8 best-selling historical fiction books like Sigbrits Bålferd by Bergljot Hobæk Haff

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Sigbrits Bålferd

By: Bergljot Hobæk Haff

3.28

Format: 228 pages, Unknown Binding

Boken handler om Sigbrit Willums og hennes datter Dyveke, som levde på begynnelsen av 1500-tallet. …

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1. Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.85

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – … read more

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"The appetites of the body were private battles."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

"She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

"It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men"

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

"Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

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2. Tätt intill dagarna: berättelsen om min mor

By: Mustafa Can

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Inbunden

Gullu Can dode pa Skovde sygehus i januar 2005. Hun blev fodt i Kurdistan en gang i slutningen af 1… read more

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3. Hvis der skulle komme et menneske forbi

By: Thomas Korsgaard

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

En staerk roman om den afstumpethed og afmagt, der opstar, nar kaerligheden forsvinder i en familie… read more

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4. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

5. The Vegetarian

By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith

4.00

Format: 204 pages,

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood… read more

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6. Shuggie Bain

By: Douglas Stuart

4.31

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who sp… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Rain was a natural state of Glasgow. It kept the grass green and the people pale and bronchial."

-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

"Opposite the gates was a low concrete building. Dozens of men were spilling out of its windowless structure and stood in dark clumps on the Pit Road. At first it looked like they were leaving chapel,…"

-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

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7. Gjestene

By: Agnes Ravatn

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Karin og Kai får låne ei påkosta, arkitektteikna hytte ved Oslofjorden, som går i eitt med terrenge… read more

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8. Young Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

4.38

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

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9. The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

3.94

Format: 666 pages, Hardcover

It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at… read more

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  • fiction
"The priest who once supervised me as a student had once said to me that a person only has to step sideways for everything to look different. He'd been talking about the priest's role as a director of…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)

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10. Kniven i ilden

By: Ingeborg Arvola

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Kniven i ilden er en fengslende historisk roman om arbeid og kjærlighet, sterkt samhold og fri erot… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Fresh Water for Flowers

By: Valérie Perrin

4.27

Format: 476 pages, Hardcover

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Random visitors, re… read more

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"To be loved is to stay young."

-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

"The day someone loves you, the weather's marvelous."

-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

"Today, what matters for her, for me, is making flowers grow."

-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

"As I go to bed, I think how awful it would be to die in the middle of reading a good novel."

-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

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12. The Sixteen Trees of the Somme

By: Lars Mytting

4.09

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing literary novel about a family mystery, revenge, and forgiveness by the bestselling au… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Lungeflyteprøven - forsvar for en ung kvinne som var mistenkt for spedbarnsdrap

By: Tore Renberg

3.86

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

Sachsen, 1681: Femten år gamle Anna Voigt tiltales for å ha drept sitt nyfødte barn. Blir hun kjent… read more

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  • historical fiction
"For å tre inn i Gleditsch' bokhandel. Hyllemeter på hyllemeter med bøker. Himmelen slik den fortoner seg på jorden."

-Tore Renberg, Lungeflyteprøven - forsvar for en ung kvinne som var mistenkt for spedbarnsdrap

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14. Sten i siden

By: Mikael Niemi

4.16

Format: 583 pages, Hardcover

Under ett grävarbete på myren utanför Pajala hittas några förmultnade kvarlevor. De tycks ha legat … read more

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  • historical fiction
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15. Sigbrits Bålferd

By: Bergljot Hobæk Haff

3.28

Format: 228 pages, Unknown Binding

Boken handler om Sigbrit Willums og hennes datter Dyveke, som levde på begynnelsen av 1500-tallet. … read more

Similar categories in Bergljot Hobæk Haff's Sigbrits Bålferd book and Bergljot Hobæk Haff's Sigbrits Bålferd

  • fiction
  • historical fiction

12 must-read fiction books like Sigbrits Bålferd by Bergljot Hobæk Haff

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3.85

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4.02

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4.31

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Lars Saabye Christensen

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