Read-alikes from NoveList for Belva Plain
1. Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 1933Reason: Another author who fills her novels with strong female characters on both domestic and
business fronts is Barbara Taylor Bradford. Her works share many similarities with Plain's novels:
strong, independent heroines who run their households as well as financial empires; detailed
settings and trappings of clothing and culture; love and tragedy. -- Krista Biggs
2. Delinsky, Barbara
Reason: Barbara Delinsky may not write family sagas, but she does write compelling, emotionally
involving, character-centered stories of women who have faced tragedy and survived. Like Plain's,
Delinsky's heroines are ordinary women, who prove unusual in the strength they display in facing
adversity. -- Krista Biggs
3. Sparks, Nicholas
eason: Readers of Plain's more recent titles should try the novels of Nicholas Sparks, whose down
home characters struggle with difficult situations, face tragedies, and ultimately find love and
resolution. As do Plain's, his sentimental stories touch a chord with his fans. -- Krista Biggs
4. Ellis, Julie, 1933-2006
Reason: Sagas featuring Jewish-American women are a familiar theme in the novels of Julie Ellis.
Historical and cultural details are woven with political themes into these stories of strong women
making the most of their lives for their families. Although she offers more explicit sexual situations
than Plain, Ellis still writes stories that reflect similar themes and feel. -- Krista Biggs
5. Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Reason: Howard Fast has also written an immigrant Saga that offers much for Plain's fans.
Although he initially focuses on Dan Lavette in The Immigrants, the rest of the Saga follows
daughter Barbara. Her struggles, as well as her emotional resiliency and emphasis on family ties,
should satisfy Plain's readers. -- Krista Biggs
6. Briscoe, Connie
Reason: These authors' works are Dramatic and Character-driven, and they share: the genres
'Historical fiction' and 'Women's lives and relationships' and the subject 'Extramarital relations'.
7. Vincenzi, Penny
eason: These authors' works are Dramatic and Character-driven, and they share: the genres
'Historical fiction' and 'Women's lives and relationships' and the subjects 'Extramarital relations' and
'Family relationships'.
8. Fields, Jennie, 1953Reason: These authors' works are Romantic and Character-driven, and they share: the genres
'Historical fiction' and 'Women's lives and relationships' and the subject 'Extramarital relations'.
9. Horan, Nancy
Reason: These authors' works are Romantic and Character-driven, and they share: the genre
'Historical fiction' and the subject 'Extramarital relations'.