6 Top historical books like Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg

Cover of Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg

Feast Your Eyes

By: Myla Goldberg

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times bestsellin…

"[O]nce you can read, you can no longer open a book and see a jumble of letters; after you get to know someone's face, you can't see her as a stranger."

-Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes

"[O]nce you can read, you can no longer open a book and see a jumble of letters; after you get to know someone's face, you can't see her as a stranger."

-Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes

If you liked the historical plot in Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore

1. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

By: Lorrie Moore

3.83

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America we share a grown woman… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • novels
"What the fuck, babe."

-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

"I feel his lack of love for me."

-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

"They looked like frogs who’d been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs."

-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

"It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe."

-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

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2. We the Animals

By: Justin Torres

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

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3. Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir

By: Amanda Knox

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

In the fall of 2007, twenty-year old college coed Amanda Knox left Seattle to study abroad in Perug… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

4. Little Brother

By: Cory Doctorow

3.57

Format: None pages,

Marcus aka "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system w… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Come, Thief

By: Jane Hirshfield

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, … read more

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6. The Burgess Boys

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the pub… read more

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7. The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University. Katherin… read more

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8. Augustown

By: Kei Miller

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the winner of the Forward Prize, Augustownis a magical and haunting novel set in the underbell… read more

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9. Universal Harvester

By: John Darnielle

4.04

Format: None pages,

Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at… read more

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10. The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

By: Susan Orlean

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

The Orchid Thiefis Susan Orlean's tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered f… read more

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11. The Girls in the Picture

By: Melanie Benjamin

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An intimate portrait of the close friendship and powerful creative partnership between two of Holly… read more

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12. Self-Portrait With Boy

By: Rachel Lyon

3.81

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An ambitious young artist accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death—an image that could j… read more

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  • art
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • photography
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. What Are You Going Through

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.74

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Only those who are writers, it seems, get to say what happened"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"And what the movie makes clear is that, if there really was a Supreme Being who had to listen to people's prayers all the time, he would go out of his mind."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"Anyway, don't they say that every good story is a suspense story? And every story is a love story. And every love story is a ghost story. And everybody loves somebody sometime."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"What are you going through? When Simone Weil said that being able to ask this question was what love of one's neighbor truly meant, she was writing in her native French. And in French the great quest…"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

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14. Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

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15. Small Fry: A Memoir

By: Lisa Brennan-Jobs

3.80

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Br… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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18. The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

By: Katya Apekina

4.08

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Si empujas en una dirección, el péndulo volverá con igual fuerza en la opuesta."

-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

"That afternoon was the first time I felt... I don't know how to describe it exactly. My head was in Dad's lap and all the happiness that I'd missed was being compressed into that moment. I looked up …"

-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

Cover of Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs

19. Fathoms: The World in the Whale

By: Rebecca Giggs

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australi… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. Little Rabbit

By: Alyssa Songsiridej

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When the unnamed narrator of Little Rabbit first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency i… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Betsey: A Memoir by Betsey Johnson

21. Betsey: A Memoir

By: Betsey Johnson

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A memoir by the internationally famous fashion designer and style icon Mention the name "Betsey Jo… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó

22. Breaking Through: My Life in Science

By: Katalin Karikó

4.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang

23. Cinema Love

By: Jiaming Tang

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery

24. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

By: Mark Dery

3.76

Format: 504 pages, Hardcover

From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously si… read more

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  • art
  • adult
"You never really choose anything. It's all presented to you, and then you have alternatives."

-Mark Dery, Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

Cover of And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges by Amber Sparks

25. And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

By: Amber Sparks

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Exciting fans of such writers as Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Carmen Maria Machado with prose tha… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And what is history, anyway, but the chance to dig up our skeletons and give them new stories ?"

-Amber Sparks, And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

"That human love is mostly failure. That failure may be very sad, but it is yours, and you hold on to it if you can."

-Amber Sparks, And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

"The donkey skin - burn it. But not until you find true love. You'll lose your chance at love forever if you shed you skin too soon."

-Amber Sparks, And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

"Lavoisier's wife's, let us repeat, translated a s***load of science books into another language just so her husband, audience of one, could understand what they said."

-Amber Sparks, And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

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26. Awayland

By: Ramona Ausubel

3.56

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood w… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Too long in seawater can unmake any loveliness."

-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

"What are you doing?" the mother asked. "I guess I'm throwing roses," the girl said, unable to make sense of herself."

-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

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27. M Archive: After the End of the World

By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

4.51

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a pl… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Nori

By: Rumi Hara

3.95

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

A dulcet debut capturing a touching relationship between the spirited Nori and her grandmaNori (sho… read more

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  • fiction
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29. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg

30. Feast Your Eyes

By: Myla Goldberg

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • art
  • historical
  • photography
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"[O]nce you can read, you can no longer open a book and see a jumble of letters; after you get to know someone's face, you can't see her as a stranger."

-Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes

Cover of Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery by Laurie Loewenstein

31. Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

By: Laurie Loewenstein

3.77

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A classic murder mystery set in the 1930s Dust Bowl that portrays the era with great beauty, tender… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

18 Best fiction books like Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg

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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Lorrie Moore

3.83

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Justin Torres

3.72

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Cory Doctorow

3.57

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Rachel Lyon

3.81

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The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4)

Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

3.95

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The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

Colin Cotterill

3.97

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The Precipice (Mike Bowditch, #6)

Paul Doiron

4.10

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Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

James Lee Burke

4.16

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