The Girls in the Stilt House
By: Kelly Mustian
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two t…
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1. The Life We Bury
By: Allen Eskens
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English c… read more
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2. If The Creek Don't Rise
By: Leah Weiss
4.00
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
A strikingly sincere portrait of a town and its buried secrets from an outstanding new voice in sou… read more
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3. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
4. 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
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
5. The Paris Daughter
By: Kristin Harmel
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two m… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chanc…"-Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter
6. 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
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
7. Go as a River
By: Shelley Read
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more
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- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Women endure. That’s what we do."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
8. 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
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- adult fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- book club
- 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
9. Hang the Moon
By: Jeannette Walls
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk … read more
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- adult fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
10. 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
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"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
11. 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
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
12. The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
By: Ellen Marie Wiseman
3.92
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
Fact, fiction, and urban legend blend in this haunting story about a young woman mistakenly impriso… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"Chết tiệt, động vật còn được đối xử tốt hơn cư dân ở đây"-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
13. The Moonshiner's Daughter
By: Donna Everhart
4.23
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner's Daughter ev… read more
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- coming of age
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
14. The Secret Book of Flora Lea
By: Patti Callahan Henry
4.07
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea
"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea
15. Crow Mary
By: Kathleen Grissom
4.33
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. The Girls in the Stilt House
By: Kelly Mustian
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two t… read more
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- adult fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
17. The House of Eve
By: Sadeqa Johnson
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
18. The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
By: Kim Michele Richardson
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
An Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Bestselling historical fiction author Kim Mi… read more
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- adult fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Though Mama and I were the last of the Blues, the very last of our kind, and different from others, the books united every one of us."-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
19. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
By: Kim Michele Richardson
4.22
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition for ISBN 978-1492671527 can be found here. In 1936, tucked deep into … read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"What I wanted most was to be okay as a Blue. I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing."-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
"Well, them cloths are a lot like folks. Ain't much difference at all. Some of us is more spiffed up than others, some stiffer, and still, some softer. There's the colorful and dull, ugly and pretty, …"-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
"There's nothing wrong with your color, being you," he said firmly. "Nothing wrong with what the good Lord gives us in His world, Cussy Mary." He didn't know, couldn't know, the load I'd carried as a …"-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
20. The Saints of Swallow Hill
By: Donna Everhart
4.12
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
It takes courage to save yourself... In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners l… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
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- audiobook
21. 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
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- 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
