7 best-selling historical fiction books like The Orchard by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry

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The Orchard

By: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union--but not all of them will live…

"So she wove a wreath from bluebells and delicate white flowers and placed it on my head. It smelled like withered grass, like the end of summer."

-Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, The Orchard

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Orchard by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Feeding the Soul (Souls of Chicago, #1)

By: Annabella Michaels

3.87

Format: 54 pages,

Giovanni Romero had been dealt his fair share of heartbreak throughout his thirty years, including … read more

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  • contemporary

2. The Brontës Went to Woolworths

By: Rachel Ferguson

3.43

Format: 64 pages,

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3. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple

By: Deborah Layton

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

Told by a former high-level member of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown survivor, Seductive Poisonis… read more

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4. Henry Henry

By: Allen Bratton

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • retellings
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."

-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

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5. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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6. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Frankie

By: Michael Köhlmeier

3.30

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Ein Teenager, ein soeben aus dem Gefängnis entlassener Großvater und eine geladene Pistole: Frank i… read more

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8. Hund, Wolf, Schakal

By: Behzad Karim Khani

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Behzad Karim Khanis Debüt über das Schicksal zweier Brüder verbindet die Härte der Straße mit der M… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Hangman

By: Maya Binyam

3.59

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Vatermal

By: Necati Öziri

4.35

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Arda weiß nicht, wie viel Zeit ihm noch bleibt. Er liegt mit Organversagen im Krankenhaus seiner He… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Du bist 18 und deine Freunde sind mit Balken vor den Augen in den Zeitungen. Sie liegen in den Parks und auf der Pennerwiese herum, sie sind jetzt die Statistik aus den Talkshows, abgeschoben, in der…"

-Necati Öziri, Vatermal

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11. This Is How You Remember It

By: Catherine Prasifka

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Minihorror

By: Barbi Marković

3.77

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

In "Minihorror" werden die ganz gewöhnlichen Albträume wahr – mit Humor, schräger Fantasie und dem … read more

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  • fiction
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13. Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

By: Ellena Savage

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

‘I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only o… read more

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  • contemporary
"Sadness is not always a terrible illness. Sadness is, perhaps, the most honest response to living."

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"I need to manage the unmanageable, to contain, correct and formalise the world, because I need to survive it."

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"Is 'self-care' a neoliberal scam promoting individualistic coping strategies in the absence of broader social obligations or the possibility of radical structural change? (Well, yes, I say to myself …"

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"If there is always a question, and I believe there is, in this case it is this: where is home and what is freedom. The promise we accept is that freedom is the freedom to make ourselves anew, but in …"

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

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14. Yoga Town

By: Daniel Speck

3.87

Format: 467 pages, Kindle Edition

Es war einmal... eine bessere Zukunft. Der große neue Familienroman von Bestseller-Autor Daniel Spe… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Krawall und Kekse (German Edition)

By: Shirley Jackson

3.96

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

Neben ihrem Talent für das Schaurige war die große amerikanische Autorin Shirley Jackson bekannt fü… read more

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16. A Girl in Exile

By: Ismail Kadare

3.46

Format: 192 pages, None

A Girl in Exile, first published in Albanian in 2009, is set among the bureaucratic machinery of Al… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

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18. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir

By: Sara Glass

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. Muss ich das gelesen haben? Was in unseren Bücherregalen und auf Literaturlisten steht – und wie wir das jetzt ändern

By: Teresa Reichl

4.28

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Literatur. Kanon. Revolte! – Die Zukunft des Lesens steht auf feministischen Füßen Wie das Patriar… read more

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20. Murder in the Neighborhood

By: Ellen J. Green

4.28

Format: 352 pages, None

On September 6,1949, twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people in less than tw… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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21. The Orchard

By: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union--but not all of them will live… read more

Similar categories in Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry's The Orchard book and Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry's The Orchard

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • russia
  • russian literature
  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"So she wove a wreath from bluebells and delicate white flowers and placed it on my head. It smelled like withered grass, like the end of summer."

-Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, The Orchard

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22. Zukunftsmusik

By: Katerina Poladjan

3.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Der neue Roman von Katerina Poladjan über vier Generationen von Frauen, eine Kommunalka und das End… read more

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  • russia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. No Second Chances

By: Rio Youers

4.02

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

From Rio Youers, the acclaimed author of Lola on Fire, comes a blistering high-octane thriller abou… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of I'm F*cking Amazing by Anoushka Warden

24. I'm F*cking Amazing

By: Anoushka Warden

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What becomes of happily-ever-after for a woman who can’t stand sex with the best guy ever? Her d… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. The Dissonance

By: Shaun Hamill

3.99

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters comes an epic contemporary fantasy: a story of… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Trophäe

By: Gaea Schoeters

4.11

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Gaea Schoetersʼ preisgekrönter Roman ist von einer außerordentlichen erzählerischen Wucht. Die Tief… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Das Wohlbefinden

By: Ulla Lenze

3.42

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

»Ulla Lenze schreibt eine tolle, empfindungsintensive Prosa. Echt und wahr und ehrlich.«David Wagne… read more

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  • contemporary
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28. Der Letzte seiner Art

By: Sibylle Grimbert

4.03

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

1835: Der junge Zoologe Gus wird vom Naturhistorischen Museum in Lille nach Island geschickt, um di… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Wild Ground

By: Emily Usher

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A story of first love that will break your heart, this bittersweet debut novel follows two teenager… read more

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  • fiction
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30. Kaiserstuhl

By: Brigitte Glaser

3.97

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Kaiserstuhl, 1962 Zwei Menschen in einer Grenzregion Am Kaiserstuhl kreuzen sich kurz nach Krie… read more

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31. Fräulein Steiff

By: Maren Gottschalk

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ein starker Wille, Humor und eine ausgeprägte Neugier – schon als kleines Mädchen will die 1847 im … read more

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