5 Top historical fiction books like The Witch by Robert Eggers

Cover of The Witch by Robert Eggers

The Witch

By: Robert Eggers

4.68

Format: 146 pages, Unknown Binding

In 1630 New England, panic and despair envelops a farmer, his wife and their children when youngest…

"Wouldst thou like the taste of butter? A pretty dress? Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"

-Robert Eggers, The Witch

"Wouldst thou like the taste of butter? A pretty dress? Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"

-Robert Eggers, The Witch

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Witch by Robert Eggers , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Walking Dead: Compendium Two

By: Robert Kirkman , Charlie Adlard

4.53

Format: 1068 pages, Paperback

Returning with the second eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times bestseller series, The … read more

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  • horror
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2. Brokeback Mountain

By: Annie Proulx

4.00

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more

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"I wish I knew how to quit you."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

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3. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

By: Sylvia Plath , Karen V. Kukil

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, p… read more

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4. The Virgin Suicides: The Shooting Script

By: Sofia Coppola

4.43

Format: 320 pages,

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious Lisbon sisters who are sheltered by th… read more

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5. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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6. The Matrix: The Shooting Script

By: William Gibson , Lana Wachowski , Lilly Wachowski

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Includes detailed scene notes by Paul Oosterhouse, assistant to the Wachowskis throughout the makin… read more

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  • film

7. The Walking Dead, Compendium 1

By: Robert Kirkman

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Introducing the first eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Seller series collecte… read more

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8. In Our Time

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.74

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more

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"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

9. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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10. Eileen

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman… read more

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11. Summer Sons

By: Lee Mandelo

3.80

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddi… read more

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  • horror
"It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost."

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"I’m sorry he died before you figured it out. For what it’s worth, I think you might’ve eventually, without me there to displace your bullshit onto. He was head over heels for you, and everyone knew b…"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

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12. A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

4.00

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

S.T. Gibson's sensational novel is the darkly seductive tale of Dracula's first bride, Constanta. … read more

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  • historical fiction
  • horror
"Water your mother's flowers with their blood."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"People aren’t meant to live forever. I know that now."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"You must never overthink any good and pleasurable thing."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"Desire makes idiots of all of us. But you already knew that part, didn't you?"

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

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13. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.95

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more

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"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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14. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

By: Lana Del Rey

3.98

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more

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"Live your life like no one’s listening"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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15. Jawbone

By: Mónica Ojeda

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So ho… read more

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  • horror
"Una bala que sale y luego regresa para darte en el corazón: eso es una hija."

-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

" A veces me gusta imaginar que el universo es el cadáver de Dios descomponiéndose , le dijo Annelise durante una tarde de clases extra. Imagine, Miss Clara, que fuéramos solo eso: la enorme y flotant…"

-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

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16. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • horror
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17. #DRCL Midnight Children, Vol. 1

By: Shin'ichi Sakamoto

3.88

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

産業革命で様々な技術開発と経濟発展に沸く、19世紀末。ロシア船デメテル號はヴァルナ港で不氣味な木箱を積み、イギリスを目指し、出港する。しかし、その船内で凄惨な事件が発生し、船はイギリス・ウィットビー… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • horror
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18. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

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  • horror
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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19. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • horror
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20. Midsommar

By: Ari Aster

4.31

Format: 118 pages, None

The Screenplay from the new horror film by Ari Aster (Hereditary). Dani and Christian are a youn… read more

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  • plays
  • film
  • horror
"You start with the unfathomable and you end with the unfathomable."

-Ari Aster, Midsommar

"But do you feel HELD by him, Dani? Does he feel like a HOME to you?"

-Ari Aster, Midsommar

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21. Just Like Home

By: Sarah Gailey

3.35

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of… read more

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  • horror
"Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Tenderness was a foreign, forgotten thing that she hadn't encountered since before everything went wrong. She did not want it. Not now. Not from him."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick,…"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

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22. Fleabag: The Scriptures

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

4.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming script… read more

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  • plays
"I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"The funeral liturgy says that life is changed and not ended. I've always loved that, if that's of any help."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"I just think I want someone to tell me how to live my life, Father, because so far, I think I've been getting it wrong."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"[Love] is all any of us want and it's hell when we get there. So no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

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23. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

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  • horror
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24. So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more

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  • horror
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25. Extasia

By: Claire Legrand

3.53

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Her name is unimportant. All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints … read more

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  • horror
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26. Lady Bird [Screenplay]

By: Greta Gerwig

4.54

Format: 115 pages, None

A teenager navigates a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother over the cou… read more

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  • plays
  • film
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27. How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

By: Craig DiLouie

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From Bram Stoker Award‑nominated author Craig DiLouie comes a darkly humorous horror novel that see… read more

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  • film
  • horror
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28. The Banshees of Inisherin

By: Martin McDonagh

4.59

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

What is he, twelve? Why doesn't he want to be friends with you no more?1923. As shots ring out from… read more

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  • plays
  • film
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29. Frances Ha: A Noah Baumbach Picture

By: Noah Baumbach

4.20

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha is a modern comic fable that captures the trials and tribulations of a young woman tryin… read more

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"It's that thing when you are with someone, and you love them and they know it and they love you, you know it. But it's a party, you're both talking to other people and you're laughing and shining ...…"

-Noah Baumbach, Frances Ha: A Noah Baumbach Picture

"It's that thing when you're with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it... but it's a party... and you're both talking to other people, and you're laughing and…"

-Noah Baumbach, Frances Ha: A Noah Baumbach Picture

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30. Hereditary (A24 Screenplay Book)

By: Ari Aster

4.59

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Clear off your miniatures and make space for the new Hereditary screenplay book. Featuring a forewo… read more

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  • plays
  • film
  • horror
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31. The Witch

By: Robert Eggers

4.68

Format: 146 pages, Unknown Binding

In 1630 New England, panic and despair envelops a farmer, his wife and their children when youngest… read more

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  • film
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • plays
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-Robert Eggers, The Witch

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