11 must-read historical fiction books like The Natural History of Love by Caroline Petit

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The Natural History of Love

By: Caroline Petit

3.52

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

For fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things and Pip Williams' The Dictionary of Los…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Natural History of Love by Caroline Petit , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. Terra Nullius

By: Claire G. Coleman

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sen… read more

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2. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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5. Devotion

By: Hannah Kent

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Kent's Devotion book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

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6. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • historical
  • audiobook
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7. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

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8. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Limberlost book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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9. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2) book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Safe Haven book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. One Italian Summer: Across the World and Back in Search of the Good Life

By: Pip Williams

3.83

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food, and… read more

Similar categories in Pip Williams's One Italian Summer: Across the World and Back in Search of the Good Life book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • audiobook
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14. After Story

By: Larissa Behrendt

4.07

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more

Similar categories in Larissa Behrendt's After Story book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

Similar categories in Meg Bignell's The Angry Women's Choir book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

Similar categories in Holly Ringland's The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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17. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

By: Joanna Nell

3.77

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more

Similar categories in Joanna Nell's Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
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18. The Accident

By: Fiona Lowe

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more

Similar categories in Fiona Lowe's The Accident book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Hampson's The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Clarke

By: Holly Throsby

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley. 'Clarke is illu… read more

Similar categories in Holly Throsby's Clarke book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He was so stocky. He was like a wheelie bin."

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

"Leelee?’ ‘Yes, Joe?’ ‘Would you still love me if I was a donkey?’ Leonie said, ‘Sweetheart, I’d love you no matter what you were. If you turned into a donkey, I’d just find us a house with a big barn…"

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

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21. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Butterfly Collector

By: Tea Cooper

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A botanical illustration of a butterfly, a missing baby, and a twisty mystery fifty years in the ma… read more

Similar categories in Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

By: Kate Solly

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like h… read more

Similar categories in Kate Solly's Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The problem was with the constant deliciousness of a new idea. It was always more exciting to start a new project than to plod away with one whose appeal had gone stale."

-Kate Solly, Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

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24. The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

3.90

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

A loving husband lost to devastating summer floods. A teenage girl injured during a robbery. Two se… read more

Similar categories in Dinuka McKenzie's The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1) book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Devil's Kitchen

By: Candice Fox

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This tight-knit, four-person unit has worked together to save countless lives and stop out of contr… read more

Similar categories in Candice Fox's Devil's Kitchen book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. A Room Made of Leaves

By: Kate Grenville

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's A Room Made of Leaves book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

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27. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

Similar categories in Alli Parker's At the Foot of the Cherry Tree book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. Salt River Road

By: Molly Schmidt

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of their mother’s death, the Tetley siblings’ lives are falling apart. Left to fen… read more

Similar categories in Molly Schmidt's Salt River Road book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Over there somewhere, down at the house, Dad and the boys are moving in silent circles round each other. Even though inside us, nothing is quiet at all."

-Molly Schmidt, Salt River Road

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29. A Woman of Courage

By: Tania Blanchard

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, moving story of love, tenacity and the right to be heard by bestseller Tania Blanchard,… read more

Similar categories in Tania Blanchard's A Woman of Courage book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Moriarty's Every Last Suspect book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. The Natural History of Love

By: Caroline Petit

3.52

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

For fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things and Pip Williams' The Dictionary of Los… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love book and Caroline Petit's The Natural History of Love

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • nature
  • audiobook

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