13 Top historical books like Sea Change by Alix Nathan

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Sea Change

By: Alix Nathan

3.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'I'll be back soon, my love. Tonight, I hope.' The last Eve saw of her mother was a wave from th…

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1. New Boy

By: Tracy Chevalier

3.49

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring comes the fifth installment… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Eventide (Plainsong, #2)

By: Kent Haruf

4.23

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Kent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt,… read more

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  • fiction
"And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever, but only the heavy callouses visible at the sides of his hands seemed real.…"

-Kent Haruf, Eventide (Plainsong, #2)

3. The Beast

By: Alexander Starritt

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Jeremy Underwood is a long-suffering subeditor on The Daily Beast, Britain's mightiest tabloid. Ret… read more

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4. The City of Lost Fortunes

By: None

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and m… read more

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5. Murder on Lake Garda

By: Tom Hindle

3.55

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

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  • historical
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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7. Lean Fall Stand

By: Jon McGregor

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Reservoir 13, this thrilling new novel of an Antarct… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

By: Nicci French

3.96

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families s… read more

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  • fiction
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10. The Shadow Bird

By: Ann Gosslin

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Three months into her new role as a psychiatrist at a clinic in New York, Erin Cartwright is asked … read more

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  • fiction
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11. The Great Deceiver (The Brighton Mysteries, Book 7)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

The next gripping volume in The Brighton Mysteries series by bestselling author Elly Griffiths. … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Great Deceiver (The Brighton Mysteries, Book 7) book and Alix Nathan's Sea Change

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)

By: Claire North

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

House of Odysseus is the follow up to award-winning author Claire North's Ithaca "a powerful, fresh… read more

Similar categories in Claire North's House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2) book and Alix Nathan's Sea Change

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Good Intentions

By: Kasim Ali

3.38

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Big Sick meets Nick Hornby in Kasim Ali's debut Good Intentions, a novel about a young man who … read more

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  • fiction
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14. Miss Austen

By: Gill Hornby

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was? England, 1840. For the… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"To surrender one's books, well: it is to surrender part of one's soul."

-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen

"Oh, marriage!' Jane retorted. 'Marriage! Always the excuse for all failures of character. One does so long for it to bring some improvements, but more often it appears the root cause of all poor beha…"

-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen

"Well ...' Cassie thought for a moment, and found she could not disagree. 'I suppose she is very happy to be married to James. And, perhaps, for the moment, yes, a little ... bumptious with it.' Jane …"

-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen

"Was I terribly rude?' It was almost as if she might care a jot. 'Yes! You were frightful!' Cassy tugged at her locks playfully. 'As rude as I was to Mr Blackall?' 'No,' Cassy conceded, laughing. 'Nob…"

-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen

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15. This Is Happiness

By: Niall Williams

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

About This Is Happiness The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author… read more

Similar categories in Niall Williams's This Is Happiness book and Alix Nathan's Sea Change

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything."

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

"It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being's eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They're not like anything else, or anyone else's, and may be the most perfect proo…"

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

"When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch …"

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your hea…"

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

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16. In a House of Lies (Inspector Rebus, #22)

By: Ian Rankin

4.09

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

IN A HOUSE OF LIES... Everyone has something to hide A missing private investigator is found, l… read more

Similar categories in Ian Rankin's In a House of Lies (Inspector Rebus, #22) book and Alix Nathan's Sea Change

  • fiction
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17. Light Over Liskeard

By: Louis de Bernières

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future.Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work… read more

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  • fiction
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18. The Coward (Quest for Heroes, #1)

By: Stephen Aryan

3.81

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Kell Kressia is a legend, a celebrity, a hero. Aged just seventeen he set out on an epic quest with… read more

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  • fiction
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19. The Startup Wife

By: Tahmima Anam

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Newlyweds Asha and Cyrus build an app that replaces religious rituals and soon find themselves runn… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of No Secrets by David  Jackson

20. No Secrets

By: David Jackson

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

THEY ALL BELIEVE HIM THEY BELIEVE HIS LIES. SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH. You can't lie to Izzy Lambert.… read more

Similar categories in David Jackson's No Secrets book and Alix Nathan's Sea Change

  • fiction
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21. Three Fires

By: Denise Mina

3.73

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanitie… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. The Midwife

By: Tricia Cresswell

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1830. After a violent storm, a woman is found alone, naked, near death on the Northumberland moors.… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. These Streets

By: Luan Goldie

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Nightingale Point, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, comes a new tho… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Billy Rags

By: Ted Lewis

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A crime novel in which Billy Cracken's decision to escape from prison brings trouble in the form of… read more

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  • fiction
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25. It Could Never Happen Here

By: Eithne Shortall

3.80

Format: None pages, None

Their school is about to be taught a lesson... Beverley Franklin will do whatever it takes to pr… read more

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  • fiction
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26. The Ballroom Blitz (Buckingham #5)

By: Anton du Beke

4.34

Format: 470 pages, Kindle Edition

The stunning new Buckingham novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Anton Du Beke. September … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. The Castle Keepers

By: Aimie K. Runyan

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Leedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The House on Fripp Island

By: Rebecca Kauffman

3.34

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A taut, page-turning novel of secrets and strife. When two families—one rich, one not—vacation toge… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Sea Change by Alix Nathan

29. Sea Change

By: Alix Nathan

3.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'I'll be back soon, my love. Tonight, I hope.' The last Eve saw of her mother was a wave from th… read more

Similar categories in Alix Nathan's Sea Change book and Alix Nathan's Sea Change

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. Bliss and Blunder

By: Victoria Gosling

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Arthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen's got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous husband… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Gosling's Bliss and Blunder book and Alix Nathan's Sea Change

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. A Woman of Opinion

By: Sean Lusk

4.10

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

'I shall be a thousand different Marys and, in such manner, shall find the one I wish to be...' La… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

28 Top fiction books like Sea Change by Alix Nathan

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New Boy

Tracy Chevalier

3.49

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Eventide (Plainsong, #2)

Kent Haruf

4.23

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Murder on Lake Garda

Tom Hindle

3.55

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Lean Fall Stand

Jon McGregor

3.75

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The Children of Jocasta

Natalie Haynes

3.91

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Alcestis

Katharine Beutner

3.92

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Herc

Phoenicia Rogerson

3.53

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Medea

Eilish Quin

3.84

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