18 books like The Shelters of Stone

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The Plains of Passage Jean M. Auel · 1990 · ★ 3.9 · 1008p · ≈ 33h · Challenging This is "The Plains of Passage." Adding (Earth's Children) is why there is no description. Earth's Children is not part of the title. Search for only "The Plains of Passage." Shares: Glacial epoch, Ayla, Ice Age, Prehistoric peoples

The Mammoth Hunters Jean M. Auel · 1611 · ★ 4.0 · 645p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequel, The Valley of Horses, Jean M. Auel continues the breathtaking epic journey of the woman called Ayla. Riding Whinney with Jondalar, the… Shares: Glacial epoch, Ayla, Ice Age, Prehistoric peoples

The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 552p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1980 novel and epic work of prehistoric fiction by Jean M. Auel about prehistoric times. It is the first book in the Earth's Children book series, which speculates on the possibilities of interactions between Neanderthal and modern Cro-Magnon humans. ---------- Also contained in: Earth's Children Shares: Ayla, Prehistoric peoples, Historical Fiction

Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1917 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Ten-year-old prince of a European monarchy derives fun from foreign intrigue and his cousin's love affair. Shares: Europe, Historical Fiction

Home as found James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · ★ 5.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Challenging "No society, dear!--Why you were at the Henderson's, and the Morgan's, and the Drewett's; three of the greatest _réunions_ that we have had in two winters!"' "I did not know that you meant those unpleasant crowds, by society". "Unpleasant crowds! Why, child, that is society, is it not?' "Not what I have been taught to consider such; I rather think it would be better to call it company". "And is… Shares: Historical Fiction

The Border Empire Ralph Compton · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Wes Stone was a lawman—until the Sandlin gang gunned down his legendary father. Now, he's giving up his badge for vengeance... Shares: Historical Fiction

Gentlemen of the Road Michael Chabon · 2007 · ★ 3.7 · 206p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures--from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories--in a… Shares: Europe, Historical Fiction

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry · 1985 · ★ 4.5 · 945p · ≈ 31h · Moderate Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major noel at last of the American West as it really was. A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West--legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers--in a novel that recreates the Central American experience, the most… Shares: Roman américain, Historical Fiction

Pan Michael An historical novel Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1893 · ★ 4.2 · 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

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

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

Annette, the Metis Spy Joseph Edmund Collins · 1886 · 132p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This is a adventure book. The sun was hanging low in the clear blue over the prairie, as two riders hurried their ponies along a blind trail toward a distant range of purple hills that lay like sleepy watchers along the banks of the Red River. The beasts must have ridden far, for their flanks were white with foam, and their riders were splashed with froth and mud, 'The day is nearly done, mon… Shares: Historical Fiction

London Edward Rutherfurd · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 829p · ≈ 27h · Moderate | image = Shares: Historical Fiction

Between Two Fires Christopher Buehlman · 2012 · ★ 4.3 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie BestsellerEnter a darker age with New York Times bestselling author Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires, a medieval horror adventure unlike anything on the shelf.And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…”The year is 1348.Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a… Shares: Historical Fiction

A Final Reckoning G. A. Henty · 1800 · ★ 4.0 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A young English lad, after rather a stormy boyhood, emigrates to Australia and gets employment as an officer in the mounted police. A few years of active work on the frontier, where he has many a brush with both natives and bush-rangers, gain him promotion to a captaincy, and he eventually settles down to the peaceful life of a squatter. Shares: Historical Fiction

The Ship With No Name Christopher Nicole · 1987 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Dolittle Raid of April 1942 demonstrated to the world that the Japanese mainland, Tokyo itself, could be successfully attacked by a determined enemy, thus the cry went up for retaliation. The obvious solution is the destruction of that portion of the U.S. Navy that survived Pearl Harbor. But one man, flying ace and national hero Keiko Hatatsune, dreams of something even more dramatic, more… Shares: Historical Fiction

Satanstoe ; or, The littlepage manuscripts, a tale of the colony James Fenimore Cooper · 1845 · 382p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Every chronicle of manners has a certain value. When customs are connected with principles, in their origin, development, or end, such records have a double importance; and it is because we think we see such a connection between the facts and incidents of the Littlepage Manuscripts, and certain important theories of our own time, that we give the former to the world. Shares: Historical Fiction

The Wept of Wish-ton-wish: A Tale James Fenimore Cooper · 1829 · ★ 3.9 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Challenging The incidents of this tale must be sought in a remote period of the annals of America. A colony of self-devoted and pious refugees from religious persecution had landed on the rock of Plymouth, less than half a century before the time at which the narrative commences; and they, and their descendants, had already transformed many a broad waste of wilderness into smiling fields and cheerful… Shares: Historical Fiction

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