20 best-selling fiction books like The Midnight News by Jo Baker

Cover of The Midnight News by Jo Baker

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 …

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Cover of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

1. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Bookbinder by Pip Williams

2. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • romance
  • british literature
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

Cover of The Underground Library by Jennifer    Ryan

3. The Underground Library

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ryan's The Underground Library book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • british literature
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson

4. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

By: Kate Atkinson

3.71

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."

-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

Cover of The Household by Stacey Halls

5. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

6. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain

7. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Absolutely and Forever book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of 73 Dove Street by Julie Owen Moylan

8. 73 Dove Street

By: Julie Owen Moylan

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The page-turning and evocative new novel set in 1950s London from the author of That Green Eyed Gir… read more

Similar categories in Julie Owen Moylan's 73 Dove Street book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Other Women by Emma  Flint

9. Other Women

By: Emma Flint

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A husband. A wife. A lover. Each has a secret they’d kill to protect . . . From the author of Li… read more

Similar categories in Emma Flint's Other Women book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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10. The Air Raid Book Club

By: Annie Lyons

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn’t feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of he… read more

Similar categories in Annie Lyons's The Air Raid Book Club book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • romance
  • british literature
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Quite. But Hedy has inherited her mother's skills as a seamstress. Very good. Tell her to come and see me. If you can't sew, can you knit? A little. Although I made my father a pair of socks once and…"

-Annie Lyons, The Air Raid Book Club

Cover of Clear by Carys Davies

11. 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 Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Enlightenment by Sarah Perry

12. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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

13. 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 Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • romance
  • 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)

Cover of Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

14. Deadly Animals

By: Marie Tierney

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chilling debut mystery… read more

Similar categories in Marie Tierney's Deadly Animals book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson

15. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

By: Helen Simonson

3.96

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more

Similar categories in Helen Simonson's The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • romance
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Bonjour, Sophie by Elizabeth Buchan

16. Bonjour, Sophie

By: Elizabeth Buchan

4.15

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1959 and eighteen-year-old Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to star… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Buchan's Bonjour, Sophie book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • historical fiction
Cover of The Midnight News by Jo Baker

17. 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 Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Birdcage Library by Freya Berry

18. The Birdcage Library

By: Freya Berry

3.89

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

The answers to a puzzle lie hidden within an old book. Open The Birdcage Library and let the treasu… read more

Similar categories in Freya Berry's The Birdcage Library book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Very Lively Murder (Three Dahlias #2) by Katy  Watson

19. A Very Lively Murder (Three Dahlias #2)

By: Katy Watson

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

One murder mystery movie. Three Dahlias. And a whole cast of suspects... Ex-child star Posy Star… read more

Similar categories in Katy Watson's A Very Lively Murder (Three Dahlias #2) book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

20. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) by Pat Barker

21. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more

Similar categories in Pat Barker's The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) book and Jo Baker's The Midnight News

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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