11 best-selling historical books like Threshing of Straw by Kim Catron

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Threshing of Straw

By: Kim Catron

4.51

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkabl…

If you liked the historical plot in Threshing of Straw by Kim Catron , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. 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 Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

2. Lula Mae

By: None

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

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3. The Road to Bittersweet

By: Donna Everhart

4.00

Format: 120 pages,

Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative acco… read more

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4. I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

By: Amy Fillion

4.24

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

"Beautifully written and so inspiring!" -Amazon reviewer"One of the most heartfelt, touching books … read more

Similar categories in Amy Fillion's I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel book and Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • fiction
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5. The Only Way Home

By: Jeanette Minniti

4.21

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2022 Colorado Authors League 1st Place Award in Historical Fiction! Desperate times.… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Minniti's The Only Way Home book and Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. They Call Her Dirty Sally

By: Amy Matayo

4.42

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

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7. October in the Earth

By: Olivia Hawker

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powe… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Hawker's October in the Earth book and Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

By: Lonormi Manuel

4.47

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle."

-Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

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9. Threshing of Straw

By: Kim Catron

4.51

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkabl… read more

Similar categories in Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw book and Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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10. Eventide: A Novel of the Southern Appalachians

By: Terri Fabel

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Eventide is a story about the deep and abiding love two sister have for each other as they struggle… read more

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11. Earl, Honey

By: D.S. Getson

4.53

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

EARL HAHN is slow, the last one to catch on to things. Since the day his father hit him in the head… read more

Similar categories in D.S. Getson's Earl, Honey book and Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Out of the Dust

By: Joyce E. Patterson

4.24

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Two of America’s worst economic disasters occurred during the same period. One was the crash of the… read more

Similar categories in Joyce E. Patterson's Out of the Dust book and Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • historical fiction
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13. Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

By: G.L. Gooding

4.18

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and h… read more

Similar categories in G.L. Gooding's Where Courage Began: Velma's Story book and Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • historical
  • historical fiction
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14. Quilly

By: Jan Strickland

4.55

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

What was it like to be biracial in the early 1900’s in a small white southern town where the divisi… read more

Similar categories in Jan Strickland's Quilly book and Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • historical fiction
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15. Tobacco Rose

By: Florence Love Karsner

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

South Georgia 1955. Racial tensions lead to riots in the South. An old black woman named Rosie and … read more

Similar categories in Florence Love Karsner's Tobacco Rose book and Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • historical fiction
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16. Tomorrow's Bread

By: Anna Jean Mayhew

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Sout… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Arkansas Summer

By: Anne Moose

4.51

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Arkansas Summer is a powerful novel about love and racial terror in the Jim Crow South. It's 1955, … read more

Similar categories in Anne Moose's Arkansas Summer book and Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • historical fiction
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18. The Forgiving Kind

By: Donna Everhart

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this masterful new novel, set in 1950s North Carolina, the acclaimed author of The Road to Bitte… read more

Similar categories in Donna Everhart's The Forgiving Kind book and Kim Catron's Threshing of Straw

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Cicada Tree

By: Robert Gwaltney

4.09

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence Georgia, a natural event with super… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. From the Flood: A Memoir

By: Suzanne Jones

4.24

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

**GOLD Winner of the 2022 Nonfiction Authors Association Book Award** **2022 American Writers Awar… read more

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21. Firefly Lies

By: Morgan Matthews

4.13

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

A stately manor, one peculiar groundskeeper, and untimely death set the stage for this thrilling an… read more

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Anna Jean Mayhew

3.56

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I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.24

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The Only Way Home

Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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They Call Her Dirty Sally

Amy Matayo

4.42

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I Will Close My Eyes: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.24

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Where Butterflies Wander

Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

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The Only Way Home

Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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Amy Fillion

4.25

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