20 Best fiction books like Flatlands by Sue Hubbard

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Flatlands

By: Sue Hubbard

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A moving tale of unlikely friendship and the beauty of nature, set in the wild wetland landscape of…

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1. Mr Norris Changes Trains

By: Christopher Isherwood

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Isherwood's Mr Norris Changes Trains book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • fiction
Cover of The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) by Jane Gardam

2. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

Similar categories in Jane Gardam's The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. The Siege (The Siege, #1)

By: Helen Dunmore

4.03

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore… read more

Similar categories in Helen Dunmore's The Siege (The Siege, #1) book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But spring hurts. If spring can come, if things can be different, how can you bear…"

-Helen Dunmore, The Siege (The Siege, #1)

"Andrei glances up. The angle of candlelight flushes his hollow, old man’s face with youth. He smiles at her. Although his eyes are only shadows in this light, she knows their exact colour. They are b…"

-Helen Dunmore, The Siege (The Siege, #1)

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4. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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6. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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7. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)

By: Shannon Bowring

4.04

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Bowring's The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1) book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3) by A.J. Pearce

9. Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)

By: A.J. Pearce

4.19

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away … read more

Similar categories in A.J. Pearce's Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3) book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • british literature
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You didn’t miss someone any less, you just made room for other things to surround the gap they had left."

-A.J. Pearce, Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)

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10. Flatlands

By: Sue Hubbard

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A moving tale of unlikely friendship and the beauty of nature, set in the wild wetland landscape of… read more

Similar categories in Sue Hubbard's Flatlands book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • birds
  • nature
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11. The Midnight News

By: Jo Baker

3.70

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman’s unraveling during … read more

Similar categories in Jo Baker's The Midnight News book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks

12. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

By: Thomas E. Ricks

4.08

Format: 416 pages, ebook

New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the p… read more

Similar categories in Thomas E. Ricks's First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

"It is a cliché, and a bad one, that generals try to “fight the last war"

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"...Populism tends to look good from a distance, but close up it can be frightening."

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , “You pays your money and you makes your choice!"

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached."

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

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13. The Singularities

By: John Banville

3.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, li… read more

Similar categories in John Banville's The Singularities book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka

14. This Is How You Remember It

By: Catherine Prasifka

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Prasifka's This Is How You Remember It book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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15. The English Experience

By: Julie Schumacher

3.91

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he’s the only professor… read more

Similar categories in Julie Schumacher's The English Experience book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • fiction
  • british literature
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16. The Great Passion

By: James Runcie

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the s… read more

Similar categories in James Runcie's The Great Passion book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Bleeding

By: Johana Gustawsson

3.88

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thrill… read more

Similar categories in Johana Gustawsson's The Bleeding book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

Similar categories in Josie Ferguson's The Silence In Between book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

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19. The Man in Black: Stories

By: Elly Griffiths

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This bumper collection of short stories by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Man in Black: Stories book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • fiction
  • british literature
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20. Thirsty Animals

By: Rachelle Atalla

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is running out of water. Aida is forced back home to live on the farm with her mum. Fo… read more

Similar categories in Rachelle Atalla's Thirsty Animals book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of La Nuit des béguines by Aline Kiner

21. La Nuit des béguines

By: Aline Kiner

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Paris, 1310, quartier du Marais. Au grand béguinage royal, elles sont des centaines de femmes à viv… read more

Similar categories in Aline Kiner's La Nuit des béguines book and Sue Hubbard's Flatlands

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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