16 Top historical books like Killingly by Katharine Beutner

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Killingly

By: Katharine Beutner

3.39

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897, Killingly weaves …

If you liked the historical plot in Killingly by Katharine Beutner , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Other Side of Mrs. Wood

By: Lucy Barker

3.55

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A historical novel about the rivalry between two female mediums during Victorian London’s obsession… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Barker's The Other Side of Mrs. Wood book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"I want your reputation... I want everything you have."

-Lucy Barker, The Other Side of Mrs. Wood

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2. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. 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 Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
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4. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Chidgey's Pet book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

5. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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6. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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7. 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 Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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8. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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9. Alice Sadie Celine

By: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

3.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale i… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's Alice Sadie Celine book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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10. How Can I Help You

By: Laura Sims

3.42

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined. N… read more

Similar categories in Laura Sims's How Can I Help You book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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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 Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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12. 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 Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Killingly by Katharine Beutner

13. Killingly

By: Katharine Beutner

3.39

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897, Killingly weaves … read more

Similar categories in Katharine Beutner's Killingly book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine

14. Maddalena and the Dark

By: Julia Fine

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by… read more

Similar categories in Julia Fine's Maddalena and the Dark book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal

15. 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 Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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16. The Witching Tide

By: Margaret Meyer

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel, an immersive literary debut inspired by historica… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Meyer's The Witching Tide book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Loot

By: Tania James

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more

Similar categories in Tania James's Loot book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."

-Tania James, Loot

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18. The Puzzle Wood

By: Rosie Andrews

3.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Deep in the woods, something is stirring. When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a posit… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Andrews's The Puzzle Wood book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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19. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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20. The Future Future

By: Adam Thirlwell

2.98

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon… read more

Similar categories in Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Disturbance

By: Jenna Clake

3.15

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spellbinding, genre-bending debut that follows a woman’s attempt to heal from an abusive relation… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Clake's Disturbance book and Katharine Beutner's Killingly

  • fiction
  • horror

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