20 best-selling fiction books like Here Was a Man by Norah Lofts

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Here Was a Man

By: Norah Lofts

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From one of the original leading ladies of historical fiction, this reissued classic captures the l…

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1. The Music Shop

By: Rachel Joyce

3.84

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel ab… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Aretha is soul. You can’t argue with Aretha."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"...the vivid past would not go away. Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"Real love was a journey with many pitfalls and complications, and sometimes the place you ended up was not the one you hoped for."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"Frank was so busy loving other people he had no room to accommodate the fact that someone might turn around one day and love him back."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

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2. Idylls of the King

By: Alfred Tennyson , J.M. Gray

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Written in the middle of his career, Idylls of the King is Tennyson's longest and most ambitious wo… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The thrall in person may be free in soul. Gareth and Lynette "

-Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King

"Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg The murmur of the world! The Marriage of Geraint "

-Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King

"As Love, if Love be perfect, casts out fear, So Hate, if Hate be perfect, casts out fear. - Merlin and Vivian "

-Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King

"I know not if I know what true love is, But if I know, then, if I love not him, I know there is none other I can love"

-Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King

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3. Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington

By: Mary Higgins Clark

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In Mount Vernon Love Story-- famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark's long-out-of-print first nov… read more

Similar categories in Mary Higgins Clark's Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington book and Norah Lofts's Here Was a Man

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Seventh Scroll (Ancient Egypt, #2)

By: Wilbur Smith

3.55

Format: 199 pages,

The Seventh Scroll, an ancient papyrus written by the slave Taita, holds the secret to the location… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The First Princess of Wales

By: Karen Harper

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The daughter of a disgraced earl, she matched wits with a prince. It is the fourteenth century, the… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

By: Michelle Moran

2.00

Format: None pages,

The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire... but who was this woman who became … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Black Rose

By: Thomas B. Costain

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Red Notebook

By: Antoine Laurain , Emily Boyce , Jane Aitken

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine

By: Alison Weir

4.08

Format: None pages,

It is the year 1152 and a beautiful woman of thirty, attended by only a small armed escort, is ridi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Daughters of the Grail

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Suspenseful and dramatic. Readers will care about these characters." --Sharon Kay Penman Author of… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11. The Glass-Blowers

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.16

Format: 315 pages, ebook

"The Glass-Blowersconsistently entertains." --New York Times The world of the glass-blowers has its… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

12. A Place Called Freedom

By: Ken Follett

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, tw… read more

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13. The Game of Kings (The Lymond Chronicles, #1)

By: Dorothy Dunnett

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Dunnett introduces her irresistible hero Francis Crawford of Lymond, a scapegrace nobleman of elast… read more

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14. The Illuminator (Illuminator, #1)

By: Brenda Rickman Vantrease

4.60

Format: 431 pages,

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15. Trinity (Wars of the Roses, #2)

By: Conn Iggulden

4.15

Format: 462 pages, Hardcover

The brilliant retelling of the Wars of the Roses continues with Trinity, the second gripping novel … read more

Similar categories in Conn Iggulden's Trinity (Wars of the Roses, #2) book and Norah Lofts's Here Was a Man

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them."

-Conn Iggulden, Trinity (Wars of the Roses, #2)

16. A Triple Knot

By: Emma Campion

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The critically acclaimed author of The King's Mistressbrings another fascinating woman from history… read more

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17. The Scarlet Lion (William Marshal, #3)

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Following early beginnings as a knight in the English royal household and a champion of the tourney… read more

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18. The Wars of the Roses

By: Alison Weir

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for… read more

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19. The Greatest Knight (William Marshal, #2)

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

4.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A medieval historical novel about William Marshal, probably the greatest knight of the Middle Ages.… read more

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20. The Miniaturist

By: Jessie Burton

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam--a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion--a … read more

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21. The Lady Elizabeth

By: Alison Weir

4.47

Format: None pages,

Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting… read more

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22. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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23. The Mysterious Mr. Badman

By: W.F. Harvey

3.57

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The note read: “Will the gentleman who took by mistake a copy of Bunyan’s Life and Death of Mr. Ba… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2) by Jessie Burton

24. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."

-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

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25. The Doll Factory

By: Elizabeth Macneal

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it ma…"

-Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory

Cover of The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen  Carr

26. The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

By: Helen Carr

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all th… read more

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  • historical
Cover of War of the Wolf (The Saxon Stories, #11) by Bernard Cornwell

27. War of the Wolf (The Saxon Stories, #11)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.36

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Bernard Cornwell’s epic story of the making of England continues in this eleventh installment in th… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Wyrd bið ful āræd."

-Bernard Cornwell, War of the Wolf (The Saxon Stories, #11)

"Truth is ever feeble against passionate falsehood."

-Bernard Cornwell, War of the Wolf (The Saxon Stories, #11)

"The gods are not kind to us, any more than children are kind to their toys. We are here to amuse the gods, and at times it amuses them to be unkind."

-Bernard Cornwell, War of the Wolf (The Saxon Stories, #11)

"Los dioses no velan por nosotros, no más desde luego de lo que los niños cuidan de sus juguetes. Si estamos aquí, es sólo para procurarles buenos ratos; a veces, hasta se complacen en jugarnos jugarr…"

-Bernard Cornwell, War of the Wolf (The Saxon Stories, #11)

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28. Rhododendron Pie

By: Margery Sharp

3.80

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish. As lively an… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"My darling, why didn't you say so before? You know, I sometimes wonder," she added, turning to Ann, "what it would be like to have no children." "Jolly dull, " said John. "you'd be bored stiff. What …"

-Margery Sharp, Rhododendron Pie

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29. The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

THE FRIGHTENED WIFE Anne Collier was certain that her husband, Fred, was trying to kill her. The t… read more

Similar categories in Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories book and Norah Lofts's Here Was a Man

  • fiction
Cover of Here Was a Man by Norah Lofts

30. Here Was a Man

By: Norah Lofts

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From one of the original leading ladies of historical fiction, this reissued classic captures the l… read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • tudor period
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

15 must-read historical books like Here Was a Man by Norah Lofts

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Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington

Mary Higgins Clark

3.55

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The Seventh Scroll (Ancient Egypt, #2)

Wilbur Smith

3.55

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The First Princess of Wales

Karen Harper

3.97

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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

Michelle Moran

2.00

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9 best-selling fiction books like War of the Wolf (The Saxon Stories, #11) by Bernard Cornwell

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The Gods of War (Emperor, #4)

Conn Iggulden

1.50

Conqueror (Conqueror, #5)

Conn Iggulden

4.19

The Death of Kings (Emperor, #2)

Conn Iggulden

3.39

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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

K. Ritz

4.33

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