18 must-read historical fiction books like Back of the Yard by Meg Lelvis

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Back of the Yard

By: Meg Lelvis

4.19

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

Set during the Depression in the South Chicago neighborhood of Sinclair's The Jungle, Betty O'Leary…

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1. Elizabeth's Star (We'll Meet Again #1)

By: Rhonda Forrest

4.19

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

‘If you talk to the stars, I will talk back to you.’ In 1941, Queensland drover, Michael McTavis… read more

Similar categories in Rhonda Forrest's Elizabeth's Star (We'll Meet Again #1) book and Meg Lelvis's Back of the Yard

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Christmas Child

By: Carol Rivers

4.40

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

London 1880 A dying Irish girl clutching her new-born baby drags herself to the sanctuary of an Eas… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Back of the Yard

By: Meg Lelvis

4.19

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

Set during the Depression in the South Chicago neighborhood of Sinclair's The Jungle, Betty O'Leary… read more

Similar categories in Meg Lelvis's Back of the Yard book and Meg Lelvis's Back of the Yard

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Opal Miner's Daughter (Aussie Outback Medical Romance Book 2)

By: Fiona McArthur

4.39

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A heart-warming story set in the rugged outback about finding out who you really want to be.’ Anni… read more

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5. Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression (Ava and Claire Book 1)

By: Karen Heenan

4.63

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

No one knows you like a sister. Ava has always been poor, so she doesn't think the Great Depress… read more

Similar categories in Karen Heenan's Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression (Ava and Claire Book 1) book and Meg Lelvis's Back of the Yard

  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of Autumn Softly Fell (Brannans Family Saga #1) by Dominic Luke

6. Autumn Softly Fell (Brannans Family Saga #1)

By: Dominic Luke

4.07

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

An evocative and charming Edwardian family saga Dorothea looked out of the nursery window. Hours… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The House of Hardie (The Hardie Family #1)

By: Anne Melville

4.15

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

‘ SENSATIONAL... THIS BOOK WILL STEAL YOUR TIME AND YOU'LL BE VERY HAPPY FOR IT ’ The Worm Hole ⭐⭐⭐… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Art Collector's Daughter

By: Derville Murphy

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Love, art, and obsession, set between Nazi occupied Paris and rural Ireland. As the Germans adva… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Another Time and Place (Echoes of War, #1)

By: Samantha Grosser

4.24

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here A brief encounter changes two lives… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Tears of Autumn

By: David Wiltshire

4.29

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

AN EMOTIONAL AND GRIPPING WARTIME ROMANCE 1938, Italy. Biff and Rosemary are honeymooning in Sor… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Ivy Rose Series #1-3)

By: Gemma Jackson

4.70

Format: 782 pages, Kindle Edition

This box set includes Through Streets Broad and Narrow, Ha’Penny Chance and The Ha’Penny Place from… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The View from Half Dome

By: Jill Caugherty

4.15

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

1934. Isabel longs to escape her squalid San Francisco neighborhood. While her mother struggles to … read more

Similar categories in Jill Caugherty's The View from Half Dome book and Meg Lelvis's Back of the Yard

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Banished

By: Alex MacLean

4.27

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on a true story. Annapolis Royal, 1755. When frontier tensions boil over, the people of Acad… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of What is Forgiven (The Anna Klein Trilogy #2) by C.F. Yetmen

14. What is Forgiven (The Anna Klein Trilogy #2)

By: C.F. Yetmen

4.56

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

"In What is Forgiven, C.F. Yetmen brings history to brilliant life. Her rich characters remind us t… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
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15. That Which Remains (The Anna Klein Trilogy Book 3)

By: C.F. Yetmen

4.66

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

IPPY Gold Medal, Historical Fiction, 2022This enthralling climax to the series has all the trapping… read more

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16. Eternal Deception (The House of Closed Doors)

By: Jane Steen

4.36

Format: 476 pages, Paperback

Love or independence? Few choices remain for Nell and her new family on the Kansas frontier…Kansas,… read more

Similar categories in Jane Steen's Eternal Deception (The House of Closed Doors) book and Meg Lelvis's Back of the Yard

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Cafe on Crescent (Lemon Sugar #2) by Carolyn Finch

17. The Cafe on Crescent (Lemon Sugar #2)

By: Carolyn Finch

4.35

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

Her awful Brother-in-law wants the house -- and her. The Great War is over leaving Lucy Lemon a … read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Finch's The Cafe on Crescent (Lemon Sugar #2) book and Meg Lelvis's Back of the Yard

  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of Intoxicating (Bold Women of the 20th Century, #3) by Amanda  Hughes

18. Intoxicating (Bold Women of the 20th Century, #3)

By: Amanda Hughes

4.38

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

A stand-alone novel from the bestselling author of the Bold Women Mist Windegaard, the 1920s is a … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Foxden Acres (Sisters of Wartime England #1) by Madalyn Morgan

19. Foxden Acres (Sisters of Wartime England #1)

By: Madalyn Morgan

4.16

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

On the eve of 1939, twenty-year-old Bess Dudley, trainee teacher and daughter of a groom, bumps int… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Darkness Falling

By: Patrick MacDonald

4.04

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1845. In Ireland the potato crop has failed ushering in a six year period of famine and disea… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The Magician

By: Kathleen Shoop

4.41

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Donora, Pennsylvania 2019 Ninety-two year old Patryk Rusek is on the run, bath-towel flying off, w… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Shoop's The Magician book and Meg Lelvis's Back of the Yard

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

17 Best fiction books like Back of the Yard by Meg Lelvis

Transform Your Habits

Elizabeth's Star (We'll Meet Again #1)

Rhonda Forrest

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Christmas Child

Carol Rivers

4.40

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Back of the Yard

Meg Lelvis

4.19

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Autumn Softly Fell (Brannans Family Saga #1)

Dominic Luke

4.07

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19 must-read fiction books like The House of Hardie (The Hardie Family #1) by Anne Melville

Transform Your Habits

Christmas Child

Carol Rivers

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Back of the Yard

Meg Lelvis

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Orphanage (Shilling Grange Children’s Home #1)

Lizzie Page

4.39

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Riverstone Cottage (Pajaro Bay, #8)

Barbara Cool Lee

4.42

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