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Amanda Barratt



ECPA bestselling author Amanda Barratt fell in love with writing in grade school when she wrote her first story--a spinoff of Jane Eyre. Now, Amanda writes romantic, historical novels and novellas, penning stories of beauty and brokenness, set against the backdrop of bygone eras not so very different from our own. Her novel My Dearest Dietrich: A Novel of Bonhoeffer's Lost Love, releases from Kregel Publications in June 2019.

She's also the author of My Heart Belongs in Niagara Falls, New York: Adele's Journey, as well as seven novellas with Barbour Publishing. Two of her novellas have been finalists in the FHL Reader's Choice Awards.

Amanda lives in the woods of Michigan with her fabulous family, where she can be found reading way too many books, obsessing over her favorite BBC dramas, dreaming up her next novel, and trying to figure out a way to get on the first possible flight to England.
 

Awards: Christy (2024)  see all

Genres: Inspirational
 
Novels
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Collections
   The California Gold Rush Romance Collection (2016) (with others)
   The Regency Brides Collection (2017) (with others)
   Courting Calamity (2020) (with others)
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Series contributed to
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Lone Star Brothers
   1. Seven Brides For Seven Texans (2025) (with others)
   2. Seven Brides for Seven Texas Rangers (2025) (with others)
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Awards
2024 Christy Award for Best Historical : The Warsaw Sisters
2023 Christy Award for Best Historical : Within These Walls of Sorrow
2023 Christy Award for Best Book of the Year : Within These Walls of Sorrow
2021 Christy Award for Best Short Form : Far as the Curse is Found
2021 Christy Award for Best Historical : The White Rose Resists

Award nominations
2020 Christy Award for Best Historical (nominee) : My Dearest Dietrich


Amanda Barratt recommends
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In the Light of the Sun (2025)
Angela Shupe
"This book is a powerful exploration of the courage of ordinary people, the unbreakable ties of sisterhood, and the abiding bond between music and hope. Inspired by her own family's history, Angela Shupe transports readers across the harrowing years of WWII in a journey both sweeping and intimate. Fans of Kristy Cambron and Mario Escobar will want to put this novel at the top of their reading list. A magnificent debut!"
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All We Thought We Knew (2024)
Michelle Shocklee
"Memorable and moving, All We Thought We Knew is a novel of ordinary people who are tested by two wars that altered America. Through its pages, we journey with characters whose lives intertwine across decades-from a German medical student imprisoned in a Tennessee internment camp to a young woman facing her brother's death in Vietnam and her mother's devastating diagnosis. Michelle Shocklee has woven a poignant tapestry of revelations and restoration, heartbreak and hope."
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Until Our Time Comes (2024)
Nicole M Miller
"Sweeping and deeply inspiring."

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