27 best-selling historical books like The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes

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The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown…

If you liked the historical plot in The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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 Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of You Are Here by David Nicholls

2. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • romance
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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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 Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Finding Margaret Fuller

By: Allison Pataki

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller—America’s forgotten leading lady and the central… read more

Similar categories in Allison Pataki's Finding Margaret Fuller book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Lucky

By: Jane Smiley

3.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more

Similar categories in Jane Smiley's Lucky book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth O'Connor's Whale Fall book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Flora Carr's The Tower book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Diva

By: Daisy Goodwin

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Goodwin's Diva book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. All We Were Promised

By: Ashton Lattimore

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an e… read more

Similar categories in Ashton Lattimore's All We Were Promised book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth

By: Joel H. Morris

3.72

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, about th… read more

Similar categories in Joel H. Morris's All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Neferura

By: Malayna Evans

3.61

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

For readers of The Wolf Den and Kaikeyi comes the thrilling tale of the forgotten daughter of a leg… read more

Similar categories in Malayna Evans's Neferura book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Perhaps you feel you've no choices, or perhaps you believe everything has been decided for you. But when it feels like you have no alternatives, you must create them. If you're creative enough, optio…"

-Malayna Evans, Neferura

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16. Fervor

By: Toby Lloyd

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when… read more

Similar categories in Toby Lloyd's Fervor book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • family
  • adult
  • fiction
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17. The Library Thief

By: Kuchenga Shenjé

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England a… read more

Similar categories in Kuchenga Shenjé's The Library Thief book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes

18. The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more

Similar categories in Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • romance
  • art
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 18th century
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secrets of Blythswood Square by Sara Sheridan

19. The Secrets of Blythswood Square

By: Sara Sheridan

4.19

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

You wouldn't suspect it, but scandalous secrets are being kept on Blythswood Square... 1846. Glasg… read more

Similar categories in Sara Sheridan's The Secrets of Blythswood Square book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Every Time We Say Goodbye (Jane Austen Society, #3) by Natalie Jenner

20. Every Time We Say Goodbye (Jane Austen Society, #3)

By: Natalie Jenner

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant nov… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Jenner's Every Time We Say Goodbye (Jane Austen Society, #3) book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Burial Plot book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. The Book of Secrets

By: Anna Mazzola

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Months after the plague ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it t… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The Book of Secrets book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. Moon Road

By: Sarah Leipciger

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It’s irksome to her, how well she knows this man, how much he has changed and how exactly the same … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Leipciger's Moon Road book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • fiction
Cover of The Modern Fairies by Clare Pollard

24. The Modern Fairies

By: Clare Pollard

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lauren Groff’s The Matrix meets Ophelia Field’s The Favourite in this the wry, sexy, and sharp hist… read more

Similar categories in Clare Pollard's The Modern Fairies book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"If there's such a thing as a kiss of true love, then we must declare that this is one of them: this moment in which their whole life trembles, like the world reflected in a drop of dew."

-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies

"For a year or so the group stays intimate and exclusively feminine. But then, after Marie coins the term "contes de fées," or fairy tales, the fame of these "Modern Fairies" begins to spread too fast…"

-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies

"Briou thinks of those words of Don Juan in Molière's play: "As for me, beauty embraces me wherever I find it, and I can easily yield to the sweet violence with which it sweeps me along." He imagined …"

-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies

"Perrault likes this bit of the tale--- the pattern of it. The rhythm. He likes the shapes things make. And he likes beautiful, refined things: frescos, hyacinths, clockmakers, marzipans, butterfly wi…"

-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies

Cover of The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier

25. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • art
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

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26. The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Constable's The Instrumentalist book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Swan's Nest by Laura McNeal

27. The Swan's Nest

By: Laura McNeal

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-cent… read more

Similar categories in Laura McNeal's The Swan's Nest book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • romance
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Goodbye Birdie Greenwing by Ericka Waller

28. Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

By: Ericka Waller

4.29

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget...Birdie, Ada and Jane … read more

Similar categories in Ericka Waller's Goodbye Birdie Greenwing book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • fiction
Cover of The Nightingale's Castle by Sonia Velton

29. The Nightingale's Castle

By: Sonia Velton

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the vein of riveting historical novels such as Hamnet and Circe—with a touch of Dracula—a propul… read more

Similar categories in Sonia Velton's The Nightingale's Castle book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Thorn Tree by Max Ludington

30. Thorn Tree

By: Max Ludington

3.71

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"Terrifically vivid...Remarkable." --The New York Times Book Review: A beautifully wrought novel on… read more

Similar categories in Max Ludington's Thorn Tree book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • art
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann by Gill Paul

31. Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann

By: Gill Paul

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Mad Men  meets the world of publishing in international bestselling author Gill Paul’s new novel ab… read more

Similar categories in Gill Paul's Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann book and Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

31 must-read fiction books like The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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David Nicholls

4.08

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The Underground Library

Jennifer Ryan

4.14

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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The Underground Library

Jennifer Ryan

4.14

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The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

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Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

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Finding Margaret Fuller

Allison Pataki

4.11

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