11 best-selling historical fiction books like The Lobotomist's Wife by Samantha Greene Woodruff

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The Lobotomist's Wife

By: Samantha Greene Woodruff

4.04

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling historical novel of a compassionate and relentless woman, a cutting-edge breakthroug…

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1. Strangers We Know

By: Elle Marr

3.81

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The search for a serial killer leads a woman into the twisted tangle of her own family tree in a ch… read more

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  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. Like Me

By: Hayley Phelan

3.31

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A propulsive psychological thriller that follows an aspiring model down a social media-fuelled rabb… read more

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  • mental health
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • drama
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3. Family Money

By: Chad Zunker

4.07

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

A dead man’s secrets put a family in peril in a twisting novel of suspense by the Amazon Charts bes… read more

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  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Taste of Ginger

By: Mansi Shah

3.99

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

In Mansi Shah’s stunning debut novel, a family tragedy beckons a first-generation immigrant to the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Had I lost my culture? I felt like I was constantly reminded that I was Indian—at work, at a store, when talking to white friends—some part of me was always aware that I wasn’t like the other people …"

-Mansi Shah, The Taste of Ginger

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5. The Second Life of Mirielle West

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In an intoxicating story of resilience, repulsion, and the Roaring 20’s, the glamorous world of a s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • drama
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6. Under Her Care

By: Lucinda Berry

3.88

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Perfect Child comes a shocking thriller about the disturbing com… read more

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  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Last Rose of Shanghai

By: Weina Dai Randel

4.12

Format: 429 pages, Kindle Edition

In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and th… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding

By: Lydia Kang

3.71

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Poison comes a spellbinding historical mystery about hid… read more

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  • historical
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. North to Paradise

By: Ousman Umar

4.27

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

The inspiring true story of one man’s treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to … read more

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10. The Lobotomist's Wife

By: Samantha Greene Woodruff

4.04

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling historical novel of a compassionate and relentless woman, a cutting-edge breakthroug… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Greene Woodruff's The Lobotomist's Wife book and Samantha Greene Woodruff's The Lobotomist's Wife

  • audiobook
  • medical
  • historical
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • drama
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11. A Feather on the Water

By: Lindsay Jayne Ashford

4.35

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

For three women in postwar Germany, 1945 is a time of hope—lost and found—in this powerful novel by… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Scarlet Carnation

By: Laila Ibrahim

4.14

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two wo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Brighter the Light

By: Mary Ellen Taylor

4.16

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes an evocative dual-timeline novel detailing … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Half in Shadow

By: Gemma Liviero

4.31

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of In a Field of Blue comes an unforgettable novel about courage, love,… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Blackout

By: Erin Flanagan

3.58

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

In this unforgettable psychological thriller, the dark is a terrifying mystery for a woman on the e… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Say Her Name

By: Dreda Say Mitchell

4.04

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

In this chilling thriller from the bestselling authors of Spare Room, one woman just wants the trut… read more

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  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. My Evil Mother

By: Margaret Atwood

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. At the Quiet Edge

By: Victoria Helen Stone

3.99

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

A young mother has done everything possible to put the past behind her, but it might not be enough … read more

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  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. A Train to Moscow

By: Elena Gorokhova

3.99

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

In post–World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in th… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Patient's Secret

By: Loreth Anne White

4.29

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

Secrets worth dying―and killing―for, in a novel of suspense inspired by a horrific true crime by Wa… read more

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  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Intangible

By: C.J. Washington

3.77

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

C.J. Washington’s riveting debut novel dives into the raw emotions of a grieving mother whose quest… read more

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  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mental health

20 Best fiction books like The Lobotomist's Wife by Samantha Greene Woodruff

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Elle Marr

3.81

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Hayley Phelan

3.31

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Family Money

Chad Zunker

4.07

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Joe Hill

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Sally Hepworth

3.54

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.80

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