21 Best historical books like The Wonderful by Saskia Sarginson

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The Wonderful

By: Saskia Sarginson

3.74

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspira…

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1. The Garden of Small Beginnings

By: Abbi Waxman

3.93

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years—ever since her husband died in a car acciden… read more

Similar categories in Abbi Waxman's The Garden of Small Beginnings book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Now if I sat in one position for more than five minutes, I seized up. I felt like the Tin Man: oil . . . can . ."

-Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings

"I was lounging in the kitchen, enjoying the small fermata between emptying the dishwasher and reloading it. It's a glamorous life."

-Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings

"I filled my mouth with spaghetti and thanked God for the Italians. Spaghetti, pizza, ice cream. If they weren't so busy making love and whizzing around on Vespas, they'd probably rule the world."

-Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings

"I lined the back fence with salvia (kind of a blue-purple color) with something called Scabiosa "summer berries" (kind of pinks and purples, including one that was almost black- so cool, a gothic flo…"

-Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings

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2. Stolen Beauty

By: Laurie Lico Albanese

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating novel … read more

Similar categories in Laurie Lico Albanese's Stolen Beauty book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. In the Midst of Winter

By: Isabel Allende

3.72

Format: 10 pages, Audiobook

New York Times and worldwide bestselling “dazzling storyteller” (Associated Press) Isabel Allende r… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Allende's In the Midst of Winter book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"El amor siempre se me ha dado a medias"

-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter

"Lo tuyo, niña, no es una enfermedad del cuerpo, sino del alma"

-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter

"Lo más temible de la muerte era la idea de la eternidad. Muerto para siempre, qué horror"

-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter

"El corazón no se rompe como un huevo. Y si fuera un huevo, ¿no es mejor romperlo para que se demarren los sentimientos? Es el precio por una vida bien vivida."

-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter

4. Breathing Room

By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Join the New York Timesbestselling author on a journey to the sun-washed hills of Tuscany. Another … read more

Similar categories in Susan Elizabeth Phillips's Breathing Room book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook

5. The One Memory of Flora Banks

By: Emily Barr

4.67

Format: 121 pages,

Seventeen-year-old Flora Banks has no short-term memory. Her mind resets itself several times a day… read more

Similar categories in Emily Barr's The One Memory of Flora Banks book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • fiction
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6. The Last of August (Charlotte Holmes #2)

By: Brittany Cavallaro

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Watson and Holmes: A match made in disaster. Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a wi… read more

Similar categories in Brittany Cavallaro's The Last of August (Charlotte Holmes #2) book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook

7. Flight of the Sparrow

By: Amy Belding Brown

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again. The wilde… read more

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8. On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

By: Lisa See

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has… read more

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9. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words

By: Bianca Marais

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apart… read more

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10. Only the Beautiful

By: Susan Meissner

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more

Similar categories in Susan Meissner's Only the Beautiful book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Kidder's Rough Sleepers book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • audiobook
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12. The Italian Ballerina

By: Kristy Cambron

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save inn… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Cambron's The Italian Ballerina book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

Similar categories in Janet Skeslien Charles's Miss Morgan's Book Brigade book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Lost English Girl

By: Julia Kelly

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of The Light Over London weaves an epic saga of love, motherhood, and betrayal… read more

Similar categories in Julia Kelly's The Lost English Girl book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson

By: Ellen Baker

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Orphan Train meets Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in this compelling multigeneratio… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Baker's The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Secret Book of Flora Lea

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.07

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more

Similar categories in Patti Callahan Henry's The Secret Book of Flora Lea book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

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17. Agent 355

By: Marie Benedict

3.73

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more

Similar categories in Marie Benedict's Agent 355 book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Blood Like Magic (Blood Like Magic, #1)

By: Liselle Sambury

3.97

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Blood Like Magic (Blood Like Magic, #1) book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • fiction
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19. The Air Raid Book Club

By: Annie Lyons

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn’t feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of he… read more

Similar categories in Annie Lyons's The Air Raid Book Club book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Quite. But Hedy has inherited her mother's skills as a seamstress. Very good. Tell her to come and see me. If you can't sew, can you knit? A little. Although I made my father a pair of socks once and…"

-Annie Lyons, The Air Raid Book Club

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20. Sunflower Sisters (Lilac Girls, #3)

By: Martha Hall Kelly

4.26

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday, an American philanthropist who helped young gi… read more

Similar categories in Martha Hall Kelly's Sunflower Sisters (Lilac Girls, #3) book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Foundling

By: Ann Leary

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House , the story of two friends, raised in … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leary's The Foundling book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. The Matchmaker's Gift

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, c… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Cohen Loigman's The Matchmaker's Gift book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A drop of love sometimes brings an ocean of tears."

-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift

"If you can’t decide what you want to fight for, love is as good a cause as any."

-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift

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23. Daughters of Shandong

By: Eve J. Chung

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An instant USA Today Bestseller! A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daught… read more

Similar categories in Eve J. Chung's Daughters of Shandong book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. California Golden

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters navigate the turbulent, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Benjamin's California Golden book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

By: Martha Hall Kelly

4.03

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The runaway bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. This sweepin… read more

Similar categories in Martha Hall Kelly's Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2) book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. The Ways We Hide

By: Kristina McMorris

3.98

Format: 536 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday comes a sweeping World War II tale … read more

Similar categories in Kristina McMorris's The Ways We Hide book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. Forgiveness Road

By: Mandy Mikulencak

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author whose historical fiction has been compared to The Help, comes a powerful… read more

Similar categories in Mandy Mikulencak's Forgiveness Road book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The Wild Hunt

By: Emma Seckel

3.74

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

The islanders have only three rules: don’t stick your nose where it’s not wanted, don’t mention the… read more

Similar categories in Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You don’t sound happy, mo ghrád,"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"No matter how hard one tried, this island was not a place of leaving easily. It clung to a person like dew. He was still here, always still here"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"No matter how hard one tried, this island was not a place of leaving easily. It clung to a person like a dee. He was still here, always still here"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"She suspected that nobody still left on this island really deserved the blissful ignorance that was prerequisite to that slow and simple life anymore."

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

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29. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

Similar categories in Shilpi Somaya Gowda's A Great Country book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. On a Night of a Thousand Stars

By: Andrea Yaryura Clark

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife,… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Yaryura Clark's On a Night of a Thousand Stars book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. The Wonderful

By: Saskia Sarginson

3.74

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspira… read more

Similar categories in Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful book and Saskia Sarginson's The Wonderful

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

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