6 best-selling historical books like Call Me Ismay by Sean McDevitt

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Call Me Ismay

By: Sean McDevitt

3.41

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

The year is 1912. A London newspaper reporter makes a horrifying discovery involving a member of th…

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Cover of Fractured (Will Trent, #2) by Karin Slaughter

1. Fractured (Will Trent, #2)

By: Karin Slaughter

4.16

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon, she walks into a nigh… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Triptych (Will Trent, #1)

By: Karin Slaughter

4.13

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

In the city of Atlanta, women are dying—at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, … read more

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  • fiction
"Amanda was probably in her mid-fifties, a small woman, maybe five-three on a good day. Her attitude filled the room, and she walked with a swagger that rivaled a bullfighter's. She wore a simple diam…"

-Karin Slaughter, Triptych (Will Trent, #1)

3. The Map of the Sky (Trilogía Victoriana, #2)

By: Félix J. Palma

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling author of The Map of Timereturns with a mesmerizing novel casting H.G… read more

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4. Thunderstruck

By: Erik Larson

3.77

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more

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  • historical
Cover of My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1) by Stephen Graham Jones

5. My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.54

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1) book and Sean McDevitt's Call Me Ismay

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"Some girls just don't know how to die."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Is it really winning if everybody dies?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"We all become history at some point or another, right?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

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6. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

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  • fiction
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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7. Interior Chinatown

By: Charles Yu

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more

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  • fiction
"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

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8. The Saints of Swallow Hill

By: Donna Everhart

4.12

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

It takes courage to save yourself... In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners l… read more

Similar categories in Donna Everhart's The Saints of Swallow Hill book and Sean McDevitt's Call Me Ismay

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Unsheltered

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.64

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and c… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Unsheltered, I live in daylight. And like the wandering bird I rest in thee."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

"Thatcher wondered what task could be more wearisome than shoring up a stupid man’s confidence in his own wisdom."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

"Teaching struck Willa as a saintly calling, especially given the pay. But even saints shouldn't be stuck with intro classes forever."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

"First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

Cover of The Girl in Cabin 13 (Emma Griffin FBI Mystery, #1) by A.J. Rivers

10. The Girl in Cabin 13 (Emma Griffin FBI Mystery, #1)

By: A.J. Rivers

3.97

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Knock…Knock… When Emma finds a dead body on her porch with her name written on the dead man's hand… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Reputation

By: Sarah Vaughan

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal returns with a new psychological thriller about a po… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

12. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

By: Dawnie Walton

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their… read more

Similar categories in Dawnie Walton's The Final Revival of Opal & Nev book and Sean McDevitt's Call Me Ismay

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Disclosure: My father, a drummer named Jimmy Curtis, fell in love with Opal Jewel in the summer of 1970."

-Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

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13. The Christie Affair

By: Nina de Gramont

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desp… read more

Similar categories in Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair book and Sean McDevitt's Call Me Ismay

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It seemed an important lesson for a young person. It wasn't only the angry people that should make one wary. The jolly ones could be even more dangerous."

-Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

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14. Call Me Ismay

By: Sean McDevitt

3.41

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

The year is 1912. A London newspaper reporter makes a horrifying discovery involving a member of th… read more

Similar categories in Sean McDevitt's Call Me Ismay book and Sean McDevitt's Call Me Ismay

  • historical
  • vampires
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

12 best-selling fiction books like Call Me Ismay by Sean McDevitt

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Karin Slaughter

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4.13

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Stephen Graham Jones

3.54

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Tana French

4.12

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Freida McFadden

3.94

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Elle Gray

4.34

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Shannon Baker

4.01

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Mary Stone

4.34

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