11 Top historical books like The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick

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The Red Bird Sings

By: Aoife Fitzpatrick

3.68

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

West Virginia, 1897. When young Zona Heaster Shue dies only a few months after her wedding, her mot…

If you liked the historical plot in The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. The Giant's House

By: Elizabeth McCracken

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

An unusual love story about a little librarian on Cape Cod and the tallest boy in the world, The Gi… read more

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2. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • 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 Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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4. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

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  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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5. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • fiction
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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6. Svetimkūniai

By: Patricija Tilvikaitė

4.14

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Meda jaučiasi pati save įkalinusi prestižinio darbo gniaužtuose. Ją į neviltį varo vidinis kritikas… read more

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7. The Playdate: A startling and deliciously pitch-dark story from leafy suburbia

By: Clara Dillon

3.88

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

'A riveting tale … gripping’ The Irish Independent‘An incredibly gripping and entertaining page-tur… read more

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8. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Somebody Knows

By: Michelle McDonagh

4.16

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

: A gripping, addictive page-turner about dangerous secrets and the lengths people will go to keep … read more

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10. Fyneshade

By: Kate Griffin

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and sil… read more

Similar categories in Kate Griffin's Fyneshade book and Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • dark
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11. Falling Animals

By: Sheila Armstrong

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more

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  • fiction
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12. The Illusions

By: Liz Hyder

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At a time of extraordinary change, two women must harness their talents to take control of their ow… read more

Similar categories in Liz Hyder's The Illusions book and Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Beholders

By: Hester Musson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of th… read more

Similar categories in Hester Musson's The Beholders book and Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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14. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

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  • fiction
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15. The Red Bird Sings

By: Aoife Fitzpatrick

3.68

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

West Virginia, 1897. When young Zona Heaster Shue dies only a few months after her wedding, her mot… read more

Similar categories in Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings book and Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings

  • gothic
  • historical
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • dark
  • crime
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16. The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Constable's The Instrumentalist book and Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

Similar categories in Clare Chambers's Shy Creatures book and Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The House of Whispers

By: Anna Mazzola

3.64

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes the secrets of the past are more dangerous than the present... Rome, 1938. As the w… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The House of Whispers book and Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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19. Seaborne

By: Nuala O'Connor

3.81

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

1703, Kinsale, County Cork. Anne Coleman is the illegitimate child of a local lawyer and his maid; … read more

Similar categories in Nuala O'Connor's Seaborne book and Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's Heart, Be at Peace book and Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings

  • fiction
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21. Costanza

By: Rachel Blackmore

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Rome, 1636. History calls her a Muse. Temptress. Fallen woman. This is her story. In the scorche… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Blackmore's Costanza book and Aoife Fitzpatrick's The Red Bird Sings

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Earth

John Boyne

4.34

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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4.05

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Rebecca Netley

4.00

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3.94

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Louise Welsh

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