8 Top novels books like The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant

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The Story of the Forest

By: Linda Grant

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It's 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the…

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1. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
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2. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • novels
  • fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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3. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

Similar categories in Tan Twan Eng's The House of Doors book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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4. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Absolutely and Forever book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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5. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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6. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • fiction
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7. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
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8. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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9. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • novels
  • fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of After the Funeral and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley

10. After the Funeral and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Hadley's After the Funeral and Other Stories book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • fiction
  • british literature
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11. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. 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

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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13. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

Similar categories in Clare Chambers's Shy Creatures book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

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  • fiction
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15. The Story of the Forest

By: Linda Grant

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It's 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the… read more

Similar categories in Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • british literature
  • jewish
  • historical
  • adventure
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

16. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.68

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more

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17. Our Evenings

By: Alan Hollinghurst

4.28

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more

Similar categories in Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Rolling Toward Clear Skies

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.18

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

A foster mother must contend with the emotional turmoil of her new blended family in a heartfelt no… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Wife

By: Charlotte Mendelson

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is a beautifully observed and coruscating novel about the joys of passi… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Secret War of Julia Child

By: Diana R. Chambers

3.59

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Before she mastered the art of French cooking in midlife, Julia Child found herself working in the … read more

Similar categories in Diana R. Chambers's The Secret War of Julia Child book and Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Christmas with the Queen

By: Hazel Gaynor

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

’Tis the season! The Crown meets When Harry Met Sally and Bridget Jones’s Diary, in the latest hear… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Anne Enright

3.55

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4.14

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Liane Moriarty

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