6 Best historical fiction books like The Hare by Melanie Finn

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The Hare

By: Melanie Finn

3.63

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The Hare is an affecting portrait of Rosie Monroe, of her resilience and personal transformation un…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Hare by Melanie Finn , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. A Mouthful of Air

By: Amy Koppelman

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

About the Book The riveting story of a young Manhattan mother's struggle with postpartum depression… read more

Similar categories in Amy Koppelman's A Mouthful of Air book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • drama
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Stories

By: Katherine Mansfield , Jeffrey Meyers

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Mansfield's Stories book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • fiction

3. On Such a Full Sea

By: Chang-rae Lee

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story tha… read more

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4. 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 Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Lucky Dogs

By: Helen Schulman

3.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The paths of two women on opposite ends of a high-profile sexual abuse scandal set them on a devast… read more

Similar categories in Helen Schulman's Lucky Dogs book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. I Will Die in a Foreign Land

By: Kalani Pickhart

4.07

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. “Only a Rus… read more

Similar categories in Kalani Pickhart's I Will Die in a Foreign Land book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What is the act of love if not bold? As the world comes apart, nothing to lose- What is love if not a promise to go on?"

-Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land

"My mother was the one with the gift. She had a soft voice that warbled like a bird, but it was my father who wanted us to learn music. We learned the arts, my father said, to be civilized people beca…"

-Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land

"Loss, when it occurs, has memory stronger than the mind, stronger than visual recollection patterned in the brain. It’s something the flesh knows, the muscles know, like a dancer reciting a step done…"

-Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land

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7. 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 Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • 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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8. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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9. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

Similar categories in Claire Oshetsky's Poor Deer book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

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10. Creatures

By: Crissy Van Meter

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the gro… read more

Similar categories in Crissy Van Meter's Creatures book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Big Time

By: Ben H. Winters

3.43

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Ben Winters, whom critics attest  "you'll follow...anywhere" ( New York Times Book Review ), return… read more

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's Big Time book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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12. Hot Springs Drive

By: Lindsay Hunter

3.52

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Jackie loved her best friend Theresa from the moment they met nearly fifteen years ago. Now, Theres… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Hunter's Hot Springs Drive book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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13. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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14. To Each This World

By: Julie E. Czerneda

3.93

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From an Aurora Award-winning author, a new sci-fi novel follows three intrepid humans caught up in … read more

Similar categories in Julie E. Czerneda's To Each This World book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • fiction
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15. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Museum of Human History

By: Rebekah Bergman

3.50

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Complex, philosophically searching, and gorgeously rendered, Rebekah Bergman’s The Museum of Human … read more

Similar categories in Rebekah Bergman's The Museum of Human History book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love

By: Rachel Feder

3.25

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

“A wildly entertaining read.”—The Washington PostWhat if we've been reading Jane Austen and romanti… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Feder's The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • feminism
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18. Exalted

By: Anna Dorn

3.73

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Emily Forrest runs the hottest astrology account on Instagram, @Exalted, but astrology is on the ou… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Exalted book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. A Door Behind A Door

By: Yelena Moskovich

3.68

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In Yelena Moskovich's spellbinding new novel, A Door Behind A Door, we meet Olga, who immigrates as… read more

Similar categories in Yelena Moskovich's A Door Behind A Door book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What is life, if you cannot willingly go into the heart of the storm. What is life, if you cannot willingly storm someone's heart. What is life, if you cannot willingly leave safe waters."

-Yelena Moskovich, A Door Behind A Door

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20. The Hare

By: Melanie Finn

3.63

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The Hare is an affecting portrait of Rosie Monroe, of her resilience and personal transformation un… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Finn's The Hare book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • drama
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21. The Evening Hero

By: Marie Myung-Ok Lee

3.82

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, lyrical novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confron… read more

Similar categories in Marie Myung-Ok Lee's The Evening Hero book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
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22. What Fire Brings

By: Rachel Howzell Hall

3.51

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

A writer’s search for her missing friend becomes a real-life thriller in a twisting novel of suspen… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Howzell Hall's What Fire Brings book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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23. Vagablonde

By: Anna Dorn

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Vagablonde is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a wom… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Vagablonde book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. At the Edge of the Woods

By: Kathryn Bromwich

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

With assurance and remarkable dexterity, Kathryn Bromwich’s masterful debut novel is a rich, gorgeo… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Bromwich's At the Edge of the Woods book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. The Blurry Years

By: Eleanor Kriseman

4.00

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

The Blurry Years is a powerful and unorthodox coming-of-age story from an assured new literary voic… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Kriseman's The Blurry Years book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time by Sheila Liming

26. Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

By: Sheila Liming

3.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Hide your phone, stop hustling for a second, and read this passionate argument for the importance … read more

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27. Show Them a Good Time

By: Nicole Flattery

3.23

Format: 257 pages, None

A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that wome… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Flattery's Show Them a Good Time book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Comedy is tragedy sped up."

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

"I don't like anybody my own age."

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

"a feeling of forever melancholy . . ."

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

"What have I done to deserve this life?"

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

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28. Book of Extraordinary Tragedies

By: Joe Meno

4.00

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Aleksandar and Isobel are siblings and former classical music prodigies, once destined for greatnes… read more

Similar categories in Joe Meno's Book of Extraordinary Tragedies book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. The House on Cold Creek Lane

By: Liz Alterman

3.96

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

An unflinching examination of motherhood and the dark side of domesticity set against a suburban ba… read more

Similar categories in Liz Alterman's The House on Cold Creek Lane book and Melanie Finn's The Hare

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • drama
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

30. 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 Melanie Finn's The Hare

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31. Walden

By: Amy Berryman

4.29

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

It’s ridiculous – we’re investing in this place light years away that we don’t even know if our spe… read more

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26 Best fiction books like The Hare by Melanie Finn

Transform Your Habits

A Mouthful of Air

Amy Koppelman

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Stories

Katherine Mansfield , Jeffrey Meyers

3.97

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North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

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Lucky Dogs

Helen Schulman

3.23

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21 Top fiction books like Bear by Julia Phillips

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James

Percival Everett

4.54

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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Colm Tóibín

3.82

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Rachel Khong

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