7 Best historical books like The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

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The Life Impossible

By: Matt Haig

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight L…

"And, like so many of life's fun things, it will begin with minimally invasive radiofrequency-based vein ablation surgery."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

"And, like so many of life's fun things, it will begin with minimally invasive radiofrequency-based vein ablation surgery."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

"When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

"When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

If you liked the historical plot in The Life Impossible by Matt Haig , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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2. By Any Other Name

By: Jodi Picoult

4.19

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's By Any Other Name book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Here One Moment

By: Liane Moriarty

4.15

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no probl… read more

Similar categories in Liane Moriarty's Here One Moment book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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5. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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7. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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8. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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10. Slow Dance

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK! Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up to… read more

Similar categories in Rainbow Rowell's Slow Dance book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I want to remember this day, she whispered. But I also want to have so many good days that this one gets lost in the plethora."

-Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance

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11. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

Similar categories in Elif Shafak's There Are Rivers in the Sky book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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12. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Lost Story

By: Meg Shaffer

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Lost Story book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Night We Lost Him

By: Laura Dave

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Estranged siblings discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that m… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dave's The Night We Lost Him book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • fiction
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18. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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19. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

Similar categories in Richard Powers's Playground book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Last One at the Wedding

By: Jason Rekulak

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Hidden Pictures comes a breathtaking work of suspense about a father… read more

Similar categories in Jason Rekulak's The Last One at the Wedding book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • adult
  • fiction
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22. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

By: Richard Osman

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

By: T.J. Klune

4.46

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean S… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Klune's Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2) book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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24. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

Similar categories in Anna Johnston's The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Briar Club book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

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26. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

27. The Life Impossible

By: Matt Haig

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight L… read more

Similar categories in Matt Haig's The Life Impossible book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • spain
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And, like so many of life's fun things, it will begin with minimally invasive radiofrequency-based vein ablation surgery."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

"When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

Cover of What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella

28. What Does It Feel Like?

By: Sophie Kinsella

4.66

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story—by turns heartbreaking and life-… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Kinsella's What Does It Feel Like? book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) by Jean Hanff Korelitz

29. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Mistletoe Mystery (Molly the Maid, #2.5) by Nita Prose

30. The Mistletoe Mystery (Molly the Maid, #2.5)

By: Nita Prose

3.81

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Molly the Maid has a whole new mystery to solve this holiday when a Secret Santa gift exchange rais… read more

Similar categories in Nita Prose's The Mistletoe Mystery (Molly the Maid, #2.5) book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's The Mighty Red book and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

31 Best fiction books like The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Catherine Newman

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Katherine Center

4.15

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Catherine Newman

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