18 Best historical fiction books like Unrest by Gwen Tuinman

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Unrest

By: Gwen Tuinman

4.25

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Brash, duplicitous women, murder and mayhem, and illicit love abound in this wild adventure for fan…

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1. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

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  • historical fiction
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2. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

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  • historical fiction
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3. Sisters of Belfast

By: Melanie Maure

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An enthralling and deeply moving story that begins during World War II, about orphaned twin sisters… read more

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  • historical fiction
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4. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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5. The Woman with No Name

By: Audrey Blake

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

She'll light the fire of resistance—but she may get burned… 1942. Though she survived the bomb t… read more

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  • historical fiction
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6. 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

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"...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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7. A Short Walk Through a Wide World

By: Douglas Westerbeke

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the in… read more

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  • historical fiction
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8. Do You Remember Being Born?

By: Sean Michaels

3.83

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner… read more

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"I opened my eyes: soft light, morning, cool. The shimmer of a dream as it departed. I have always enjoyed waking up to different weather, as if the world's been up to something in the night."

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"A poem-shaped space, I thought. A poem-shaped space. I tried to hold a poem-shaped space in my mind. Sometimes the work of life is like preparing a bedroom for a guest: sweeping the floor, emptying t…"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"Some of what makes us human is our smallness. The brevity of our lifespans, the shortness of our memories, the narrowness of each person's field of vision. My Marian-ness is in the slender sample of …"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"Art is husbandry, I thought. It is an experiment in imaginary kinship. Bring together this mare and this stallion; this marriage and this moon; this sun and this daughter. Poems, paintings, pop songs…"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

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9. A Sweet Sting of Salt

By: Rose Sutherland

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll ha… read more

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  • historical fiction
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10. The Other Valley

By: Scott Alexander Howard

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more

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11. The Secret Keeper

By: Genevieve Graham

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War I… read more

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  • historical fiction
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12. Fit to Die

By: Daniel Kalla

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla comes a riveting thriller about online body sh… read more

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13. The Library Thief

By: Kuchenga Shenjé

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England a… read more

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  • historical fiction
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14. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past

By: Brett Popplewell

4.31

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Into the Wild  meets  Born to Run  meets  The Stranger in the Woods  in a fascinating true story of… read more

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15. The Inheritance

By: Joanna Goodman

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compu… read more

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16. The Cure for Drowning

By: Loghan Paylor

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-… read more

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  • historical fiction
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17. The Secret History of Audrey James

By: Heather Marshall

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more

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  • historical fiction
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18. Moon Road

By: Sarah Leipciger

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It’s irksome to her, how well she knows this man, how much he has changed and how exactly the same … read more

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19. Masquerade

By: O.O. Sangoyomi

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more

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  • historical fiction
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20. The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1)

By: Laura R. Samotin

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is merely a broken man, languishing … read more

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  • historical fiction
"It's not shameful to seek help for a wound," Mischa continued. "Whether a wound to your body, or one to your mind."

-Laura R. Samotin, The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1)

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21. A Man Downstairs

By: Nicole Lundrigan

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

What if the childhood you remember isn’t really what happened at all? From the acclaimed author … read more

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22. Unrest

By: Gwen Tuinman

4.25

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Brash, duplicitous women, murder and mayhem, and illicit love abound in this wild adventure for fan… read more

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  • historical fiction
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23. Their Divine Fires

By: Wendy Chen

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A family saga that begins at the dawn of the Chinese Revolution and spans 100 years to trace the in… read more

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  • historical fiction
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24. Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing

By: Jennifer Grenz

4.26

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

A personal journey of bringing together Western science and Indigenous ecology to transform our und… read more

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25. The Best Lies

By: David Ellis

4.02

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author David Ellis delivers a fast-paced, twisty thriller that will s… read more

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26. The Outlier

By: Elisabeth Eaves

3.45

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

An audaciously twisty psychological thriller in which finding the killer is only one of two mysteri… read more

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27. The Thirteenth Husband

By: Greer Macallister

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Tearing through millions of dollars, four continents, and a hearty collection of husbands, real-lif… read more

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  • historical fiction
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28. When the World Fell Silent

By: Donna Jones Alward

4.39

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

A story of loss, hope and redemption against the most impossible odds. 1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia. … read more

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  • historical fiction
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29. real ones

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more

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30. The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley

By: Shelley Wood

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An inspired, sweeping, historical epic tracing the remarkable life story of a baby girl born on lea… read more

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  • historical fiction
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31. The Capital of Dreams

By: Heather O'Neill

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

“The Capital of Dreams is not so much a novel to read but one to live (and dream) in. A dark, wistf… read more

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  • historical fiction

21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

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Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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