21 Best fiction books like The Bone Hunters by Joanne Burn

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The Bone Hunters

By: Joanne Burn

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When Ada Winters finds the fossilised remains of an unrecognisable creature up on the cliffs, she b…

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Cover of The Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley

1. The Black Feathers

By: Rebecca Netley

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Black Feathers book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Queen Macbeth book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The House of Mirrors

By: Erin Kelly

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again. In the sweltering summer of 1997, s… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kelly's The House of Mirrors book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • fiction
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5. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

Cover of Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook

6. Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge

By: Lizzie Pook

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An Arctic expedition. A mysterious death. And the lengths to which one woman will go to avenge her … read more

Similar categories in Lizzie Pook's Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Library Thief

By: Kuchenga Shenjé

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England a… read more

Similar categories in Kuchenga Shenjé's The Library Thief book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more

Similar categories in Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Secrets of Blythswood Square

By: Sara Sheridan

4.19

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

You wouldn't suspect it, but scandalous secrets are being kept on Blythswood Square... 1846. Glasg… read more

Similar categories in Sara Sheridan's The Secrets of Blythswood Square book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Moonstone

By: Laura Purcell

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning bestseller Laura Purcell comes her YA debut, MOONSTONE, a sparkling, chilling go… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's Moonstone book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal

11. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Burial Plot book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Book of Secrets

By: Anna Mazzola

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Months after the plague ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it t… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The Book of Secrets book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Silence Factory book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Beholders by Hester Musson

14. The Beholders

By: Hester Musson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of th… read more

Similar categories in Hester Musson's The Beholders book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. The Shadow Key

By: Susan Stokes-Chapman

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or… read more

Similar categories in Susan Stokes-Chapman's The Shadow Key book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Puzzle Wood

By: Rosie Andrews

3.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Deep in the woods, something is stirring. When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a posit… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Andrews's The Puzzle Wood book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

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18. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

Similar categories in Clare Chambers's Shy Creatures book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The King's Witches

By: Kate Foster

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The King’s Witches by Kate Foster is a gripping and beautiful historical novel, giving an unforgett… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The King's Witches book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Bone Hunters by Joanne Burn

20. The Bone Hunters

By: Joanne Burn

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When Ada Winters finds the fossilised remains of an unrecognisable creature up on the cliffs, she b… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • science fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst by Katie Lumsden

21. The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst

By: Katie Lumsden

4.50

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

1841. Mr Montgomery Hurst of Radcliffe Park is getting married. To the great consternation of the c… read more

Similar categories in Katie Lumsden's The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst book and Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

20 must-read historical books like The Bone Hunters by Joanne Burn

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The Black Feathers

Rebecca Netley

4.00

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The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

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Queen Macbeth

Val McDermid

3.77

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Enlightenment

Sarah Perry

3.70

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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The Black Feathers

Rebecca Netley

4.00

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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Louise Welsh

3.71

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