15 best-selling historical fiction books like Followed by the Lark by Helen Humphreys

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Followed by the Lark

By: Helen Humphreys

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak of ch…

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1. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crummey's The Adversary book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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2. The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more

Similar categories in Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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3. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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4. 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 Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's Table for Two book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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6. Rage the Night

By: Donna Morrissey

3.97

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

At once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting acco… read more

Similar categories in Donna Morrissey's Rage the Night book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?"

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

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7. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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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 Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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9. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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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 Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

Cover of Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11) by Iona Whishaw

12. Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.39

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Beginning with a bang, the latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls “highly entertainin… read more

Similar categories in Iona Whishaw's Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11) book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. American Spirits

By: Russell Banks

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Secret Keeper

By: Genevieve Graham

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War I… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Graham's The Secret Keeper book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. 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 Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin by Andre Dubus III

16. Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin

By: Andre Dubus III

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Essays from the literary master and bestselling author of Townie on a life of challenges, contradic… read more

Similar categories in Andre Dubus III's Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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17. 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 Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Followed by the Lark

By: Helen Humphreys

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak of ch… read more

Similar categories in Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • literary fiction
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • nature
  • audiobook
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19. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee

20. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

By: Jessica J. Lee

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor… read more

Similar categories in Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • nature
  • audiobook
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21. The Lost Tarot

By: Sarah Henstra

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A lost tarot card is the key to unravelling decades of secrets in this dazzling novel about art and… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Henstra's The Lost Tarot book and Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark

  • fiction
  • historical fiction

19 Top fiction books like Followed by the Lark by Helen Humphreys

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Road from Belhaven

Margot Livesey

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

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21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

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Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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