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Books like The Spirit of the Border

Loved The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from historical fiction, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

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    Wolf Hall

    Hilary Mantel · 2009 · Historical Fiction

    Thomas Cromwell's rise in the court of Henry VIII; political intrigue rendered in extraordinary close-up prose.

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    The Pillars of the Earth

    Ken Follett · 1989 · Historical Fiction

    The building of a cathedral across decades of medieval turmoil; a vast, addictive saga.

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    The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak · 2005 · Historical Fiction

    A girl in Nazi Germany who steals books, narrated by Death itself; original, tender and devastating.

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    All the Light We Cannot See

    Anthony Doerr · 2014 · Historical Fiction

    A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths cross in occupied France; luminous, intricate storytelling.

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    A Little Princess

    Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1905 · Historical Fiction

    This is a story about a different kind of princess than one might imagine; a princess that is an orphan - lonely, cold, hungry and abused. Sara Crewe begins life as the beloved, pampered daughter of a

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    Heretics

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1905 · Historical Fiction

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere rollicking journalist, he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually ever

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    White Fang

    Jack London · 1905 · Historical Fiction

    The story of a wolf/dog cross, who is raised by Indians, and becomes a deadly fighter.

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    The Elusive Pimpernel (Scarlet Pimpernel)

    Emma Orczy · 1908 · Historical Fiction

    From the book:There was not even a reaction. On! ever on! in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and

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    Huntingtower

    John Buchan · 1910 · Historical Fiction

    Dickson MCunn, a recently retired prosperous Scots grocer decides on a walking tour in SW Scotland as a suitable beginning to his retirement activities. To his surprise, he stumbles into a sinister pl

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    Rodney Stone

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1896 · Historical Fiction

    From the book:On this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warn-ings which tell us that it has o

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