11 Top historical fiction books like Gebroken wit by Astrid H. Roemer

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Gebroken wit

By: Astrid H. Roemer

3.58

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Oma Bee, Louise, Heli, Imker, Babs, Audi. Familienaam Vanta. In Gebroken Wit zijn ze aan elkaar ver…

"In any case, all the memories of those years full of life will soon fade; disease doesn't spare your memories; they will die the very instant she does."

-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit

"In any case, all the memories of those years full of life will soon fade; disease doesn't spare your memories; they will die the very instant she does."

-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit

"In any case, all the memories of those years full of life will soon fade; disease doesn't spare your memories; they will die the very instant she does."

-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit

"Amazing how sunlight makes a landscape shine in shades of ocean blue, blood red, grass green, and everything in between. A tree with orange blossoms high in its canopy of leaves; blossoms that sway in the wind and flutter downward, slowly, pirouetting like miniature dancers."

-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Gebroken wit by Astrid H. Roemer , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Tot ziens, meneer Friant

By: Philippe Claudel , Katelijne De Vuyst

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Philippe Claudel keert in de novelle Tot ziens, meneer Friantterug naar het Frankrijk van zijn jeug… read more

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2. Lady Audley's Secret

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her a… read more

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3. Augustown

By: Kei Miller

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the winner of the Forward Prize, Augustownis a magical and haunting novel set in the underbell… read more

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4. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.10

Format: None pages,

QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more

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5. Tuya

By: Claudia Piñeiro

3.76

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Un corazón dibujado con rouge, cruzado por un “te quiero” y firmado “Tuya”, le revela a Inés que su… read more

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  • fiction
"Yo sé bastante de mecánica, pero él no sabe que sé, porque ocuparse de los autos es una tarea de los hombres, y como decía mi mamá, el día que cambiás un cuerito, sonaste, porque ya creen que sos plo…"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Tuya

6. House of Ashes

By: Monique Roffey

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The City of Silk is seething. The corrupt government has been ruling over the people too long and t… read more

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7. De beesten

By: Gijs Wilbrink

4.06

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

‘Ik wil niet veel zeggen, maar volgens mij ging het al mis met Tom Keller toen die twee ooms hem ’s… read more

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  • dutch literature
  • fiction
  • family
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8. Alkibiades

By: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

4.35

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

Deze monumentale, rijk gedocumenteerde, historische roman vertelt het waargebeurde verhaal van het … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Monkey King

By: Wu Cheng'en

4.10

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a spa… read more

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  • fiction
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10. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

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  • fiction
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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11. The Pole

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.69

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

A psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about dogged love and the unpredictability o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

12. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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13. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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14. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Fire Rush

By: Jacqueline Crooks

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Understory

By: Saneh Sangsuk

4.27

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

A novel of man's relationship with nature, power, and the vitality of storytelling, from beloved Th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Gospel According to the New World

By: Maryse Condé

3.02

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean au… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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20. Friday Black

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.05

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"We’re in How-It-Was class."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"Buy One Get One stops for no one."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

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21. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

By: Soraya Palmer

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Folktales and spirits animate this lively coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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22. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

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23. The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

By: Ingrid Persaud

4.17

Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk. Th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Village Weavers

By: Myriam J. A. Chancy

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two fami… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. Prairie Edge

By: Conor Kerr

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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26. Gebroken wit

By: Astrid H. Roemer

3.58

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Oma Bee, Louise, Heli, Imker, Babs, Audi. Familienaam Vanta. In Gebroken Wit zijn ze aan elkaar ver… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • female authors
  • dutch literature
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • international
"In any case, all the memories of those years full of life will soon fade; disease doesn't spare your memories; they will die the very instant she does."

-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit

"Amazing how sunlight makes a landscape shine in shades of ocean blue, blood red, grass green, and everything in between. A tree with orange blossoms high in its canopy of leaves; blossoms that sway i…"

-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit

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27. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Let Me Liberate You by Andie    Davis

28. Let Me Liberate You

By: Andie Davis

3.41

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

A restless New York artist searching for purpose returns to Barbados and stumbles into the role of … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Tea by the Sea by Donna Hemans

29. Tea by the Sea

By: Donna Hemans

4.23

Format: 232 pages, Unknown Binding

"A seventeen-year-old taken from her mother at birth, an Episcopal priest with a daughter whose fac… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

30. The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction

By: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

3.46

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

The first English translation of a cult science fiction favorite by Hemendra Kumar Roy, one of the … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of De Rightest Place by Barbara Jenkins

31. De Rightest Place

By: Barbara Jenkins

3.73

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Indira Gabriel, recently abandoned by her lover, Solomon, embarks on a project to reinvigorate a di… read more

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  • fiction

25 Best fiction books like Gebroken wit by Astrid H. Roemer

Transform Your Habits

Tuya

Claudia Piñeiro

3.76

Transform Your Habits

De beesten

Gijs Wilbrink

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Alkibiades

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Monkey King

Wu Cheng'en

4.10

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26 Best fiction books like Tea by the Sea by Donna Hemans

Transform Your Habits

Peony in Love

Lisa See

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Must Love Dogs (Must Love Dogs, #1)

Claire Cook

4.30

Transform Your Habits

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Black Butterflies

Priscilla Morris

4.25

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