10 Best history books like Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson

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Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By: Fiona Sampson

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come …

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1. The House of Special Purpose

By: John Boyne

4.18

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Absolutist, a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the… read more

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"A man was standing at the end of the hallway, just outside an open door, from where a great light shone, illuminating him almost as a god."

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

"It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of powe…"

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

"It's enough to make me laugh. I close the door behind me and sit down again, considering this, and truly, I find it so funny that I laugh until I cry. And when the tears come I think aah... So this i…"

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

"It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person…"

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

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2. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

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3. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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  • literature
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4. The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society

By: Mary S. Lovell

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The Riviera Setreveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politick… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. Scandal in Skibbereen (County Cork, #2)

By: Sheila Connolly

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Mass Market Paperback

As the new owner of Sullivan's Pub in County Cork, Ireland, Maura Donovan gets an earful of all the… read more

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6. The Witches: Salem, 1692

By: Stacy Schiff

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying… read more

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7. Buried in a Bog (County Cork, #1)

By: Sheila Connolly

4.22

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

National bestselling and Agatha Award-nominated author Sheila Connolly introduces a brand-new serie… read more

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8. Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap, #1)

By: Adriana Trigiani

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the tiny town of Big Stone Gapis home to some of t… read more

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9. Thunderstruck & Other Stories

By: Elizabeth McCracken

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House--finalist for the National Book Award--comes… read more

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10. How to Be Both

By: Ali Smith

4.10

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more

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11. The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life

By: Clare Carlisle

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who ex… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • literature
  • biography memoir
  • victorian
  • nonfiction
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12. Wednesday's Child: Stories

By: Yiyun Li

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more

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13. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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14. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

By: Shubnum Khan

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more

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"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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15. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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16. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

By: Heather Clark

4.58

Format: 1154 pages, ebook

The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material,… read more

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  • poetry
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force."

-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

"She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You…"

-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

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18. The Queen's Secret

By: Karen Harper

3.45

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A Paperback Original—Also Available as a Hardcover Library Edition If you love Jennifer Robson o… read more

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19. So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.17

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

"It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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20. One Woman Show

By: Christine Coulson

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A sly and stylish novel—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a twentieth-century woman … read more

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21. The Witches Are Coming

By: Lindy West

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu se… read more

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  • nonfiction
"the soft violence of willful ignorance"

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

"It costs you nothing to err on the side of "care"."

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

"[about a character in movie Little Nicky] A hilarious, hilarious sex criminal."

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

"Common Sense" without growth, curiosity, or perspective eventually becomes conservatism and bitterness."

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

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22. The Appalachian Trail: A Biography

By: Philip D'Anieri

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Appalachian Trail is America's most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it ev… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. Braised Pork

By: An Yu

3.45

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

One morning in autumn, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her Beijing apartment to find her husband… read more

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"You're like water. Your beauty is soft and quiet."

-An Yu, Braised Pork

"Her father's hands, holding the chopsticks, were slightly unsteady - something she had first noticed years ago when he took her out to lunch, but tonight, it made her heart clench and tremble."

-An Yu, Braised Pork

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24. Stalking Shakespeare

By: Lee Durkee

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man’s relentless… read more

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  • literature
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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25. Normal Distance

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A collection of funny and thought-provoking poems inspired by surprising facts that will appeal to … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Embroidering Her Truth: Mary Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter

26. Embroidering Her Truth: Mary Queen of Scots and the Language of Power

By: Clare Hunter

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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27. Too Much of Life

By: Clarice Lispector

4.53

Format: 742 pages, Paperback

'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Bet… read more

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  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência."

-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life

"E a morte, que era para ser uma única boa vez, não: está sendo sem parar."

-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life

"A CHALLENGE FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS: I dreamed that a fish took off its clothes and was left naked."

-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life

"E tudo é muito para um coração de repente enfraquecido que só suporta o menos, só pode querer o pouco e aos poucos."

-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life

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28. Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By: Fiona Sampson

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come … read more

Similar categories in Fiona Sampson's Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning book and Fiona Sampson's Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • poetry
  • history
  • biography
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • biography memoir
  • victorian
  • nonfiction
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29. Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad

By: Andrew K. Diemer

4.00

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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30. Drop Dead

By: Lily Chu

3.53

Format: 11 pages, Audible Audio

One mysterious mansion. Two rival journalists. Three weeks to uncover the story—and love—of a lifet… read more

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31. The Glitch

By: Leeanne Slade

4.01

Format: 12 pages, Audiobook

The #1 Bestselling Audiobook  What would you change if you could start all over again? From Leea… read more

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3.61

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Shankari Chandran

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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4.13

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