24 must-read historical books like The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1) by Tamara Goranson

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The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

By: Tamara Goranson

2.90

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Condemned as a murderer in the margins of the ancient Icelandic sagas, Freydis Eriksdottir's courag…

If you liked the historical plot in The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1) by Tamara Goranson , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

By: Sharon Kay Penman

3.65

Format: 135 pages,

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Similar categories in Sharon Kay Penman's The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3) book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

2. The Skystone (Camulod Chronicles, #1)

By: Jack Whyte

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

How do you find a new way to approach a story as familiar as any in the English language? If you're… read more

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3. Far Horizons (The Emigrants Trilogy, #1)

By: Katharine Swartz , Kate Hewitt

3.77

Format: None pages,

An alternate cover edition for ASIN B007Z3QVGW can be found . The Highlands of Scotland, 1819: On … read more

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4. Stone Blind

By: Natalie Haynes

3.82

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

A fresh take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. They will fear you and flee y… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's Stone Blind book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Then look."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"The sea gods keep their secrets deep; they always have."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?"

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone cannot be saved."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

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5. The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)

By: Elodie Harper

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy Amara's journe… read more

Similar categories in Elodie Harper's The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3) book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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6. The Witch and the Tsar

By: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

3.56

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut novel, the maligned and immortal witch of legend known as Baba Yaga will ris… read more

Similar categories in Olesya Salnikova Gilmore's The Witch and the Tsar book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Once war is on men's minds, it festers within, claiming them."

-Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Witch and the Tsar

"Whoever came ... did so when their prayers had gone unanswered, when the mortal healers had thrown up their hands. They came in the depths of their despair."

-Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Witch and the Tsar

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7. A Haunting in the Arctic

By: C.J. Cooke

3.78

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

1901-ben ​járunk. A fiatal nőt, Nickyt megtámadják, majd egy bálnavadász hajó, az Ormen fedélzetén … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Cooke's A Haunting in the Arctic book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I

By: Alison Weir

4.02

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poig… read more

Similar categories in Alison Weir's The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Song of the Huntress

By: Lucy Holland

3.76

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed author of Sistersong transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, fem… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Holland's Song of the Huntress book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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10. Meet Me in Another Life

By: Catriona Silvey

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two people. Infinite lifetimes. One impossible choice. Thora and Santi are strangers in a foreig… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Silvey's Meet Me in Another Life book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Don't go raking through broken glass looking for diamonds."

-Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

"There is no wrong choice", Santi says. "There is just what happens"

-Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

"Why did you expect to see a woman?’ Thora shrugs. ‘Because whoever’s masterminding all this has to be pretty smart?"

-Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

"She doesn’t want to see you.’ Thora’s daughter sounds upset. ‘She says she thought she’d made that clear.’ […] ‘She also told me to tell you she’s in the central hospital, and that visiting hours are…"

-Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

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11. The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)

By: Elodie Harper

4.22

Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition

The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering, yet precarious... Amara has escaped her life as … read more

Similar categories in Elodie Harper's The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2) book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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12. The Last Grand Duchess

By: Bryn Turnbull

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This sweeping new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Woman Before Wallis take… read more

Similar categories in Bryn Turnbull's The Last Grand Duchess book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Courage does not mean a lack of fear....It means meeting whatever the future may hold with grace. [Grandmamma (Dowager Tsarina Maria Feodorovna), to Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna]"

-Bryn Turnbull, The Last Grand Duchess

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13. The Wolf in the Whale

By: Jordanna Max Brodsky

4.12

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

A sweeping tale of clashing cultures, warring gods, and forbidden love: In 1000 AD, a young Inuit s… read more

Similar categories in Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Spirit upon spirit curled one within the other like the spirals of a shell."

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Just as I was man and woman, just as the fanged aarluk was wolf and whale, my people could not be contained in a single god."

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Like you, I am woman and more than woman. I have felt a woman's pain, but I have hunted like a man. Who else has lived both lives?"

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Why would I continue life as a man trapped in a girl’s body when I could just as easily fly into the heavens or run with the wolves?"

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

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14. The African Samurai

By: Craig Shreve

4.07

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Set in late 16th-century Africa, India, Portugal, and Japan, The African Samurai is a powerful hist… read more

Similar categories in Craig Shreve's The African Samurai book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Saint's Hera book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

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16. The Embroidered Book

By: Kate Heartfield

3.67

Format: 655 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel. Finalist for the Ottawa Book Award. ‘Power is not … read more

Similar categories in Kate Heartfield's The Embroidered Book book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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17. Medea

By: Rosie Hewlett

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned … read more

Similar categories in Rosie Hewlett's Medea book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"I hate him for infecting me with this love I have carried for so long – I wish I could remove it, sever it from me like an infected limb."

