8 Best historical fiction books like The Way Back by Gavriel Savit

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The Way Back

By: Gavriel Savit

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for readers of Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman, a sweeping historical fantasy that follows t…

"Death frowned, light and tight. “I might ask you the same question. For as much as it frightens each of you to see my face, it grieves me to see each of yours."

-Gavriel Savit, The Way Back

"Death frowned, light and tight. “I might ask you the same question. For as much as it frightens each of you to see my face, it grieves me to see each of yours."

-Gavriel Savit, The Way Back

"Death frowned, light and tight. “I might ask you the same question. For as much as it frightens each of you to see my face, it grieves me to see each of yours."

-Gavriel Savit, The Way Back

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Way Back by Gavriel Savit , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins

By: Trina Schart Hyman , Eric A. Kimmel

4.32

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A traveler rids a village synagogue of goblins. A Caldecott Honor Book. read more

Similar categories in Trina Schart Hyman's Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • jewish

2. Sweep: Volume 1 (Sweep, #1-3)

By: Cate Tiernan

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Includes: Book 1 - Book of Shadows Book 2 - The Coven Book 3 - Blood Witch The first three Sweep bo… read more

Similar categories in Cate Tiernan's Sweep: Volume 1 (Sweep, #1-3) book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

3. Chainbreaker (Timekeeper, #2)

By: Tara Sim

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Clock mechanic Danny Hart knows he's being watched. But by whom, or what, remains a mystery. To mak… read more

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4. When the Angels Left the Old Country

By: Sacha Lamb

4.27

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

A queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power o… read more

Similar categories in Sacha Lamb's When the Angels Left the Old Country book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • jewish
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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5. On the Horizon

By: Lois Lowry

4.27

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From Lois Lowry comes an account of the lives lost in two of WWII’s most infamous events: Pearl Har… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's On the Horizon book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • audiobook
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6. IJzerkop

By: Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem

3.97

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

De achttienjarige Stans houdt nooit haar mond, liegt als de pest en doet wat niet mag. Ze droomt er… read more

Similar categories in Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem's IJzerkop book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Lost Shtetl

By: Max Gross

3.80

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable debut novel—written with the fearless imagination of Michael Chabon and the piercing h… read more

Similar categories in Max Gross's The Lost Shtetl book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • audiobook
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • jewish
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8. Girl Gone Viral

By: Arvin Ahmadi

3.29

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She builds entire worlds from scratch: Mars crat… read more

Similar categories in Arvin Ahmadi's Girl Gone Viral book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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9. Bone Weaver

By: Aden Polydoros

3.75

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The Kosa empire roils in tension, on the verge of being torn apart by a proletarian revolution betw… read more

Similar categories in Aden Polydoros's Bone Weaver book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • jewish
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
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11. The Slaughterman’s Daughter

By: Yaniv Iczkovits

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An epic historical adventure novel—FIDDLER ON THE ROOF meets Tarantino—set in the Pale of Settlemen… read more

Similar categories in Yaniv Iczkovits's The Slaughterman’s Daughter book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • jewish
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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12. What Grows in the Dark

By: Jaq Evans

3.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this chilling contemporary horror novel, a phony spiritualist returns to her hometown to assist … read more

Similar categories in Jaq Evans's What Grows in the Dark book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Sasha Masha

By: Agnes Borinsky

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Transgender author Agnes Borinsky deftly explores gender identity and queer romance in this heart-w… read more

Similar categories in Agnes Borinsky's Sasha Masha book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"I feel like teenagers get a bad rap for changing things up all the time. We're fake or we're insincere or we're superficial. But if you do it to please yourself, what's insincere about that?"

-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

"Real people are comfortable being themselves and don't have to think about what they want. They laugh out loud and they eat when they're hungry and they say what they're thinking no matter who is lis…"

-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

"Representation is chump change, darling. I'm sorry to break it to you. People who hold power don't like to put themselves at risk. And that's why Queer people have generally been the visionaries. Bec…"

-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

"I feel like I was on autopilot for most of my life. Like I just took for granted the person the world told me I was and I feel like it might have been easier to shake that up a little when I was a ki…"

-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

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14. My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics)

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind hi… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics) book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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15. How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love

By: D.N. Bryn

4.10

Format: 493 pages, Kindle Edition

“You have money, I have blood. How would you like to buy it?” No romantic story has ever lived u… read more

Similar categories in D.N. Bryn's How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. Patriarkatet faller - Sexismens historie og kvinners motstandskamp

By: Marta Breen

4.29

Format: 99 pages, Hardcover

Las feministas han sido ridiculizadas y acosadas en todo el mundo y en todos los tiempos. En el sig… read more

Similar categories in Marta Breen's Patriarkatet faller - Sexismens historie og kvinners motstandskamp book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • historical
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17. Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

By: Laura Ruby

3.86

Format: 384 pages, ebook

The unforgettable story of two young women—one living, one dead—dealing with loss, desire, and the … read more

Similar categories in Laura Ruby's Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Girls were punished so hard for their love, so hard, hard enough to break them."

-Laura Ruby, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

"She flew higher and higher into the plush and generous darkness, the long forgiving night, until she slipped through a star, a doorway, and heaven welcomed her in."

-Laura Ruby, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

"No one is ever ready for something like this. You don't do it because you're ready. You do it because you're weary. And I am weary. I have been weary for too long."

-Laura Ruby, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

"Frankie didn't know that the boys opened every letter, any letter, as if it were a dispatch from another world, a kinder one, a pleasant dream they'd once had when they were young. She didn't know th…"

-Laura Ruby, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

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18. A Warning About Swans

By: R.M. Romero

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Swan Lake meets The Last Unicorn by way of the Brothers Grimm in a dreamy, original fairytale in ve… read more

Similar categories in R.M. Romero's A Warning About Swans book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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19. The Way Back

By: Gavriel Savit

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for readers of Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman, a sweeping historical fantasy that follows t… read more

Similar categories in Gavriel Savit's The Way Back book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • jewish
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"Death frowned, light and tight. “I might ask you the same question. For as much as it frightens each of you to see my face, it grieves me to see each of yours."

-Gavriel Savit, The Way Back

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20. Into the Light

By: Mark Oshiro

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When you're like me, you have to lie. It’s been one year since Manny was cast out of his family … read more

Similar categories in Mark Oshiro's Into the Light book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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21. Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

By: Diana López

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The twelve-year-old daughter of La Llorona vows to free her mother and reverse the curses that have… read more

Similar categories in Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1) book and Gavriel Savit's The Way Back

  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook

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Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins

Trina Schart Hyman , Eric A. Kimmel

4.32

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When the Angels Left the Old Country

Sacha Lamb

4.27

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IJzerkop

Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem

3.97

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The Lost Shtetl

Max Gross

3.80

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3.83

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Kacen Callender

3.79

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Tobly McSmith

3.84

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