15 Best historical fiction books like On the Run by William Shaw

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On the Run

By: William Shaw

4.17

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Weeks after his father, Terence, is jailed in Maze Prison, Tim Connolly arrives in New York to stay…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in On the Run by William Shaw , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. Plum Island (John Corey, #1)

By: Nelson DeMille

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

The hair-raising suspense of The General's Daughter... the wry wit of The Gold Coast...this is vint… read more

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2. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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  • fiction
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

3. Sympathy for the Devil (Breen and Tozer, #4)

By: William Shaw

3.19

Format: None pages,

SUMMER OF LOVE She made a profit from her youth. She's not beautiful anymore - but she will be youn… read more

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4. Mississippi Blood (Penn Cage, #6)

By: Greg Iles

3.60

Format: 96 pages,

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, h… read more

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5. Juno Loves Legs

By: Karl Geary

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Murder on Tyneside (Agnes Lockwood Mysteries, Book #1)

By: Eileen Thornton

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN moved from less recent edition Recently widowed Agnes Lockwood is spending a few days on Ty… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21) by John Connolly

7. The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)

By: John Connolly

4.44

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, the beloved and… read more

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  • fiction
"You didn’t have to look very hard to be disappointed by human beings. We were not all bad, just enough of us, although the rest had to work very hard to make up for that minority."

-John Connolly, The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)

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8. Medea

By: Eilish Quin

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

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10. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Echoes of Memory

By: Sara Driscoll

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling standalone mystery featuring a San Diego florist grappling with post-traumatic amnesia.… read more

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  • fiction
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12. V for Victory

By: Lissa Evans

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this witty, charming follow-up to the acclaimed Crooked Heart, the life of lies a small time sca… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Rabbit Hole

By: Kate Brody

3.10

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Conspiracy theories from Reddit seduce a disaster-prone woman into an obsession with solving her ol… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Last Chairlift

By: John Irving

3.44

Format: 889 pages, Hardcover

John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years—a g… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

By: Katherine Howe

3.73

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one youn… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Book Spy

By: Alan Hlad

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, Marie Benedict, and Pam Jenoff and inspired by true stories of the … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Julia

By: Sandra Newman

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."

-Sandra Newman, Julia

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18. Blood Sport (DCI Harry Grimm, #7)

By: David J. Gatward

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Some games have teeth. When the bloody remains of a missing gamekeeper’s dog are discovered on t… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Nice Guys Finish Dead (Old Cowboys Never Die) by William W. Johnstone

19. Nice Guys Finish Dead (Old Cowboys Never Die)

By: William W. Johnstone

4.44

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But old cowboys? That’s a different story — especia… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

By: Rebecca Rosenberg

4.43

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Champagne, France, 1860. Madame Pommery, an etiquette teacher and orphanage founder, loses her husb… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The Lodge

By: Sue Watson

3.91

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Please – someone – help us. We’re at The Lodge, the snow is everywhere. We’re trapped. There was a… read more

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  • fiction
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22. The Peach Seed

By: Anita Gail Jones

3.85

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Fletcher Dukes and Altovise Benson reunite after decades apart― and a mountain of secrets―in this d… read more

Similar categories in Anita Gail Jones's The Peach Seed book and William Shaw's On the Run

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. The Still Point

By: Tammy Greenwood

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Dance Moms meets Little Fires Everywhere in award winning author Tammy Greenwood’s addictive new no… read more

Similar categories in Tammy Greenwood's The Still Point book and William Shaw's On the Run

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The Men Can't Be Saved

By: Ben Purkert

3.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A knockout debut novel that tackles a haunting question: What do our jobs do to our souls? Seth is … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Conspirators by G.W. Shaw

25. The Conspirators

By: G.W. Shaw

3.93

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Jacob Meaney makes so little money as a translator that his girlfriend has given up on him. Then El… read more

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26. These Things Happen: A Novel

By: Michael Eon

4.35

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

“Urgent, beautifully written novel of facing adulthood after a Brooklyn childhood.” —BookLife Rev… read more

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  • fiction
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27. When There Was No Moon

By: Irma Fritz

4.44

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

FIRST PLACE WINNER PNWACan a girl who wants to know the world beyond her courtyard walls survive in… read more

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28. Daughter of Calamity

By: Rosalie M. Lin

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Jingwen spends her nights as a showgirl at the Paramount, one of the most lavish clubs in Shanghai,… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2) by Fiona Barton

29. Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2)

By: Fiona Barton

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who in… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Barton's Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2) book and William Shaw's On the Run

  • fiction
Cover of On the Run by William   Shaw

30. On the Run

By: William Shaw

4.17

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Weeks after his father, Terence, is jailed in Maze Prison, Tim Connolly arrives in New York to stay… read more

Similar categories in William Shaw's On the Run book and William Shaw's On the Run

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Borrowed Hills by Scott  Preston

31. The Borrowed Hills

By: Scott Preston

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A cinematic neo-Western set in the fells of northern England. "Half Tarantino and half pitch-bla… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it."

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"She’d look at me like I’m an idiot since I am one, but she still looked at me. That’s how Helen was, and that’s how I’ve always been. That’s why I like dogs more than people. Why I am a bloody dog. T…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"Two weeks of thinking I’d sort it out tomorrow, what came next. Eating crisps in bed or in the bath and getting a headache from all the salt. Daytime telly on as if it can keep you warm—the kind that…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to …"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

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Antarctica

Claire Keegan

3.86

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Juno Loves Legs

Karl Geary

4.16

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Murder on Tyneside (Agnes Lockwood Mysteries, Book #1)

Eileen Thornton

3.88

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The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)

John Connolly

4.44

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Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Andrea Mara

3.96

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Karin Slaughter

4.42

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