-Rosie Hewlett, Medea

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18. The Girl Before You

By: Nicola Rayner

3.35

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

She was his.She was perfect.And then, she was gone.If you liked My Lovely Wife, you’ll love this.Al… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Rayner's The Girl Before You book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • fiction
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19. The Valkyrie

By: Kate Heartfield

3.46

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the All-Father, chooser of the slain. But now she too has f… read more

Similar categories in Kate Heartfield's The Valkyrie book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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20. The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

By: Tamara Goranson

2.90

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Condemned as a murderer in the margins of the ancient Icelandic sagas, Freydis Eriksdottir's courag… read more

Similar categories in Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1) book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • adventure
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement by Toufah Jallow

21. Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement

By: Toufah Jallow

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Toufah is the story of Toufah Jallow, a brilliant and inspiring young woman who, after she was forc… read more

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"But a country is not just its weather, it's buildings, it's people. A country is also its government, it's power structure, it's leaders, and it's way of life." (pg. 8)"

-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement

"No person should be subjected to this.' If a woman's value, a woman's autonomy, her right to be free from assault, is dependent on her relationships as a mother, wife, a sister or daughter to the men…"

-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement

"The absence of war doesn't necessarily equal peace,' I said." I loved this because it's such a poignant reminder that just because the extreme is not the case, doesn't mean that the opposite extreme …"

-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement

"Social and religious circumstances pushed them down. Their strength and will pushed them forward- and perhaps in these ways they were more similar to the mothers and grandmothers of Western feminists…"

-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement

Cover of The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3) by Claire North

22. The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)

By: Claire North

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire Nor… read more

Similar categories in Claire North's The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3) book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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23. No Life for a Lady

By: Hannah Dolby

4.05

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

It's remarkable how men react when women break the rules... but the people of Hastings are about to… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Dolby's No Life for a Lady book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Daughter of the Sea

By: Elisabeth Hobbes

4.29

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

On a windswept British coastline, the tide deposits an unexpected gift... It was the cry that sh… read more

Similar categories in Elisabeth Hobbes's Daughter of the Sea book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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25. The King’s Mother

By: Annie Garthwaite

4.49

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

1461. Through blood and battle Edward has gained England’s throne – king by right and conquest – ei… read more

Similar categories in Annie Garthwaite's The King’s Mother book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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26. The Last Beekeeper

By: Siya Turabi

3.20

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘I am a friend of the bees. Like you.’ ‘So, you have been waiting for me?’ ‘The forest has been w… read more

Similar categories in Siya Turabi's The Last Beekeeper book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2) by Sophie Keetch

27. Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)

By: Sophie Keetch

4.46

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

Lady Morgan surveys her life at an unhappy marriage and a vengeful husband determined to keep thei… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Keetch's Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2) book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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28. The Call of the Sea (The Grail Cycle, #1)

By: Kate Schumacher

4.07

Format: 516 pages, Paperback

Once, the world was ruled by those with magic in their blood. But once was a long time ago … E… read more

Similar categories in Kate Schumacher's The Call of the Sea (The Grail Cycle, #1) book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • romance
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Not One of Us (Teifi Valley Coroner, #4) by Alis Hawkins

29. Not One of Us (Teifi Valley Coroner, #4)

By: Alis Hawkins

4.40

Format: 340 pages, ebook

Poor judgements have tragic consequences... The latest in the unputdownable Teifi Valley series … read more

Similar categories in Alis Hawkins's Not One of Us (Teifi Valley Coroner, #4) book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • historical fiction
Cover of The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) by Pat Barker

30. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more

Similar categories in Pat Barker's The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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31. Medusa

By: Nataly Gruender

4.09

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look into the life of a legendary mythical villain who has so often been stripped of he… read more

Similar categories in Nataly Gruender's Medusa book and Tamara Goranson's The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, #1)

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Enyo spoke to her sisters: "They're getting worse." "Demi-Gods?" Sthennos asked. "Men."

-Nataly Gruender, Medusa

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The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

Sharon Kay Penman

3.65

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Natalie Haynes

3.82

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The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)

Elodie Harper

4.39

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The Witch and the Tsar

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

3.56

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Medea

Eilish Quin

3.84

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Hannah M. Lynn

4.05

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Jennifer Saint

3.75

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Rosie Hewlett

4.22

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