10 best-selling historical fiction books like Voting Day by Clare O'Dea

Cover of Voting Day by Clare O'Dea

Voting Day

By: Clare O'Dea

4.11

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

On a cold, damp Sunday in February 1959, the men of Switzerland decide whether to grant women the r…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Voting Day by Clare O'Dea , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr, Michael Holroyd

1. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

Similar categories in J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

  • historical fiction

2. Cold Comfort Farm

By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more

Similar categories in Roz Chast's Cold Comfort Farm book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

Cover of The Echo Chamber by John Boyne

3. The Echo Chamber

By: John Boyne

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

'His relish is infectious' Times'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Ra… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's The Echo Chamber book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

"They wouldn’t understand anyway. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

"I’m sorry, but there is nothing – nothing – that squeezes my lemons more than people saying that."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

Cover of Earth by John Boyne

4. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Earth book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

Cover of Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte  Wood

5. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

Cover of Black Butterflies by Priscilla  Morris

6. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

Similar categories in Priscilla Morris's Black Butterflies book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

  • historical fiction
Cover of Wild Houses by Colin  Barrett

7. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

Cover of Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

8. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

Cover of Kala by Colin Walsh

9. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

Similar categories in Colin Walsh's Kala book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

Cover of Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky

10. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

Similar categories in Claire Oshetsky's Poor Deer book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

Cover of Orbital by Samantha Harvey

11. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of Mongrel by Hanako Footman

12. Mongrel

By: Hanako Footman

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more

Similar categories in Hanako Footman's Mongrel book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

  • feminism
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."

-Hanako Footman, Mongrel

Cover of Those We Thought We Knew by David    Joy

13. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

  • historical fiction
Cover of My Friends by Hisham Matar

14. 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

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

  • 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

Cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma

15. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

Cover of The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne by Freya North

16. The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

By: Freya North

4.25

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

When your present meets your past, what do you take with you – and what do you leave behind? Ea… read more

Similar categories in Freya North's The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

Cover of Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin by Katja Oskamp

17. Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin

By: Katja Oskamp

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Katja Oskamp ist Mitte vierzig, als ihr das Leben fad wird. Das Kind ist aus dem Haus, der Mann ist… read more

Similar categories in Katja Oskamp's Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

"One of the women was a blonde from Eastern Europe who wore sweaters interwoven with gold. She had the loveliest uniform out of all of us, a tunic with a cinched waist and diagonally arranged buttons.…"

-Katja Oskamp, Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin

Cover of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

18. 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

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

  • historical fiction
Cover of Popisho by Leone Ross

19. Popisho

By: Leone Ross

3.82

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are bro… read more

Similar categories in Leone Ross's Popisho book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

"Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

Cover of Standing Heavy by Gauz

20. Standing Heavy

By: Gauz

3.58

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile. The securit… read more

Similar categories in Gauz's Standing Heavy book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

Cover of Glorious Exploits by Ferdia  Lennon

21. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

Similar categories in Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

  • historical fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

Cover of There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

22. 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 Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

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

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

Cover of Held by Anne   Michaels

23. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

  • historical fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of Juja (German Edition) by Nino Haratischwili

24. Juja (German Edition)

By: Nino Haratischwili

3.84

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Beruhend auf einer wahren Geschichte stellt die erfolgreiche Theaterautorin Nino Haratischwili in i… read more

Similar categories in Nino Haratischwili's Juja (German Edition) book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

Cover of With or Without Angels by Douglas Bruton

25. With or Without Angels

By: Douglas Bruton

4.33

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

'The thought in my head does not yet have shape or form, only direction, one picture leading into a… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Bruton's With or Without Angels book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

Cover of Voting Day by Clare O'Dea

26. Voting Day

By: Clare O'Dea

4.11

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

On a cold, damp Sunday in February 1959, the men of Switzerland decide whether to grant women the r… read more

Similar categories in Clare O'Dea's Voting Day book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

  • feminism
  • historical fiction
Cover of El Hacho by Luis   Carrasco

27. El Hacho

By: Luis Carrasco

4.23

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

The brilliant debut novel by Luis Carrasco, El Hacho is a timeless evocation of inheritance, duty a… read more

Similar categories in Luis Carrasco's El Hacho book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

Cover of A Good Year (Fairlight Moderns) by Polis Loizou

28. A Good Year (Fairlight Moderns)

By: Polis Loizou

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Rural Cyprus, 1925. Despo is recently married, heavily pregnant and deeply afraid. The twelve days … read more

Similar categories in Polis Loizou's A Good Year (Fairlight Moderns) book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

  • historical fiction
Cover of Frankie by Graham Norton

29. Frankie

By: Graham Norton

4.53

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories… read more

Similar categories in Graham Norton's Frankie book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

Cover of Kellie by Kellie Harrington

30. Kellie

By: Kellie Harrington

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kellie Harrington grew up in Dublin's north inner city and was in danger of going down the wrong pa… read more

Similar categories in Kellie Harrington's Kellie book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

Cover of Dancing in the Shallows (Fairlight Moderns) by Clare Reddaway

31. Dancing in the Shallows (Fairlight Moderns)

By: Clare Reddaway

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

She's had this feeling before. This feeling of marking time. Of pressing her nose against a window … read more

Similar categories in Clare Reddaway's Dancing in the Shallows (Fairlight Moderns) book and Clare O'Dea's Voting Day

14 Top thriller books like Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy

Transform Your Habits

All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Last Ranger

None

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.