10 Best fiction books like The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash

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The Dakota Winters

By: Tom Barbash

3.49

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City’s famed…

"I did this to myself back then, compared my accomplishments at twenty-three to those of spectacularly successful people (Picasso at twenty-three was finishing his Blue Period; Mick Jagger was writing "19th Nervous Breakdown"; Joan of Arc had rescued France, been burned at the stake, and been dead for four years)."

-Tom Barbash, The Dakota Winters

If you liked the fiction plot in The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Oppermanns

By: Lion Feuchtwanger , Ruth Gruber , James Cleugh

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

First published in 1934 but fully imagining the future of Germany over the ensuing years, The Opper… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

By: Craig Brown , None

3.34

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humili… read more

Similar categories in Craig Brown's Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • historical
  • unfinished
  • audiobook

3. Dixie City Jam (Dave Robicheaux, #7)

By: James Lee Burke

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

As a child he was frightened by the stories... It's out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Dixie City Jam (Dave Robicheaux, #7) book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Burning Angel (Dave Robicheaux, #8)

By: James Lee Burke

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone in New Iberia… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Burning Angel (Dave Robicheaux, #8) book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • fiction
  • audiobook

5. White Fur

By: Jardine Libaire

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of the… read more

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6. Bedford Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #19)

By: Anne Perry

3.68

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Superintendent Thomas Pitt becomes suspicious when a man found dead outside a general's home is dis… read more

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7. Léon und Louise

By: Alex Capus

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

Zwei junge Leute verlieben sich, aber der Krieg bringt sie auseinander: Das ist die Geschichte von … read more

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8. The Madonnas of Leningrad

By: Debra Dean

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Rus… read more

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9. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

By: Brad Ricca

3.88

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the detective and lawyer who turned he… read more

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10. Seven Dead

By: J. Jefferson Farjeon

2.56

Format: 201 pages,

Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven… read more

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11. The Murder of My Aunt

By: Richard Hull

3.85

Format: 238 pages,

In this darkly comic, quite immoral masterwork, Edward is an effete, poor young man who has somethi… read more

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12. Within Arm's Reach

By: Ann Napolitano

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Within Arm's Reach book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Hund, Wolf, Schakal

By: Behzad Karim Khani

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Behzad Karim Khanis Debüt über das Schicksal zweier Brüder verbindet die Härte der Straße mit der M… read more

Similar categories in Behzad Karim Khani's Hund, Wolf, Schakal book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

By: Barbara Weisberg

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Weisberg's Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Women and Children First

By: Alina Grabowski

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more

Similar categories in Alina Grabowski's Women and Children First book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. In a Flight of Starlings

By: Giorgio Parisi

3.44

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In this enchanting little book, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodo… read more

Similar categories in Giorgio Parisi's In a Flight of Starlings book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • audiobook
"In the sciences and in poetry, there is hardly a trace in the finished product of the arduous work that the creative process has demanded, or of the doubts and hesitations that have been overcome in …"

-Giorgio Parisi, In a Flight of Starlings

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18. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • new york
  • family
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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19. The Wharton Plot

By: Mariah Fredericks

3.38

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Mariah Fredericks' mesmerizing novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in … read more

Similar categories in Mariah Fredericks's The Wharton Plot book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • new york
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash

20. The Dakota Winters

By: Tom Barbash

3.49

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City’s famed… read more

Similar categories in Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I did this to myself back then, compared my accomplishments at twenty-three to those of spectacularly successful people (Picasso at twenty-three was finishing his Blue Period; Mick Jagger was writing…"

-Tom Barbash, The Dakota Winters

Cover of Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen

21. Strangers and Cousins

By: Leah Hager Cohen

3.36

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A novel about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic w… read more

Similar categories in Leah Hager Cohen's Strangers and Cousins book and Tom Barbash's The Dakota Winters

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook

5 Top contemporary books like The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash

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Within Arm's Reach

Ann Napolitano

3.48

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Hund, Wolf, Schakal

Behzad Karim Khani

4.20

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Women and Children First

Alina Grabowski

3.38

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Tom Barbash

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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3.53

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