11 must-read audiobook books like The Maiden of All Our Desires by Peter Manseau

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The Maiden of All Our Desires

By: Peter Manseau

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Lauren Groff, Maggie O’Farrell, and Emma Donoghue, a devastating novel of love, intrigu…

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Maiden of All Our Desires by Peter Manseau , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Sixteen Pleasures

By: Robert Hellenga

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

When book conservator Margo Harrington goes to Florence to aid in restoring the treasures damaged i… read more

Similar categories in Robert Hellenga's The Sixteen Pleasures book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. In Praise of the Bees

By: Kristin Gleeson

4.18

Format: 306 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Kristin Gleeson's In Praise of the Bees book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • historical
  • medieval
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Annie Dunne (Dunne Family #2)

By: Sebastian Barry

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wi… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Annie Dunne (Dunne Family #2) book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #18)

By: Ellis Peters

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

To tie in with the hardcover release of Peters' The Benediction of Brother Cadfael, here is the 18t… read more

Similar categories in Ellis Peters's The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #18) book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • historical
  • medieval
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

5. The Dark Monk (The Hangman's Daughter, #2)

By: Oliver Pötzsch , Lee Chadeayne

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

1660: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring every farmer an… read more

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6. The Angry Wife

By: Pearl S. Buck

3.78

Format: None pages,

Indonesian edition Dua kakak-beradik, dua istri, dua dunia... Tom dan Pierce Delaney sama-sama ikut… read more

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7. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By: John Guy

4.16

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . .  Hunting the Falcon  brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more

Similar categories in John Guy's Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • historical
  • religion
  • audiobook
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8. A Royal Affair (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery #2)

By: Allison Montclair

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

More goes wrong than could be imagined when Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge of The Right Sort … read more

Similar categories in Allison Montclair's A Royal Affair (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery #2) book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Beneficence

By: Meredith Hall

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Beneficence is amazing in its vision. Luminous. With wisdom and compassion, Meredith Hall writes a… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Hall's Beneficence book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Shanghai

By: Joseph Kanon

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Kanon's Shanghai book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Invincible Miss Cust

By: Penny Haw

4.19

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Must-read historical fiction for fans of Marie Benedict and Tracey Enerson Wood, based on the real … read more

Similar categories in Penny Haw's The Invincible Miss Cust book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. 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 Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
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13. The View from Half Dome

By: Jill Caugherty

4.15

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

1934. Isabel longs to escape her squalid San Francisco neighborhood. While her mother struggles to … read more

Similar categories in Jill Caugherty's The View from Half Dome book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. River Spirit

By: Leila Aboulela

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more

Similar categories in Leila Aboulela's River Spirit book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

Cover of The Maiden of All Our Desires by Peter Manseau

15. The Maiden of All Our Desires

By: Peter Manseau

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Lauren Groff, Maggie O’Farrell, and Emma Donoghue, a devastating novel of love, intrigu… read more

Similar categories in Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • literary fiction
  • 14th century
  • historical
  • religion
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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16. Death on the Tiber (Flavia Albia, #12)

By: Lindsey Davis

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Rome is in chaos. The empire of a mobster chief is falling apart following his death. Rivals, fears… read more

Similar categories in Lindsey Davis's Death on the Tiber (Flavia Albia, #12) book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Prophet's Wife

By: Libbie Grant

3.78

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A sweeping, lyrical tale of historical fiction that tells the unbelievable story of the early days … read more

Similar categories in Libbie Grant's The Prophet's Wife book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • historical
  • religion
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission by Stephen Puleo

18. Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission

By: Stephen Puleo

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Puleo has found a new way to tell the story with this well-researched and splendidly written chron… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Puleo's Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • audiobook
Cover of The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck

19. The History of Sound: Stories

By: Ben Shattuck

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more

Similar categories in Ben Shattuck's The History of Sound: Stories book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

20. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • audiobook
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21. Shadow is a Colour as Light is

By: Michael Langan

3.69

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Over a century after Cézanne’s death his art still obsesses and enraptures. And for the characters… read more

Similar categories in Michael Langan's Shadow is a Colour as Light is book and Peter Manseau's The Maiden of All Our Desires

  • fiction

16 Top fiction books like The Maiden of All Our Desires by Peter Manseau

Transform Your Habits

The Sixteen Pleasures

Robert Hellenga

3.65

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In Praise of the Bees

Kristin Gleeson

4.18

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Annie Dunne (Dunne Family #2)

Sebastian Barry

3.98

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The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #18)

Ellis Peters

4.19

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29 Top fiction books like The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck

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The Heart in Winter

Kevin Barry

4.02

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Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

3.79

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Whale Fall

Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

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The Coast Road

Alan Murrin

3.99

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