amongst people, then we might have been merely interested at the news of having a cursed item in our possession. But out in the midst of no place, shielded by only a scanty wall o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

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19. We Burn Daylight

By: Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo… read more

Similar categories in Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

Cover of The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory by Thomas  Fuller

21. The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory

By: Thomas Fuller

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of an all-deaf high school football team’s triumphant climb from underdog to u… read more

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18 must-read fiction books like Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

4.45

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Harlan Coben

4.34

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John Sandford

4.45

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David Baldacci

4.53

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John Grisham

4.26

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