12 Top historical books like Skull Water by Heinz Insu Fenkl

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Skull Water

By: Heinz Insu Fenkl

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Set in South Korea in the 1950s and 1970s, a haunting inter-generational coming-of-age novel about …

If you liked the historical plot in Skull Water by Heinz Insu Fenkl , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn) by Peter S. Beagle

1. The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

One brand-new, long-awaited novella, and one Hugo and Nebula award winning novella, both featuring … read more

Similar categories in Peter S. Beagle's The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn) book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Death said he would wait for me, but not forever."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

"You will have to excuse me, I am not even sure if I could tell you what a friend looks like, or what they do. But I think you might be my one friend, if that should suit you."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

"The worst thing in the world is not to lose all you have. The worst thing in this world is not having your heart broken. Loss passes, pain passes - even heartbreak passes. The very worst thing in thi…"

-Peter S. Beagle, The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

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2. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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3. Hungry Ghosts

By: Kevin Jared Hosein

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Jared Hosein's Hungry Ghosts book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Sorrow felt selfish."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"You aint need to ask scorpions to sting, Lata."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"If they were to kill her, her ghost would still be dancing."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"A man in the day and a man in the night is two different creatures."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

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4. Same Bed Different Dreams

By: Ed Park

3.77

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more

Similar categories in Ed Park's Same Bed Different Dreams book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars, featuring Latine mythology’s most memorable mons… read more

Similar categories in Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I don't want the type of love that uses our bodies to cover the holes in our relationship."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

"Where there is war there are monsters. They are drawn to the violence, seduces by the evil on display in humans. And when monsters slip into a place, they never go away."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

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6. Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

By: Richard Mirabella

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age nov… read more

Similar categories in Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

Similar categories in Jinwoo Chong's Flux book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. A History of Burning

By: Janika Oza

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more

Similar categories in Janika Oza's A History of Burning book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."

-Janika Oza, A History of Burning

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9. The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

By: Marcel Theroux

3.78

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Ten-year-old Jun-su is a bright and obedient boy whose only desire is to be a credit to his family,… read more

Similar categories in Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

By: Stephen Buoro

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Crackling with energy and intelligence, this debut is the story of Andrew Aziza, a one-of-a-kind te… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Buoro's The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • coming of age
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Goddess of the River

By: Vaishnavi Patel

3.86

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from… read more

Similar categories in Vaishnavi Patel's Goddess of the River book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Last Karankawas

By: Kimberly Garza

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Yaa Gyasi and Cristina Henríquez—a kaleidoscopic, emotionally charged debut about a tig… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Garza's The Last Karankawas book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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13. The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown

By: Adam Welz

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosyst… read more

Similar categories in Adam Welz's The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • audiobook
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14. Take The Long Way Home

By: Rochelle Alers

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In an arrestingly vivid novel spanning seven decades and two continents – from a cloistered 1950s M… read more

Similar categories in Rochelle Alers's Take The Long Way Home book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I by Steven Ujifusa

15. The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I

By: Steven Ujifusa

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in … read more

Similar categories in Steven Ujifusa's The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • historical
  • audiobook
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16. The Volcano Daughters

By: Gina María Balibrera

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador’s brutal di… read more

Similar categories in Gina María Balibrera's The Volcano Daughters book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. A Country You Can Leave

By: Asale Angel-Ajani

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Lara and her fiery mother, Yevgenia, find themselves homeless again, the misn… read more

Similar categories in Asale Angel-Ajani's A Country You Can Leave book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. La Tercera

By: Gina Apostol

3.17

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Gina Apostol’s novel pieces together a century and a half of Philippine history through the story o… read more

Similar categories in Gina Apostol's La Tercera book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • adult
"But the fact is, like my mom, most Filipinos prefer to keep history in the dark or, in these days, sold to the highest bidder. Who can blame them. It's kind of painful to remember."

-Gina Apostol, La Tercera

Cover of Skull Water by Heinz Insu Fenkl

19. Skull Water

By: Heinz Insu Fenkl

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Set in South Korea in the 1950s and 1970s, a haunting inter-generational coming-of-age novel about … read more

Similar categories in Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • coming of age
  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. The All-American

By: Joe Milan Jr.

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Introducing a character as viscerally believable and unforgettable as any in fiction, The All-Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Joe Milan Jr.'s The All-American book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • novels
  • adult
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21. The Unwanted Guest (The Locked Tomb, #3.5)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.63

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Palamedes Sextus and Ianthe Tridentarius match wits on a dreamlike battlefield. read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's The Unwanted Guest (The Locked Tomb, #3.5) book and Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water

  • adult
  • fiction

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Transform Your Habits

The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

Peter S. Beagle

3.78

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Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

3.79

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Hungry Ghosts

Kevin Jared Hosein

3.84

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Same Bed Different Dreams

Ed Park

3.77

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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Annalee Newitz

3.37

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Nick Harkaway

4.03

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