21 must-read historical books like When Winter Comes by V.A. Shannon

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When Winter Comes

By: V.A. Shannon

3.89

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

In the voice of an unforgettable heroine, V.A. Shannon explores one of the most harrowing episodes …

If you liked the historical plot in When Winter Comes by V.A. Shannon , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. True Sisters

By: Sandra Dallas

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a novel based on true events, New York Times bestselling author Sandra Dallas delivers the story… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Dallas's True Sisters book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • adult fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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2. Lady Jayne Disappears

By: Joanna Davidson Politano

3.89

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

When Aurelie Harcourt's father dies in debtor's prison, he leaves her just two things: his wealthy … read more

Similar categories in Joanna Davidson Politano's Lady Jayne Disappears book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Rich is the man who sees value in every person, even if there is none to be found."

-Joanna Davidson Politano, Lady Jayne Disappears

"I much prefer to attempt a friendship, try to fit in, rather than avoid everyone altogether."

-Joanna Davidson Politano, Lady Jayne Disappears

"And the maiden found her escape in books, the words created by the pen of some stranger who would creep into her mind and rearrange the furniture."

-Joanna Davidson Politano, Lady Jayne Disappears

"Every girl is bon with the ability to be herself. Many simply unlearn it because they do not like who that is, and they think no one else will either."

-Joanna Davidson Politano, Lady Jayne Disappears

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3. Liar's Bench

By: Kim Michele Richardson

3.87

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

In 1972, on Mudas Summers' seventeenth birthday, her beloved Mama, Ella, is found hanging from the … read more

Similar categories in Kim Michele Richardson's Liar's Bench book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Dry Grass of August

By: Anna Jean Mayhew

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in… read more

Similar categories in Anna Jean Mayhew's The Dry Grass of August book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • drama
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5. In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills

By: Jennifer Haupt

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

In 1967, a disillusioned and heartbroken Lillian Carlson left Atlanta after the assassination of Ma… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Haupt's In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. The Indigo Girl

By: Natasha Boyd

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An incredible story of dangerous and hidden friendships, ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice. The yea… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Boyd's The Indigo Girl book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The Widow's Walk

By: Sharon Mierke

4.31

Format: 110 pages,

From her widow's walk, Bessie King, watches and waits for her husband, Adam. For many months, day a… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Mierke's The Widow's Walk book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Tumbling Turner Sisters

By: Juliette Fay

3.33

Format: None pages, ebook

For fans of Orphan Trainand Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, a compelling historical novel from "o… read more

Similar categories in Juliette Fay's The Tumbling Turner Sisters book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Velvet Hours

By: Alyson Richman

3.84

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her … read more

Similar categories in Alyson Richman's The Velvet Hours book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Magdalen Girls

By: V.S. Alexander

5.00

Format: 160 pages,

Dublin, 1962.Within the gated grounds of the convent of The Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies one… read more

Similar categories in V.S. Alexander's The Magdalen Girls book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Keepers of the House

By: Shirley Ann Grau

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the Houseis Shirley Ann Grau's masterwork, a m… read more

Similar categories in Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. GodPretty in the Tobacco Field

By: Kim Michele Richardson

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple … read more

Similar categories in Kim Michele Richardson's GodPretty in the Tobacco Field book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Beautiful American

By: Jeanne Mackin

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women find that a secret from their past rev… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Mackin's The Beautiful American book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Objects of My Affection

By: Jill Smolinski

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

In the humorous, heartfelt new novel by the author of The Next Thing on My List, a personal organiz… read more

Similar categories in Jill Smolinski's Objects of My Affection book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Pecan Man

By: Cassie Dandridge Selleck

3.70

Format: 264 pages,

The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the First Place winner of the 2… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Dandridge Selleck's The Pecan Man book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

16. The Dress Lodger

By: Sheri Holman

3.86

Format: 320 pages,

In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, a defiant, fifteen-year… read more

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17. Flight of the Sparrow

By: Amy Belding Brown

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again. The wilde… read more

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18. The Last Midwife

By: Sandra Dallas

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has del… read more

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19. 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

Similar categories in Ellen Marie Wiseman's The Orphan Collector book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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20. Only the Beautiful

By: Susan Meissner

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more

Similar categories in Susan Meissner's Only the Beautiful book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Sweet Blue Distance

By: Sara Donati

4.31

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico… read more

Similar categories in Sara Donati's The Sweet Blue Distance book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • adult fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. When Winter Comes

By: V.A. Shannon

3.89

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

In the voice of an unforgettable heroine, V.A. Shannon explores one of the most harrowing episodes … read more

Similar categories in V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • survival
  • tragedy
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • drama
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23. The Medicine Woman of Galveston

By: Amanda Skenandore

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Caught in the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a female doctor who’s joined a traveling medicine … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Skenandore's The Medicine Woman of Galveston book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • audiobook
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • drama
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24. In Times of Rain and War

By: Camron Wright

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In September of 1940, during the Blitz in London, Audrey Stocking is blending in with other civilia… read more

Similar categories in Camron Wright's In Times of Rain and War book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. Four Hundred and Forty Steps to the Sea

By: Sara Alexander

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In a richly romantic novel set in stunning Positano, Italy, Sara Alexander weaves a story of love, … read more

Similar categories in Sara Alexander's Four Hundred and Forty Steps to the Sea book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. The Truth About Grace (A Sequel to Pecan Man)

By: Cassie Dandridge Selleck

4.09

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

The Truth About Grace is the long-awaited sequel to The Pecan Man. In 1976, six-year-old Grace Lowe… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Dandridge Selleck's The Truth About Grace (A Sequel to Pecan Man) book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. My Real Name Is Hanna

By: Tara Lynn Masih

4.17

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

Hanna Slivka is on the cusp of fourteen when Hitler's army crosses the border into Soviet-occupied … read more

Similar categories in Tara Lynn Masih's My Real Name Is Hanna book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The Myth of Perpetual Summer

By: Susan Crandall

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

From the national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes a moving coming-of-age t… read more

Similar categories in Susan Crandall's The Myth of Perpetual Summer book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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29. The Moon Sisters

By: Therese Walsh

3.56

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

After their mother’s probable suicide, Jazz and Olivia Moon struggle to move on with their lives. O… read more

Similar categories in Therese Walsh's The Moon Sisters book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Dreams like feet, better than knees."

-Therese Walsh, The Moon Sisters

"For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn."

-Therese Walsh, The Moon Sisters

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30. OLD HOUSE

By: Sharon Mierke

4.38

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

A poem written in 1929 by the author's mother was the inspiration for this story. Who has not wonde… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Mierke's OLD HOUSE book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • fiction
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31. The Survival of Margaret Thomas (Five Star Western)

By: Del Howison

3.64

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

1870s - Missouri Margaret ""Peggy"" Thomas and her husband, James, lead a simple and peaceful li… read more

Similar categories in Del Howison's The Survival of Margaret Thomas (Five Star Western) book and V.A. Shannon's When Winter Comes

  • westerns
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

28 must-read fiction books like When Winter Comes by V.A. Shannon

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True Sisters

Sandra Dallas

3.70

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Lady Jayne Disappears

Joanna Davidson Politano

3.89

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Liar's Bench

Kim Michele Richardson

3.87

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The Dry Grass of August

Anna Jean Mayhew

3.56

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12 Top fiction books like The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

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The Fixer

Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Safran Foer

3.98

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His Family

Ernest Poole

3.67

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Years of Grace

Margaret Ayer Barnes

3.70

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Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent, #1)

Allen Drury

4.11

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