8 Best historical books like The Mysteries by Marisa Silver

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The Mysteries

By: Marisa Silver

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mary Coin , a masterful, intimate story of two young …

If you liked the historical plot in The Mysteries by Marisa Silver , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Himself

By: Jess Kidd

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Blending strange kindnesses, casual violence and buried secrets: an unforgettable debut from a dark… read more

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  • fiction
"It is the smell of a million mould-blossomed pages, of a thousand decaying bindings, of a universe of dead words."

-Jess Kidd, Himself

"It’s the hottest April in living and dead memory. So hot that the crows are flying with their tongues hanging out of their heads."

-Jess Kidd, Himself

"She's put him out like a cat a million times, but like a cat he has a habit of slinking back and curling up into the warm corners of her mind."

-Jess Kidd, Himself

"And the trees still hold strong. Their canopies drinking every soft grey sky and their roots spreading down deep in the dark, nuzzling clutches of old bones and fingering lost coins. They throw their…"

-Jess Kidd, Himself

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2. A Way of Life, Like Any Other

By: Seamus Heaney , Darcy O'Brien

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels

3. The Education of Dixie Dupree

By: Donna Everhart

3.46

Format: None pages, ebook

In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for he… read more

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4. Fracture (Fracture, #1)

By: Megan Miranda

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

By the time Delaney Maxwell was pulled from a Maine lake's icy waters by her best friend, her heart… read more

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5. That Old Cape Magic

By: None , Richard Russo

3.35

Format: 9 pages, Audio CD

Following Bridge of Sighs —a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achi… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Maybe money did talk, as people claimed, but all it said to them was goodbye."

-None, That Old Cape Magic

"The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness."

-None, That Old Cape Magic

"Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming."

-None, That Old Cape Magic

"Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation."

-None, That Old Cape Magic

6. Little Girl Gone (An Afton Tangler Thriller #1)

By: Gerry Schmitt

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In the first Afton Tangler thriller, the unforgiving cold of a Minnesota winter hides the truth beh… read more

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7. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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8. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • novels
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9. Mother of Strangers

By: Suad Amiry

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beg… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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10. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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11. Chloe Cates Is Missing

By: Mandy McHugh

3.80

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

The disappearance of a young internet celebrity ignites a firestorm of speculation on social media,… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
"He sets his fork down and holds out his pinky. "Promise?" I lock mine in his "Promise" That's been our dealmaker for as long as we've been together. Pink promises may be old-school, but for us, they …"

-Mandy McHugh, Chloe Cates Is Missing

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12. Wild and Distant Seas

By: Tara Karr Roberts

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to cha… read more

Similar categories in Tara Karr Roberts's Wild and Distant Seas book and Marisa Silver's The Mysteries

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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13. How to Love Your Daughter

By: Hila Blum

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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14. Good Girl

By: Anna Fitzpatrick

3.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Secretary meets Fleabag in Anna Fitzpatrick's hot and hilarious comic-erotic debut. Lucy tries s… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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15. Scatterlings

By: Rešoketšwe Manenzhe

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In This journey, someone will get lost, someone will give up and turn back, and someone may go all … read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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16. Chorus

By: Rebecca Kauffman

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Claire Lombardo, Chorus shepherds seven siblings … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Our little hearts can carry only so much in one lifetime, after all."

-Rebecca Kauffman, Chorus

"And he knew that this beautiful world had a forked tongue. And he knew that everything he thought and felt and feared was real."

-Rebecca Kauffman, Chorus

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17. Five Strangers

By: E.V. Adamson

3.48

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

With its grassy hills and breathtaking city views, London’s Hampstead Heath is the perfect place to… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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18. Familiaris

By: David Wroblewski

4.21

Format: 979 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtel… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
"Suppose you could do one impossible thing."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did. That's what I think."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"John once claimed that the way to convince a person to do something outlandish was to ask them to do something even more outlandish."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"You can never watch too many pups climb through the straw for the first time, but there are just so many dogs you can bear watch to die."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

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19. Doxology

By: Nell Zink

3.45

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape toge… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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20. Phantoms

By: Christian Kiefer

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the panoramic tradition of Charles Frazier’s fiction, Phantoms is a fierce saga of American culp… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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21. The Mysteries

By: Marisa Silver

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mary Coin , a masterful, intimate story of two young … read more

Similar categories in Marisa Silver's The Mysteries book and Marisa Silver's The Mysteries

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • novels

8 Best adult fiction books like The Mysteries by Marisa Silver

Transform Your Habits

That Old Cape Magic

None , Richard Russo

3.35

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Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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Chloe Cates Is Missing

Mandy McHugh

3.80

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Good Girl

Anna Fitzpatrick

3.27

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20 Best fiction books like Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

Transform Your Habits

Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

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North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

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