18 books like Let The Circle be Unbroken

What to read after Let The Circle be Unbroken — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor · 1976 · ★ 3.9 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence. It is a story of physical survival, but more important, it is a story of the survival of the human spirit. And, too, it is Cassie's story -- Cassie Logan, an independent girl raised by a family for whom independence is primary, a family determined not… Shares Depressions, Prejudices, Race Relations, African Americans

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Horace McCoy · 1935 · ★ 3.9 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The Marathon Dance Craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money--dancing the hours away for cash. But, the underside of that Craze was filled with a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms. [author's] classic American story captures that dark side in this powerful… Shares Depressions, Social life and customs

Jackie and me Dan Gutman · 1999 · ★ 4.2 · 145p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoscack has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society. Unlike every other kid in his class, Joe has a special talent: with the help of old baseball cards, he can travel through time. So for his report, Joe decides to go back to meet one of the greatest baseball players ever, Jackie Robinson, to find out what it… Shares African Americans in fiction, Race Relations, African Americans, Historical Fiction

Blue Hand Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 4.1 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Jim Steele, a clerk for a prominent London attorney, has the distasteful task of assisting a notorious client, Digby Groat, who stands to inherit the Jonathan Danton fortune. Danton’s infant daughter and closest heir, Dorothy, was thought to have died in a boating accident twenty years ago. Adding to the mystery, Dorothy’s mother, Lady Mary Danton, also disappeared around the same time. Jim… Shares Adventure

The House Without a Key Earl Derr Biggers · 2015 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Published in 1925, The House Without a Key introduces the kindly detective Charlie Chan, conceived by Earl Derr Biggers as a counter to the “Yellow Peril” stereotypes common in the era’s society. John Quincy Winterslip, having been sent by his family to convince his aunt to return to Boston, arrives in Honolulu to find that a rich family member with a shady past has been murdered. Detective… Shares Adventure

The Emperor's candlesticks Baroness Emmuska Orczy · 1908 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) is a historical novel by Baroness Orczy and was her first book as an author. Shares Adventure

Home as found James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · ★ 5.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Historical Fiction with this book.

A Darker Shade of Magic V. E. Schwab · 2015 · ★ 4.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate STEP INTO A UNIVERSE OF DARING ADVENTURE, THRILLING POWER, AND MULTIPLE LONDONS. Kell is one of the last travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magic city. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad king--George III. Red London, where life and magic are revered--and where Kell was raised… Shares Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Adventure

Sounder William H. Armstrong · 1969 · ★ 4.0 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder. Shares African Americans in fiction, African Americans, Historical Fiction

Fallen angels Patricia Hickman · 2003 · 442p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Depressions, Historical Fiction with this book.

The Black Pearl Scott O’Dell · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Moderate In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner. Shares Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Adventure

And this too shall pass E. Lynn Harris · 1996 · ★ 4.3 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A stellar quarterback, an ambitious sportscaster. What happens when rising stars collide?In And This Too Shall Pass, Harris takes us into the locker rooms and newsrooms of Chicago, where four lives are about to intersect in romance and scandal. At the heart of the novel is the celibate Zurich, a rookie quarterback for the Chicago Cougars whose trajectory for superstardom is interrupted by a… Shares African Americans in fiction, African Americans

Going to Meet the Man James Baldwin · 1965 · ★ 4.4 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Moderate African-American fiction Shares Race Relations, African Americans, Social life and customs

St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald · 1876 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers… Shares Historical Fiction

Pan Michael An historical novel Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1893 · ★ 5.0 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving… Shares Historical Fiction

A Bitter Cut

A Bitter Cut Anna Lee Huber · 2026 Lady Kiera Darby plans to spend the summer reconnecting with friends and family in anticipation of the betrothal of her beloved brother. But when a future in-law is implicated in a murder, the party takes a deadly turn. . . .July 1833. Lady Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, are settling into their newly renovated home at Bevington Park in Warkwickshire with their young daughter. With… Shares Historical Fiction

Intruder in the Dust William Faulkner · 1948 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Using his preferred stream-of-consciousness style the author tells a story of a black farmer in Mississippi accused of murdering a white man. Shares Race Relations, African Americans, Historical Fiction

Le vicomte de Bragelonne, ou, dix ans plus tard Alexandre Dumas · 1848 · ★ 4.0 · 462p · ≈ 15h · Challenging In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. They chronicled the adventures of a young man named D'Artagnan who, upon… Shares Historical Fiction, Adventure

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