16 must-read fiction books like Three Muses by Martha Anne Toll

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Three Muses

By: Martha Anne Toll

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, …

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1. The Lost Cause

By: Cory Doctorow

3.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • adult
  • fiction
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2. They're Going to Love You

By: Meg Howrey

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more

Similar categories in Meg Howrey's They're Going to Love You book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

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3. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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4. The Matchmaker's Gift

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, c… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Cohen Loigman's The Matchmaker's Gift book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • romance
  • jewish
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"A drop of love sometimes brings an ocean of tears."

-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift

"If you can’t decide what you want to fight for, love is as good a cause as any."

-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift

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5. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

By: Tracy Borman

4.26

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Borman's Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • historical
  • adult
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7. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

Similar categories in Willy Vlautin's The Horse book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Sam

By: Allegra Goodman

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What happens to a girl’s exuberance and wonder as she becomes a woman? This unforgettable portrait … read more

Similar categories in Allegra Goodman's Sam book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Once We Were Home

By: Jennifer Rosner

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings , com… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
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10. The American Daughters

By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Carlos Ruffin's The American Daughters book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Boy in the Rain

By: Stephanie Cowell

4.07

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1903 in the English countryside when Robbie, a shy young art student, meets the twenty-nine-y… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Cowell's The Boy in the Rain book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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12. Winterland

By: Rae Meadows

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Perfection has a cost . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me and Julia Phillips’s Disa… read more

Similar categories in Rae Meadows's Winterland book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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13. The Last Train from Paris

By: Juliet Greenwood

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

For Iris , each visit to her mother in St Mabon’s Cove, Cornwall has been the same – a serene escap… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Greenwood's The Last Train from Paris book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Runaway

By: Erin Keane

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in t… read more

Similar categories in Erin Keane's Runaway book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

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15. Magdalena

By: Candi Sary

4.51

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

“Beautifully written and satisfyingly creepy, this is one of the most poignant and original ghost s… read more

Similar categories in Candi Sary's Magdalena book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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16. Three Muses

By: Martha Anne Toll

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, … read more

Similar categories in Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
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17. Loving the Dead and Gone

By: Judith Turner-Yamamoto

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A freak car crash in 1960s rural North Carolina puts in motion moments of grace that bring redempti… read more

Similar categories in Judith Turner-Yamamoto's Loving the Dead and Gone book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Everywhere she looked she saw their marriage. So big, like the ocean it went on and on, touching everything."

-Judith Turner-Yamamoto, Loving the Dead and Gone

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18. Tell Me One Thing

By: Kerri Schlottman

4.31

Format: 232 pages, Audiobook

2023 Literary Fiction Best Book Finalist of the American Book Fest 2024 Spring Book Award Winner o… read more

Similar categories in Kerri Schlottman's Tell Me One Thing book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Food Fight

By: Linda B. Davis

4.56

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

"A must-read for anyone who has ever fought their own battles with both fitting in and being themse… read more

Similar categories in Linda B. Davis's Food Fight book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

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20. The Boys

By: John Calvin Hughes

4.78

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Darling Jean Bramlett has been accepted into the college of her dreams. In the first thrilling days… read more

Similar categories in John Calvin Hughes's The Boys book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

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21. Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic (Russian and East European Studies)

By: Karla Huebner

4.22

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Winner, 2021 Czechoslovak Studies Association Book Prize Part art book and part biography, Magnetic… read more

Similar categories in Karla Huebner's Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic (Russian and East European Studies) book and Martha Anne Toll's Three Muses

6 must-read contemporary books like Three Muses by Martha Anne Toll

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Meg Howrey

4.08

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Morgan Talty

3.79

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Rachel Lyon

3.54

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Willy Vlautin

4.26

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Ella Carey

4.37

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Helen Parusel

4.44

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Catherine Hokin

4.37

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Helen Fripp

4.43

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