6 Top historical fiction books like The Healer by Greg Hollingshead

Cover of The Healer by Greg Hollingshead

The Healer

By: Greg Hollingshead

2.86

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Greg Hollingshead’s remarkable novel of betrayal and redemption explores the farthest reaches of hu…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Healer by Greg Hollingshead , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. A Fine Balance

By: Rohinton Mistry

4.37

Format: 603 pages, Paperback

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magn… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Time had changed the magical to mundane"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"Marriage is like death, only happens once."

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

Cover of A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

2. A Recipe for Bees

By: Gail Anderson-Dargatz

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In A Recipe for Bees, Gail Anderson-Dargatz gives readers a remarkable woman to stand beside Hagar … read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
"She knew nothing about him, other than what he revealed of himself through his garden."

-Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees

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3. My Name Is Lucy Barton

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged da… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction

4. The Time In Between

By: David Bergen

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In search of love, absolution, or forgiveness, Charles Boatman leaves the Fraser Valley of British … read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction

5. Childhood

By: André Alexis

3.41

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Uniquely imagined and vividly evoked, Andre Alexis's prize-winning novel chronicles the childhood -… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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6. The English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction

7. Sweetness in the Belly

By: Camilla Gibb

4.61

Format: 313 pages,

Like Brick Laneand The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb's widely praised new novel is a poignant and inten… read more

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8. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

By: David Wroblewski

4.60

Format: None pages,

Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their fa… read more

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9. The Book of Negroes

By: Lawrence Hill

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freed… read more

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10. The Mark Of The Angel

By: Nancy Huston

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The year is 1957 and the place is Paris, where the psychic wounds of World War II have barely begun… read more

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11. Fifteen Dogs

By: André Alexis

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

" I wonder", said Hermes, "what it would be like if animals had human intelligence." " I'll wager a… read more

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12. Divisadero

By: Michael Ondaatje

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of The English Patientand Anil's Ghostcomes a remarkable, intimate novel… read more

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13. The Undomestic Goddess

By: Sophie Kinsella

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She's made a mistake so huge, … read more

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14. Crow Lake

By: Mary Lawson

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you kn… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
"Feeling must have rendered her numb."

-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

"Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all"

-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

"The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was older than the rest of them, said that it would be safe if they slid out on thei…"

-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

"My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book …"

-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

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15. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

By: Wayne Johnston

3.95

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portra… read more

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  • canada
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You’re not an artist, you’re not a scientist, you’re not an intellectual. All that’s left to you is politics."

-Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

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16. The Chestnut Man

By: Søren Sveistrup

4.21

Format: 519 pages, Hardcover

If you find one, he’s already found you. A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His callin… read more

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  • fiction
"Os mortos não podem fazer sombra aos vivos."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

"(...) a tristeza é um amor que ficou sem casa, e temos de aprender a viver com ela e a seguir em frente."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

"- Ninguém sabe. Talvez esteja apenas perdida. Às vezes as pessoas perdem-se e têm dificuldade em encontrar o caminho de casa. Mas, se ela estiver perdida, vamos encontrá-la."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

"(...) É uma coisa pequena, mas é importante. Os mortos não podem fazer sombra aos vivos. Foi o que lhe disseram os psicólogos e terapeutas, e todas as fibras do seu corpo lhe dizem que eles têm razão."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

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17. Age of Vice

By: Deepti Kapoor

3.61

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"You are who you are, the past is gone. It’s the present you must master now."

-Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

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18. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By: Kim Fu

3.86

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

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19. This Is How It Always Is

By: Laurie Frankel

4.28

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HW6Z3FG This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Head colds should be tolerated. Children should be celebrated."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones"

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

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20. The Healer

By: Greg Hollingshead

2.86

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Greg Hollingshead’s remarkable novel of betrayal and redemption explores the farthest reaches of hu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

13 best-selling fiction books like The Healer by Greg Hollingshead

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A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

4.37

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A Recipe for Bees

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

3.68

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My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout

3.57

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David Bergen

3.96

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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

4.14

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Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

4.75

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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

Hilary Mantel

4.00

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