5 Top historical books like The History of Mischief by Rebecca Higgie

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The History of Mischief

By: Rebecca Higgie

4.17

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When Jessie and her older sister Kay find a book called The History of Mischief, hidden beneath the…

If you liked the historical plot in The History of Mischief by Rebecca Higgie , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. First Love, Last Rites

By: Ian McEwan

3.63

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant r… read more

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  • fiction
"Me pregunta usted qué hice cuando vi a aquella chica. Bueno, pues se lo diré. ¿Ve usted ese armario de ahí, que llena casi toda la habitación? Vine corriendo hasta aquí, me metí dentro y me hice una …"

-Ian McEwan, First Love, Last Rites

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2. Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)

By: Joanne Harris

3.96

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality - every page offers a d… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Harris's Chocolat (Chocolat, #1) book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Knowledge is currency here...."

-Joanne Harris, Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)

"un'alchimista casalinga, che fa magie caserecce"

-Joanne Harris, Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)

"Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end."

-Joanne Harris, Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)

"Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is"

-Joanne Harris, Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)

3. Playing Beatie Bow

By: Ruth Park

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Distraught over her parents' separation, Abigail follows a strange child called Beatie Bow and time… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Park's Playing Beatie Bow book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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4. In the Dark Spaces

By: Cally Black

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

"What will happen when you don't come back?" The latest winner of the Ampersand Prize is a genre-sm… read more

Similar categories in Cally Black's In the Dark Spaces book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • family
  • young adult
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5. For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla, Guide to the Norse Worlds

By: Rick Riordan , Yori Elita Narpati

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

So you've made it to Valhalla. Now what? This "who's who" guide to the gods, goddesses, and other i… read more

Similar categories in Rick Riordan's For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla, Guide to the Norse Worlds book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • young adult

6. Akarnae

By: Lynette Noni

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings's world changes--literally. Dreading her fi… read more

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7. 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

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  • 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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8. The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's The Puppets of Spelhorst book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst

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9. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

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"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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10. 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 Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • fiction
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11. 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 Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • fiction
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12. 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 Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • family
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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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13. Begin Again

By: Helly Acton

3.80

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this … read more

Similar categories in Helly Acton's Begin Again book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. A Country of Eternal Light

By: Paul Dalgarno

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An astonishingly inventive, playful, funny, poignant and deeply moving novel from one of Australia'… read more

Similar categories in Paul Dalgarno's A Country of Eternal Light book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. 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 Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Dragonfall (Dragon Scales, #1)

By: L.R. Lam

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Long-banished dragons, revered as gods, return to the mortal realm in the first in this magical new… read more

Similar categories in L.R. Lam's Dragonfall (Dragon Scales, #1) book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. The Family Inheritance

By: Tricia Stringer

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A toxic will plays havoc in the lives of three generations of women when they discover they have be… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Ready When You Are

By: Gary Lonesborough

4.20

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs."

-Gary Lonesborough, Ready When You Are

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19. Son of Sin

By: Omar Sakr

3.69

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Poet Omar Sakr’s debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind f… read more

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  • fiction
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20. 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 Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • fiction
"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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21. The Brink

By: Holden Sheppard

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A group of school-leavers: free at last, ready to party, expectations high. A remote island on t… read more

Similar categories in Holden Sheppard's The Brink book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • young adult
Cover of The Grandest Bookshop in the World (The Grandest Bookshop in the World #1) by Amelia Mellor

22. The Grandest Bookshop in the World (The Grandest Bookshop in the World #1)

By: Amelia Mellor

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole’s Book Arcade in … read more

Similar categories in Amelia Mellor's The Grandest Bookshop in the World (The Grandest Bookshop in the World #1) book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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23. Anything But Fine

By: Tobias Madden

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Luca is ready to audition for the Australian Ballet School. All it takes to crush his dreams is one… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"What is it about hot jocks being dorky that is so impossible to resist?"

-Tobias Madden, Anything But Fine

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24. I Am NOT Fine, Thanks

By: Wil Anderson

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the traditi… read more

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25. Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell

By: Tobias Madden

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

There Are No Cheat Codes for Showmance Seventeen-year-old gaymer Noah Mitchell only has one frie… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"But still, despite all of this . . . I’m in love. It’s irrational. It’s irresponsible. But it’s irrevocable."

-Tobias Madden, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell

"Because my curiosity is killing me? Because I’m reckless and ridiculous? Because I’m suddenly one step closer to meeting the love of my life?"

-Tobias Madden, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell

"I place my hands in his, my stupid heart skipping a beat when our palms make contact. ‘You good?’ he asks. I bite my lip to keep from grinning like a fool. ‘Yep."

-Tobias Madden, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell

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26. The Truth About Her

By: Jacqueline Maley

3.78

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? An absorbing,… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Maley's The Truth About Her book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • fiction
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27. No Escape (Friday Barnes, #9)

By: R.A. Spratt

4.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Friday Barnes is back with a new mystery to be solved. It’s two years later . . . Friday step… read more

Similar categories in R.A. Spratt's No Escape (Friday Barnes, #9) book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • middle grade
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28. Sunbathing

By: Isobel Beech

4.05

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more

Similar categories in Isobel Beech's Sunbathing book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • family
  • fiction
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29. The History of Mischief

By: Rebecca Higgie

4.17

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When Jessie and her older sister Kay find a book called The History of Mischief, hidden beneath the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • fantasy
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30. The Last Bookshop

By: Emma Young

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Cait is a bookshop owner and book nerd whose social life revolves around her mobile bookselling ser… read more

Similar categories in Emma Young's The Last Bookshop book and Rebecca Higgie's The History of Mischief

  • fiction
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31. Psykhe

By: Kate Forsyth

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Kate Forsyth gives voice, power and agency to Psykhe telling this much loved myth from the perspect… read more

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  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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