13 Top fiction books like A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther

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A Perfect Explanation

By: Eleanor Anstruther

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the Desmond Elliott Prize Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded b…

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1. Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)

By: Peter Ackroyd

4.04

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
"History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity. It concerns the atavistic desire to find deep sources of identity. We live again in the t…"

-Peter Ackroyd, Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)

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2. The Lowland

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.87

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Isolation offered its own form of companionship"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

"The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

"In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

"With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

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3. Terms of Endearment

By: Larry McMurtry

2.43

Format: None pages,

An Oscar-winning story of a memorable mother and her fiesty daughter who find the courage and humor… read more

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  • fiction

4. Perfect Little World

By: Kevin Wilson

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's just about out of options. She recently graduate… read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook

5. The House I Loved

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Timesbestselling author ofSarah's Keyand A Secret Keptcomes an absorbing new nove… read more

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6. Working Class Boy

By: Jimmy Barnes

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

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7. The Sea House

By: Elisabeth Gifford

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1860, Alexander Ferguson, a newly ordained vicar and amateur evolutionary scientist, takes up hi… read more

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8. The Hired Man

By: Aminatta Forna

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful… read more

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9. The Children's Book

By: A.S. Byatt

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the … read more

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10. All the Little Bird-Hearts

By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

3.80

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more

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  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
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11. Emily's House

By: Amy Belding Brown

4.01

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

She was Emily Dickinson's maid, her confidante, her betrayer... and the savior of her legacy. An… read more

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  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Elephant Keeper's Daughter

By: Julia Drosten

4.12

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Lioness of Morocco comes the beguiling novel of a young woman tr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. A Mother's Promise

By: K.D. Alden

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Based on the true story behind a landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decision, K.D. Alden’s debut is a rich… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
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14. The Lighthouse Sisters

By: Gill Thompson

4.39

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

1996: An elderly lady looks back at her life, remembering her experiences during the war on Jersey,… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Your Own Kind of Girl

By: Clare Bowditch

4.12

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

"This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and w… read more

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  • book club
  • audiobook
"Songs were homes for things that needed containing."

-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl

"When I am with him, my sensitivity does not feel like a liability - it just feels like the truth, sometimes inconvenient, but a truth that I'm allowed to speak without worrying that it will break us."

-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl

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16. Familiaris

By: David Wroblewski

4.21

Format: 979 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtel… read more

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  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Suppose you could do one impossible thing."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did. That's what I think."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"John once claimed that the way to convince a person to do something outlandish was to ask them to do something even more outlandish."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"You can never watch too many pups climb through the straw for the first time, but there are just so many dogs you can bear watch to die."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

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17. The Missing Daughter

By: Emily Gunnis

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Girl in the Letter comes a heartwrenching, twisting n… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • british literature
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18. The Sparkle Pages

By: Meg Bignell

3.81

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

'Is marriage just a series of texts about where the children are and whether we need milk until one… read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Maps for the Getaway

By: Annie England Noblin

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

If you love Susan Mallery, you won’t want to miss this novel of three high school friends who find … read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. A Perfect Explanation

By: Eleanor Anstruther

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the Desmond Elliott Prize Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded b… read more

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  • british literature
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • book club
  • audiobook
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21. The Memory of My Shadow

By: Ben Wakeman

4.45

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

In 2052, from self-imposed exile at her compound in the mountains of North Carolina, Magdalena, gen… read more

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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)

Peter Ackroyd

4.04

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Jhumpa Lahiri

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3.71

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3.78

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