11 must-read historical books like Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

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Swan Song

By: Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

3.70

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Over countless martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fea…

If you liked the historical plot in Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Beyond the Wild River

By: Sarah Maine

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

For fans of Kate Morton and Beatriz Williams, a highly atmospheric and suspenseful historical novel… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. All at Sea

By: Decca Aitkenhead

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, a… read more

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3. Moon Tiger

By: Penelope Lively

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

4. Answered Prayers - The Unfinished Novel

By: Truman Capote

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Paperback

Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions… read more

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5. Dead Air

By: Iain Banks

3.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In this new edition, the original topics have been brought up to date, added to and elaborated upon… read more

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6. Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

By: Stella Gibbons

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

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7. Solar Bones

By: Mike McCormack

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

the Angelus bell ringing out over its villages and townlands, over the fields and hills and bogs in… read more

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8. The Wild Other: A Memoir

By: Clover Stroud

4.24

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Clover Stroud's idyllic childhood in rural England was shattered when a horrific riding accident le… read more

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9. Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter

By: Alexander Aciman , Emmett Rensin

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

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10. A Change Of Climate

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Set in both the windswept countryside of Norfolk and the violent townships of South Africa, this is… read more

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11. The Swans of Fifth Avenue

By: Melanie Benjamin

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife comes an enthralling new novel abo… read more

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12. Scenes of a Graphic Nature

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'Do you know what céad mile fáilte means?' 'A hundred thousand welcomes.' 'Not a hundred thousand… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's Scenes of a Graphic Nature book and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

Similar categories in Tom Crewe's The New Life book and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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14. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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15. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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16. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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17. Rosewater

By: Liv Little

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more

Similar categories in Liv Little's Rosewater book and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Hey, Zoey

By: Sarah Crossan

3.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Dolores O'Shea’s marriage collapses when she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll in the garage. Whe… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But I wished I wasn’t strong. Because when you are, no one thinks to take care of you."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

"We were too alike. We loved one another in the wrong way, but that doesn't mean it wasn't love."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

"How could we possibly tell another person everything about ourselves? It would take a lifetime. It would be incredibly boring."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

"As a young teacher I would raise my voice to get a group’s attention. Now I know better. To make yourself heard, you get very quiet. It instils fear."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

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19. Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By: Kerry Hudson

4.15

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhoo… read more

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  • audiobook
"I was a private investigator, digging my way through my own deeply buried secrets, both desperate for answers and fighting to keep them hidden."

-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

"Here I was chasing my past, trying to piece things together but perhaps the real courage was in simply accepting the things that happen and learning to live with them."

-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

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20. The Stargazers

By: Harriet Evans

3.90

Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition

Sunday Times Top 5 bestselling author Harriet Evans returns with an unputdownable tale of the infin… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Evans's The Stargazers book and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song

  • contemporary
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The Mess We’re In

By: Annie Macmanus

3.40

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more

Similar categories in Annie Macmanus's The Mess We’re In book and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. Trio

By: William Boyd

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Mart… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"People come to us...us novelists...looking for information about all the other people in the world; what we're thinking, what we need, what we dream about, what we hate, what makes us tick.... People…"

-William Boyd, Trio

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23. Ordinary People

By: Diana Evans

3.31

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘You can take a leap, do something off the wall, something reckless. It’s your last chance, and mos… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"C'est incroyable ce que la musique peut charpenter une vie, toute une vie, et te la rendre par pans entiers, alors que tu pensais avoir tout oublié."

-Diana Evans, Ordinary People

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24. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

By: Laurence Leamer

3.83

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more

Similar categories in Laurence Leamer's Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era book and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song

  • new york
  • historical
  • audiobook
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25. This Family

By: Kate Sawyer

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3) by Richard  Coles

26. Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3)

By: Richard Coles

3.87

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery whe… read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3) book and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. Murder: The Biography

By: Kate Morgan

4.00

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Totally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating … read more

Similar categories in Kate Morgan's Murder: The Biography book and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song

  • historical
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings

By: Joanna Nadin

3.35

Format: 384 pages, ebook

The characters in this book are works of fiction. But, then, isn’t everyone . . . ? 1988, Pencal… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Nadin's The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings book and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women by Kaz Cooke

29. You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women

By: Kaz Cooke

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

You're Doing it Wrong is an outrageous tour through the centuries of bonkers and bad advice handed … read more

Similar categories in Kaz Cooke's You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women book and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song

  • historical
  • adult
  • audiobook
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30. Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

By: Mark O'Connell

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"A fantastic book. It's harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell. O'Connell proves himself to b… read more

Similar categories in Mark O'Connell's Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back book and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song

  • audiobook
"The future is a source of fear not because we know what will happen, and that it will be terrible, but because we know so little, and have so little control. The apocalyptic sensibility, the apocalyp…"

-Mark O'Connell, Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

Cover of Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

31. Swan Song

By: Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

3.70

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Over countless martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fea… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • new york
  • unfinished
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

17 Top fiction books like Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

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Beyond the Wild River

Sarah Maine

3.33

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Moon Tiger

Penelope Lively

3.91

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Scenes of a Graphic Nature

Caroline O'Donoghue

3.64

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The New Life

Tom Crewe

3.77

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On Green Dolphin Street

Sebastian Faulks

3.59

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Act of Oblivion

Robert Harris

4.07

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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