9 Best literary fiction books like The Year Without Summer by Guinevere Glasfurd

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The Year Without Summer

By: Guinevere Glasfurd

3.49

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1815, a supervolcanic eruption led to the extraordinary 'Year Without Summer' in 1816: a massive…

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1. The Hand That First Held Mine

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.04

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, an… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There on the landing sits the typewriter. It is clogged with dust, the ribbon dried and flimsy. Looking at it gives Felix a feeling close to vertigo. He realises he can replicate in his head the exac…"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine

"The women we become after children, she typed, then stopped to adjust the angle of the paper....We change shape, she continued, we buy low-heeled shoes, we cut off our long hair, We begin to carry in…"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine

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2. A Delicate Truth

By: John Le Carré

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Gibraltar, 2008. A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The English Girl (Gabriel Allon, #13) by Daniel Silva

3. The English Girl (Gabriel Allon, #13)

By: Daniel Silva

4.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Seven days One girl No second chances Madeline Hart is a rising star in Britain's governing party: … read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Devil in the Marshalsea

By: Antonia Hodgson

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

London, 1727, and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-h… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

5. After You'd Gone

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she… read more

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6. The Wicked Cometh

By: None

2.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The year is 1831 Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking plac… read more

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7. The Small Hand

By: Susan Hill

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Returning home from a client visit late one evening, Adam Snow takes a wrong turn and stumbles acro… read more

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8. Life After Life

By: Kate Atkinson

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, … read more

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9. A God in Ruins

By: Kate Atkinson

1.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Life After LifeUrsula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and agai… read more

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10. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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11. The Dance Tree

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Dead of Night (A Berlin Wartime Thriller)

By: Simon Scarrow

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1940. The world holds its breath and hopes for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s grip on po… read more

Similar categories in Simon Scarrow's Dead of Night (A Berlin Wartime Thriller) book and Guinevere Glasfurd's The Year Without Summer

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. 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
  • novels
"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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14. Wild Irish Rose (Molly Murphy, #18)

By: Rhys Bowen

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen, now writing in partnership with her daughter, Clare B… read more

Similar categories in Rhys Bowen's Wild Irish Rose (Molly Murphy, #18) book and Guinevere Glasfurd's The Year Without Summer

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. The Western Wind

By: Samantha Harvey

3.41

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"She paused; her speech was ever thus. Spirals of deepening particulars, then pauses when she saw she'd strayed from the point."

-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind

"But it’s our nature to deny what frightens us, and it’s not wicked or dull. Isn’t there always a bright, willing part of us that keeps hoping that what we know isn’t true?"

-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind

"Why can't time go backwards as well as forward? If time's not a river but a circle, and if you can travel round a circle one way or another and end up where you started, why can't it go this way and …"

-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind

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16. The Mermaid of Black Conch

By: Monique Roffey

3.89

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

In 1976, David is fishing off the island of Black Conch when he comes upon a creature he doesn't ex… read more

Similar categories in Monique Roffey's The Mermaid of Black Conch book and Guinevere Glasfurd's The Year Without Summer

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Womanhood was a dangerous business if you didn't get it right."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"The sea was the giant woman of the planet, fluid and contrary."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"It was the magic that music makes, the song that lives within every creature on earth, including mermaids."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"Life change quick boy. Another planet so. Later I saw that change came as change always comes, from a chain of events with a long history, too long to see from back to front, till it come"

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

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17. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

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  • fiction
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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18. V2: A Novel of World War II

By: Robert Harris

3.91

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more

Similar categories in Robert Harris's V2: A Novel of World War II book and Guinevere Glasfurd's The Year Without Summer

  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart book and Guinevere Glasfurd's The Year Without Summer

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2) by Jessie Burton

20. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."

-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

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21. The Good, the Bad and the History (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #14)

By: Jodi Taylor

4.65

Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition

St Mary's is under investigation. Their director has been shot and Max is Number One Suspect. Can t… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Taylor's The Good, the Bad and the History (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #14) book and Guinevere Glasfurd's The Year Without Summer

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself

By: Luke Russert

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Look for Me There , Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his jou… read more

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"We work our way back through the crowd. A few steps behind, holding Dad’s hand, I keep my eyes affixed to the back of his white polo shirt. The outline of his wallet is visible through his back pants…"

-Luke Russert, Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself

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23. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

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24. The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. The Deluge

By: Stephen Markley

4.23

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching c… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is."

-Stephen Markley, The Deluge

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26. Girl in the Walls

By: A.J. Gnuse

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing and suspenseful coming-of-age novel about an orphan hiding within the walls of her fo… read more

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  • fiction
"Últimamente he intentado cambiar la imagen en mi cabeza. Imaginarme que quienquiera que se esconda ahí tiene el rostro de alguien que recuerdo. Alguien que he perdido. No siempre es fácil, pero creo …"

-A.J. Gnuse, Girl in the Walls

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27. Ponti

By: Sharlene Teo

3.35

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

2003, Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Beholders by Hester Musson

29. The Beholders

By: Hester Musson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of th… read more

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  • 19th century
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Year Without Summer by Guinevere Glasfurd

30. The Year Without Summer

By: Guinevere Glasfurd

3.49

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1815, a supervolcanic eruption led to the extraordinary 'Year Without Summer' in 1816: a massive… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

31. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Transform Your Habits

The Hand That First Held Mine

Maggie O'Farrell

4.04

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A Delicate Truth

John Le Carré

3.31

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The English Girl (Gabriel Allon, #13)

Daniel Silva

4.82

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The Devil in the Marshalsea

Antonia Hodgson

3.51

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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The Black Feathers

Rebecca Netley

4.00

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The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

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Louise Welsh

3.71

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