11 must-read fantasy books like The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith

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The Everlasting

By: Katy Simpson Smith

3.34

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From a supremely talented author comes this brilliant and inventive novel, set in Rome in four diff…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps

By: Michael Blanding

3.63

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subc… read more

Similar categories in Michael Blanding's The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • historical
  • audiobook
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2. Arts & Entertainments

By: Christopher R. Beha

3.19

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Christopher Beha delivers a cutting send-up of our cultural obsession with celebrity—a deliciously … read more

Similar categories in Christopher R. Beha's Arts & Entertainments book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Dinosaurens fjer

By: Sissel-Jo Gazan

0.00

Format: None pages,

Anna Bella har netop afleveret sit speciale pa Biologisk Institut, da hendes vejleder Lars Helland … read more

Similar categories in Sissel-Jo Gazan's Dinosaurens fjer book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • fiction
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4. Between Them: Remembering My Parents

By: Richard Ford

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of … read more

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  • audiobook

5. The Returned

By: Jason Mott

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Jacob was time out of sync, time more perfect than it had been. He was life the way it was supposed… read more

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6. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Night Watch book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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7. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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8. After World

By: Debbie Urbanski

3.30

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel—only for it to fall in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Debbie Urbanski's After World book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Queen Macbeth book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. Servant Mage

By: Kate Elliott

3.58

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

Fellian is a Lamplighter, able to provide illumination through magic. A group of rebel Monarchists … read more

Similar categories in Kate Elliott's Servant Mage book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass

11. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

4.29

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Half Life of Valery K

By: Natasha Pulley

4.20

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set i… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Pulley's The Half Life of Valery K book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Guilt like that, it's a sort of arrogance, you know? An assumption that everything is your own fault when that's clearly absurd."

-Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K

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14. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

By: Jack Hartnell

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell … read more

Similar categories in Jack Hartnell's Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • historical
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15. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Fiebre Tropical

By: Juliana Delgado Lopera

3.82

Format: None pages, ebook

Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian te… read more

Similar categories in Juliana Delgado Lopera's Fiebre Tropical book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Natural History

By: Andrea Barrett

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In Natural History, Andrea Barrett completes the beautiful arc of intertwined lives of a family of … read more

Similar categories in Andrea Barrett's Natural History book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss

18. You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession

By: Piper Weiss

3.27

Format: 368 pages, ebook

A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir— The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep… read more

Similar categories in Piper Weiss's You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • audiobook
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

19. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • fiction
Cover of Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

20. Trouble the Saints

By: Alaya Dawn Johnson

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Undergroun… read more

Similar categories in Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

Similar categories in Richard Powers's Playground book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Godwin

By: Joseph O'Neill

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more

Similar categories in Joseph O'Neill's Godwin book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Doxology

By: Nell Zink

3.45

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape toge… read more

Similar categories in Nell Zink's Doxology book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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24. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Alering's Smothermoss book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. The Bright Sword

By: Lev Grossman

4.06

Format: 673 pages, Hardcover

A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more

Similar categories in Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."

-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

"God doesn't come when you snap your fingers, He comes when you're ready for Him." Nimue snapped her delicate fingers, producing a strikingly loud pop in the quiet. "That's the difference between a sp…"

-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

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27. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith

28. The Everlasting

By: Katy Simpson Smith

3.34

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From a supremely talented author comes this brilliant and inventive novel, set in Rome in four diff… read more

Similar categories in Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • romance
  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • travel
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael  Zapata

29. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

By: Michael Zapata

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript … read more

Similar categories in Michael Zapata's The Lost Book of Adana Moreau book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"His father was a pirate."

-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

"Every telling of an event is a portrait of the teller and not the event itself."

-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

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30. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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31. The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

By: Daniel José Older

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and famil… read more

Similar categories in Daniel José Older's The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution book and Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

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3.79

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