7 must-read historical fiction books like Ruthie Fear by Maxim Loskutoff

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Ruthie Fear

By: Maxim Loskutoff

3.74

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

In Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, young Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature …

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Ruthie Fear by Maxim Loskutoff , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. The River Why

By: David James Duncan

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

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2. So Much Blue

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 320 pages,

A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and th… read more

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3. Potiki

By: Patricia Grace

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A Maori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purcha… read more

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4. Chi dice e chi tace

By: Chiara Valerio

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Parti e omicidi

By: Sayaka Murata

3.76

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories

By: Pam Houston

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

“I’ve always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey,” says the narrator… read more

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  • westerns
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake."

-Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories

"Several times in my life, I’ve sat with women, friends of mine, who reveal, sometimes shyly, sometimes proudly, bruises of one kind or another, and I know I’ve said, “If it happens one time, leave hi…"

-Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories

"And even though I knew in my head there’s nothing a man can do that a woman can’t, I also knew in my heart we can’t help doing it for different reasons. And just like a man will never understand exac…"

-Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories

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8. The Stone Girl

By: Dirk Wittenborn

4.17

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Three women scarred by a chain of misogyny and death at the hands of a secret brotherhood seek a re… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Due vite

By: Emanuele Trevi

3.55

Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition

«L’unica cosa importante in questo tipo di ritratti scritti è cercare la distanza giusta, che è lo … read more

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  • contemporary
"[...] non ammetterò mai che un dolore o una malattia servano a qualcosa, è solo una consolazione moralistica, e comunque rinuncerei volentieri a questi famosi frutti della sofferenza. Non siamo nati …"

-Emanuele Trevi, Due vite

"Escribir es un método especialmente bueno para evocar a los muertos y aconsejo a quienquiera que sienta nostalgia de alguien que haga lo mismo. que no lo piense, que lo escriba; pronto se darán cuent…"

-Emanuele Trevi, Due vite

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10. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

By: Jaime Green

4.02

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A dazzling cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the poss… read more

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  • nature
"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."

-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording h…"

-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

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11. 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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • nature
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12. Wolf at the Table

By: Adam Rapp

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a … read more

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  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Last Taxi Driver

By: Lee Durkee

3.68

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

A Kirkus Best Book of 2020 “A wild, funny, poetic fever dream that will change the way you think ab… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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14. Above the Fire

By: Michael O'Donnell

3.98

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

O'Donnell's debut, Above the Fire, is a novel which finds hope and resilience in the timelessness o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. All the Water I've Seen Is Running

By: Elias Rodriques

3.55

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Former high school classmates reckon with the death of a friend in this stunning debut novel. Along… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. A Crooked Cottage by the Sea

By: John Anthony Miller

4.28

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Bar Harbor, summer of 1967 When Billie Cooper receives a startling medical diagnosis just before … read more

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  • historical fiction
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17. In Universes

By: Emet North

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Ruthie Fear

By: Maxim Loskutoff

3.74

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

In Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, young Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature … read more

Similar categories in Maxim Loskutoff's Ruthie Fear book and Maxim Loskutoff's Ruthie Fear

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • westerns
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • nature
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19. All God's Children

By: Aaron Gwyn

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in… read more

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  • westerns
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Dilaga ovunque

By: Vanni Santoni

3.61

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

«Come tutti, mi ritrovai catturato in questa cosa nuova del writing, era un'energia che correva dap… read more

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21. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

14 best-selling fiction books like Ruthie Fear by Maxim Loskutoff

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Chi dice e chi tace

Chiara Valerio

3.77

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Percival Everett

4.54

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Parti e omicidi

Sayaka Murata

3.76

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Pam Houston

4.08

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Where Butterflies Wander

Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

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A Storm of Infinite Beauty

Julianne MacLean

4.31

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Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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4.46

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